Shelter Kitten – Orangutan
The first thing that Orangutan learned about the world was to hide. Someone abandoned her mama and the kitten. That someone must have known how little chance the helpless family had of surviving. Someone didn’t care. But Mama cared. She tried to help Orangutan survive. Mama’s brutal experiences had taught her that staying unnoticed was essential for staying alive.
Mama learned to hide so well that the kind people trying to help her couldn’t catch her. But they caught tiny Orangutan. At the shelter, people have been persuading the eight-week-old bit of golden fluff that the world and most people like kittens.
The baby girl is still skittish, but she’s risking approaching people. Orangutan deserves to have her courage and faith rewarded with a home.
Cranberry wants someone to notice that she’s the ideal holiday cat. She already seems covered in snow. Her muzzle is especially cute. Cranberry appears to have fallen face first in a snow drift. And she has an expression of wide-eyed wonder whenever she sees something nice. That wonder would become dazzlement when Cranberry glimpsed the Christmas tree.
It’s sad that the shelter, where she lives in a cage with a concrete floor, is the happiest place that Raja has known. However, a cliché says, it’s all relative. The shelter is dry and warm. Raja feels safe and has food. Best of all, the people who come to see her each day seem to like her.
Some pups apologize for existing. Usually those are pups who deserve apologies from the human species for what they’ve endured. Buckwheat, a wheat-colored, seven-month-old, sweet, southern gentleman, is like that. Evidence indicates that the Mountain Cur mix has lived his entire life in a cage, a cage that was disgusting because Buckwheat was never taken out.
Some breeds always look sad. So, with Gomez, a Newfoundland mix, it’s hard to know whether his sad expression comes from understanding his unfair situation. After all, Gomez, like so many bigger dogs, is a sweet, perpetually grateful gentleman. He sees the world as the half-full glass. He doesn’t resent being dumped. He’s grateful someone saved him.
It may seem strange to say that silver-coated, four-month-old Doe is lucky. After all, someone threw the kitten from a moving car, in the Walmart parking lot. However, instead of being killed or disabled by her landing, instead of being run over while she was lying stunned on the pavement, someone hurried to scoop up Doe.
More and more, Beatrix pokes her head out of her cat tree’s hidey hole. The four-year-old, spayed, always vaccinated, house cat has been hiding ever since her people brought her and her brother back to the shelter. The shelter staff doesn’t mind welcoming back former residents. Still, when the cats left as kittens, it’s painful.
Marco has a cute, expressive face with satellite-dish ears that show just how interested he is in whatever a person is thinking or feeling. Marco wants to understand, and he’ll always try hard to show how much he cares. That’s why it’s hard to comprehend why someone forced the six-month-old, neutered Labrador-Heeler to be a rover, a stray.
Until the time they were through with him, Radar’s people must have been kind. Or, at least, one of them was because the five-month-old puppy is sweet and socially skilled. Radar knows how to coax someone to play. He knows how to sit politely indoors. Radar is a good pup, ready to be guided into being a great dog.
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.
