Great site Susan. Love the names. You are doing fantastic work with these babies. Sharyl
--- On Thu, 8/13/09, Susan Hoffman <susan_hoff...@yahoo.com> wrote: > From: Susan Hoffman <susan_hoff...@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Difficult decision > To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > Date: Thursday, August 13, 2009, 10:12 PM > 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. > _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
