Furkids FIV House updates
It's been a roller coaster of good and bad news from the FIV House. FOUR FIV cats got adopted in the last week -- that's amazing! We go from no adoptions for six months, to four in a week! Congrats to Scraps and Mr Peabody, who got adopted together, and to Baxter and George who got adopted together! That's beautiful!
But we also lost one of our cats. Teddy Bear was actually non-FIV; we have about a dozen non-FIV cats at the house. Teddy was one of eight black cats at the House, which means he always got overlooked for adoption. It's the curse of the black cat. Which is too bad, because he was a real sweetie.
My own personal Teddy story: A year or more ago, I arrived at the house to discover Ted had an infected ear; his ear had swollen up like a balloon and he was clearly in distress. He got treated for the infection, and eventually his ear deflated (literally) and became this little crinkled nub. It looked like he only had one ear because the other one had wrinkled down to his skull.
Ted had the softest fur, with the possible exception of Sheena Bear, another black non-FIV black cat and possibly his sister. Ted also had the most adorable vampire fangs, which I find utterly adorable on a black cat.
Gonna miss Teddy's smiley fangy face with its crumpled ear. He was a genuinely calm and gentle sweetie, and in recent weeks he wanted more attention than usual. Maybe he knew that something was wrong. I don't know.
It will be very weird to go to the House tomorrow night and there won't be any Baxter, George, Mr Peabody, Scraps or Teddy there to love on us. It'll be interesting to see if some of the quieter cats' personalities come through more, now that the most demanding attention-beggars are gone.
But we also lost one of our cats. Teddy Bear was actually non-FIV; we have about a dozen non-FIV cats at the house. Teddy was one of eight black cats at the House, which means he always got overlooked for adoption. It's the curse of the black cat. Which is too bad, because he was a real sweetie.
My own personal Teddy story: A year or more ago, I arrived at the house to discover Ted had an infected ear; his ear had swollen up like a balloon and he was clearly in distress. He got treated for the infection, and eventually his ear deflated (literally) and became this little crinkled nub. It looked like he only had one ear because the other one had wrinkled down to his skull.
Ted had the softest fur, with the possible exception of Sheena Bear, another black non-FIV black cat and possibly his sister. Ted also had the most adorable vampire fangs, which I find utterly adorable on a black cat.
Gonna miss Teddy's smiley fangy face with its crumpled ear. He was a genuinely calm and gentle sweetie, and in recent weeks he wanted more attention than usual. Maybe he knew that something was wrong. I don't know.
It will be very weird to go to the House tomorrow night and there won't be any Baxter, George, Mr Peabody, Scraps or Teddy there to love on us. It'll be interesting to see if some of the quieter cats' personalities come through more, now that the most demanding attention-beggars are gone.