Albert is feline leukemia positive and needs a loving home where he can hang out.

Albert came to us at the beginning of February when we were all buried under mountains of snow. A lady we have helped with kitties in the past wrote with a desperate email about a little scraggly cat who was scrounging for food. She was worried about him being out in the cold and snow, because she thought he looked really sickly. 

She used a cat carrier baited with soft food to lure the kitty to safety. Once she had him trapped in the carrier, she took him inside out of the weather. After he was warming up in her bathroom, she noticed that he had a wound on his back leg which seemed to be leaking pus. We told her to take him to Noah’s Ark, since it was apparent the little guy needed help.

Poor Albert was one very sick kitty when he arrived at the vet hospital. Not only did he have a giant wound that was horribly infected, but he also tested positive for feline leukemia. We feared that he would have to be euthanized. Thankfully, however, the vets at Noah’s Ark, Dr. Kris Haumschild and Dr. Kim West, wanted to give the little guy a chance. With antibiotics and a lot of love, Albert pulled through. We are hoping, when we re-test him in three months, that he will also test negative for feline leukemia.

Albert has now been at Noah’s Ark for about a month. He cannot get out of his cage to run around or play because he is positive for feline leukemia and cannot be in contact with the other healthy cats. While he has been gaining his strength back and healing, he is now to a point where we need to find a foster home or forever home for him so he can begin to live a normal cat’s life. Feline leukemia cats can live very long and healthy lives. Albert will need to be in a household with only dogs or with another feline leukemia kitty. Unfortunately, it is sometimes harder to find homes for positive kitties and so we are sending out a plea to anyone who might like to foster him or adopt him. 

Albert is still only a baby at around 6 months old. He is a gorgeous long haired brown tabby with some Maine Coon thrown in. He is super, super sweet and loves people. He has made so many advances from when he first arrived at the vet’s office weighing only about 3 pounds!

If you would like to adopt or foster Albert, please go to our web site and fill out an application. We really need to get Albert out of a cage and into a home.

How this baby survived we will never know.

Our second miracle kitty is named, appropriately enough, Miracle. One of our super volunteers, Debbie, had a call from one of the rangers at a local Metro park. The rangers used to work extensively with Debbie whenever they had cats dumped off in the parks. But Debbie had not heard anything from them since last summer and feared they were just rounding up most of the strays and having them euthanized.

Luckily, for this kitty, Debbie was involved. 

The ranger told Debbie that they saw a man going into the woods last Wednesday or Thursday, before we got the most recent piles of snow, with something tucked inside his coat. The “something” was little Miracle. Somehow the kitty survived the snow and cold and wild animals until the rangers called Debbie on Saturday. When Miracle came out into the parking lot, her face was buried in snow and she was so cold she couldn’t move. There was a huge chunk of fur missing on her back, showing that she somehow escaped being some other creature’s dinner. The poor cat was nothing but skin and bones and covered in fleas when Debbie rescued her. 

Miracle was so small that Debbie, at first, mistook her for a two month old kitten. Weighing in at only 4 pounds, it turned out that Miracle was actually an adult cat who was in very, very bad shape. Debbie took her to the vet where she was treated for an upper respiratory infection, diarrhea, and an infected cyst. Debbie said that she truly believed this poor girl would not have lasted another day.

Debbie had also thought that Miracle was a male, but our Miracle is one of those rare orange females. 

Miracle is safe now with Debbie, which is truly a miracle.

Miracle is going to gain some weight and grow healthy before she gets spayed and has an umbilical hernia fixed. At that time, she will be looking for a forever home. 

We know angels must have led Miracle and Albert to our care. And we also know that other angels will soon take them into their homes and love them forever.