Thanks for stopping by! Get The Way of Cats, delivered, by asking for my RSS feed. Get my free cat advice newsletter by signing up here and get the FREE eBook, Ten Cat Tricks (Every Human Should Know.)Three Thursdays this month I will be featuring a segment from a three part essay from S.H. Jacobsen, who spent a vacation in animal rescue.
My favorites were Speedway Mama, Gypsy and Stella. Gypsy (a black and white) and Stella (a tortoiseshell) will probably find homes easier than Mama as she appears black though, like a black tiger, you can see stripes in the sunlight. Her fur is smooth and silken and she’s the friendliest little thing but unfortunately black cats are hard to place.
In another couple of rooms were kittens, small adorable balls of fluff especially two white ones named Thief and River who purred up a storm and one of them, apparently weaned too soon, loved to nurse on my hands and arms until I’d get tiny kitten hickeys. I’m happy to report that they were adopted but that still leaves Hobo and Lovey and Cooper and ….
Being feral many of the cats had been afraid of people but PAAWS attracts volunteers who do nothing (or so it seems) but play with and socialize the kittens and cats so they may find homes. One of the volunteers has an 11 year old son who was there for a while on a couple of days. He’s been there a lot helping out the past few months and I do mean helping out. He’ll thoroughly clean the cages recovering animal have been in and do other semi-yucky stuff, cheerfully and without complaint. Part of it is the kind of boy he is and part of it is that he’s really doing grown-up stuff and is treated with respect for what he contributes.
All photos copyright 2008 by S.H. Jacobsen
Read Volunteer Vacations, and Volunteer Vacations, part iii. (Links will work once post is published.)
If you enjoyed this series, here’s the page with the donation link.
Got here from a Link or Search?
There’s more to choosing a cat with The Way of Cats than the article you are reading now. See my CHOOSING A CAT.
