Got this email yesterday: Kerry Reid here, occasional Balloon Juice commentator. AsiangrrlMN suggested I contact you to see if you might have ideas for helping me place a couple of cats. __ Here’s the situation: My sister’s mother-in-law, who lives in Schaumburg (a northwest suburb of Chicago) has to go into a nursing home by …
Pet Rescue
Early Morning Open Thread: Queen Bess
From commentor MEM: Good Queen Bess (usually just Bess, unless she’s being regal) was found wandering the streets of Dorchester in 2008, matted and scared, by the Animal Rescue League. I had seen one more article in The Boston Globe about how full the animal shelters were getting, as more and more people had to …
Early Morning Open Thread: Bard
From commentor Moses2317, back in early December: This is Moses2317, an occasional commenter on Balloon Juice and also the creator, along with my spouse, of the blog Winning Progressive. Yesterday afternoon, we adopted a shelter dog named Bard from a shelter in suburban Chicago. We don’t know a lot about Bard, except that he was …
Early Morning Open Thread: Jwow
From commentor Greg J: A few months ago my girlfriend and I were sitting on our balcony when we hear this little sweetheart meowing below. With one kind look from us, she climbed up a tree and into our lives. She was so loving and friendly that we assumed she must’ve been someone’s pet and …
Early Morning Open Thread: Three Amigos
From commentor Shaun: A WEAKLING, A WALK-ON & A DRIVE-BY __ We’ve always had rescue kitties, from the pound when I was a youngster and a series of walk-ons in later years, more recently at the Dear Friend & Conscience’s home in the mountains. __ Kimba wasn’t actually a walk on because he was too …
Early Morning Open Thread: Very Young Rescues
From commentor Bella: I boarded my horse at a county park in CA, which became a dumping ground for unwanted cats and dogs. A couple of us joined forces and started trapping cats, fixing them, and getting the tame ones to an adoption group. We got over 120 cats and a handful of dogs out …
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Early Morning Open Thread: Foster Cats
From commentor FoxinSocks: About a year and a half ago, I found out from a friend about three cats who were going to be shot and killed on a farm in West Virginia. I was unemployed at the time and exceedingly broke, but no one else would help them, so me and my friend made …