02/10/2022
FEB. 9, 2022 UPDATE ON KITTIES PULLED DURING 2015 - 2016
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Left to right: RILEY, JASMINE and ASHLYN enjoy daylight from a window behind and above. Pulled from Devore between 2015 and 2016, Riley and Jasmine behaved like feral cats. Ashlyn was scared and acted somewhat unsocialized.
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RILEY (formerly Burney, A641743) had what sounded like a great offer as a working cat. After he was fixed, we made a long drive to do the site check and took him with us. The site check revealed the location was not safe enough and the property owner was not sufficiently concerned with his welfare. In a lost day that culminated in an awkward moment, we decided to bring Riley back with us.
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JASMINE (formerly Dapple, A642368) was feral, but tiny. Devore est. she was three years old, but she appeared to be under a year old and was too small to be put back outside. By the time she grew a little more, we felt she had been inside too long to return to the outdoors, and she was still a small cat.
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ASHLYN (L'Amour, A636725) was between three and four months old, She was a feral kitten that arrived sick. She tested positive for FeLV, so she was kept isolated from other cats. After she was well, socialized, plumped up and playful, a lab test revealed she was not FeLV positive. A foster took her to adoptions, and someone applied to adopt her, but it did not go through. She has since remained healthy, but gravitated to hanging out with unsocialized kitties.
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Note: Roughly half the cats pulled that were RO for behavior were friendly; and the other half were in varying degrees of socialization with some acting very feral and others that didn't like being handled, but were otherwise friendly. Most that are still with us now are either from the second group above or had long-term medical issues that prevented adoption.
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