Details here. Short version: We’ve been foreclosed on, have to move to a rental property, and new landlord doesn’t allow pets. Are there any mid-MO Dopers willing and able to take on a couple of spoiled rotten furballs? They’re both about 2 years old and are fixed; they’re about 6 months behind on their shots because I didn’t have the money to take them to the vet in April when they were due, but they’ve both always been strictly indoor kitties.
My son tells me his girlfriend’s mother will look out for them, but she would keep them outside, and they’re not used to the outside and will probably wander away and get eaten by coyotes or something. If I have to give them up, I want them to go to a good home, but I’m running out of time; I only have until the 19th.
Luna-brat. She sometimes has litter-box issues (as in, she won’t use it if she thinks it’s too dirty), and has a habit of following visitors around glaring at them intensely, which I find amusing but visitors find a bit disconcerting; she likes to be carried around on your shoulder like a baby while she drools down your back, and she sometimes makes some kind of weird “chattering” noise in her sleep.
Oreo-brat. She is a bit OCD about the litter box, and will cover up after Luna because she doesn’t think Luna does a good enough job. Also thinks the open box is for pee, the covered one is for poo. Doesn’t like to be picked up or carried but will politely curl up in your lap to be petted and will give licks and love nips in return. Likes to feel tall so will frequently be found on top of the fridge, standing on the shower door rail, or on top of bookcases.
Yes, she’s near Jefferson City, MO. But location shouldn’t necessarily be a hindrance, either. Cats can be “shipped” and many of us would help cover the cost. Dopers have also arranged caravans in the past, where critters are driven from A to B by Doper J, then B to C by Doper Q, then to their destination.
Don’t let obstacles of geography get in the way of saving two well-loved kitties from the streets or the needle.
C’mon, Dopers, we can come through here, I just know it!
I would like to offer this also. I am in a similar situation (looming foreclosure) but I will be able to hang on to my critters. If the kitties need to go north and/or east I may be able to relay drive.
I’m waaaaay far away on the Left Coast, all the way at the ocean, but if the kitties can get adopted to someone in California, we could help relay on this side of the country to their destination if need be.
I’m in Georgia, but if there’s no other option I’ll be happy to take a kitty.
Chica (she’s a girl - I finally figured it out) is a RAMBUNCTIOUS kitten so the kitty would need to be willing to play a lot. (Late at night especially)
You guys freaking rock. I’m actually a bit north of Jeff City, in Mexico, to be precise; I say I’m from the Jeff City area because no one has ever heard of Mexico. The town, anyway.
I can’t say how much everybody’s willingness to help means to me right now.
Well, it’s a last resort, if Jali doesn’t end up being able to take one of them, someone on the Barack Obama blog referred me to a no-kill shelter about 35 miles south of you in New Bloomfield. . .
I can’t take either of them in , but I can do a relay from eastern Missouri on east.
Hope that everything goes well for you. I was in a similar situation a few years back and found a good home for my furballs (and I think they got even more spoiled with their new dad :)), so there is hope.
Kitties are up on Craigslist now; no hits yet, but I did get a very kind message from someone who wished me luck, but said they were trying to re-home their brother’s cats, and even offering a $250 vet voucher wasn’t getting them any takers.
jali, Oreo likes to play and wrassle and walk on you in the middle of the night. I think she’d probably learn how to get along with a new kitty - she’s pretty easygoing - but when I first brought her home and introduced her to Luna there was three solid weeks of Hell. On. Earth (instigated by BOTH of them), followed by a couple of weeks of them ignoring each other, before they finally decided they liked each other and it would be to their mutual advantage to join forces against the humans in the house.
Lunababy isn’t as outgoing or sweet-natured as Oreo (well, she’s sweet-natured to me; everyone else is glared at like so much dirt beneath her paws :)) But she’s pretty playful as well, and very nosy, and just generally weird. I mean really weird. Cats are weird anyway, but Luna is their Queen. Once she decides you’re worthy, though, she’s all snuggly and purry and loveable. You’ll know you’re worthy when she starts drooling on you.
I was hoping against hope I could keep them together - that way they’d at least have each other if they couldn’t have me - but it’s starting to look like that’s not going to happen. If you’re still interested, and we can figure out a way to transport one of them to Georgia by the 19th, I’d be happy and grateful to send you one.
Shayna, thanks for the link to Callaway Hills. I can’t believe I haven’t thought of them; I used to live in that county! I guess I was too busy panicking at the thought of my local city pound - which is NOT no-kill. If worse comes to worse and I can’t find homes for both of them, I’ll give them a call.
I won’t have access to a computer for the next couple of days (on top of everything else, the power supply thingy in our home computer crapped out) but I’ll be back Thursday!
, but I can do a relay from eastern Missouri on east.
