Happy Tails – Page 7

30Apr 2016 by Megan Hasenauer

Valentino – A Valentine’s Day Love Story

On a routine trip to the Walmart on Almaden in San Jose, one of our volunteer families, a mom and her two teenage daughters, noticed a small orange kitten dodging under the cars and run into the bushes. The girls insisted they learn more and were surprised to find four kittens looking to be about 3 months old, which were immediately assigned fall-themed names (Draco, Pumpkin, Spice and Boo). The kittens did not appear feral, although they were cautious of people they still seamed curious and friendly. They were young enough that they could still be socialized or TNR. The girls insisted on coming back with a trap immediately as living right next to a major highway came with many potential dangers. It proved to be more difficult than one…

17Apr 2016 by Megan Hasenauer

Meet Carmelita Coleman

Current "Mews", Happy Tails, News & Happenings

Carmelita has been helping cats all her life. “I just do it because I love to do it,” she says. People call her all the time with questions about cats. Carmelita is a cat resource for her friends, giving advice on trapping and fostering. For years, Carmelita ran a one-woman rescue, trapping cats, bottle-feeding kittens, getting the cats spayed/neutered, placing ads in the newspaper, and finding each one of them a good home. She says she would always charge a little bit to get decent people. Back in 2004, Carmelita and her husband moved to Morgan Hill from San Jose. Within a year, she had adopted Rea from PetSmart Gilroy, and beautiful Rea is still the matriarch of the family. When the founder of Town Cats, Rosi Mirko, met Carmelita,…

19Feb 2016 by jstevenson

Casey Jones, a Story of True Love

Cat Blog Articles, Happy Tails

Have you ever been caught in an impossible situation on your own with no hope in sight? Meet Casey Jones. He was in great pain. Cold. Starving. We know that Casey once had a home and people who loved him but he was lost and alone. He could not find his way back home. He was on his own trying to make it on the hard streets of San Jose but he was not doing too well. He was struggling to survive. He was slowly dying. Casey was a full-grown, adult, male cat, a Flame Point Siamese with beautiful, blue eyes and a glorious plume of a tail, but he was now painfully thin, weighing just 4.75 pounds, and he had a badly broken leg which dragged behind him.…

03Jan 2016 by jstevenson

Nibbles found a home for the holidays!

Current "Mews", Happy Tails

Remember Nibbles? Our 10 year old arthritic gentle giant who has two compressed vertebrae but still loves to be pet and playing with the laser light, well he has gone ‪#‎HomeForTheHolidays‬! We are beside ourselves with joy! John & Margarethe saw him on a social media post and just loved him from the start. They wrote in this lovely update for us: A Christmas Miracle He purrs He snores He eats & drinks He walks around exploring He climbed on our bed to be with us Tonight part of his Christmas Eve dinner will be lobster! We love him so much and our home feels whole again Thank you so much. Best regards John & Margarethe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z62EaSKk7E

15Sep 2015 by jstevenson

Team Member Spotlight

Current "Mews", Happy Tails

Meet Rita! Rita Wessel has been an active champion of community cats since 1999. For a person who claims to be a dog-person, that is an outstanding achievement and an admirable record of volunteering on behalf of cats. Rita says, "Once you start making a difference and you know you're making a difference, you can't stop." Back in 1998 when Rita still had her dog, Dearie, they found two kittens. She reached out to Rosi Mirko, the founder of Town Cats, and the kittens were adopted. In 1999 she started volunteering with Town Cats because "Once it's in your blood, you keep doing it." While working 25 years as an administrative assistant at FMC/United Defense/BAE Systems, she became highly organized and got enjoyment from creating order out of chaos. In…

02Jul 2015 by jstevenson

Love starts early for some people and cats

Happy Tails

I was six years old when I got my first kitty. I had been begging my parents for as long as I can remember for a cat and when I finally got her I couldn't contain how happy I was. Santa had brought her to me in a little petco box with holes on the top. I named her after the cat in homeward bound, Sassy, and she really does live up to her name. Later in life I had learned that my mom got her from Town Cats and knew the moment she saw Sassy that she was the kitty for me. Sixteen years later my baby is still with me and bringing me joy every day. I adore her so much that I got her portrait tattooed on…