New kitty just arrived. 6 months old, fully vaccinated, neutered even! Feel like I hit the jackpot here! 🙂 He is beautiful, the color of a creamsicle. Suspect he won’t be here very long but he is a bit hissy so it will be a few days for him to calm down. He’s under the bed right now- what a surprise.
His name is Wolfie- I will be changing it soon. His story is he belonged to an elderly woman who lives in a mobile home park. In the last few days, he got a bit rambunctious (as kitties do) and he scratched the woman but he hit a vein. She bled all over the place and it caused a bit of an uproar with everyone. Some wanted him declawed and de-fanged! Others wanted him to be turned over to animal control (they only euthanize cats). So I was called and here he is-
As I said, he is a bit scared, a bit hissy and hiding under the bed right now.
It sounds like Wolfie’s person should have had a sedate, older cat, not a kitten. De-fanged!? Good Lord. And what do people think ‘animal control’ does with the animals it controls? They don’t have an adoption programme, nor do they run zoos.
We are going to give it a week to calm down over there and she is going to adopt my Glory Bee- Glory wouldn’t scratch anybody.
Good lord I wish people would think things through before bringing home an animal. My local shelter has a silver whiskers club that works to home senior cats with senior people.
Our local shelters are loaded with declawed young cats because elderly owners either passed or went into homes. I often wondered why these elderly just don’t adopt an older declawed cats whose owner is gone. 🙁
Please don’t blame all elderly people for the actions of a few!
Kittens are so appealing and hard to resist, but few people really think through their decision when they take a kitten as a pet. De-clawing and de-fanging should be illegal in this country, but too many vets make a mint by performing such procedures…