Shelter Cat – Sugar
Sugar’s people must have had to push hard and harshly to get her away from their car. Sugar’s only goal is to be close to someone, to touch a friend and be petted. She must have been held and loved as a kitten, because Sugar prefers people over her own kind. Sugar wouldn’t have voluntarily left her humans.
But Sugar’s people didn’t give her any choice. They abandoned her at a gas station, an environment where Sugar was completely unequipped to survive. She didn’t know about dodging cars. Sugar didn’t even suspect that not every human loves cats.
Luckily, Sugar approached a human who did love cats. She delivered Sugar, who’s now spayed and vaccinated, to the shelter. There Sugar’s safe, but longing for love.
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The famous cat, Garfield, insisted he wasn’t fat. He was fluffy. Kalvin, a handsome, but no-longer-loved fellow could say the same thing. But in Kalvin’s case it’s true. He’s very small, weighing only seven pounds, under lots of gorgeous fluff, or, at least, fluff that would be gorgeous, if the neutered fellow had an easier life.
Droger hopes that someone remembers what it feels like to be the last one chosen for the ball team. The alert, hopeful, eight-week-old tabby is the tiny leftover. Droger doesn’t know where his littermates went. He only knows that other kittens relegated to the shelter came with sisters or brothers. They aren’t as alone as he is.
When Shaggy realized that he and his sister were trapped in a box, he probably didn’t worry. Shaggy trusted his calico sister, Sienna, to lead him out of trouble. The gold and white little boy isn’t quite as brave as his sister. Of course, calicos are known for their “cattitude”. Golden cats are known for their mellowness and cuddling.
Things happen to animals that make kinder people wonder what the perpetrators were thinking? Or whether they have a heart? The people who delivered Sienna, an eight-week-old kitten with a vibrant color and personality, to the shelter said that someone had dropped Sienna and her brother, Shaggy, on a driveway, taped in a box.
Ivan, with his satellite-dish ears and habit of leaning against the leg of someone he trusts, may not show his Rin Tin Tin tendencies right now. But very few shelter pups do. Eleven-month-old Ivan would be foolish not to feel insecure. The German Shepherd-mix pup is intelligent and observant. Ivan knows that he’s part of a pack of rejects.
When the man began shooting, eight-week-old Spirit probably trembled and tried to hide against the cold, bare ground.
More than anything else, Wallace is puzzled. During his eight-week-long life, Wallace learned that certain actions yielded certain reactions from people. When Wallace toddled toward people, they scooped him up and cuddled him. Now, when Wallace moves toward someone, his nose hits the wire walls on his cage. And most people hurry right past his pleading, expectant, tiny face.
Eight weeks is a short time to be happy, to feel safe, to believe in a particular kind of world. However, that was all the time that adorable, frosted-gray and white Yasmin was allowed. Now the unexpected, unwanted kitten is trying to understand her new world, in a cage, without her mamma, with barking dogs just a wall away.
Yippee is trying to sell herself as part of a matching set of eight-week-old kittens, a set of entertainers and performers, a set of cuddlers, one of each side of a lap. Yippee’s trying to sell a huge amount of love in a very tiny package. In other words, the baby is trying to go home.
When a law enforcement officer asks for help from the shelter staff, it can be very serious. Situations don’t get much more serious than Marley’s was. Read Marley’s story and learn more about how you can help this sweet dog’s recovery efforts.
Dramatic cases of animal injury and recovery are common at the Grant County Friends of the Animal Shelter and Castle is no exception. We encourage you to read Castle’s story and learn more about how you can help this resilient cat’s recovery efforts.
