Is anyone really surprised that Conrad was adopted within hours of arriving at the Nine Lives Foundation? This sweet boy hadn't even unpacked his bags when his new Daddy walked in and adopted him. It's pretty hard to imagine that Conrad was due to be PTS at Los Banos when cats like Conrad are in such high demand in the Bay Area. Good luck in your new forever home fluffy boy.
Martina, Oreo, Riley, Ellie and Mia all went off with Maine Coon Adoptions today where they will be placed up for adoption and cared for by their loving foster homes.
Rogue and her sister Emmie were each adopted to their own wonderful homes today! We feel sure they picked excellent people to spend their lives with.
In addition, Opal went off on a trial adoption today. Her new mommy seems sure that given time, her new older brother, 10 year old Tubbie, will love her too.
Goblin went home today! Within minutes of his arrival from the Los Banos Animal Shelter, Goblin met his new family and went home on a trial adoption. We feel sure that he picked his forever family today.
Timmy and his litter mates were found abandoned in the bushes in the Redw
ood City, Carl's Jr. parking lot. Healthy, flea free and otherwise robust, it was clear that they had been dumped there. Dubbed the "Carl's Jr. Kittens" Timmy and his siblings were wee little things, nearly 4 weeks old, when they were delivered to our care on Sunday, April 22, 2007.
Timmy stayed at the shelter and attended dozens of adoption events. Folks cooed over his handsome looks, soft coat and pleasant disposition but no one seemed interested in adopting him, until today. 
but we got 8 spays and one neuter done. Tonight it's time for act 2 of the same as we whittle our spay/neuter list down to nothing. We plan to spay/neuter all of our cats/kittens before our move at the end of the month and we'd like to get it done before the packing starts this weekend.
In addition to the surgery marathon we had 3 more adoptions last night, including my own beloved foster girl Tabitha a.k.a. Thee, who will go to her forever home on Saturday with Magic (that's right, Magic has been adopted!). The couple who adopted them has promised to provide us with updates and photos. I think they realize how much the staff and volunteers love the cats they're taking. :)
Fiona is a 2.5 year old DMH, Calico who has had a very tough life. We pulled Fiona from San Jose Animal Care and Control in the early spring of 2006. We spayed her and found for her what we had hoped was a loving forever home. This June Fiona was returned with the comment that she was "feral" and she'd spent the entire year after her adoption living outside and running from her adopted family. Upon examining her we discovered the horrible truth. We're not sure when it happened, but Fiona had managed to push her front leg through her collar until it lodged in her armpit and began to dig in and cause her a great deal of pain.
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Kiki was 8 weeks old when he arrived at the Nine Lives Foundation on June 20th. The family who had him rushed him in to a near by hospital where Dr. Thompson worked as a relief veterinarian after his head had been stepped on by their 8 year old son, in a freak accident that fractured his skull and rendered him blind and unresponsive. The injury caused swelling in his brain and poor Kiki suffered seizures and received a very guarded prognosis.
oxygen therapy, IV fluids, Valium and 24 hour nursing care as he was non-responsive and seizing. Dr. Thompson provided nursing care after-hours taking him home every evening to avoid the added expense of emergency clinic monitoring. After two days, Kiki's prognosis remained unchanged and his expenses continued to increase. Kiki's owners (who had limited financial resources) surrendered him the Nine Lives Foundation in the hope of saving him from being put to sleep due to their inability to cover his expenses at the near by hospital.
quite an adept kitten wrestler. 
Dorothy a.k.a Tia was barely a handful when she arrived at the Nine Lives Foundation. She was brought to us at the tender age of 3 weeks in early April of 2007, after being found abandoned on a sidewalk in Redwood City. Her tail was already crooked and an unhealthy infestation of fleas. Luckily we had a
nursing mother with kittens her age who was willing to take her in. Lauren was a good mother to Dorothy. These two photos are of Lauren and her kittens, with tiny Tia the only brown tabby in the mix. At fist they were all the same size.
shared with the rest of her new litter mates. While they all quickly recovered and continued to thrive, Dorothy did not. She stayed small while the other kittens rapidly grew. Here she is, on the left, on April 26, 2007 at 4.5 weeks of age.
discovered that she'd dropped down to 1.03lbs. The ringworm now nearly covered her body and she had liquid poo and a nasty URI. Things were not looking good for her and her current antibiotics didn't appear to be helping. On that day Dr. Thompson and her foster mother discussed putting her to sleep but decided that she needed a little more time and faith.
See, I told you there were 44 cats adopted. ;)
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In August of 2006 we received a phone call from the rescue coordinator at the Martinez Animal Shelter asking for help. She had 3 beautiful, 3 month old kittens who had been spayed/neutered but because of a potential exposure to Ringworm, were due to be PTS. She was hoping that we could help by taking any of the three and we could.
eady being treated for Ringworm who was happy to add a few more. Xena, Zephyr and Zeus arrived the next day. Zeus and Zephyr are the tabby and white boys to the right with fellow foster Teegan.
ts but by then they were no longer small "kittens" but teenagers and no one showed much interest in them beyond commenting on how sweet they all were. The months passed and they grew into more wonderful kitties every day.
she would be the perfect match. It only took a few minutes more for Ryan and Pia to choose Zeus and Zephyr for his parents. Applications were filled out and within an hour the three cats were on their way home on trial adoptions.
He was not an old cat, likely not much older than 2 years old upon his arrival, but he looked ancient. He was very, very ill. Colby had developed a nasty case of Feline Calicivirus (FCV) . Calicivirus is a common viral disease that affects cats, it is characterized by upper respiratory symptoms, pneumonia, oral ulceration (sores in the mouth), and occasionally arthritis.
Colby was not happy to be caged again and made it known. He spent most of the next 2 months out in foster care but always coming back for the adoption events. To the left is a photo of him in his foster home.
On 4/1/2006 Tabitha arrived at the Nine Lives Foundation, via volunteer jeep transport, from Kern County Animal Shelter. Tabitha is only one example of the multitude of nursing mother cats gets dumped in Central Valley shelters during the long months of California's "kitten season." We believe she was less than 8 months old when she reached us, just a baby struggling to care for babies of her own.First, the planning board for the City of San Carlos is insistent that the area our building is in, is not zoned properly for our purpose. If the place was ideal we'd probably fight to stay but we've had a ton of issues with the new building. The electrical is a nightmare, as is the water situation which makes running a shelter difficult. On top of that the ventilation has become an issue and so have the neighbors (who have been stealing from us) so it's really a good thing that we have to move.
For the short term, the shelter needs to be moved to a much smaller facility. We are trying to adopt out as many cats as possible & hoping to get the rest out into foster care. We looked at a new building in Redwood City last week, but it's more for having an address and for adoption events. We're hoping to get the majority of our cats adopted or out into foster care before the move. Which is doubly hard as none of volunteers or BOD members seem to want to take on the responsibility of managing our foster homes and the cats out in foster. Honestly I'm very stressed out about the whole thing but I have to believe that it will all work out.
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