Cat with two pounds of matted fur finds new home

A neglected cat who had been found with a drastic amount of overgrown fur is doing much better after finding a new home.

Paul Russell discovered the cat after his 82-year-old relative with Alzheimers was moved into a home. Russell originally thought that his relative had just one cat, but what he found at the home was an additional feline with two pounds of matted fur.

"Out from under a bed it darted," Russell told PEOPLE. "At first I thought it was a cat that had a blanket on top of it. The next day I went into the creepy old cellar and it was hunkered in a corner. I thought, 'My god this is a cat.'"