Thanks so much, everyone who voted for me for Best Blog Post in the Petties! But what is even more awesome is how many of you voted for the shelter I should support — and PAWS of Norwalk, CT got an overwhelming number of votes! If I win one of the coveted Petties, $1000 will go to PAWS… and for the month of August, I will be featuring a donation widget for them on the righthand side of my blog (it’s there now). So whether I win or not, they can get donations.
As soon as my poll closed, I emailed PAWS volunteer Kevin, who is one of the bloggers at Animal Shelter Volunteer Life, which features PAWS kitties. In addition to giving him the good news, I asked him which cats he would like me to feature for today’s blog post… and he sent me links to eight of them! So I gave it some thought: I could a) write about them all, which might overwhelm my readers (that is a lot of adoptable cats to look at!), b) pick two or three, or c) feature two of them for the next four Thursdays. You probably know which choice I picked — “c” because these kitties all could use some extra added attention! So here are this week’s featured PAWS kitties:
Dottie
Who knows what happened in Dottie’s past? She was found on the streets fending for herself, but a sweet cat like her clearly belonged to someone once. She arrived at PAWS with poor vision, and she suffered from glaucoma. Because of the deteriorating condition of her eyes, both were eventually removed, but this does not stop her from enjoying life with the PAWS volunteers. Plus he always manages to find her food and litter box. At 16, Dottie is a senior lady who still has a lot of love to give. She prefers humans to other cats (although if a cat keeps its distance, she does not mind) and would enjoy living in a quiet, child-free household. Here is Dottie’s PAWS profile if you would like more information.
Allie-Cat
Such a funny name for a girl who has never been on the streets! Allie-Cat was just eight weeks old when she was adopted from PAWS and she assumed she’d have this home forever. Sadly, her family moved out of the country, so back to PAWS she went. Allie-Cat is a quiet soul who is used to being the only cat in the household. She is not fond of dogs or children (hey, I can relate!), and is not a needy type of cat — she will give you your space and would rather chase her own tail than a cat toy any day. If you would like this gorgeous six-year-old panther to grace your home, click through to her PAWS profile.
Even if you live far away from Norwalk, CT, you can still help out these kitties, and many others, by dropping a few bucks at the widget on my sidebar!
P.S. The link to my Amazon Author’s page seems to be working now!
Äiti wishes she could put Dottie on a plane and bring her here, but that would be awfully scary for her and there are too many of us here for her to feel safe.
So she’s donating. Of course. We can go without treats to help these two.
Oooo Miss Dottie is BOOTIFUL!! Sending them both lots of purrs that they find their forever homes.
Whoopsie – the donation widget isn’t appearing. Maybe a reboot is needed here. But she will donate! Honest!
Two lovely kitties. It would be so terrific if they found homes due to your post.
We love the work that Kevin and PAWS does! And we hope these lovely kitties can find their furever homes. Mom says she’d take them all if she could.
Thank you for supporting PAWS! They tried so hard to save Dottie’s eyes. Thank goodness she ended up in a no-kill shelter with lots of people to love her.
Oh Dottie, I wish we could take you here but we are way too crowded for you. We love to give you a home so we sure hope someone gives you the home that you deserve. Also Alliie Cat, we hope you find a home too. We love black cats. Sparkle, thanks for doing this. Take care.
Dottie looks such a sweet tempered lady cat – please, please there must be someone out there who could offer her a wonderful home. We hope Allie gets another furever home too.
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
Such beautiful ones and I sure purr for forever homes for all of them.
Poor Dottie. I’ll bet the sensitivity of her whisker use is heightnened due to her condition.
Aw, how sweet of you, Sparkle!
That is quite wonderful. The woman just says, so many cats. So little time. Whatever that means. She has me, doesn’t she? I should be enough. Let her give money.
Pulling for both of you, you both do such great work! Praying those kitties find furever homes!
Bless you for helping out those less fortunate, Sparkle! I hope that Dottie and Allie-Cat will find their furever homes very soon. In the meantime, they couldn’t be in better hands than at PAWS!
The publicist would love to have more cats but the male person has done something called ‘putting his foot down’ so she cannot have any more right now. As soon as we have some monies in our paypal we will make a donation
We love pretty Dottie, and hope she will find her forever home soon.
Napoleon said being blind is not such a bad thing, especially with some love!
Happy Thursday..
~ The Bunch
What a terrific post. Thank you so very much for your support and friendship, Sparkle! We are so excited to be selected as the winners of your contest to choose a rescue. We love that you are going to feature two PAWS cats each Thursday. Even though they all get lots of love and care at the shelter, our hopes and dreams are that they will find happy, loving homes of their very own. 🙂
Big hugs and purrs to you, Binga, and Boodie (and the humans, too, of course)
Two sweeties but Dottie won us over straight away.
We hope she finds a home where she can enjoy being an only kitty.
She deserves it…16.
Wow
purrs
>^,,^<
♥Abby♥Boo♥Ping♥Jinx♥Grace♥
Dottie looks such a sweetie. We hope someone will give her a loving home for her senior years.
Such sweet kitties! We’re purring they get furever homes soon! We hope you win too Sparkle!
you rock, Sparkle! Dottie and Allie-Cat are beautiful. we hope they’ll find their true furrever home soon. we sure are glad that at PAWS, the kitties get the best care until they do.
Pip, Smidgen, minnie, Hollie
We are purring you are the “push” that finds these two exceptional kitties their families! The families are out there, looking for them.
Dottie is such a sweetie purring for forever homes for all of the PAWs cats. This is an awesome opportunity for them to be featured over the month.
Pawsome post, Sparkle, and a nice thing for the PAWS kitty too. Hope they all get great homes.
Saw your book!!!! Going to see if they’ll let me have a copy.
Because Amazon has been a bit weird last few times sending stuff to Malaysia…
You picked two VERY wonderful candidates for adoption from Paws and we hope they find their TRULY forever homes very soon.
Kitty Hugs, Sammy 😀
This is great news, Sparkle. Every shelter needs help, but it’s nice to help your blogging friends, isn’t it? That’s a great idea about featuring 2 for each of 4 weeks.
Oh Wow! I Love Meowmeowmans! I am so glad that his shelter will be the recipient of all the Sparkle Love! Sparkle you are so generous! I wish Queen Penelope was more like you!
Koxmo at the Cat From Hell
We are so glad that Paws won the vote they are so fantastic!! Such lovely and deserving kitties, we hope they find safe and happy homes soon 🙂