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Comment by Dr. Shelby Neely on April 24, 2013 at 3:24pm

Just wanted to let everyone know that tonight on Ask The Cat Doctor Talk Radio, we will be talking about giving cats a second chance with shelter representatives from Connecticut and California, specifically regarding senior cats! If anyone would like to join in, or listen as a podcast after the show, you may do so here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/askthecatdoctor/2013/04/25/ask-the-cat...

Comment by MizzBassie & Magdalena Plewinska on November 15, 2012 at 5:11am

All of us are second chance cats, since we all came from the street but there were two of us that are truly "second chance."

Hephie was a grey and white tabby that mommy found and brought to the vet after he had been hit by a car. He had multiple facial fractures and required a fair amount of surgery. That impact must have done something to his brain, too, because he would get lost. He was an indoor/outdoor kitty and would follow mommy around the neighborhood but if someone then gave her a ride home, he would have no idea how to get home himself. Luckily, he had the sense to just stay put and, once mommy figured it out, she would come back and find him exactly where she had left him. Hephie died of FIP at about 11 years of age.

I was found by mommy's coworker who couldn't keep me so she found me a home with a neighbor, who proceeded to kick me so hard he caused a diaphragmatic hernia. I ran away from him and came back to the co-worker, who realized something was wrong and brought me to mommy, who rushed me to the vet. I was 3/4 dead when I got there but got through the surgery somehow and have thrived ever since. I call the day of that surgery my second-life-birthday.

Comment by Elizabeth Benoit on August 30, 2012 at 11:16am

I have two cats both of whom really rescued me.  I adopted both at different times from the local SPCA shelter on a whim.  My gray cat, Gracie, won my heart over the moment she curled up in my arms and began purring next to my neck.  I fell in love with my black cat, Benjamin, the moment he looked at me.  He had that "I didn't do it" look that I always gave my principal when things went  wrong in my science lab instruction.  I can't imagine life without either of them.

Comment by Denise Brixey on August 26, 2012 at 4:33pm

I have three cats, two of them rescued and one just acquired.  Princess Tiffany Marie is the rescue who has the most interesting past.  She was a year old, and just had a litter of three kittens, when my friend, who ran a feral cat rescue, got the call.  A White Calico Siamese was rummaging through garbage cans for food.  When Kym got out there, she found Tiffany in a barn, barely alive, with her kittens.

 Apparently, the people who owned the barn had gotten her for a mouser.  However, when the barn was moused-out, they neglected to feed her, forcing her to look for scraps in neighboring garbage cans.  She was not producing enough milk for her babies and they, too, were almost dead.

Kym saved Tiffany and her three sweet babies, who were immediately tagged for adoption once they were weaned.  I took Tiffany into my home and rehabilitated her to be people-friendly.  She now is the sweetest thing ever.   

Comment by Rachael Cleveland on August 24, 2012 at 7:02pm

My cat, Henry, is my first cat. He was rescued from the streets of Albuquerque's South Valley, and has filled my home and heart in our almost two years (2 years on Thanksgiving!).

Comment by Dawn Miklich on June 25, 2012 at 5:00pm

How lucky for Odin to have found his way into your home. 

Comment by FourPawSavings on June 24, 2012 at 7:41am

I have 3 wonderful kitties. The first two came from a yard sale where someone had free kittens in a dog crate. I wish I could have taken them all home. The newest addition is Odin. He is a 10 yr. old blind kitty, FIV+ with glaucoma. He was a stray for most of his life, picked up by a rescue when the man who cared for the colony noticed his good eye (the other blind form an old injury) was looking bad. The rescue then transfered him to another rescue, who could not keep him because of his FIV+ status. The only choices were to put him down, or return him outside. I couldn't let that happen, so now he is the newest member of our family. :)

Comment by D.C. Blackbord on January 17, 2012 at 7:03pm

We love with 7 wonderful companion cats and have helped and saved countless others. We lost our friend Jekyll on June 9, 2011 and we miss him every single day.