The Feral Girls

Tonight I got close enough to Angry Sophie, while she was in the open, to snap a picture. I used the "searching for my wallet" trick, where you just wander along looking like you're trying to find something on the ground, and 'accidentally' get really close to the feral cat instead. Poor girl. I think she likes her own room a lot better than being in the kennel, but she is just not warming up to us AT ALL. We'll continue to try, I guess. I'm told with full grown feral cats it's a much longer process than with kittens. We were also told that because Sophie had her kittens in the wild, she'll be much harder to tame up again. I'll keep you posted.

Demeter, on the other hand, is a silly kitten who likes to pounce on our hands. She's still quite a bit more skittish than a fully tame kitten would be, but we're allowed to move around a bit in the room now without her hiding immediately. She's fine when she's out with us. We are merely solidifying the relationship now - there's no question that she'll do well in a home as someone's spoiled pet kitty. She would actually be fine to be adopted into a home now - it's just that she has to go be in a kennel in the clinic in order to get adopted, and she'll almost certainly regress between homes. We'll keep working on her, with reinforcements of salmon treats and little toy mouses.

News on Asparagus: we thought he was going back to his kennel in the clinic to be adopted out, but it turns out that our greyhound contact could not resist, and has adopted him!! Yay!!! He now has a great home in the country with lots of other cat buddies (not all of them quite friends with him yet), two beautiful greyhounds to tease, and a horse to stare in wonder at. We were thrilled to hear about this development. :)

Anyway, on the dog front: our on-again, off-again plans with Trinity the puppy mill Pit Bull from Ontario are off again. Seems that there is a home on the mainland that wants to foster-to-adopt her, so that is certainly where she should go! With any luck we will get a happy update on that front in a week or two. It would be nice to see her adopted quickly. Kirsta of Hugabull has posted a short note to let us know that Bambi, who I was so worried about in the Duncan SPCA, has finally found a foster home! We are quite relieved about that.

The greyhounds are coming soon! We don't know who we will be getting yet, but it will probably be a short-term dog as there are lots of applications in. I love it when the greyhounds come.