Red Carpet Cats

Barbara Gordon

Serena

Fashionista felines wore identical outfits on the red carpet, but who wore it better?  Cast your vote at:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6LYL26R

Thanks for playing! These beauties are available at Anderson Animal Shelter in So Elgin.

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Masquerade felines

Count Mickey- ADOPTED!

10/31/15.  Help these felines find their broomstick so they can fly out of the shelter and on to their halloween ball..

Opal

Serena 

These pretties are available at Anderson Animal Shelter in south elgin.

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Cat carries around a blanket and finds his forever home

This guy Largo finally found his forever home.  He was a blanket toting cutie. 

Largo

FIV adoption

Most exciting news is that sweet FIV+ cat Alvin was finally adopted recently!  He's a great lap cat and will make someone very happy. Congrats Alvin!

Cats Playing

Now that many of my former charges have been adopted, I have had to make new friends at the shelter. 
Here we have the likes of River and Hendrix taunting Max in his carrier. Hendrix had no problem barging in on Max in the carrier!  Hendrix must have learned this in the clinic he spent so much time in; the cats there huddle together to sleep and keep warm.  Max tolerated it briefly, but let it be known his new cage mate was not welcome!  

While River and Hendrix made the most of their play session by playing wildly, Max squandered his opting for the security of his carrier! 

Shelter adoptions, losses and new residents!

Well its been a while since I was last blogging, not sure if anyone really missed it, so I guess there was no incentive for me to blog, until now, to write about all the wonderful adoptions, some losses, and new residents!  The policy on the FIV cats has changed too, enabling them to become floor cats for part of the day.  Lucky for them.  Ginger is the new shelter king and gets on famously with Ringo, a floor cat.  Little One and Mia are like kids in a candy shop.  Alvin seems to sleep always, and may stand up when he sees me.  The cats recognize me, but they don't call after me anymore since they don't need me to let them out like in the past!  Ginger mostly ignores me, but will come to me if I call him and wait for him. 

Many of the cats showcased here were adopted or taken into foster care.  Still some remain.  I am hopeful for them.  Still some we say goodbye too as a result of age related illness, or illness in general.  One surprising adoption was that of Nicodemus, a black cat that had been at the shelter since a kitten, about 4 years.  He was adopted by a man that wanted a companion cat for his other cat.  He found Nic on petfinder and curiously, he said he would keep Nic's name (not change it like most new owners do) and was a reason he went to meet Nicodemus!  This is very fortunate for Nic, as black cats can be hard to adopt out, and there are so many of them at the shelter.  Nic had a peculiar personality too.

Next amazing adoption came with Victoria(Cat showcase). She was a moody bi-color cat that had to take daily medications for seizures and allergies.  It just didn't look good for her.  Then her lucky card came up and she was adopted shortly after Nicodemus!

Another exciting adoption was Daisy Boo, (adopted by the same owner as Victoria too),  the longest feline resident at the shelter clocking 5+ years!  A pretty black and white tuxedo cat with a thick teddy-bear like coat.  I just don't know why it took so long for her to get re-homed, she was sweet enough.

Sadly a few days before Thanksgiving we said goodbye to Rodman.  A dear tabby who was plagued with kidney and thyroid problems.  Once adopted from the shelter as a kitten, made his way back ~ 13 years later when his family didn't know their was something wrong with him! He weighed 5 pounds!  I never saw anything like it.  Just fur and bones.  His shoulder blades were like potato chips.  I wish I could have helped him somehow.  When I did get to visit him in the clinic, he would sit on my lap and lean against me.  I was afraid to handle him too much, he seemed fragile.

Cat walks on leash

Loverboy got his "get out of jail free card!"

HI again, missed you all.  There has been some news since I last blogged!  Loverboy was adopted! Great for him, though I am sad, as he was my favorite cat. It is very encouraging that he was adopted, and by the public too, since he is FIV+.  Usually, these cats are passed up again and again.  One of the reasons he did go home is that he could walk on a leash.  This, I started doing with him a while back since he has so much energy and just needs to move!  So now I make it a plan to get all the cats I work with on a leash, and show that as a feature of them to adopters.

Another FIV+, Miss Ellie went to a foster home. Apparently, she is doing well there.  Now, I thought my work load is lessening with the FIVs but no sooner than these two are gone does a new one named "Mia" appear. She is a black, female, FIV+, and is quite hissey around the others. ***sigh***.

Majken, a sweetheart tabby finally got adopted. She managed to work her way up to being a floor cat, which is not a bad place to be in the shelter community for a cat!  But, instead, someone that is familiar with the shelter, e.g. a delivery person or something of that nature, adopted her!  I can see why, she is so sweet and loving.  Good for her!

Tidbit, one of the non-FIVs I work with is a handful. She agreeably comes out of her cage for playtime, but look out trying to return her to it!  I managed to get a harness and leash on her, and even walk her, but it was drama big time trying to negotiate with her to get it off.  I must have gotten bit and scratched beyond recognition!