ADOPTION ALERT! Kiki And Goose Are Ready For Their Forever Homes!

Kiki and Goose

Hey everyone!

Remember the 8 ferals we took in from the group home in early January?

Well, we were able to successfully socialize four of them: Binx, Elton, Kiki, and Goose.

Binx and Elton were adopted last week before we could even get them up on Petfinder solely through word of mouth so that was wonderful.

They were a bonded pair so that was the best...

Binx and Elton

So now we just have Kiki and Goose who are absolutely the cutest, sweetest and no-drama felines ever to grace this planet.

If you are interested in adopting either of these two gorgeous beings you can check out Kiki's Petfinder page HERE and Gooses' page HERE.

Here are a few extra pics of the two sweets!

FERAL INCOMING: Sweet Tuxedo Boy Trapped Just Before The Snow Hits! (#618) *UPDATE

Hey everyone say hello to Panda!

We received a call about him wandering a neighborhood in Cutchogue all by his lonesome and with the snow coming we quickly went out and picked him up.

I mean we literally picked him up! He is not scared or aggressive in any way and was instead just grateful not to be out in the cold and get some food.

It turns out Panda was dumped by his owners when they moved out of their home.

As he had never known anywhere else he remained at the house and slept on the doormat by the front door waiting to be let back in by his family.

Despite having such a rough turn Panda's disposition is beyond friendly and he loves human contact and comes running every time we open the shelter.

We haven't even had to cage him in fact...

Panda lounging!

We are going to get some dewormer into him and a lot of food – he is so thin – and take him to the vet to get a check-up.

As soon as that is done we are putting him up on our Petfinder page as he is more than ready for his forever home.

This is one of the sweetest we have come across in our 15 years doing this work.

I mean look at that face...

UPDATE: Panda is all done with his vet visit and the boy is in perfect health!

Here is his PETFIDER PAGE!

FERAL INCOMING! Beautiful Tabby Girl Dumped In Subfreezing Temperatures (#617)

Say hello to Mia everyone.

Somebody dumped poor Mia in a neighborhood in Calverton last week when it was 20 degrees below freezing.

Luckily a woman noticed her wandering around and put out some towels for her to burrow in for warmth.

She called all the shelters and nobody would take her so she finally posted this notice at an online community site where we read it...

We, of course, went and picked her up immediately.

The woman was not joking! Mia is a sweet, beautiful loving cat with an amazing purr.

Due to her health, generally good condition, and weight we have to assume she was recently dumped.

Mia is now just resting up and getting ready for her vet visit so we can get her bloodwork checked out and make sure she is healthy and spayed.

We will also check for a microchip to make sure she isn't a runaway.

We will give an update on her condition as soon as we find out how she checks out.

FERAL INCOMING: Bonus Cat From The Group Home! (#616)

After we took in the 8 cats and kittens from the group home two weeks ago we were pretty sure that was it for that particular property... but were happily mistaken.

With all of the cats still here in various stages of recuperation from their vet visits, deworming, and defleaing treatments we got another call from the home informing us there was yet another cat there apparently wondering where the heck everyone went!

We went over and it was an easy trap for all involved as he is a sweetheart and we literally just picked him up and chauffered him over to our shelter.

He is no longer in a cage as we transferred him into the "friendly room" where we have three other cats from that colony we are trying to socialize for adoption.

He's a GOOD boy!!!!!!

If we can adopt 4 out of the 9 it will be a good day as the others will go back to a nice situation where they are fed regularly and looked after by the home's residents.

In addition, we have set up a couple of insulated cat houses to help keep the remaining crew warm through the Winter.

FERAL INCOMING!!! Abandoned Emaciated Cat Trapped At Condo Complex (Feral 615)

On Friday night one of our trappers captured this poor male longhair at a condo complex in Wading River.

He is nothing but skin and bones and matted hair...

Despite the horrific shape he is not feral and proceeded to collapse into a heap of purring once he was inside and warm and being pet.

We knew why when we learned that the complex is mostly for older, retired people as we have seen this before.

It happens when elderly people adopt a cat and then pass away without any plans for the care of their companion.

Their relatives come and sell their homes and don't want to be bothered with having to place a pet or even just dropping them off at the local shelter.

So they abandon them.

This is the result.

As he was fed regularly and probably brushed or had his hair trimmed he never had to hunt for food or groom himself.

Out in the wild, he starved and his coat became a solid, painful mat.

We immediately shaved all off his tangled fur and got him into some warm blankets with as much food as he could eat...

All he has to do is rest now and we will find him another forever home... He has been through enough losing his human and then being abandoned.

FERAL KITTEN INCOMING!!! Woah! 8 Cats Just Came In Before The Snowstorm! (Ferals 607-614)

We just got inundated with cats and kittens and not a moment too soon because we just got buried under half a foot of snow! 

These babies came from behind a group home for the mentally challenged where we had trapped, spayed, and neutered a colony a while back. 

After we had finished we left our contact number with all the boarders in case anything happened.

Well, to make a long story short, one of the house members called and let us know that someone had dumped a group of kittens in the existing colony.

The problem is that they didn't tell us for a month because they liked watching the kittens run around the backyard.

As a result, the once tame kittens are now all feral.

It is a shame because they are gorgeous and would have made wonderful companions for someone if we had only known a few weeks earlier.

We will try to see if any are able to be socialized but as you can see from the pictures they are not too happy.

That being said, fingers crossed.

Here are the kittens and an unneutered adult male we were able to trap as well...

We will post updates on these beauties in the next few days as there is a cold snap coming mid-week and we will be keeping them until that is over.

ADOPTION ALERT! Gypsy Queen Has Found Her Forever Home!

We have a New Year's adoption!

On Saturday a wonderful family came to our shelter after seeing Gyspy Queen on our Petfinder page to spend some time with her to see if they would be a fit.

After a few minutes in the visiting room, they came out and said "We're in love!" and wanted to adopt Gypsy on the spot.

And so we put the sweet girl in a carrier and off they went.

We have received about 10 text messages and pictures from the family saying they were totally smitten with Gypsy and they couldn't be happier.

Imagine, in the space of just over a month, Gypsy Queen went from eating garbage and handouts behind the town's outlet mall to having a loving forever family of her very own.

She's even allowed on the bed and has her very own stuffed animal already...

Nothing better than a good adoption and a happy ending!