Shelter Kitten – Sienna
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.
That happened in record-breaking heat. If someone hadn’t opened the package quickly, the kittens would have panted and gasped until they died. Maybe the people who left them didn’t think of that. That’s better than assuming that they didn’t care.
However, Sienna doesn’t realize that humans betrayed her. The exquisite tiny calico is still affectionate, still ready to play. Now Sienna needs someone who’ll reward her unwavering trust with a home.
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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.
No creature looks any sadder than a heartbroken, 12-week-old, Beagle-mix puppy. And this puppy, Tango, has a right to be sad. He’s the little leftover. Tango was sad when he watched each of his littermates carried away. Still, Tango had Mamma and the humans that he’s learned to know and trust. Then one of those humans picked up Tango.
Karma is little more than a kitten herself; kittens who aren’t protected grow up quickly and sadly. Even though someone taught Karma to love her humans, even though they taught her perfect manners, and even though little Karma did everything they asked, her people never had her spayed. So, before she was grown herself, Karma had kittens.
When a new cat appears in a neighborhood, people usually think that he’s passing through, a happy wanderer, a capable survivor. People thought that about the little tuxedo cat that they glimpsed in their rural neighborhood, from a distance. Those glimpses didn’t show them that the fellow was losing weight.
Niko, a one-year-old German Shepherd, illustrates that any dog can end up in a shelter. He was a stray, whether by accident or because some owner unfathomably changed his mind. However, it seems impossible that anyone intentionally lost Niko. He’s housebroken, leash walks and friendly with everyone he meets.
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.
