Happy Tails
If you’ve adopted a pet from WHS, we’d love to hear from you (or your pet!) so we can share your story with staff, on our website, or in Brief Paws, our quarterly newsletter. Send your adoption tale (250 words or less) and a digitial photo of your pet to: (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Petey (formerly named Morpheus)
Convincing our four cats to accept Petey when we brought him home from WHS wasn’t easy for us, but for him it was a piece of cake. Petey’s irrepressibly upbeat personality smoothed the path for his acceptance in just under a week! We renamed him Petey because he’s our physical training (PT) role model. We admire him for coming out the other side of huge adversity with a positive and eager zest for life.
Petely came to WHS with a front left leg so broken, it had to be amputated. After that, he endured more surgery to remove the broken femur in his left rear leg. You’d think he’d be grumpy after all that. But WHS staff encountered the reverse: a warmly upbeat cat who stole everybody’s hearts including ours.
When we met Petey, he appeared at our feet looking unusual: one leg missing and almost all the fur on his left side shaven off but with a cummerbund of glossy black fur around his middle. A black cat with white fur in just the right spots, he looked like he was wearing a tuxedo. As we interacted with him, he seemed to be saying: “Hey guys, where’s the party?” Our answer: “At home.”
So Petey came home with us on a Thursday as a foster cat, and we adopted him on Saturday. Home has been one gloriously joyful place ever since.
He’s filled our days with conversations, requests for playtime, and ankle rubs for our good behavior. He reminds us that it is a good idea not to dwell on setbacks and negatives in life but instead zoom (at top speed in perfect balance) into new adventures.
We’re taking his advice.
Sincerely,
Paul and Carol
Winston
Hello!
Winston is doing great and has bonded well with all of us, including our other dog. He loves playing with all of us and is great at telling us exactly what he wants. Whether it’s to go outside, eat, drink, or he is just upset we left the house without him, he lets us know. In the 1st week he was with us he helped stopped a break in at our neighbors house while we took him for a walk. He plays hard and loves even harder. We don’t know what we ever did without him. He even has trained our 3-year-old not to leave his toys out, or he will munch on them! We have also discovered he “talks”, he makes this low “snoring” noise when he doesn’t get what he wants, and he licks us good morning every day. We love this big baby.
Thank you!
Ronya
