Benny - lap cat, great with other cats!

9/6/18 - Annette-Benny is doing great!! Such a loveable & playful cat. A great addition to the family!!!! I just love him & so does everyone who comes to the house. He is our official greeter. Thank you so much for helping me to adopt him!!!!!..............Deb

Sweeney and Sam - Super affectionate, playful!

7/20/18 -Hi Annette, Just want to send you some pics and let you know that these two are such a joy! We love them very much and they seem very happy here too. Thank you so much for connecting us 😊I can hardly believe how big they have gotten in such a short amount of time. Sandy

Meadow & Ms. Cheeto - Sweet sisters

5/24/18- Hi Annette, They are doing really great. They seem to be getting very comfortable with our apartment. They are still pretty shy and run and hide a lot, but they are definitely opening up more since we first adopted them. They let us pet them and brush them (especially Cheeto), and they are always running around and playing at night. We're very happy that we adopted them. Thanks! Joe

Avalon - Great lap napper!

2/16/18 - Hi Annette!! She is the light of my life, my shining star, all of the above!! She hid behind my washer for a grand total of 30 minutes on the first day, and hasn’t left my side ever since. She purrs so loud that I can feel it across my bed! She’s been eating well, using the litter box like a champ. We went to the vet and they fell in love with her. They couldn’t believe she was from a colony! Her one tooth has a little chip in it, but they said it isn’t a problem at the moment. I did take a few days where she was only in my living room, but by day 4 she was meowing outside my room all night so I let her in. She doesn’t always go to bed with me, but I’ll wake up at 2 am and she’s sleeping at my feet. She’s been extremely vocal and she has the cutest little chirpy meow. Sometimes she meows for food, but most of the time it’s just for attention, haha!! All my friends are crazy for her. She’s met my mom and a friend, and did great both times; she went right up to them to get pets. It took her a while, but she’s getting more and more into toys. She really likes the hunting ones, probably since that was her past life! I fell asleep on the couch and I woke up to her running around with her little mouse toy. She’s a very content girl. She still won’t go in the kitchen- I wonder if the flooring feels weird or something. I don’t mind. She knows how to sit in the window frame, but rarely does. Usually when I come home, she’s sitting on the couch where I normally sit. Anyway, I’ll follow up in a second email with some pictures! Thanks so much for everything! Anna

Magic - Wow!

2/9/18 - Hi Annette, This is the first time I have added a cat to a household that already had cats. It was an interesting experience! For about four days, we kept Max (formerly Magic) completely isolated in a bedroom and our other kitties could smell him. Our girl cat would sit at the door, sniff and then hiss at the door. Then we tried to open the bedroom door and stacked 2 baby gates on top of each other so that they could see each other but not have complete access. Well, the baby gates didn't quite reach to the top of the doorway and both Max and our boy cat were successfully jumping to the top of the baby gates. So that was a fail. So then we started allowing them to spend time with each other in the bedroom for limited periods of time. Our boy cat Tommy definitely warmed up to him a lot faster than our girl cat Annika. At first she wanted nothing to do with him and greeted him each time with a hiss. About a week in, we let Max free roam the house. Sometimes things would get too intense and we'd bring him back into the bedroom and let things cool off. There were about 4 to 5 tense days where we were always a bit on edge, listening for hissing or snarling. Fortunately, there was never any kind of physical fighting that was happening. But it was amazing to watch them acclimate to each other. I had no idea how important butt-sniffing is in this process, but they sure did a lot of it. And it was interesting to see which of our boy cats would ultimately turn out to be the dominant cat. It is definitely Max. Right now, I can see that both Annika and Tommy occasionally are a bit fearful of Max. But not so much so that they don't want to spend time with him. They just basically defer to him. We're not even three weeks in yet, so I'm sure they will continue to get more comfortable with each other over time. Max and Tommy are great playmates. They love chasing each other around the house, and wrestling with each other. Max and Anikka both love to watch the bird action outside. Max is such a lap cat. He loves to spend time snuggled up against my husband or my older daughter in bed (he actually likes to spend time on top of her computer, so he's actually a laptop cat). So, happily, I can say that things are working out great, just as we hoped they would. We've got Max's vet appointment scheduled for next week. Thanks so much for being a great foster mom to Max. He's wonderful boy and we are so thrilled to have him as part of our family. Fondly, Beth