Mature feline beauties seek loving homes

           Suki                     Easel pic

Time is running out.  Your chance to adopt an older female cat during “Adopt a senior pet month” ends this Tuesday, Nov. 30.  That grown-up female feline of your dreams has already missed celebrating Thanksgiving with you, but you can still bring her home in time for the other fall-winter holidays and then many happy new years.

Just imagine a mature beauty who already knows the ropes moving in with you.  She’ll be in cat heaven, grateful to be in a warm, loving home once more, and she’s likely to treat you like the hero she believes you are.

All you have to do is decide to adopt a senior cat, then go find her and invite her home with you.  The first place to look might be EASEL Animal Rescue League, in Ewing, Mercer County.  There, among others, you can consider these three beautiful felines “of a certain age”:  Dora, Momo and Suki.

Here’s how EASEL staffers describe each one:

Dora is a 6-year who was transferred from Philly.  She's a friendly medium-size dilute torti looking for her forever family.  She loves to be petted and get love from all our volunteers.  Dora’s a girl you could snuggle with all night long!

               Dora                       Easel pic

Next come Momo and Suki, 14-year-old sisters who were surrendered to the shelter because a family member with allergies was moving into their home.  Both darling long-haired cats (Momo’s gray, while Suki’s a tabby), they’re ready to enjoy their golden years in a loving home.  

As with other senior cats, you might regard these 3 lovely felines as “not older, but better.”  After all, adult cats are simply kittens who came into their own and now show what they’re made of, so there’s no mystery: what you see is what you get.  Often, these veterans are already used to domesticity and the rules of the game, and they’re delighted and grateful to be back in that comfortable setting.  

EASEL’s attractive website details virtually everything you’d need to know about the organization and the animals in its care, including adoption/foster specs and adoption center hours.  For cats 1-7 years old, the adoption fee is $100, and for cats 8 or older, it’s $50 -- tiny outlays for giant returns. https://www.easelnj.org/adopt/#eadopt.

For cats and people alike, one saying has it right: “We’re never too old to love and be loved.”  In fact, older people and felines are sometimes thought to need that love more than anyone else.  

                           Suki & Momo            Easel pic               

Mature people might adopt mature animals because they’re older too, and both need love and a reason for being.  Further, grown-up cats could be just right for those who work during the day or enjoy retirement at home.

However they got to the shelter or rescue group, older pets who are adopted often seem to be exceptionally affectionate and extremely loyal companions.  But first you have to adopt one!

(EASEL Animal Rescue League is located at 4 Jake Garzio Drive, Ewing, NJ 08628.  It’s behind the township municipal building.)  

 Mystery (dog) story

Walking along a canal path up-river from here, a friend and I noticed a sign attached to a backyard fence facing the waterway.  We read it, of course, then looked around the backyard and listened for barking.  No sight or sound of the dog that the sign was all about.

So we sent a text message to the number on the sign and continued walking.  On our return trip, we re-read the sign, looked and listened.  There was nothing new – and no dog.  

With a name like “Happy Boy,” he had to be investigated . . . and he was.    

His story: next time.

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