I'm lucky that I'm in the San Francisco/Bay Area. We have had low cost
spay/neuter and feral cat programs for well over a decade so we don't have the
kitten glut so many other places have. As a result, adoptions tend to be
pretty strong around here. Can't imagine doing adoptions in West Virginia.
--- On Fri, 8/14/09, Lorrie felineres...@kvinet.com wrote:
From: Lorrie felineres...@kvinet.com
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Santuary
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Date: Friday, August 14, 2009, 1:59 PM
I run a rescue too. I bought a
2,000 sq foot building in an
older section of town and made it into a cageless no kill
shelter.
There are 28 cats there, and they have cat trees, second
hand
furniture, and all the comforts of home. I also have a
large FelV
room. It's a lot of work and expense, but it's my calling
in life.
However I seem to accumulate more cats than I adopt.
Everyone
in our small town seems to have a reason they can't adopt
or foster!
Lorrie in WV
On 08-13, Susan Hoffman wrote: It feels like it sometimes
but no. I
run a small rescue. We average around 150
adoptions a year and
have the cats in various foster homes. Here's
our petfinder site:
http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/CA1136.html
I usually take older kittens, teenagers and adults at
my house.
Some seniors and special needs types too. The
foster homes are
usually more into the tiny kittens.
I do wind up sanctuarying some of the harder to place
cats, or at
the very least fostering them for a long time till the
right home
is found. I've had some for 12-18 months before
they were adopted.
I also have a weakness for Siamese and will take more
risks with
older feral or undersocialized Siamese. May take
a year to tame
them for adoption but, hey, they're gorgous and
eventually I do
manage to place them.
Our senior girl who just passed away from a grey and
white tuxedo
who had been with us 9 years. She showed up 9
years ago, starving
and hugely pregnant. We took her in and kept
her. She was at
least 15 on Monday when she went to the bridge,
possibly older. I
know we did right by her all the years that she was
with us and I'm
glad she was here so long. Gave her plenty of
time to forget her
former life that had left her in such bad straits by
the time she
found us.
--- On Thu, 8/13/09, Reyna Castano rcpin...@yahoo.com
wrote:
Do you work at a sanctuary?
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