Next up was getting the word out that these cats were in need of new homes. I knew a couple of things were going to make this all a bit more challenging: the tabby girls were going to need to find a home together, there was no way I was going to separate them since they were so bonded to one another; and Miss Sass was a black kitty.
Actually, the idea that black cats are the last to be selected for adoption from a shelter was a new one for me. I mean, I knew the superstition that black cats are "bad luck" but I didn't realize it persisted today. Many shelters refuse to adopt out black cats around Halloween since people just use them as live decorations or worse. There is even a name for this: Black Cat Syndrome.
Where we did luck out pretty quickly was that a neighbor of mine "V" was interested in adopting the tabbies. Sadly, he had recently lost the last of his bonded tabby boys and felt a natural gravitation to this pair.
Over Thanksgiving, I had taken the three back up to my cabin as I was going to be away on travel for the holiday. Yes, poo, poo and more poo on the way there. But, what to do?
"L", who's been feeding and watching all the cats that were abandoned by their owners at their cabin, graciously agreed to watch these guys at my cabin while I was away and she got the challenging task of getting three cats to take amoxicillin, which is no easy feat!
The Monday after Thanksgiving, "V" and I drove back up to The Woods to snag the three kitties and bring them back to Maryland. Yes, more poo on the drive back but for all of them, it meant that would be the last time they would need to be doing these long drives back and forth. And for the Tabby Twins, it meant that they got to go to their new home! Yay!
Two down, 8 more to go!
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