Last Monday, October 18, our board member, Carol Gaul, got a call from her husband, Chuck. Someone had stopped by the shop and dropped off a cat, which they said was injured. The woman who brought the cat to Carol works at the local supermarket and she said she found the cat on Bigelow Avenue in Plain City.
Carol was a bit upset at this woman for just dumping the cat off on her. Black and Orange is not a vet clinic and we do not have a shelter. If the cat was injured, it needed to see a vet, not Carol. But, of course, Carol took responsibility for the cat and went to the shop to check it out.
As far as Carol could tell, the cat was not injured. She had planned to rush it to the local vet if it was. Instead, she sent it with me to our weekly Wednesday clinic at the Union County Humane Society.
Well, it turned out that the big gray tabby was already neutered. We went ahead and updated his vaccines just in case he needed those. But he was also very healthy and a very good weight. He was not like the dumped cats we usually find who are starving and thin. This big guy looked like someone had been taking care of him and feeding him.
Carol named the cat Alex and he is staying at the shop right now while she tries to locate his owners. She has put flyers up all around town and called all the people she can think of who live in the area where he was found.
Alex is very, very friendly and loves people. He is not shy or scared at all, and that also leads us to believe that he is someone’s missing cat. I did go on PetFBI and could find no missing cats listed for the Plain City area. Even surrounding counties did not list a cat that matched Alex’s description. I also tried to list Alex on PetFBI, but there was a glitch in the computer and the site was not working correctly.
Please take a look at the photos of Alex and see if he looks familiar to you. We would love to find the family who is missing this gentle giant.
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