Every week, Midtown Patch visits an area shelter and highlights the story of an adoptable animal that might otherwise get overlooked.The first thing you notice about 3-month-old Molly, a kitten who is awaiting adoption at the Midtown Furkids Outlet, is her frisky spirit. She spends her days running around, jumping on cat furniture and playing with cats and kittens alike. “She’s a wild one,” says one woman about Molly as she looks at all the cats waiting for adoption. Michelle Manno, a Furkids volunteer, said the only time she’s seen the kitten calm down is at the end of the day. Of course, …
Every week, Midtown Patch visits an area shelter and highlights the story of an adoptable animal that might otherwise get overlooked.When released from her cage at Atlanta Pet Rescue & Adoption, Xena jumped on me and gave me a big kiss. The 58-pound dog is muscular and powerful, but she is friendly and will play with her squeaky ball for hours. Kennel Technician and Adoption Counselor Amy Ryan calls the 3-year-old dog a sweetheart. “She’ll lick your face off,” she said. And then she explained why Xena is kept by herself. “She was probably neglected at some point. If you’re walking her, you …
Every week, Midtown Patch visits an area shelter and highlights the story of an adoptable animal that might otherwise get overlooked.Emilio is a cat all the volunteers want. However, he keeps getting overlooked. When visitors stop by the Furkids Midtown Outlet, they almost always go straight for the kittens. Of course, the 3-year-old domestic short haired cat is usually hiding or perched on the edge of his cage watching all the action from a safe distance. Emilio isn’t shy as it might seem; he simply prefers calm people. “He’s not a fan of all the noise,” Furkids volunteer Becky Harman said…
Every week, Midtown Patch visits an area shelter and highlights the story of an adoptable animal that might otherwise get overlooked.Duncan, aka The Dunkster, is an inquisitive little fellow. He likes to sit in people's arms, with his ears perked, looking curiously at every new sound. Amanda Blair, the operations manager of Atlanta Pet Rescue & Adoption, is telling me about how one of his legs had to be amputated last week as she holds him. The one-year-old dog is already walking around with the other dogs in the shelter and jumping up on a chair when visitors stop by. “He was friendly from …
Every week, Midtown Patch visits an area shelter and highlights the story of an adoptable animal that might otherwise get overlooked.“When I first saw him, I wanted to hold him,” Furkids volunteer Becky Harman said about Odin. The 12-pound tabby cat is waiting to be adopted at the PetsSmart at 650 Ponce de Leon Avenue (the Furkids Midtown outlet).Cats often are skittish when they arrive at a shelter. New places are scary, and so are new cats. But Odin stayed cool when he came to Furkids and seems content a week later, especially if you hold him. Odin, who has long striped fur, is a relaxed …
Every week, Midtown Patch visits an area shelter and highlights the story of an adoptable animal that might otherwise get overlooked.Macy is one of those cats that everyone expects to get adopted almost immediately. She is a gorgeous grey domestic long hair (or possibly a Main Coon) who is easy-going, playful and skillful at purring.Months after being surrendered by her owners for an unknown reason,one of Macy's favorite activities is laying outside on the screened in porch at Atlanta Pet Rescue & Adoption, peering at passersby with her lime green eyes.“We thought she’d be gone quickly,” cat …
Millie had a 102.9 fever when I meet her, but she still smiled with big brown eyes and her tongue hung out as she wagged the nub of her tail. The previous owners of the 12-pound shih tzu-poodle mix surrendered her at an intown animal control facility. They first said she was a stray, but then admitted that she belonged to them. Her scraggly, dark hair covered up any signs of abuse until the people at Atlanta Pet Rescue and Adoption in Midtown went to bathe her. Judy Price, executive director of the no-kill shelter, said they noticed bone sticking out of her tail and something wrong with her …
Every week, Midtown Patch visits an area shelter and highlights the story of an adoptable animal that might otherwise get overlooked. Duchess was found wandering around in mid-March and brought into the Gwinnett County Animal Control as a stray. Usually, in such cases, the hope is that the owner will come forward to claim the lost animal. Nobody showed up for Duchess. If someone had come in, Gwinnett County probably would have charged the person with animal cruelty. Instead, she got sent to Atlanta Pet Rescue and Adoption in Midtown. When the 4-year-old dachshund arrived, she was still so …
Every week, Midtown Patch visits an area shelter and highlights the story of an adoptable animal that might otherwise get overlooked. Renee Cardona, animal care manager at Furkids, was flipping through Princess' medical history when she found the note and read it outloud. It was written by an employee at Douglas County Animal Control, where Furkids picked up Princess in October 2009 shortly before she was scheduled for euthanization. "The owner's boyfriend made her surrender Princess because he did not want cat hair around the house. No joke." Dumped from the home where she'd been living at …
Every week, Midtown Patch visits an area shelter and highlights the story of an adoptable animal that might otherwise get overlooked. Precious has a little trick she pulls out when she wants attention or a treat. She dances around on her hind legs and doggie-paddles the air with her front legs. "She does it for dinnertime. She does it for everything," said Judy Price, director of Atlanta Pet Rescue & Adoption. "She's a very vivacious, bouncy little girl." But Precious was in excruciating pain and couldn't even walk when she arrived at the shelter a few days before Valentine's Day from the …
Every week, Midtown Patch visits an area shelter and highlights the story of an adoptable animal that might otherwise get overlooked. Cats have a reputation for being detached and heartless, but Butch proves it's a myth. Butch came to Furkids last October after his elderly owner, a man from Woodstock, went into hospice care with cancer and had to surrender him and another cat, Sophie. They arrived at Furkids via Helena McClatchie, the office manager at the Animal Emergency Center of Sandy Springs. Her father-in-law had been helping the cats' owner through a volunteer program at …
Every week, Midtown Patch visits an area shelter and highlights the story of an adoptable animal that might otherwise get overlooked. Mistress hasn't seen daylight in five years. She arrived at Furkids' Doraville shelter in 2006 from Coweta County Animal Control, where her owner had surrendered her. She's been living in one of the shelter's cage-free rooms ever since, waiting. Black cats like Mistress often don't get adopted quickly, due to lingering superstitions or because they tend not to stand out in a crowd as much as colorful cats. "Sadly, because she's black she's constantly overlooked…
Every week, Midtown Patch visits an area shelter and highlights the story of an adoptable animal that might otherwise get overlooked. Stella is only 11 months old, a teenager in cat years, but her life already sounds like it belongs to the guest of a daytime television talk show. She grew up in a small apartment where a woman was reportedly keeping 20 cats, most (if not all of them) unspayed and unneutered. The woman was evicted at the end of December for not paying rent, and Stella and four other cats from the apartment ended up at Atlanta Pet Rescue and Adoption. Ulcers covered their mouths…
Every week, Midtown Patch visits an area shelter -- or home, in this case -- and highlights the story of an adoptable animal that might otherwise get overlooked. On Jan. 31, Owen Omundsen found a pit bull mix running loose in the backyard of his Midtown home on Vedado Way. The dog didn't have collar or tag, and a scan at the vet didn't reveal a microchip, either. "I've been calling him Bubba. He looks like a Bubba," said Omundsen. He's keeping the dog on his heated front porch, away from a household of disapproving cats. No one has come forward to claim Bubba, despite notices around the …
Every week, Midtown Patch visits an area shelter and highlights the story of an animal that might otherwise get overlooked. Don't tell Bishop, but sometimes the staff at Atlanta Pet Rescue put a thatch of his hair on their heads and wear it like a toupee. It's all in good fun now, but the history of that toupee isn't. The six-by-six-inch square is only a portion of the knotted hair they had to cut from the little dog. Bishop arrived at Atlanta Pet Rescue in late January with fur so matted that a clump protruded "like an awning over his eyes," said director Judy Price. Shih Tzu dogs are bred …
Every week, Midtown Patch visits an area shelter and highlights the story of an animal that might otherwise get overlooked. Adeline weighs only six or seven pounds and could fit in a shoe box. But don't be fooled. This feisty lady of two has already nursed several litters and survived being a pregnant throwaway. She's currently up for adoption at the Midtown outpost of the Doraville-based Furkids, a no-kill animal rescue with 500 cats and a few dogs. You can visit her at the PetSmart in the Midtown Place Shopping Center, 650 Ponce de Leon Ave. Adeline was found under some bushes in a north …
