Southern Pines Diaries: New Beginnings for Some Sweet Felines

Saturday, April 12, 2014

New Beginnings for Some Sweet Felines

Sweet Glimmer and Grotto, 4 week old orphans

A few weeks ago, Southern Pines helped to relieve an overwhelmed cat owner by picking up her community of cats after a family member abandoned them on her property. Thankfully, almost all of them were friendly and beautiful, so we knew we would be able to find them all loving homes fairly quickly. We took the twenty four cats back home to Hattiesburg with us that day, and our shelter veterinarian, manager, and staff volunteered late into the night to get all the cats vaccinated, spayed/neutered, and ready for adoption.

Wynne watching over her babies

Wynne's newborns

Glimmer

There were several of the cats, however, that were too young to be at the shelter without the danger of becoming ill, so one of our staff members got in touch with a rescue group out of Olive Branch, MS that she had recently become acquainted with. The rescue called New Beginnings happily agreed to take the most vulnerable of the rescued cats so we at Southern Pines could focus on finding homes for the older, adoptable cats. New Beginnings took two adorable Siamese orphans named Grotto and Glimmer and a sweet mother cat named Wynne along with her three newborn Siamese lilac point kittens, Alistair, Morrigan, and Leliana. The rescue not only agreed to take them, but sent one of their own board members to collect them from us. They ended up taking another new mother as well, a Russian Blue named Satine and her four babies. That's eleven felines total! We were so excited to send these kittens to this wonderful rescue where they would be sent out into loving foster homes until they were old enough to be adopted.

Satine's babies now!

So, imagine how excited we were to get updates on Satine and her babies from their new foster mom and New Beginnings board member, Cheri. They are doing such a great job, we just wanted to give them a little shout out for all the great work they do. Thanks guys! Just take a look at these beautiful felines!

Satine's babies in their new foster home, exploring the big world.

Satine is settling right into her new foster home.

Check out this awesome rescue group on Facebook or at http://www.newbeginningsanimalrescue.net/

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“Goodmorning! Maid service just dropped us our breakfast. They will be back around to clean our room soon. They make us leave while they do it, and when we get back in it's fresh and clean. So they finally came and got some better photos of me and my buddies. Mac has been here for 9 days. He came in with his brother. He got excited because he saw his person. But his person only came and got his brother and left him here. He knows now that he isn't getting out unless he finds a new person. I try to help him, we all stand up front and wave our tails and smile but everyone seems to walk right past. Zack is on Day 6. He knows no one is coming for him. He said the last thing he remembers was hanging out in the living room and then the police came. The police came in and had trouble walking because there were feces all on the floor. He was so embarrassed he wanted to use the bathroom outside but his people wouldn't let him. He wanted to tell them he was a good dog, and he didn't want to do that. They took his owner away and then some one else came and got him. That's how he got here. So many dogs here. We heard it is still raining out there. So glad we stay nice and dry in here. My lady is still here. I think I am going to ask her to be my valentine later. I hope she says yes.”

Remember, this is just an example! This format makes it possible to tackle some pretty heavy subject matter without getting bogged down in an emotional quagmire.