Oreo and Bear - adopted March 2013

Bear when I first go her - she looks terrified.
(Jan 20, 2013)

Oreo isn't quite so terrified and warmed up very quickly

January 19, 2013 - I received 2 8 week-old kittens.  They went to the vet and were quite wild and became my latest project.

One is almost a tuxedo (I named him Oreo) and the other is black medium to long hair with brown undertones.  cute as can be but scared.  I have held both and am confident they'll come around and be adoptable quite quickly. When Bear would play and get on his hind legs he looked just like a little Bear and that is how I came up with his name.

March 25, 2013
Oreo was adopted - he was the sweetest thing.  He is renamed Marley.  Will be neutered this week.
Bear was adopted - not sure when he will be neutered.  I still need to follow up

Meet Oreo - now Marley. He got neutered this week (March 2013). He has a great owner. I really enjoyed having him as a foster. One of my favorites.

Bear turned out to be a girl.  I thought she was a boy.  It is sometimes harder to tell with long haired cats.  She outweighed her brother.

Tigger - adopted Dec 2012

Tigger was a sweet boy who got adopted very quickly from Petsmart Dec 2012

Chucks cats

Oct 9, 2012

I have three new fosters in my garage needing names.  There are two more also in the litter but the ones I have right now are a solid black long haired and two orange/tan with white.  Chuck wanted to name the black male long haired, star on chest and very long white tufts Velvet.  I had in my head violet but I don't think either name goes for a male.   Velvet more than Violet that is for sure.  Pictures will be posted soon.  I named one of the others Tanner.  Still need another name.  The gender of the black was confirmed at the vet.  I was pretty sure he was a boy but sometimes that long hair makes it difficult.  He is the sweetest thing and one of the loudest purrers on the planet.  His two siblings are a little more reserved at this point.  They let me pet them and will purr but they don't take the initiative as the black one does.  They are kind of like where Tuxie was.  Tuxie however now takes the initiative.  If I'm close to his cage he'll put his paw through the bars to get my attention.  The other two in the litters are another solid black long hair and a calico named Peaches who likes to ride on Chuck's shoulders while he is doing everything.  He said she almost fell asleep cause she almost fell off.  I have got to get some pics of all of them so I can post them.

Checkers/Tucker and Tanner have been adopted.  Casper and Peaches have also been adopted.  And the oldest but the newest to me - a calico Kappa - got adopted today.

Veranda for pepper or feeding station for ferals...

Veranda for Pepper?
My sister had a great suggestion for Pepper - make a veranda so he can be outside but not outside.  I've thought about screening my back porch.  I just haven't done it yet.  sometime.... 
Since it is where I feed the ferals that might be a little problematic cause they would freak out being confined.  A matter for more thought and consideration.

Coal - adopted Sept 2012

Coal came from a friend of an IOWHS member.  The gal he came from was feeding 2 ferals but this one showed up who was very friendly and she believed the cat was abandoned by someone who had moved out of their house.  He was described as having a fluffy tail and being an expensive cat.  So the working name - sight unseen was Diamond.  When I picked him up I said Diamond was in appropriate for this male.  It just didn't fit.  At the time I was helping TNR some other feral cats; whose kittens were being fostered by the home owner and being put up for adoption.  When she saw the cat, she came up with Coal which was perfect for this handsome guy.  He was in Petsmart less than 24 hours when I got the call of someone who was interested in adopting him.

He loved riding in the car and the new owners said they take him everywhere.  They recently adopted another cat from IOWHS.  I finalized the adoption for another foster parent.

Lola - adopted

May 2012 - Lola was a sweet female that was picked up at a Gas station in IOW.  The gal who rescued her was going to keep her but her own cats picked on her so she surrendered her.  Lola was a very sweet girl.  She wasn't quite so sure what she thought about Eustis' energy.  She really liked Grayson.  At that time I didn't let a foster out if Grayson was also out at the same time.  But she would like by his cage and he would lie by hers when she was out so I did end up letting them out together and they got along very well.

Eustis - adopted

Eustis is a grey tabby kitten found at the Ft Eustis mail room.  How she got there no one knows.  She was quite scared and skiddish when I got her but she came around quite quickly and got quite clingy but fortunately was adopted before I got too attached to her.

She was adopted by a CNU student who had never had a cat before.  Living in the house owned by his parents who had moved out of the country, he had permission to get a cat when he was old enough.  He called in a panic that evening.   He had lost her.  He didn't think she had gotten out of the house.  I went over to the house in the morning before work.  She was hiding in one of the few places available in the sparsely furnished house - under the couch.    He didn't think she could get under there but there she was.

I had recommended that she be give limited range of the house for a while.  I think she was overwhelmed.  She needed some more places to hide.  She was a beautiful sweet playful kitten and I'm sure her owner is having fun with her.

She was adopted on Sept 5, 2012.