give me some hope...adoption stories

[amaroque]

I've only had one cat but I got him from the shelter. I went with friend to see if any of the cats "resonated" with me. Each cage I went up to I put my fingers though the cage and tried to entice them to come over and say hi so I could see them. Only one ventured over to me and he started purring right away. He was a smoky gray cat with yellow eyes and a tint of green. I wasn't prepared to take him home that day but he obviously made an impression on me. His name was Bullet and the reason he was there was that his previous caretaker was in jail. I went back the next day and he acted like he remembered me right off the bat. I took him home and we were best friends for the next 15 years. I finally had to say goodbye to him this past June but I know that we each brought the light to the others life in the time that we had. I miss you buddy...

[NZVeggie]

My parents recently rescued a 9 month old german shepherd from the local animal shelter. She came from a home where she was neglected. She didn't know what playing was, and was extremely timid. But a few months on with some love and encouragement (from both companion humans and a fellow dog) she has come along great and loves playing tug of war.

[v0.1beta]

When I was very young, I remember we had many pets and most of them were just passing by. Actually, the only animal shelter in our town at that time kept the pets for a few weeks only before they were euthanized. And of course, that would break the heart of many people who worked there, so they had a scheme, they managed to steal quite a few dogs and cats at the very last moment, and somehow, they would end up at our home for as long as it would take for a large net of people to find them a nice home. I remember the post office clerk was involved in that operation, and you could have guessed by the number of dogs running around in the tiny village post office at all times. We had so many desperate cases, and everyone of those stories ended for the best, so many pets coming from everywhere. The ones that we kept till the end were the ones we found ourselves, or the pets whose owners had died. Usually the owners, before they died, were so worried for the fate of their pets that themselves or their relatives would find us and ask us what could be done. My mom then promised to keep the pets with her, and care for them for the rest of their lives. And she did. For cats, dogs, birds, ... we had a few very old hens too.

Oh, and there's also the story of a vet and a bad hunter. Someone came to the vet with a young healthy dog to put to sleep because the dog refused to hunt. The vet said he would keep the dog for himself, but the owner refused, the vet argued, but the owner still insisted the dog was a bad seed and needed to be killed. So the vet cheated, gave the dog a shot, had the owner believe it was dead and leave, and made the dog his best friend. I know of that story because, every summer, when the vet goes on vacation abroad, the bad hunter spends a few weeks at my mom's.That dog's such a sweet, smart and gentle soul.

[pajamajes]

[VeganTigress]

All 3 of my cats are rescues.

Loki 8 years old (black siamese mix) - He was in the shelter I worked at for 6 months, no one wanted him and he doesnt meow, he hums. I cleaned his kennel for months and he was standoffish at first but we bonded and he was my first cat. he is amazing

Foster 6 years old (maine coon mix) - He came into the shelter after being out for 3 days in -40. His ears came off due to frostbite, along with an inch of his tail, tip of his nose and the pads of his feet. He was throwing up orange peels and carpet because he tried to eat anything he could. Have 2 months of Fostering, i couldn't let him go so he became my little foster

Perry Winkle (5 years old DSH) - He came into the emergency clinic I currently work at. He has been hit by a car 4 weeks prior and his back leg has been fractured. It was so bad that we needed to amputate so now he is my sweet little 3 legged kitten.

I am actually more of a dog lover but these boys tugged at my heart and I could not imagine not being with them

I attached there pictures for you all to see. I love animal photography Sorry they are BMPs Images, I am working on fixing that..lol!

We also had a stray come in with a mircrochip and when we got a hold of the owners the dog had been gone for OVER a year!! They were crying they were so happy!

I love happy stories!!!

Kindest Regards,

VeganTigress

[Trixiefaerie]

I got my kitty Chauncy from a local cat rescue group. The people who had him before his rescue had abused him a lot. He was very underweight and extremely small, like he hadn't grown much at all. He also had an infection in his right eye when they had abandoned him at the shelter. It was so bad he was mostly blind in that eye. Everyone else who saw him at the store where the group had a table and a few cats there kept saying mean things about his eye (which I admit was a bit odd. It was just swirls of cloudy blue and grey). I hadn't even planned on getting a cat but saw him and decided he needed some love. My mom came back to find me unwilling to let him go and after hearing his story we took him home.

We found out a few months later that the infection that had claimed his eye had never been taken care of and his eye was now swollen and it was spreading. We fought that and then it came back and started to spread to his other eye. He had to have the bad eye removed and we found out it had actually bee the beginings of cancer coupled with an infection.

He is all better now though and gets along just fine besides having some distance judging issues. He's much bigger now too and a very happy cat. I call him my broken pirate kitty because of his one eye, he squeaks instead of meows and bites his own feet when annoyed. A few people we've talked with think that because of abuse and never having another cat around (we found he was separated from his mother and fixed far far too early which is why he is a bit small) he never really learned how to be a cat. Mentally he is still a kitten as far as our theories go. We love him all the same though.

[Purp]

When I was in the 8th grade, we had a goat that a neighbor left tied to our monkey bars. We had him for about 3 weeks, and gave him to a daycare in a rural part of the area.