GOTCHA DAY: Our Narrow Escape from New York City

It's our Gotcha Day! 

 We are celebrating our 5th "Gotcha Day" with Cat on My Head's Sunday Blog our Fifth Year with Carol in Connecticut.  We almost didn't make it out of New York City though...

Our Narrow Escape from NYACC in New York

Our story: We were "Peaches & Tigger"in the old days & we had a narrow escape in NYC before moving to Connecticut. We were even on  "death row" for a while. Our previous owners surrendered us to a shelter in NYC when they moved to Puerto Rico. I guess they thought we'd be adopted right away since we had such beautiful calico colorings with gorgeous stripes.

But NO ONE came to get us and day after day went by. We were besides ourselves with grief and terror. Finally the shelter put out a notice: we were now on "death row" - a place for cats no one comes to adopt!  We were due to be put to sleep the next day!

"Death Row," Facebook & Loving Volunteers

The good part of the story starts now.  Hundreds of loving volunteers watch the "death row" item in Facebook. They share kitty stories, post loving words & make donations. We were lucky and captured the hearts of many. Here are some of the pleas posted by those who helped (you may need to enlarge(

After many of these posts, we were "pulled" (SAVED) by a wonderful foster organization in Staten Island. Paprika and I had caught sniffles in the shelter and this wonderful foster lady named Joann nursed us back to health and brought us to Connecticut to Marys Kitty Korner, a no-kill shelter.

Connecticut

Peaches trying to captivate visitors

For 6 more months we stayed in a large white house with 50 other cats while

awaiting forever homes.  I was in charge of captivating visitors. Of course I did antics daily in a sunny window where I could attract visitors and pick the best! MOL.

Then we met Carol. She had fallen in love with me the week before after seeing my picture on the internet.  And then she came to meet me and my sisfur Paprika (then named "Tigger") in that white house. Of course I could not leave without Paprika. So Carol took both of us home.

In Connecticut

Our explorations in the new home

Of course, being the lovable furries we are, Carol loves us both and we're awaiting our 5th Christmas here.  We have taken over the house, believe me!  We set the rules, although we still haven't come to an agreement on the quantity of tuna  being served here...

Happy Holidays 
to all our blogger friends, kitties still in shelters & the angel kitties who graced our lives for all too short a time!

Peaches, PaprikaTigger and Carol

Welcoming new residents Peaches & Paporika

Where are we?

Our first trip to a new room

Giving thanks for my lovely two felines and remembering their first day at Chez Carol in 2012..  They howled all the way from the shelter to my house, but goodies awaited! 

Hello World

I'm liking the feel of this reddish thing

For their first night, they stayed in a their own private "suite" - a specially cat-furnished bathroomI Plush rugs, fit-for-a queen scratching post, toys, food, water,  litter box, soft beds, they had it all! And the next day...a human all to themselves!  After a night in their private suite, they decided to "explore" the next day and boy did they explore...every inch of my condo.  To my joy, they avoided the "under the bed" location which many "new" residents reside. 

Look Peaches,  pillows matching our colors!

This looks like the best room to use!

In the next post, I will share the eye opening experiences I learned about their 2012 shelter days just recently.