Saying Goodbye to Old Faces

It's true... adoptions were slow the last few months of 2008, but some of our longest residents found wonderful homes!!  So we'd like to congratulate these pets on finding their people!

Cinderella was one of our "founding kitties" and waited for 20 months before finding the ideal forever home: one where she is the only pet!!

Calvin waited for six months before finding the perfect family!  He now has a nice calm home and goes everywhere with his mom!!

Armani came to us as a puppy and waited eight months before being adopted.  He now gets to go to the doggy spa and even got a cake on his birthday!

Packer was turned in as a stray at a local vet clinic and watched as all his buddies found homes for 15 months until he charmed the pants off the kids he's now living with!  

Hera had it pretty rough before coming to Catkins:  she was pregnant, dumped on a strange country road and someone was planning on shooting her.  We think her luck improved when she came to us in March of 2007 and had six healthy babies (including Jasper, Grizzly and Petunia).  Hera's luck got even better when her new family saw her online and drove four hours to take her home!

For those who regularly visit our website, you probably didn't see Sye available for adoption. Sye's case became my personal mission.  We didn't have room for him at the rescue and he was slated to be euthanized if he wasn't moved out of the animal control facility holding him.  When I was contacted about Sye's case, I thought Sye had been through enough!  He had been held for a court case:  his owners split up and the woman in the relationship moved in with her mom. The man in the relationship ended up shooting both women and killing the mother.  The man went to prison and the young woman was in no condition to care for Sye.  This was one of those tragedies that rocked the northwoods community and the one comfort Catkins could offer this young woman making sure that her dog wasn't put down.  It took just over two weeks, but

 thanks to the internet, an experienced animal rescuer in the Chicago area was able to recommend Sye's family to me and put us in touch.  So on December 20th we all met in Portage and Sye went to his new home, where he is a big hit!

So we congratulate these pets on spending a new year in their new homes and we're getting ready to introduce you to some new faces!!