Sandy - adopted

Sandy showed up at the feral colony of a friend of mine in Portsmouth.  My Ginger had been put down recently and I was looking for another cat or thought I was.  Sandy who I named was a sand colored orange tabby male.  He was harassing other cats in her colony and she wound up bringing him into her house in a laundry room and had him about a week when we talked.  My friend has two groups of cats in her house already that are separated since they don't get along.    A pair live in the son's bedroom and the others live downstairs.  They can see each other and smell each other as she installed a screen door inside the house at the door of the son.  They modified the door so they can pet the cats inside the room from outside of the bedroom and reinforced the bottom to avoid screen damage.  Quite ingenius.  I have a cat room in my house.  I have thought about doing it.  but haven't yet.

Dec 17, 2011 I picked him up from Portsmouth.  I took him home in a cloth carrier.  He didn't like it at all because it would move and he thought he could get out.   It was quite traumatic.  He survived the trip home.  Lesson learned.  The best carrier for a strange cat is a hard case.

Jan 29, 2012 - I went to Petsmart with Sandy and Grayson

Feb 5, 2012 - I went to Petsmart with Grayson, Sandy and Timothy.

It almost looks like he's falling asleep.

Button/Isabel (Issy) - adopted Dec 2011

Button - I named her that cause she was cute as a button - was trapped while TNRing cats in my colony. I was so tempted to keep her but I was going to an Irish Dance competition in Florida. I didn't want to overburden my cat caregiver and thought it was surrender "now or never". I decided to surrender her to the IOW Humane Society for them to put up for adoption. I wasn't fostering yet. While filling out the paperwork at Petsmart, her new "mom" was being interviewed to adopt her so I got to meet her. She was looking for a playmate for her 2 year old cat. She invited me to come over after I came back from Florida which I did. Issy as she was now named had no idea who I was. I made a good decision.

She had time in the cage with all the ferals recovering and after they were all released I brought her into the house less than 3 days of socialization. We just played the whole time as you can see from the photos.