Meet the Community Cats #3: China
Oh, China. You have as many personalities as there are people in your namesake nation, and your own wacky way of making us love you even when you don’t return the sentiment.
Itty, Bitty Bottle Kitty
Raising new born kittens could be the most challenging and time consuming task I have ever attempted. It is also one of the most intensely rewarding and most heartbreaking experiences of my life.
Love deeper than sorrow
When people ask me why I’m so in love with my job at Tabby’s Place, I tell them the truth: I get to love cats and love people all day. In the course of all that love, sometimes someone puts things into words in such a way that the Big Truths about what we do […]
Large and in charge: the new, “expanded” Suite A
An oft-heard comment among visitors to Tabby’s Place is, “Your cats are so big!” Is it the Ringoes, NJ water? Are cats like koi, growing to fill their space, so that cage-free living means enormous cats? Honestly, our cats don’t look unusually large to me…well, except for a certain contingent. Some call these guys the fat […]
Dessert Kids update: Cupcake sighting!
In the Dessert Kids Yearbook, she’d be voted Most Likely To Hide Her Beautiful Face. But, lo and behold, the sweetest and shiest Chester cat is making teensy, timid steps into the open. And aren’t we the fortunate ones? Dear friends, I present to you our stunning Cupcake.
It’s hard not to get excited…
…when a serious, loving, seriously-loving family comes to visit one of our quirkier, “less-adoptable” cats once, then twice, then a third time. …or when one of the most terrified cats I’ve ever known purrs – purrs!! – in a human’s presence. …or when even our never-one-to-whitewash-the-truth veterinarian concedes that the improbable, the too-wonderful-to-hope-for, the miraculous, may […]
Unadoptability doesn’t last forever
You knew this post was coming. So did I. And yet, there’s still something so satisfying and right about it finally, really being really real: Gumbo has been adopted. And, oh yeah, this time it’s going to stick!
Update on the Peachable One
It has come to my attention that a certain nectarine-hued feline does not appreciate her disappearance from the spotlight following her best friend’s passing. So, it is my pleasure to turn that light back to our favorite flame-point diva, the one, the only…Peachy.
The land of 1,000* adoptions
Na, na-na-na-na, Na-na-na, Na-na-na, Na-na-na, Na-na-na-na! No, I haven’t lost my mind (or, to be more accurate, I haven’t just now lost my mind) – it’s just that all the crazy adoption hearts on our white board have me singing and dancing.
Adopt a less-adoptable pet day
Hear ye, hear ye: Petfinder.com has dubbed today (August 12th) Adopt-a-Less-Adoptable-Pet Day. If you ask us at Tabby’s Place, nobody’s unadoptable, and every day is adoption day. Nevertheless, I love that Petfinder is shining the spotlight on the underdogs (and, especially, undercats) today.