Room for More

The empty cages from last Monday have slowly begun to fill. Unfortunately, several are being filled by returning cats. Polo, a sweetheart with cartoon-like puffs of fur sticking out from his cheeks was returned because the resident cat was. not. happy. and was giving him an impossibly hard time. There was a note from his owners of several weeks explaining was a wonderful "house guest" he was, and how sorry they were to have to let him go.

The appropriately named Cuddly and Cutie, who were adopted sometime this winter or spring, were returned. Their owner traveled too much each week and realized too late that that was not fair for the kitties.

There was a note on one of the cages: Hold for Houdini, didn't get along with resident cat. I'm looking forward to seeing him again, but I'm sad his home didn't work out. He was always fine with the cats at the shelter, if anything a little scared of some of the females at times.

Two new faces were Bellissa and Cherie. Bellissa is a bunny-soft, saucy cat, full of tween angst. Still a kitten, but wanting to be treated with the respect of an adult. But it's so irresistible to scoop her up and snuggle! Even with her tiny, kitten teeth gnawing at anything they can reach...

Bellissa looking up at Lukas (not pictured)

A new favorite, Cherie, was meowing at her cage, unhappy with her tiny living space. I opened it, pulled her out and put her on my lap. She instantly curled up in the tiniest ball, content to nap and be petted.

Cherie curled up and shedding on my lap.

Cora Lee and Meowly, two bonded sisters, have been warming up to people. When they first came in a few weeks ago they curled up against the side of the cage and anytime anyone would open the door they would huddle in the corner, pressed up to the sides as far as they could go.



Now they are happy to receive pets and compliments, and are happiest curled up together, napping.

Meowly and Cora Lee curled up together, happy for some attention.

There's a little room in the corner of the large, back room that is reserved for cats that need to be caged, but is a little bigger and nicer than any of the cages. Tarragon is the current resident. She keeps to herself, nips when she gets nervous, and I get the sense she is often bored and lonely. I spent some quality time with her this past week, discovering just how much she loves her feather toy.

Tarragon and her feather toy.

A Long Overdue Update

About a month ago the shelter was filled to the brim with cats. Every possible cage and room seemed to be filled - so much that cages would sometimes be passed up by those cleaning the space when they wouldn't realize a normally empty cage was filled for once.

So many wonderful cats were in. There was Yukon, who wagged his floppy tail like a dog and expressed his curiosity by rubbing against volunteers legs as they cleaned.

Dog-like Yukon post supper

Oh and Kelly- the messiest cat I've seen yet. When trying to clean his cage he'd want all of the attention- so much that anyone cleaning would have to enlist someone to hold him, or put him in the bathroom with toys.

What cleaning Kelly's cage was always like.

Houdini- so named because at animal control where he was before he would always manage to escape from his cage. At Feline Rescue he was a big-eyed, lovable scaredy-cat.

Snuggle champion, Houdini

Friendly Jax was sweet to all of the other cats (even if they weren't always sweet back) and would lie thoughtfully staring out the window.

Curious Jax

There was one cutie-pie, Granada, who was only there one Monday. I was mopping when I heard her meowing desperately. I looked over and saw that while using her litter box she had very cleanly missed. Upset, she tried hiding it with a blanket, and kicking litter over it, but in the end gave up and asked for help. The moment I finished cleaning up her mess she settled quietly on her new bed in her clean space.

"Thanks for cleaning my cage!" ~Granada

Sweethearts Heather, Gumbo, Milton, and all of those mentioned above were in, out, and on their way in no time, and soon the shelter was back to an average amount of cats.

Gumbo 

Heather

Milton

I was in today to take some videos for potential social media use- so keep an eye out for those!