Shelter Kitten – Bee
Most kittens do well in the shelter’s playroom for cats. Few are as completely joyful as Bee. The nine-week-old, speckled tabby kitten loves being surrounded by other cats. Bee appreciates the toys and cat trees, too. The natural-born entertainer is committed to making sure that the other cats appreciate their blessings, too. Bee always gets the play party started.
No one knows what Bee’s brief life was like before she came to the shelter. But it’s obvious that Bee is a palm-sized optimist. Given any chance at all, Bee will make her world a happy place for herself and everyone with her.
Adopters tend to select kittens based on their appearance. Bee could be overlooked unless someone realizes that a kitten’s impact is what matters.
Puppies are hard to resist. Sandy, a gorgeous, copper, brown, and white Australian Shepherd, would have been even more irresistible than most. So, even though he was older, the person took the ball of fluff home. That was three years ago. Now, Sandy is at her beautiful, energetic, hopeful peak. The person she loves is not.
Eight-week-old Bill may have an ordinary name, but that’s the only ordinary aspect of this long-haired bundle of tabby fluff. Everything about Bill is elegant. He wears a white ascot under his chin, white mittens on his front paws, and white boots on the back. He’s also, amazing for his age, perfectly groomed.
JoJo has spent years training for the dog version of the Olympics – agility competitions. Now, at his three-year-old peak, JoJo has lost his trainer, his coach, and the person he loved. The 20-pound Sheltie’s man never expected to get old before his pup did. But it happened. The man couldn’t give this perfect pup the life that JoJo deserved.
Capri, who’s only four months old, already knows the lessons that usually only much older pups have learned. The intelligent, golden Labrador mix, with one brown and one blue eye, is house broken, leash trained, and socially skilled. Capri is gracious to all three of the groups that can challenge pups, other dogs, cats, and kids.
Someone who should have cared about eight-week-old, multi-colored, tortoiseshell Brea miscalculated. Mistakes like this person’s frequently kill kittens. Her person left Brea outside of a school. Maybe this person, the one Brea depended on for survival, calculated that children can’t resist kittens. However, the person failed to remember that kids don’t get to make family-changing choices.
Author Wilson Rawls never forgot the Redbone Coonhounds who loved him when he was a child. He wrote about two such dogs in 
Her people didn’t let Anchovy know that she was an inconvenience, someone who couldn’t stay in the place she believed was her home. Anchovy didn’t learn the truth until she was eight weeks old, just old enough to be lifted away from mama, just old enough to lose her whole world.
The shelter staff describes 18-month-old, Labrador-mix Delbert as, ” a little shy and a lot of sweet”. As they waited for his owner to retrieve the wanderer, the staff discovered Delbert’s well-mannered, leash trained, and house broken. The more they discovered, the more certain they were that someone would be searching for this good boy.
Regal, a nine-month-old kitten, has passed every test to qualify as a perfect pet. The handsome brown tabby, with a stylish white beard and eye liner, went to be neutered and returned, still cheerful and loving. Regal’s also demonstrated that he loves kids and kittens. He’s patient and kind to little ones of every species. He even likes dogs.
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.
