Shelter Cat – Cream
Repeatedly, how many times only Cream knows, he had to win a new home. When Cream met his most recent person, the ten-year-old, neutered, Maine Coon mix was living unsuccessfully outdoors. Cream was so sick the person contacted the Grant County Friends of the Shelter to help him.
Cream was near death from FIP, which isn’t contagious but, until a year ago, was always fatal. Now there’s a miracle drug, but it’s expensive and requires months of faithful administration. The person who saw Cream staggering outside her door brought him inside and took on the task.
Now Cream is well, but his lifelong bad luck isn’t over. Tearfully Cream’s newest person contacted the shelter, explaining that she’d lost her home. Cream is homeless again, too.
Hazel is a mystery, in some ways. It’s a mystery that this cute, responsive pup-of-a-certain-age, who’s obviously loved people for her six years of life, was wandering. It’s mysterious that no one has come for the beautifully behaved little lady, especially since Hazel seems to be expecting her person.
Ten-week-old Kitty Gaga is irresistible face to tiny fuzzy face. She and every other shelter kitten could purr and cuddle their way into a kind human heart, if they could get near that heart. However, in the shelter, there are lots of walls between Kitty Gaga and potential human owners. Charm can’t penetrate walls.
Animal advocate Jeffrey Masson wrote a book asserting, “Dogs Never Lie about Love”. And dogs can never believe that their human would lie about it or lie about how long love lasts. Hershey’s people asked the sweet Basset, again and again, to produce cute puppies. For six years, Hershey did. She produced them and loved them.
The shelter staff desperately wants resident cats to find homes. The most horrible thing that can happen is that a sweet, healthy cat dies, just because there’s no more space. So, they never insist that cats go home together, no matter how bonded the cats are. Still, sometimes they can hope.
When she was a kitten, just two years ago, technicolor-coated Reese Puff would have gazed up at her person, with her pretty eyes half closed. That’s the way that a kitten or cat looks at someone, human or feline, that she loves and trusts. Those half-closed eyes are the greatest compliment a kitten can give. The eyes send a message.
Kittens show when they, once-upon-a-time, were loved. Tawny’s way of approaching people, ready to share a cuddle, ready to play, shows that she lived with people. Yet, now, when she’s just four months old, those people are through with her. The beautifully marked tortoiseshell kitten was wandering alone, gazing at strangers, pleading for help.
The shelter director summarized Lilly’s life as “a train wreck so far”. The blue-eyed, blonde, nine-month-old pup was starving, filthy, terrified and had a digestive system wrecked by eating anything she could to stay alive. Lilly’s short life must have been day after day of struggle. Some pups would have given up, but Lilly kept putting one paw in front of the other.
Crimson felt that the world was a very nice place to be. The exquisite russet kitten with white paws and a vest had his mama, his siblings and people who adored all of them. Crimson was content, imagining that his world would always be so perfect, that he’d always feel so loved.
He’s only 10 weeks old, and the only “safe” place Oedipuss could see was under a parked car. Luckily, before the driver moved that car, he noticed the kitten huddled there. Luckily, too, Oedipuss believes that people are good and will protect him. He didn’t run away. He waited to be helped.
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.
