Snow-white Tundra, with movie-star good looks, puzzled people in the community where he was roving, obviously completely on his own. Yet, Tundra was also obviously a pet, one who had been taught good manners with people and with other dogs. Tundra’s looks and good training made him an unlikely pup to be forgotten and abandoned.

But Tundra was living from paw to mouth and worrying an entire community. The community contacted the shelter. Because he’s a good boy, Tundra was happy to come in from the cold, into the shelter.

The staff is still trying to figure out Tundra’s past. It seems that his people left temporarily. Maybe Tundra was looking for them. Whatever happened before, now he’s looking for someone new to adore forever.

In her heart and mind, Apple will always be a kitten. Something happened to the 18-month-old kitten, either in her mama’s body or when she was tiny. Apple’s chromosomes may be a bit different, or she could have been subjected to a toxin very early. Whatever caused it, Apple will go through life with a kitten’s mental age.

Yet, that isn’t necessarily bad, if Apple, who’s spayed, is protected and appreciated. She’ll always be trusting, always amazed at new things — sometimes several times – and always sweet and motivated by only love.

Some abnormal cats, like one named Monty, have become Internet sensations. These special cats just need to live with someone who appreciates them, someone who wants a kitten in a cat’s body forever.

Three-year-old Freddy, who’s recently neutered, looks a little unhappy in his photo. That look accurately expresses how Freddy felt when his photo was taken. The confused boy was happily settled in a home and felt fine about being a boy in every sense. After three years of life, Freddy felt that he understood the world.

Suddenly the people he trusted changed Freddy’s reality. They took him to the shelter. Anyone, of any species, would be miffed and afraid. Being stuffed in a carrier and taken to be neutered, vaccinated and treated for fleas didn’t make Freddy feel better.

However, Freddy learned to love people when he was a kitten. He’s already forgiven these new people. Still, he wants to quickly move to his forever home.

Most pet lovers tell anyone who’s interested about their cat or dog. Yet, frequently people bring an animal to the shelter, explaining that the animal, the one clinging to them, is a stray. That was what the person who delivered 11-month-old, social, golden, purring boy Braxton said.

Later, a shelter visitor recognized Braxton. His whole life, young Braxton belonged to and loved the people who described him as a stray. Maybe they were embarrassed to say that, for them, an adolescent kitten isn’t as much fun as a toddling one.

Still, knowing more about the kitten, now labeled Braxton, now neutered, would have helped him. It might have made the kitten less stressed if the staff could have called him by the name he knew.