Dr. O'Keefe holds HBC
I stopped in to Riverside Drive Animal Care Center yesterday and Dr. O’Keefe happened to be around. When she saw me, she asked if B and O could help with a special needs kitty that she had nicknamed, HBC. HBC originally stood for “Hit BY Car.” A nice couple found the tiger tabby cat by the side of a busy road, stumbling around and acting traumatized. They thought he had been “Hit by a car.” So like any good samaritans, they rushed the cat to Riverside. After an initial investigative check up, Dr. O’Keefe decided that HBC had not been hit, but instead had a neurological condition due to having a type of larvae in his brain.
Poor HBC, who is now Humphrey Bob Christenson, had vision and stability problems. He had problems walking and would stumble and fall. With treatment for the larvae, Dr. O’Keefe has noticed significant changes in his movement and his vision. She now thinks his sight has returned in one eye. Dr. O’Keefe feels that with continued treatment, HBC will improve even more. While he might not ever be completely normal, she feels he has a good chance of regaining much of what was lost due to the larvae.
Now here is the problem. Dr. O’Keefe can’t keep HBC at Riverside forever. She needs to find a quiet place for him to recover and has graciously offered to donate her services to give HBC vaccines and other medical care if someone will foster him or adopt him.
HBC is very docile and loving. He wants nothing more than to be held and carried around sort of like a big stuffed toy. When Dr. O’Keefe was holding him he just hung from her arms in a very contented manner. He reminded me of the comic strip, “Calvin and Hobbes.” Maybe the “H” could stand for “Hobbes” who was the stuffed tiger toy in the cartoon strip, who through Calvin’s love magically came to life. HBC just needs love to return him to life, as well.
If you are interested in fostering or adopting HBC, please either contact us or Riverside at 614-766-1222. Dr. O’Keefe has fallen in love with this big guy and wants to give him a chance after all he has been through.
HBC or "hit by car"
You, too, can purchase your very own B and O T-shirt for $15!
If you would like to have your very own Black and Orange Cat Foundation t-shirt, we now have them available to purchase for $15. They come in sizes ranging from small to 2XL and feature our logo on the front and our web site address on the back. We would like to thank Millard and Dawn Draudt, owners of Redi Quik Signs for giving us such great prices on the shirts, as well as two banners that we will use at adoption events.
If you would like to purchase a t-shirt, please just send a check or money order to: Black and Orange Cat Foundation, P. O. Box 126, Plain City, Ohio 43064. In addition to the $15 per shirt, please also include $2 for shipping. Write a note to specify sizes of shirts, as well as the address where you would like to have the shirts mailed to and we will get those in the mail to you as soon as we can.
If you’d like to skip the shipping costs, you can stop by our booth at the PetSmart on Sawmill on the fourth Saturday of each month to purchase a shirt. We will be there July 25 and August 22 from 12-2 if you would like to get a shirt.
Once you have your shirt, send us a photo of you wearing it and we’ll proudly display it on our web site and in this blog!!
Carol Gaul, one of our Board members, proudly displays her t-shirt!!
Please come out to Pastime Park in Plain City for the 60th Annual Miami Valley Steam Threshers tractor show featuring John Deere and the Oil Field Engine Society this year. While you are at the tractor show, join us for our third annual garage sale at 176 Anderson Avenue, which backs up to the park. The hours will run from 9-5 Thursday, July 16 through Sunday, July 19 with lots of great “treasures” for everyone. All of the money from the garage sale will be used to help Black and Orange Cat Foundation spay and neuter area kitties.
Carol Gaul, our garage sale guru, is also still collecting items for the sale. If you have something you would like to donate, you can call her at 614-419-1553 or email her at cgaul1@columbus.rr.com
This is a huge money maker for us and in the past we have raised almost three thousand dollars to help the kitties. So please come out and support us. We also have a good time with this event. Make sure to look for Carol’s husband, Chuck–he’ll be the guy in the girly hat looking to joke with you about a few extra kitties you should take home along with your garage sale purchases!!
Chuck, in his flowery hat, oversees the garage sale.
I had a desperate email from a friend of mine in rescue. She had adopted a cat to a family seven years ago. The family was now moving out of state and could not or would not take the kitty with them. So now, a cat that they had had for seven years needed a new home. Since my friend had originally adopted the kitty to them, they wanted her to find a new home for the cat. Which would have been fine, except they were moving in 6 days.
This post is for Shadow, a seven year old black cat, who needs a new home by June 30. The family is moving and does not plan to take this older gentleman with them.
Shadow, unfortunately, has several things working against him. While he is a very friendly kitty who has been microchipped, neutered, vaccinated, and is very healthy, he is also a black cat. Black cats still get a bad rap and people too often want something other than a black cat when they are looking to adopt. Secondly, Shadow is not a young kitten–he is older and has only known one family his entire life. Finally, Shadow doesn’t have much time–less than five days as I write this.
Unfortunately, we deal with this a lot in rescue. Someone has to find a home for a cat right now and if we cannot find a solution, the answer may put the cat’s life in danger.
I have been upset with people who want to return cats after a year. Thankfully, I have never had to deal with anyone we’ve adopted to who wants us to take a cat back after seven years. It is something I hope I never have to do.
But that is beside the point.
The point of this post was to let everyone know about Shadow. If you are looking for an older, lovely black cat, please send an email to us and I will put you in contact with my rescue friend. Shadow needs a miracle right now.
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