From commentor Ann Marie:
The two lovely feline ladies in the attached picture are Lucy (red tabby) and Luna (charcoal). The mother of a co-worker of mine recently died and her two cats now need a home. According to my co-worker, Jennifer, they are very friendly and took good care of her mother during her illness. Jennifer can’t keep them and I can’t take them (my condo has a two-pet limit and I already have my two).
They are both 6 years old, litterbox trained and up-to-date with their immunizations. They are declawed in front.
They are good with Jennifer’s children and probably okay with dogs but have met only one small dog. Ideally, they should stay together.
Anybody is interested in these two, or knows someone who might be, contact me (click on my name in the right column, or annelaurie at verizon dot net) and I’ll put you in touch with Ann Marie.
JPL
What beautiful cats and I hope they find a home soon.
Betty Cracker
Aw man, that’s so sad that they lost their person. I hope some wonderful person reads this who can take them in and give them a great home.
benw
Those are some fine cats.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
Too far away to take them myself, but I want to let people know that adopting a pre-owned cat is perfect for people who’ve never had one before. Adult cats come litterbox-trained and if you give them a little space, will be happy to let you know what they want and need.
One of my coworkers adopted a 10-year-old cat after her person died and they could not be happier together.
Steeplejack
This strikes a chord with me, because I got the housecat three years ago when her previous owner had to go into assisted living. She was facing, at best, the prospect of a no-kill shelter—the housecat, not the old lady—and I was delighted to be able to give her a home.
I can’t take these two beauties, but I live in NoVA and make semi-regular trips to Philadelphia, so I would be willing to provide transport for them to a new home within a vague mid-Atlantic region to be negotiated later.
Yatsuno
@Steeplejack:
I just imagined a nursing home that could have come straight out of Soylent Green and…I think I’ve had enough Internet today.
TaMara (BHF)
Because I can’t take anymore bad news today, I’m hoping someone can take them and if $$ needed for transport, count me in.
MazeDancer
Sweet girls. How sad they lost their person.
Geographic location should not deter anyone from being interested. Relocation has happened before via BJ. Like most everyone here, I would, of course, be most willing to help with long distance transportation costs if needed.
How horrible they were declawed. So many fine people simply do not realize that is a cruelty. But maybe that means some nice someone who would not otherwise be able to adopt them, can now have an instant family.
Elizabelle
I think these lady cats will get a home. Balloon Juice mojo.
They’re lovely pets.
Elmo
My six rescue dogs and four rescue cats forbid another addition. But I’m also up for a transport leg.
MomSense
What beautiful cats. I would love to have a cat or two but I don’t think my dog will make that possible.
Joy in FL
I adopted a 10 year old cat 2 years ago– his previous human had to go into a nursing facility. He is the sweetest, most loving friend.
He looks like Luna would be his sister.
I would also gladly help with transport expenses.
David Hunt
They look lovely. I can’t take them. I perpetually have too many cats. They just show in my driveway and follow me into the house. Really. I’ve gotten three cats like that.
Pogonip
They can come to my house if they agree to wear Frontline!
Fleas delenda est!
cckids
I’d love to take them too, but . . . my apartment has a 2-pet limit, and I already have my 4 :)
In my defense, they instituted it after we moved in. I would move before I’d let any of ours go. But they’re all older & quiet, so we just fly under the radar.
Gvg
@Pogonip: You are probably joking….my first reaction was that you need to get your flea problem under control first, but then I remembered how frontline works. fleas prefer to bite cats or dogs and don’t usually bother people if their preferred species is around. If they bite a frontline animal, they die. A previous thread confirmed its toxic to people so having a bait animal would probably eventually solve the infestation. there are different species of fleas for cats and dogs though and you haven’t mentioned which you have. I don’t know how it works if you have dog fleas and cats. It might be worth considering pet sitting treated animals even if you don’t adopt.
satby
@Gvg: The reason for lapdogs originally being bred into existence, to lure fleas off of the nobles who carried the dogs.
debit
What a lovely pair of ladies. I am sadly at my limit for pets (actually over, due to the foster who shall forever remain) otherwise I’d offer up a spot at Chez deb. I hope they find a home.
MazeDancer
@Pogonip:
Having cats is the best flea-killing machine. Cats walk around house, fleas hop on cats, poison kills fleas.
ThresherK
Sweet looking.
The orange-and-white is a female?
PS In our house we call those markings “hood and cape” if there’s a band of white completely around the neck.
Pogonip
@Gvg: We’re pretty sure they’re cat fleas, but the landlord and I have already sprayed so I fear it would not be safe to bring animals in, especially cats, seeing as how everything on the outside of a cat ends up on the inside. I might go that route if the vacuuming and bug spray don’t work.
Ann Marie
@ThresherK: Yes, both are females. Anne Laurie, thanks for posting this.
schrodinger's cat
@ThresherK: I have an orange girl kitteh too, she has the sweetest disposition.
Betty Cracker
@schrodinger’s cat: My first pet when I went out on my own as an adult was an orange female kitty, a kitten from a litter belonging to a stray cat my mom rescued. My orange kitty was a great cat and lived with me for 16 years. I didn’t know it was unusual for orange cats to be females until the vet told me so. Apparently almost all calicos are girls and most orange cats are boys, or so the vet said.
ThresherK
@schrodinger’s cat:
@Ann Marie:
@Betty Cracker:
I read someplace that it’s 1 of 7 or 1 of 8 orages are females. It’s just odd that I never really saw many of them until I started hanging around this place, and I’ve been a cat person for quite a time.
Michael Hammond
@ThresherK:
Most orange cats are male because orange is carried on the X chromosome and is a dominant gene. Therefore a male cat is either orange or NOT orange.
With females, life gets more interesting. They can have zero, one or two copies of the orange gene because they have two X chromosomes. Obviously, if they have zero copies of the orange gene, they are NOT orange. But, only if they have two copies of the orange gene (Dad had to be orange and Mom had to be at least partially orange), will they be completely orange.
With females, there is a process called “X chromosome inactivation” that turns off one of the two X chromosomes. This happens AFTER conception, sometime during gestation and INDEPENDENTLY for each cell. Afer the inactivation, all of their descendant cells have the same X chromosome active. In a cat with one X with orange and one X without orange, this results in “patches” of orange and NOT orange – calicos. In order for a boy to be a calico, they have to be XXY (a genetic oops).
As a side note, X chromosome inactivation is why when the first cat was cloned, the clone was NOT a calico, but the original was a calico.
rikyrah
they look cute. hope you find them a home.