Pets of the Week!

Saturn and Skye are the pets of the week. Laurie graciously shared their story. She also shared her amazing pictures!  Thank you Laurie!

"The orange tabby is Saturn, so named because he was rescued next to Saturn's Northfield Bldg when a feral kitten, terrified, hurt, starving, and lashing out.  I took him to our vet who determined his legs were broken plus other injuries, probably from having been hit by a car.  The way the breaks were fusing, she said he had to have been like that about 3 wks.  So how he survived and got himself from road to building is a whole other story we'll never know.  Her staff felt she should euthanize him, and she started to a couple times.  But each time their eyes locked, and she couldn't do it.  He'd worked so hard to stay alive; she couldn't take his life from him now.  So she named him Saturn, and it was weeks and weeks of casts and recovery.  Even slower was his transition from feral to domestic, but one day he purred at her touch, and that was it.  After 2-3 months of vet care, we adopted him.  This was 1999.  He spent nearly the whole first year at home in a crate with a leg in a cast, though, because he kept making leaps he shouldn't have and re breaking limbs.  But he finally got his freedom and has been a daily, gentle dose of love.

Skye is a snowshoe (because of the white paws) Siamese, adopted from a shelter about five years ago.  Not a day's gone by that he hasn't made us break up in laughter.  He's funny, willful, and smart.  At first, Saturn was very upset and agitated over Skye's appearance on the scene, and we had to keep them separated for literally weeks until acceptance gradually came.  Now they're like little kid brothers who play, wrestle, annoy, and take comfort in each other's presence.  We can't imagine our home without 'em."