A warm fuzzy feeling
I get is when I think of our kitten, Marv. He was a quiet cat at the sanctuary
and only wanted love when he was in the mood. But when he did, he would always
bring a smile to my face and make me laugh. One day, my mom told me he was going
to get adopted, but she didn’t know who was going to take him. A week
before Christmas she told me he was gone, I was totally upset because I didn’t
say goodbye to him. Then when I came, it turned out my mom was the one who adopted
him. I was so happy! He has lived with us for about eleven months now and everyday
I see his cute little face and I get that warm FUZZY feeling all over again.
I love to go there and visit those wonderful people. They really, really love to see us come ….It’s just heavenly
“ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS”
My name is Tammy and I’m not just a cat, I’m descended from royalty in ancient Egypt. I’ll bet my ancestors even knew Cleopatra! Living in the sanctuary is pretty cool except for all the darn cats. Royalty should not have to share. I just wish I could get a home of my own without any cats. I’m really a people purrson. I love all our human caretakers. They come in all ages, shapes and sizes, just like cats, only better. The “bosses” keep telling me I’ll never get a home because I am so nasty when people try to visit me. That’s because all those other darn cats keep trying to bother us.
But just let me get out of here and they’ll really see how wonderful I am. I get to go on all the field trips. Like to the girl scouts, the schools and my favorite thing in the world is when we go visit the people in the Long-Care facility. I love to go there and visit those wonderful people. They really, really love to see us come and I always get a room to myself with no other cats to bother us. It’s just heavenly. Lots of our human volunteers come along to help with this outing. But you haven’t met Stacey, Annie and Cali yet. They love to go to the Long-Care facility too and come as often as they can get away. They are really cool humans and you know they love us. They even adopted one of us to live with darn — it wasn’t me again.
Anyway, we go visit once a month at the facility and I look forward to it more than ever.
Here comes another visitor. I’ve seen this lady before. She sure was nice to me, she’s bringing back adoption papers all filled out! WOW! Another lucky cat gets to have it‘s own home. Wonder who it’ll be. What … what are really calling Tammy — gotta go now! I can’t believe this. I’ll be sooooooo good. Oh, it was fun visiting with all you nice people, but I have a real home to go to now. Good luck to all the rest of you guys — sure hope things work out for you all — but NOT IN MY HOME!
SHE GOT A HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
She was only 3, but had more than her share of hard times. She was born with a crippling birth defect that left her back legs gnarled and useless. But she had 'heart' and didn’t know she wasn’t supposed to just keep going. She could use her litterbox, get around just fine with a dragging motion and leapt with grace and dignity onto her human’s bed at night. Life was fine. Then her human, began to feel guilty because he was away so much and turned “Gympy” over to an animal shelter. There is little call for special needs animals and the order was placed on her cage to “euthanize“. A volunteer at the shelter heard about her and hurried down before opening hours the next day to assess the little kitty. She found her to be loving, sweet and full of the will to live. Her handicap didn’t seem to impede her at all and Brenda went to work to save the doomed cat. She got her to her personal vet for safety and began looking for a safe haven. That brought her to Kitty Keepers, the only no kill sanctuary for cats in Montana. They quickly agreed, but how would they get "Florence", as she’d been renamed, to Havre? After much discussion, Big Sky Airlines was contacted and YES, in the spirit of the season, they would give Florence a free ride to her new home! Everyone was grateful for their generosity and wanted to let others know that a corporation has time to worry about a little cat. Brenda contacted a reporter at the Billings Gazette. Yes, she thought the story newsworthy. She went to visit Florence and get her picture for the story, but then she called Brenda and said she didn’t want to do the story. She wanted to adopt her. Now the unwanted and unloved kitty that almost had no chance to live, was offered TWO homes for Christmas. She now lives and loves with the kind reporter who calls her Sera — short for Serendipity.
MY MOTHER'S BLACK AND
WHITE MESSAGE
by
Vonda Montgomery
My ninety-one-year-old mother died July 20, 2004. Before she died, she promised me she would let me know she was ok. Five months had gone by and I was sad that I hadn't had a sign of any kind from my mother. On a cold, (minus 28 degrees) January morning of 2005 my husband and I left our home in Chinook, Montana for an appointment in Billings, Montana some 240 miles away. As we were drivin on Highway 2 near the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, I spotted a small black and white object on the highway. As we approached, I saw it was a kitten. We turned around, I ran out on the highway, picked up the kitten while trying to avoid any on coming traffic. As I held this cold, tiny kitten I could see its leg was cut and it couldn't see. I was certain she had been thrown from a car. When we arrived in Billings four hours later, we took her to Best Friends Animal Hospital and there she received a bright pink bandage for her leg and medication for her infected eyes. When she began to heal, I could see that she was the image of my mother's cat "Macy." Then, I knew I had gotten the promised message from my mother. i named the kitten "Angel" because I know there was divine intervention for her to have survived that busy highway in the January cold.
