Months I have been alive: 7. Months I have been in the shelter: 6. My name is Constance and I think it's high time the winds of good fortune blew my way! I'm adorable, I love to cuddle with other cats, I love to play, I'm friendly with humans... basically, I'm an awesome cat. I'm still a little bit tentative around strangers. See, a shelter is an overwhelming place to live and I have to meet LOTS of different people. So it makes me feel safer if I can take some time to get to know somebody before I let
Look who's been released from the vet hospital! Clementine gave us a real scare, but she's on the mend! Her mother, who was a neglected, stressed dog herself, rejected her at birth. So she needed bottle-feeding and round-the-clock care from the time she was only a few hours old. Young puppies don't have developed immune systems anyway, and Clementine never got the vital colostrum and antibodies that would come from mother's milk, leaving her especially vulnerable. So the vet thinks that what may have otherwise been a minor bacterial infection hit her very hard, resulting in pneumonia and seizures. We
You know what they say about me? "That's Fred! and 'Fred' is short for... a dog!" It's true. I look like someone tried to make a lab mix, but ran out of material before they finished the legs. The overall effect, I've been told, is freakin' adorable. Now, the thing about being this cute is that EVERYONE wants to run up to you and say hi! And that is completely fine with me. I've never, in all my seven-and-a-half years of life, met a person I didn't instantly love. Basically, I'm a sweetie. Pretty mellow. Well-behaved. If you have other