New Arrival!
Posted on Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Paralyzed kitten from Ohio finds home in Ringoes
Tabby's Place looks forward to kitten's arrival Saturday
By ANGELA TOWNSEND, Tabby's Place
A cat sanctuary dedicated to rescuing cats from hopeless situations is taking in its second paraplegic feline, in a tale that spans three states.
Just three months after finding an adoptive home for Bagheera, a large black cat others considered "unadoptable" for his paraplegia and incontinence, Tabby's Place: a Cat Sanctuary is providing a haven for Tashi, a paralyzed and incontinent kitten.
Fearing that Tashi would be euthanized at most shelters, volunteers from Cat Welfare who discovered him in an Ohio feral cat colony partnered with Colony Cats, another Columbus, OH-based group, to contact Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Utah for help. While Best Friends' own "Incontinental Suite" had no vacancies, its members offered high praise for Tabby's Place in the Ringoes section of East Amwell, a no-kill, cage-free, 7,000 square foot sanctuary for cats in desperate circumstances. And so Tashi's journey ultimately led over 400 miles east, to Ringoes.
Like every cat at Tabby's Place, Tashi will have a home for life at the sanctuary if he is not adopted. However, the August 2008 adoption of "Bags" (the sanctuary's nickname for Bagheera) leads Tabby's Place Founder and Executive Director Jonathan Rosenberg to declare, "anything is possible." Having provided three years of loving, labor-intensive care for Bagheera, Tabby's Place is grateful to have the skilled team and facilities required to care for another disabled cat.
Tashi is scheduled to arrive at Tabby's Place with one of his devoted Ohio caretakers on Saturday, Nov. 1. Once at the sanctuary, he will receive highly specialized care, hydrotherapy to support any remaining motility in his rear legs, and abundant love from Tabby's Place's staff and volunteers, who all eagerly await the arrival of this "Baby Bags."
Tabby's Place is at 1100 US Highway 202, Ringoes. For more information, visit http://www.tabbysplace.org/index.html or contact info@tabbysplace.org or 908-237-5300.Labels: cats, tabbys_place
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