Shelter Stories

We are pawticipaing in Dory's blog hop this weekend.

In early October,  Hurricane Matthew destroyed many small cities in North Carolina.
Robeson Co. Animal Shelter took in many of the pets and there are still at least
100 dogs, cats and assorted other pets/animals waiting for their owners.  Many owners lost everything and are looking for new places to live.  The shelter will tend to these pets until their owners return for them.  Volunteers from different states came in to help at a Shelter in
St. Pauls, NC.  Look at these faces

ASPCA volunteer from Texas playing with a dog at the St. Paul's Shelter

These sweet kitties were evidently abandoned when their families fled the flood waters
They are at the St. Paul's Shelter too

We will donate $1.00 per comment to the Robeson Co. Animal Shelter beginning at 9 pm 10/29/16 until 9:30 pm  10/30/16
We will announce our total on Monday 10/31/16

Shelter animals in our lives...are my nephew, Frisco and niece, Mia...
their stories are not connected to a storm.  However, like all shelter animals Frisco and Mia were surrendered for some reason to the local Animal Shelter.  They were all alone and wondering WHY.  Now they live lives of feline royalty!! Here are their stories

FRISCO 

In mid September of 2015 SIS and BIL decided they needed to start looking for a new

fur baby to love.  There are several rescue facilities in their county and unfortunately a kill animal shelter that will keep stray kitties for ONLY a short time. Sis heard that one of the shelters was having an off site adoption event.  Sis had in her mind her 3rd cat would be a black cat.  So off they go to check out the kitties.  This particular shelter periodically goes to the kill animal shelter several times a month just to see if there are kitties there that they can take to one of their events.

Lo and behold there was a 2 month old black kitten there who was absolutely adorable...

and there was a very handsome ginger kitty there who was estimated to be about one year old.

Sis was torn between the two. She knew most folks wanted kittens.  She found out that adoption event was this kitty's last chance for adoption. He was going to be returned to the animal shelter that afternoon. SIS and BIL came home with this handsome fellow who now lives a life of luxury and love!!  Frisco fit right into their life and wove his handsome (big) paws around their hearts.

MIA

 Fast forward to November 14, 2015.  Once again SIS and BIL 

went to a rescue event...Mia, a Tortie,  had the same story as with Frisco she was selected by the rescue facility from the kill shelter in hopes of finding her a home.  That day all  of the cats there were older and their window of opportunity for adoption was about to close.  It was estimated that Mia was close to  1 1/2 years and she had been surrendered to the shelter by her former owners.  The rescue facility could not understand why she was surrendered because she was so very sweet and loving. This is the first photo SIS sent mom of Mia....Mom told Sis Mia looked like  

Queen of the house already and she had been there a few hours. 

SIS had never introduced a new cat to an existing cat so she wasn't really sure how long it would take

or how it would go. It went very very well  SIS said she thought both cats knew how lucky they were and could tell that they had found the purrfect home and purrfect sibling.

This was the first photo SIS sent on the day they met...you can tell by Frico's gaze that it was 

love at first sight for him....and Mia was purrty happy to have his love too

September 2016 was Frisco's 1st anniversary in his furever home.

November 14th of this year will be Mia's 1st anniversary.

They absolutely love each other to bits.  They groom each other and when resting they are always touching.  Frisco is much larger than Mia...she is very tiny and petite but Mia rules the house with a soft paw

Mia is quite the acrobat probably due to her small frame and weight (about 8 1/2 lbs.)

Her airborne abilities are amazing.

Frisco is in total awe of her abilities and has yet to figure out  how she does it.

which is probably good since he is very tall with long legs and weighs close to 13 lbs.

Thank you for taking the time to read the rescue stories of Frisco and Mia they agree with 

our friend Brian who says...

Adopt Cats we deserve it!!

Today is the last day of.......

Dory is holding her Second Annual Blog Hop/Fundraiser

 from October 28, 29 and October 30th(Friday through Sunday). They will be donating $1 for everyone who links up to the hop with your Halloween post letting them know how you have helped (or plan on helping) a shelter near you! That's right, just show how you are enjoying Halloween and how you helped (or are going to help) a shelter near you and link up to the hop.