Hard to believe that I’ve lived with my people for 6 years now – time truly flies when you’re having fun.
I came to MEOW from North Bend through the county animal control; they found me wandering around outside and said I was sick, so I had to stay at MEOW and get better to be adopted. HAH – I fooled them! I got a private room at MEOW right away, and then my person came in and it was love at first sight. When I went home, I discovered I had a very tiny and elderly feline auntie who taught me the ropes, and there were dogs too!!! I wasn’t too sure about the dogs, but now we play, chasing each other through the house. I’ve learned to sit up for treats (when it suits me) and I get to go for walks in the back yard on a harness. I like everyone, I’m present for all parties, and I absolutely positively adore being brushed. I have this glorious tuxedo of long hair, and I’m always silky smooth after a brushing. I have toys, all the treats I can eat, I sleep everywhere, and my mom calls me “the little Prince”. I even have my very own dvd to watch of birds and mice and squirrels. The only thing I do that seems to irritate my mom is that I sing loudly at all hours. I think I was an aspiring opera singer before I came to MEOW, and I still have the dream.
It really is wonderful to be me!
Sincerely, Sir Galahad of the Tacoma Murphys Renda & Mike
Hello! Mango here, writing to you from my new home. Things are working out well here. I have a whole big apartment just for me, with lots of soft carpet and a cozy bed to sleep on. It’s so much better than being outside in the cold! My new human and I have lots of quality conversations, and she tells everyone she knows how smart and beautiful I am. I’ve trained her to know when I want to eat and sleep, and when I want to be petted and when I want to play. All in all, things are pretty good here! How nice to be appreciated for the perfect cat that I am, give or take a leg?
Thanks to everyone at MEOW for taking good care of me and helping me find my new home. My human and I both appreciate it, and send our love. ~ Mango
Milo is curled up next to me with a little smile on his sleeping face as I write this. We adopted him last week after wanting to add a pet in our home ever since we moved to Seattle last summer. It has been such a fun week bonding with this sweet kitty who loves to be petted, loves playing with his toys, greets us when we get home and just generally seems pleased to be the center of attention. He loves to purr, give kisses and definitely lets us know when it’s breakfast time. We couldn’t have imagined a better addition to our family. We were so impressed with the adoption volunteers and staff at MEOW and were very excited to have found such a wonderful organization. The cats there are very blessed and we wish we could have given them all a home! We know where we’re coming if Milo needs a buddy! Thanks again, Jared and Sarah Ray
Last year, my family adopted a shy little kitty named Heidi on February 13, 2009. We renamed Heidi and now call her Juliet because she is such a pretty little kitty and my best friend has a cat named Romeo. Juliet was a little crazy at first and had a few incidents, like the time she hid in the fireplace or when the dogs tried to eat her food. After a while Juliet calmed down quite a bit and soon she began following our bigger dog Charlie around the house, and sleeping on the dog beds. Even Molly, (our other dog.) who hated Juliet at first has grown to accept her. Now Juliet is very cuddly and playful, and is definitely not the kitty that hid in the fireplace.
We adopted Edmund in October. He is absolutely the sweetest most loving cat ever. His big sister, Ooma, also adopted, adores him and their playfulness keeps her weight down and keeps Eddie form getting bored, or cold. She was a standoffish girl, but Eddie has warmed her up and she is much more loving with humans now. We started by calling him Bonnie Prince Edmund, but that has changed to “Machinegun” Eddie Love, for he is the loving-est, purring-est, happiest boy ever. However it is you raise your kittens, I have never met a cat so gentle, yet all-boy! With us or with Ooma, he never extends a claw. We also call him the “Schnuzzle” King, because he loves to pet back and groom his family, with soft licks and nuzzles. What a guy! Cannot thank you enough.
A little over a year ago, I adopted a kitty from your organization. The experience was so wonderful, and your shelter is so protective and good to our furry friends that I have had a warm spot in my heart for MEOW ever since. I’ve told all my friends to support you, and to speak to you if they are looking for a permanent companion.
The fuzzy little girl I adopted from your shelter was in foster care most of the time, so you probably won’t remember her very well – but without your website, we wouldn’t be together. She was trapped in a tree for more than six days while they tried to find her and get her down, and suffered terrible dehydration as well as the winter cold before MEOW took her in. Her foster family called her ‘Kat’ and nursed her back to health with MEOW’s help.
I invited her into my family last January, and we’ve been terribly happy with one another. Her name now is Amelia (after another female explorer who was very good at going up, and not so much at getting back down again). She is the light of my life, and a friendly, playful companion. Every day when I come home from work, she greets me with kitty songs; every morning when the alarm goes off, she provides her own ‘snooze button’ by climbing on top of me and singing meows until I give her skritches. She has everything she could ever want, and the best of food and Things to Sleep On.
We’re both tremendously happy, and she has an absolutely dedicated Forever Home. Attached are two pictures of my little girl, and my grateful thanks for all that you folks do for these sweet animals. You are the best!
Just an update for Buddy and Fras: They are now 1.5 years old. When we adopted them from MEOW they were 4 months old. They are very active kitties playing, and sleeping a lot of the time. Fras tries to wash her toys while Buddy attacks them. They are joined at the hip as you can tell. It has been a joy to have them in our lives and they are much loved and adored by us. Though they still hide from visitors, Fras comes out to investigate at a distance. Thank you once again for giving them a home with us.
We adopted 2 adorable kitties last Saturday the 9th of Jan 2010 from MEOW Cat Shelter, Sassafras, AKA Fras and Sasquatch, AKA Buddy. After letting our last kitty go last March ’09, we (I mostly) decided it was time to have little feet running around again. We have had kitties for the last 25 years and they were our kids, part of our home, part of our life, it was so quiet without those purrs and little kisses.
Though it’s been a short time they have given us very calming purrs and lots of energy, as I can’t get them to sit still for a picture. We have lots of time and will enjoy their presence forever.
I want to thank the staff and the foster parents for the diligent care and love for these kitties. They are home forever.
My partner Adam and I adopted Buddy Big on September 2nd and want to share some photos with you and update you on how he is doing. He is such a one-of-a-kind spirit and fabulous addition to our family–we could not be happier. He makes us laugh every day and is always around for a furry cuddle and love bite (we discovered very shortly after we brought him home that he shows affection with gentle nibbles!). His name has gradually morphed to “Biggy” and he responds with a switch of his tail whenever he hears us talking about him.
He wasted no time laying claim to his new home and making a spot for himself on any available lap and in between us in bed at night. Our vet has helped us develop a healthy diet and weight-loss regimen for Biggy and we are proud to announce that he lost 1 pound in September! We are planning to help him drop one pound per month until he gets to his goal weight. He is very frisky and playful and does not let a day slip by without showing his scratching post who is boss, attacking anything that wiggles under a blanket, and playing games of “laser cat” with his papa.
He has a few bad habits that we are trying to gently break him of but it is hard because he is so cute! He begs relentlessly for people food (but we are staying strong!) and is prone to climbing in to the dishwasher to try to lick dirty dishes whenever he hears us open it. He has also been caught many times climbing in to the fridge to see what’s for dinner.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the photos and Biggy sends lots of love nibbles to his old family at MEOW. I am so thankful there are people like you running a place like MEOW to give cats like Biggy a safe space and a chance to find their “forever home”. – Andrew
Hello! This is Rob & Margaret. We wanted to give you an update on the three adoptions we made a month ago on Nov. 9, 2008. First, the kittens are doing wonderfully. Kyle we renamed to Dora, either short for Dora the Explorer, Adorable, or Isadora. Irene is now Honey because she’s the color of honey & short for Honeysuckle because she still suckles on her sister occasionally. They came home with a little cold, but are all recovered now and zooming around the house, chasing & wrestling with each other, us, all their toys, and Cliff. They are SOOOO adorably cute and this past month has just been PACKED full of hilarious antics and sweet moments. They have such different personalities, it’s really amazing they came from the same litter.
The only downside of course is that they’re growing and they won’t stay tiny forever. :o( We weighed them yesterday on their 4 mo. birthday and they are at 3 lb. 11 oz. & 4 lb. 3 oz. Dora has grown over a pound & Honey a pound and a half since we got them!
Finally, Cliff…he is just amazing; he has come light-years from when we got him. He still has his moments of being overly frightened when you come up to him–usually only when he’s fully awake, and he is almost always nervous close to people–but we’ve been able to get him to the point where he actually enjoys being petted in his little cat bed, which is his safe spot where he runs to when he’s scared. He actually closes his eyes, gets into it, and pushes back while kneading the air a little sometimes. He even allows us to pet him while he’s eating without too much trepidation!
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We haven’t really been able to get him to purr at all, but he certainly isn’t afraid to use his voice or wander around the house. He is a loud and constant meower. It isn’t too bad at night, but we’re getting used to it. We bought a Feliway plug-in to hopefully ease his anxiety a bit. Most other times, even with loud noises & lots of movement around him, he seems perfectly content and will sit there slowly blinking and looking around. Oh, and we’ve gotten him to PLAY! He LOVES chasing the laser pointer and the dangly-string-attachments-on-a-stick toy! He even forgets himself and runs within a few feet of us before realizing how close he is to a human and scampering back under the table to swat at it again. It’s so great to see some of that kitten come out of the poor boy who I’m sure didn’t get that experience down in New Orleans when he was growing up.
We’re also very happy that he gets along so incredibly well with the kittens. He tolerates it for a short time when they want to sleep with him, they chase each other around a bit at night, and we’ve even caught him wrestling with Dora a couple times! Only the occasional hiss when one of the kittens inadvertently violates his personal space a little too much.
It was tough sorting through the couple hundred pictures we have, but attached is our best picture of Cliff and a few obligatory cute kitten pictures. Enjoy! :o)
Thank you so very much for the opportunity to adopt Cliff, Dora, and Honey! I sure hope the spots we opened up in your shelter allow more wonderful kitties to find their new families! – Rob & Margaret
Dolly and I want to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and all the homeless wrinkle dogs. Our mum said we have presents on Christmas day but I do not know what that means. Dolly said she is not sure either as she only came to mum last October. Mum yells at us sometimes when we get too rough in the house, last Saturday we knocked over a candle and broke the glass container, and she said she will not replace it, and that we were a pair of ruffians…bark! bark! Bark! Sometimes I get fed up with Dolly licking me, mum says she is a licking fool. And I know Dolly gets fed up with me sometimes when I want to play and she doesn’t. But mum plays and we have fun. We do not like it when mum has guests because they sit on the couch and that is where Dolly and I go … And with the guests there is no room up there for us. I am Oliver Twist and she is Orphan Anne and she is on a diet…Bark! Bark! Bark! I am not … We are very happy in our new home and we have become good buddies as you can see by the photo. Love, Dolly and Oliver
