orange cat week: Pym

Pym after a play session. Pym is an orangedorable little guy seeking a fun and loving home.

original Pym post

Thanks to Joan F. for the donation and Laura S. for covering Luna's vet visit!

Orangey cat week continues: Naru

Narooooo? Narooooo?

Naru is being fixed today at ACS and will be returned to his outdoor place. He is one of many cats in the Woodlawn area who are fed and given some sort of shelter but not really kept as pet cats. We are working on TNRing Naru's catfamily and will assist their humans as appropriate. Personally I thought he was saying Narkoum, my sister thought Markoo, but Diane trapped him so he's Naru!

Orangey cat week continues: Pym and Tashma

We've put orange kitten boy Pym with orange kitten teen Tashma together ... so far results have been mixed. Pym wants to play! Tashma may not have had a kitten sibling when she was younger because she seems to only want to love up her fostermom. In this picture, you see Pym courting a smackdown in three ... two ... one ...

Orange cat week: Tashma finds camo!

Where is Tashma? Where did she go? I can't find her anywhere!

Tashma is a superloving people-centered young (1 year or under) girl available for immediate adoption. She was rescued from a small colony where she was being chased by the tomcats.

Thanks so much to recent donors Joanne D., Rhonda S., and Diana A., who contributed "in memory of Beardog."

Orangey cat week: Fawn

Fawn came to us a little while ago from the MJK alley. She may have been dumped there as she just showed up one day and wasn't sure what to make of things. She was spayed and sent to fostermom Kristen, whose loving and calming influence has done Fawn a world of good. Kristen says Fawn might do best in a one- or two-person family -- "she gets very attached and likes to follow me ... with too many people I fear she'd stay distant or even skittish. She's very obedient, quiet, and responsive. She loves hanging out in your lap for as long you're sitting and even across your chest if you lounge enough." She is also quite smart (for instance, she knows what picking up keys means.) So -- you who are seeking a cat to luv you and pet you and keep you warm ... adopt Fawn!

More pix of Fawn looking particularly fetching

Special this week: ginger/orange/champagne/marmalade/buff cats!

FREE CAT

Saturday around 4:30 pm a new acquaintance, upon learning of the work of Hyde Park Cats said "I passed a carrier with a cat in it, near the grocery, with a 'free cat' sign on it." The two volunteers to whom this was said, who happened to be in the middle of an Indian-food cooking lesson, immediately drove to the grocery store. Two other volunteers had already come upon this cat, completely by chance. By this time the cat had been in the carrier, outside, for at least a couple hours.

Yes, that is correct. Right here in our neighborhood a cat had been abandoned in a carrier on a street corner, with no food or water, available to any dogfighter, drug addict, hoarder, etc. FREE CAT the sign said, with a phone number.

FREE CAT. Cowering in carrier, standing in his own pee.

Unbelievably, FREE CAT's "owner" answered the phone number left on the sign taped to the carrier. He even came over to meet us, apparently having dropped his child off at a playdate, to tell us that the cat is nine years old and the family is moving. Nine-year-old FREE CAT sat forlornly in the carrier without a meow. Former owner, who is a fully employed academic, seemed to think abandoning the cat like this was a good solution to his problem. He asked us if we'd prefer it had he brought the cat to a shelter where he might be humanely euthanized. (Why yes! we would indeed prefer that!) He also said "if you're going to scold me, maybe I won't give him to you."

The cat carrier was quickly stowed inside my car and driven to a safe location. He didn't ask to say goodbye.



Harper (the name of the street he was abandoned on) is a ginger-champagne male. He has lived with a feline companion. He is now in a calm and loving fosterhome and so far is quiet and submissive; no aggression even in a scary situation. He enjoys catnip and brushing. And petting. He is a good boy. We are seeking a loving forever home for this valiant gentleman.

2-video Sunday

kittens! available for adoption!