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  • #53360
    Leeny
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    Went by the no-kill shelter’s adoption center in the back of a local pet store this evening. (BTW, I asked them if they take in a lot of the “pound cats” whose “time is up,” and they do. They say the pound tries its best to avoid euthanizing cats, which makes me wonder about the “Urgent, time is up” notices the pound posts. Required legal notice? Hyperbole? Manipulation to get people to adopt, fast? I plan to drop over there, probably this weekend, to see their cats. I’ll ask them about it.) Anyway, they are having a Blackout Special to promote the adoption of black cats and “honorary” black cats (mostly dark Torties), with greatly reduced adoption fees, through the end of the month.

    I looked around, spoke to some kitties. They were getting ready to settle down for the night, though, so I didn’t stay long.

    There was a 13-year-old black cat, but I’m not sure Buttercup would appreciate an agemate. Many black kittens. There was a pair that tugged at my heart, though. They aren’t littermates but have bonded since being placed in the same kennel together. They’re kittens. The little girl looks like Gabie and the little boy is a tabby like my Tiger Lily, only he’s a makerel and she was classic. The problem there, though, is that I can only support three cats. Particularly with Buttercup being a senior kitty, I don’t think I can provide well for four cats.

    I suppose “the cat” just hasn’t come along yet. With Buttercup, Penny, and Gabie, I “knew”; I suppose I’ll know again.

    #753910
    AV
    Participant

    oh Leeny, praying right now, that you’ll ‘know’ …………… that’s usually how it happens………… same with me SO many times in my life 😉 ((hugs))

    #753911
    st3phsm0m
    Participant

    You’ll know or should I say the Kitty will know:) Lol that’s how I feel sometimes though.

    #753912
    Leeny
    Participant

    Gabie did. I’ll never forget the look of welcome and relief in his eyes with which he greeted me. That’s what I want, a cat who needs me.

    #753913
    Marnet
    Participant

    When you and the right cat meet, s/he will adopt you and take you home!

    #753914
    Moonshadow_NZ
    Moderator

    Definitely what Marnet said.

    #753915
    Leeny
    Participant

    Was looking at the shelter and pound websites again. Two cats who were on the pound page are “no longer available” (the two dogs listed there had “rest in peace, sweet boy” after their names; they didn’t say anything about the cats). Now, I was just at the shelter last night, and they had room for two more cats! When I go to the pound this weekend, I’m going to ask them what determines whether a cat goes to the shelter or is killed (and that’s exactly the way I’m going to put it, too; no “put to sleep” or even “euthanized”). Presently, there are NINE cats on the pound page with the “Urgent, time is up” designation on them. I can’t have eleven cats, and I can’t walk away knowing they’re going to die. Waiting to be chosen just got a lot more difficult, too.

    I also can’t get that pair of kittens out of my mind. The little girl was originally brought in with a littermate, a sister, and they were very strongly attached–slept on top of each other and everything. They were offered for adoption together, but only the sister was taken home. I guess that’s why the little boy, who’s a few weeks younger that she is, was put in with her. I still remember Penny climbing the bars of her kennel and screaming after her kennel mate was adopted and she was left alone.

    If I didn’t believe in the Bridge, I’d go out of my mind.

    #753916
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Put it out for fuzzy help from the Universe & Meadow…kits will send you your special newbie! (Definitely think my Dot had her paw in Scootie as my newbie diva!)

    #753917
    Leeny
    Participant

    Visited the pound today, and they had plenty of room. One of the employees said that the two cats who were no longer available most likely had been adopted. Their website is done by volunteers, who don’t always update it frequenly and don’t always get the details straight.

    I played in the “interaction room” with some kittens who needed the activity. I had noticed on my first walk-through, though, a very small, mostly black Tortie kitten who was staying pretty still. I took her to the room, she snuggled into my arms, and she began to purr. We spent most of the time like that. Near the end of the visit, I put her on the floor to see what she would do. She walked around the floor and sniffed things.

    I asked the staff on duty about the circumstances of her surrender. She was brought in just a few days ago by a woman who found her and her sister in an abandoned house with no momcat in sight. They were full of fleas and worms, for which they received veterinary treatment. The sister died the day before yesterday. She only weighed 13 oz., and the vet said the deworming may have been too much for her–but then, so would the worms have been. They figured out that this little girl was born the week that Gabie died. She hadn’t even been named yet, so I told the staff her name is Greta. They liked that.

    I’m planning to go back tomorrow afternoon. One thing that’s accurate on their website is that they are desperate for non-scoopable cat litter. I’m going to take them a bunch of small bags of it, because the surgeon told me not to lift more than 20 pounds. I want to visit a kitten to whom I overheard them talking, telling them that he makes such a mess of his kennel that no one wants to visit with him. I also want to visit two young adult cats who have “Go Slowly” posted on their kennels. One of them in particular is a cream-colored male, 1 to 2 years old. He was surrendered by his owners because he fought with their other cats, but HE IS NOT NEUTERED!!! DUH!!! The staff said he is calm and sweet with them, and when he gets neutered he should do fine. There is some concern, though, that he may have picked up FeLV, FIV, or some other nasty thing in his fights. They test asymptomatic cats for that sort of thing after someone has applied to adopt them.

    I haven’t received the letter from my landlord yet, so there is time. I haven’t come to a clear decision anyway, but I think I know one thing. I think some very small pawprints are in my heart.

    #753918
    GD
    Participant

    Oooh, how exciting, Leeny!!

    #753919
    Leeny
    Participant

    I just got back from the store. I’d given my girls their last can of wet food for supper tonight, and I wanted to get the litter for the pound. I got my girls an extra bottle of litter. I also remembered a request on the pound’s web site for canned kitten food–and I remembered a little wisp of a Tortie, whose eyes, looking too big for her tiny face, gazed into mine, and whom the pound staff says has been eating a lot–so I bought the remaining cans (about 5 or 6) left on the shelf of Iams kitten food.

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