Gazelle is a beautiful young cat, probably around 2 years old. She loves people, but really does not like other animals. Gazelle's dream home is with people and no other pets.
Gazelle likes to jump in your lap, sit, and be adored. She greets you at the door, and can be quite talkative. She loves to be petted and combed. She plays quite a bit, and loves to chase balls all over the room. She uses a cardboard scratch pad reliably.
We do take Gazelle to Whiskers adoption clinics at PetSmart in Clifton Park. But, Gazelle tends to be pretty grumpy there ... you see, there are all these other cats around, making noise and that bothers her. So, if you are interested in Gazelle, I really recommend that you make an appointment to see her at my house in Wynantskill. She can show you her true, happy-cat self that way. (She has her own room.)
Her story is pretty interesting. Gazelle was a stray in Troy. She followed a woman named Allison, who was walking home, about half a mile one day. When Allison got to her apartment building and opened the front door, Gazelle dashed into the building and up the stairs, and went right to her apartment door. Allison kept Gazelle in her apartment and posted fliers in the area Gazelle came from. Someone called to say that Gazelle was a stray that she had been feeding.
Allison had already joined the Peace Corps and was scheduled to move to Africa for two years. She did have Gazelle spayed through a low-cost program associated with Robin's Nest. Gazelle tested negative for FIV/FeLV and did receive a rabies vaccination through that program as well. Allison contacted a Whiskers volunteer to help place Gazelle. Through Whiskers Gazelle is all up-to-date with her vaccinations.
Gazelle does love to roll around on her back and she will playfully nip and kick your hand/arm if you tickle her belly. She sometimes also will approach your hand if you are just sitting around not using it! For this reason she should not go to a home with very young children who might not understand this type of cat game.
Gazelle is available for adoption through Whiskers.
Also known as "spark plug." Sparky isn't ready for adoption yet, but she will be spayed in early July 2008 and can go to a home one week later, assuming she recovers from her surgery with no complications.
I came across Sparky when I went to a car mechanic's shop in Cohoes to pick up some keys. A fellow petsitter asked me if I could take care of one of her customers when she had to go into the hospital. She said I could pick up the keys in Cohoes. So, off I went.
I arrived at the garage and went into the office. This was a pretty good-sized room, but right away I was surprised at the number of people standing around in it. Within seconds I saw the main attraction ... a tiny, sick kitten. ("Figures," I thought to myself .. I thought I was going to have the afternoon off.) 
A guy who seemed to work at the garage and another person said they had found the kitten lying in their nearby backyard. They had a young girl with them who apparently wanted to go look at the kitten, but they thought it was dead, and told her not to go over to it. But, lucky for Sparky, this girl saw the kitten's foot move and said so. They went over the kitten and found that she was still alive.
By the time I arrived, the kitten was being pretty feisty and they were trying to give her some water. People were surmising that the kitten was newborn (because the eyes were closed .. really from an infection) and sent someone off to the store to get some Whiskas cat milk. Well intentioned, but I felt that if I just left the kitten there it wasn't going to make it. My guess was the kitten was probably 4 weeks old and had a bad upper respiratory infection, which turned out to be the case.
Ironically, that morning I had taken a cat carrier out of my car that I had been hauling around for no reason for months. So, I said I'd take the kitten. I went home, got the carrier, got some KMR (Kitten Milk Replacer) and a kitten bottle, went back, fed the kitten and everyone basically stood around and just about clapped. The little girl helped me put her in the carrier and shut the door and someone said "Now you've been rescued!" It was pretty funny, one usually does not have an audience for cat rescue. ;)
So, needless to say, Sparky had tapeworms and roundworms and fleas and earmites and an upper respiratory infection and one of her eyes had a huge red blister on it. I wasn't sure she'd be able to keep her eye.
After a couple weeks of bottle feeding every 4 hours, she finally started to eat food on her own. I was jumping up and down the day she first purred (and I texted 4 friends right away with the awesome news!) and we just about had a celebration when she finally drank water out of a dish.
Sparky eats a ton, grows a ton, and is extremely friendly, loves people and loves other cats. She could fit into just about any kind of home, I think. Her eye is doing well and she can see out of it. The more her eye grows the more faint the scar on her cornea becomes. It will require no maintenance or medicine as far as I can tell.
Sparky will be available for adoption through Whiskers.
Rescued from North Greenbush Spring 2007, these two cats have been through a lot. Whiskers has given them all the vet care they need, including surgery. Luxor will be visiting an opthamologist soon. My friend, Laurie, and I have fostered these cats. Both are now ready to find their permanent home, together! Read their saga.
These cats are not being fostered by me. They are being fostered by a volunteer for the Mohawk Hudson River Humane Society. She fostered them as kittens and they were adopted out in 2005. They were returned to the shelter in late summer 2006. An eagle-eyed staffer recognized them, even though they had grown up, and contacted the original foster mom, who came to get them. (Eagle-eyed, in that over 1,000 cats were dumped at the shelter last summer; many of them were then euthanized.)
Many people know I have a Weeble and a Wobble, so I was contacted when Weeble II and Wobble II were returned to the shelter. I found out they got a foster home, and later connected with the foster mom so I could meet her and Weeble and Wobble!
These cats are very friendly! They are very young, maybe 1-2 years old, so they are very playful. Right now they are kept in a room in their foster home, but they are still progressing physically. Once they move into a permanent home where they can learn the lay of the land, so to speak, they will continue to amaze their new owner! They've started jumping up onto things, and over time I am sure they will improve in getting around.
I have offered to the foster mom to meet with prospective adopters if they are interested to see how Weeble and Wobble type cats can adapt to their homes over time. My Weeble and Wobble will be happy to show folks how they can jump up pretty high now, go up and down stairs, and so on. Of course you can meet Weeble II and Wobble II in their foster home too!
Thank you!
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Mohawk Hudson River Humane Society ID# A23626
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This little guy went to his new home on Labor Day!
