You know I have been posting a series of interviews with Adult Homeless Foster Cats. My interviews are to help them reveal their hopes and dreams for their purrfect forever home. Read here, here and here.
On one of Mom L’s photo shoots, she met this precious little dainty ladycat named Cutie. She was a bottle baby, abandoned by her feline Mom; but thankfully a member of Community Concern 4 Cats found her in their backyard and nursed her through her kittenhood.
Please meet CUTIE!
Oh hello everyone. This is my very first Selfie ever, so I hope I get it right. I know it was hard for the camera lady because I can be a little moody and when I get tired of rubbing against humans to get pets, I sorta, well…kinda…ummm…ok, ok…I take a swat just to let them know I am done. There, I confessed my true nature, please don’t hold it again me, please?
Where do I look?
Oh, I moved my head and made it blur. Let me try again. I was hoping to be able to show off my gorgeous furs. You see I am NOT white with black…I am white with CHARCOAL GRAY!!!
Hey camera lady, did you move that time?
Let’s try again…
oh my, I am so sorry I bumped your camera
One more, I promise I will do my best.
*mwahhh* There! I gave your camera a smooch!
Hope you liked my Selfie, I think I did very well. And you know I am available for adoption to a human with lots of patience…but I do love to be pet on my own terms of course.
Savannah allowed me add this short video to prove I really do so enjoy humans to rub against and to pet me.
I get to join the gang of cats from The Cat On My Head for their Sunday Selfie blog hop…whatever that is. You can learn more about me at gemmaos at sbcglobal dot net.
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I am back again with Part Three of my multiple series of Paw It Forward Blog Posts titled: “I Am An Adult Homeless Foster Cat: Savannah reveals hopes and dreams“.
As you already know if you visited me on Sunday Selfie, I introduced this new Paw It Forward series of posts that I will be doing between September and December, 2015.
The series is to bring everyone up to speed on the most critical back log in our current foster care system; the Adult Homeless Foster Cats. And the operative word is ‘Adult’
If you missed my Part One Introduction, click HERE and for Part Two click HERE.
Please join me with my second guest Adult Homeless Foster Cat…
PATCHES
Hey Guys; pleased to make your acquaintance
Savannah: “Hi Patches! I appreciate you having me over to do this interview. Ummm…would you mind skootching over just a tad so I can get my iPad out?
Patches: “ahhh…maybe just a teeny bit…but no fur touching, ok Savvy?”
Savannah: “Oh sure thing kid; I know you are just a tad touchy about other cats touching you unless you are the one to get the tussle and hustle going…heh…heh. *pulls out iPad* There, I got my iPad, so let’s get started.”
“I know this is not your ‘real’ home because this is a foster home. Would you mind sharing with me how long you have been in this foster home? And also, have you been fostered by anyone else?”
Patches:*squirms a bit uncomfortably*”Well, truth be known Savannah, I was actually in another foster home. Now that foster place, just like where I am now, is part of the foster care network within Community Concern 4 Cats (CC4C). But even though the foster human cared for me with shelter and food and water, there just wasn’t enough space for me to play and learn how to be social with the other cats.”
What do you mean I am ‘not’ in charge??
Savannah: “Patches, how did you first come to be a foster cat with Community Concern 4 Cats?”
Patches: “Mouses! This part is hard Savannah. You see, I was very young, just a kitten. I don’t know if I had siblings or where my Mom Cat had gone off to. You see my first foster person found me in the cat colony he feeds which has grown up around a public kill shelter. People don’t want to pay to surrender their adults or Mom Cats with kittens so they just drive into the parking area and abandon us there.”
Savannah: *slaps paw to forehead* “You have gotta be kidding me Patches…*shakes head and rolls eyes*…no, no…I know you are not kidding me. I know humans abandon us cats and even the woofies just like we are nothing but some rubbish they can toss out of a car. Go on, please.”
This is so hard to talk about
Patches: *flips a tiny tear away* “Thanks for understanding. So anyway, this nice man left out a humane trap with some food in it and of course I was always starving so I dashed right in and *WHAM!*I was trapped. He made sure I was spayed, had my vaccines and tested for FeLV and got a good vet checkup. And he really tried but he had several others cats to care for as well and I didn’t always get enough socialization with humans or other cats at such a young age.
He took me to adoption events; he really, really tried to make sure wherever my forever family is that they could find me. But unfortunately, I did not ‘show’ well. I was very nervous and hid in the corner of my cage. The other young kittens like me would go to the humans waving their fingers in the cage to get pets. I stayed away.”
Must you jab your fingers at me???
Savannah: “That is exactly what happened to me Patches. I was older though and even more afraid of the humans.” Tell me why you were moved to this current foster home.
Patches: Oh gosh. I just became a nervous wreck. I started to scratch my head constantly out of anxiety. So now, not only was I reserved, nervous and scared…but I looked such a fright! So the nice foster person asked another foster person, a lady, if she would give me a place to live so I could calm down. Thankfully she was willing to help me out.”
Savannah: “By that time you must have been like a year old, right?”
Patches: “Yep; and I have lived with this really nice lady in a wonderful large space for over a year now. Her resident cat and I got along just fine until…
Savannah: “Until what…?”
Patches: “Until I was actually adopted by a nice enough lady. But you see, I don’t care for lots of noise and especially not loud human voices…you know what it sounds like at the pet store adoption sites, right? All those humans were talking loudly and all the woofies making such a clamor. I learned to be very afraid of loud voices and this lady adopter was really loud. So I hid all the time. She wanted a cat who would do whatever she wanted immediately and wasn’t very patient with me. She returned me to the same foster lady. So here I am, back again.
But when I came back; for some reason, I tried to sneak up on the resident cat and I scared her outta at least one or maybe even two of her nine lives.
She has never forgiven me; maybe because I keep going for the ‘stare down’ if the foster lady gives me a chance. Now resident Ava flees in terror if she sees me and of course I want to play rough and tumble…not a good situation for sure Savannah, not good at all. The lady has to keep us in separate parts of the house.
But I think it is because I am a Tomboy Savvy. I think I might be OK with another cat if the cat was ready to get down with me and wrestle and play and chase each other.”
Savannah: “I think it is about time for you, Patches, to tell the world all your hopes and dreams for your forever home. Are you up for that?”
Patches: “Do you mean I can talk about my hopes and dreams for my very own forever home, truly? Pawsome! Well, first *holds up one claw to tick off her hopes and dreams list*…
My new family must like to play fetch with me. I retrieve! Seriously, I do and I love doing it over and over again.
They also will need to make sure they take the time to brush me; it is something that I simply cannot do without.
Oh yes, and they need never worry about any flies in their home ever again; I am a total fly huntress!
If they are hoping for a lap cat, then they will need to be very, very patient. I do adore sleeping with my foster human, and she can pick me up, no problem. I never ever have scratched or bitten any human. I just don’t ‘do’ laps yet.
And I do prefer soft spoken humans and any time they want to whisper softly into my ears to tell me how much they love me, and give me smoochies on my head, that will be great by me!
Savannah: “I can see you have thought about this very deeply Patches. You are seriously longing for your very own forever family. They will need to be clear that you, Patches, set the rules for engagement…is that correct?”
Patches: “Oh my cat! Savvy, you nailed it right on the catnip!! Yes, I am a bit of a ‘control girl’ and so I prefer to set my own standards and have the humans come along.
*koff, koff…ahem* Apologies, just clearing my throat…so let me reframe that last part. I just need and want caring kindness, loving devotion, lots of brushies and interactive play and humans to snuggle with to watch TV and with whom I can sleep peacefully and safely at night.
Savvy, have I asked for too much?” *one more quick wipe of leaky eyes*
Savannah: *reaches to place a soft paw pat on Patches’ shoulder*…No dear heart, you are describing your very own personal hopes and dreams for you forever family and home.”
And so ends the third post in my new series…
“I Am An Adult Homeless Foster Cat: Savannah reveals hopes and dreams”
Thank all of you who stopped by to learn about Patches; and especially those of you who take the time to SHARE SHARE SHARE Patches’ search for her forever castle where she will be forever safe and cherished.
If you are interested in adopting Patches or in helping share her availability…here is her contact information:
Stay tuned for my next “I Am An Adult Homeless Foster Cat: Savannah reveals hopes and dreams” blog post on Monday, October 19th. This series will conclude October 26th.
You really do not want to miss one single Interview with Savannah…just sayin’…
Yeah, yeah Mom L…I know the title is more appropriate as “GUEST POST”…but come on…IMHFO (In My Humble Feline Opinion)…they are ‘foreigners’. At least I know my academic pal Austin will understand that I have accurately utilized the most appropriate word…”foreigner = not belonging to a particular place or group; a stranger or outsider…i.e. for = in favor of; eign = in; ers = no restrictions
And ‘that’ is ‘that’. Cats who prefer no restrictions meaning…they didn’t ask to be on this blog post!!
But, here they are. I have made my point and I am sticking to it. So, without further introduction, allow me to present two unknown named cats with their Selfies, available for adoption, and currently residing at ARF.
This kitten clearly had to show off its tongue
And this Adult cat…
Why doesn’t anyone pick me?
Mom L will be reporting later about the ARF Event she attended wherein she obtained these Selfies of the unknown cats…unknown because Mom L forgot to take a photo of their ID tags! *rolls eyes and shakes head*
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