Safam

Yesterday afternoon I received an email from Sarah of Frankie the Library Cat. She had sighted a possibly pregnant cat in an alley between Hyde Park and Cornell at 54th. Sarah reported that this young tuxedo with green eyes "came up to me in the alley and was very very sweet and sociable and very dirty with an abscess under her chin. I did not have a means of picking her up and carrying her home with me, though she began to follow me before getting spooked. I went back to try to find her, but she was hiding." The call went out to our list and within hours Mireille had sighted this cat as well. She had no carrier with her but kept kitty occupied until Ruth could swing by with the carrier. In kitty went, and then to fostermom Ainat's house, where she has been named Safam (Hebrew for whiskers, or moustache).

Achilles and Istria

As a mom, all I can say about this picture is I don't want to know.

homeward bounding

An update on adoptions ... in the past week Minette has gone home with Forevermom Elizabeth. Rainbow and Poe went home with their Forever Family, which includes two children. Dharma's kittens will all go to forever homes after their spay/neuter surgery on Thursday. And Kobi went home too ... to a couple who already have a black male FIV+ kitty. Good luck Kobi! Good luck Rainbow! Good luck Poe! Good luck Hurley! Good luck Eko and Sawyer! Good luck Minette! We love you all and wish you wonderful lives.

Pictured here is Tucker, formerly Lemon (Lennon), one of the ACC orphans, in his new home with Forevermom Martha and his new brother. We love it when adoptive families send us their happy ending updates!

sooo tired

Amos, a former alley kitten, is so exhausted. Play play play, sleep sleep sleep. What a life!

Thanks to Rob S. and Laurie K. for the recent in-kind donations.

church cats

Hyde Park Cats: now with interfaith service! Recently we made a short trip to Marquette Park, a neighborhood to our west. Father Tony at the NBVM (Lithuanian) Church had been feeding and caring for feral group, but needed to remove the cats as he himself has now moved to serve a new parish. With the help of Indiana's GB Rescue, Father Tony had managed to get most of his cats and kittens all tidily into traps! And a very professional job he did, too. By the time we arrived, there was little to do other than load the cats into cars and get them to PAWS (and also to eat cake, courtesy of the church ladies), where they were spay/neutered, thanks to Susan R., who met us and got the cats all set up. The two adult cats went with GB Rescue to a barn in Indiana. The kittens came back to Hyde Park, where they have been fostered and socialized by superkittensocializer extraordinaire Megg. Father Tony was very happy to know his cats were going to be OK and will take his information about TNR to the next parish, on the west side. Good luck, Father Tony! Thanks for helping the cats.

Istria and Achilles

Istria with her fosterbrother Achilles. The two are getting along famously and fostermom Mireille does think Achilles is moving more and better now that he has a little sister to chase around.

Achilles has improved his mobility somewhat with the physical therapy and the chasing of the sisters (Martha is also at Mireille's romper room now). He needs a low litterbox and may not be able to manage stairs. But he gets himself on the couch, under the furniture, and definitely onto your lap. He will lie on his back in your lap for ... ever.

Rainbow attacks!

No! Not the yellow pennant! Not the yellow pennant! Rainbow standing in for a fire-breathing dragon.