To the editor:
Another big week for adoptions at Halfway Home Pet Rescue, but we still have several beautiful adult cats available for adoption and six newborn kittens who will be adoptable in another eight weeks. We are grateful to have been available to several cats that needed extra medical care. Marie came in full of fleas, ear mites, worms and a badly infected uterus. Poor Marie must have suffered terribly delivering a litter of kittens during her abandonment and then suffered the effects of a difficult delivery with no medical aftercare. She came in grumpy and growling for the first several days until her antibiotics kicked in and her infection started healing. Now she is one very happy, healthy young cat with very unusual markings. She is a sweetie. I wonder what happened to her kittens.
Little Momma came in hugely pregnant and in heavy labor after being found lying on a path in the woods out by Noble’s Trailer Park. She appeared to have complications with her delivery and we sent her to our vet. We picked her up today with six sleepy babies and she was one very happy, healthy and purring momma.
Our big guy, Wilson, was brought in by the farmer who found him on the floor of his potato house in Connor. Wilson was skin and bones as he was unable to catch any food or protect himself due to his having been declawed. He had a microchip implanted and the Presque Isle Animal Hospital was able to trace his history to Kansas University. Wilson had been used as a lab cat for the testing of Febreze. To make a long story short, Wilson had been adopted out after his trial time and had been passed from one home to another until he ended up in Caribou where he was let outside and became starved and unable to catch any food. Farmer Robert Lewis found him and called HHPR. Wilson has a sweet, loving personality and is the tallest cat that I have ever seen. He will be a beauty when we get him fattened up and will be a joy to any family who adopts him. He loves being loved.
I wish I had time to tell you about Gertrude, Spook, Trudy II, Mr. Sam, Callie, Tammy, Toby, Amos, Trudy, Dee, Tina, Tonka and the wonderful five little feral kittens we are working with. Each day, I am grateful that we exist for these wonderful cats that have never had a chance to be a contented, loving family pet. We do our very best to make that up to them and to find them a permanent home. Remember to hug your child, pat your dog and kiss your cat this week. Keep the love growing.
Halfway Home Pet Rescue is a state licensed humane shelter. and a 501c3 non-profit organization. When leaving a message on my answering machine, speak slowly and repeat the telephone number twice. We greatly appreciate your returnable bottles and cans at 88 Bennett Drive Redemption in Caribou and your help with the collection jars in Caribou businesses. Check us out on petfinder.com our ID is ME110. Our website is www.halfwayhomepetrescue.org. We do adoptions by appointment only. Our mailing address is PO Box 488, Caribou, ME 04736
Norma Milton, president
HHPR,Inc. Caribou
