My name is Calum!

Posted over 11 months ago | Updated 1 month ago

Cared for by Compassion For Paws

Adoption process

Interview

Submit Application

Home Check

Approve Application

Sign Adoption Contract

Pay Fee

Take the Pet Home

Adoption fee: $275

This helps Compassion For Paws with pet care costs.

Or Apply to Adopt

My basic info

Breed

Domestic Shorthair

Color

Brown Tabby

Age

2 years 11 months old, Adult

Sex

Male

Pet ID

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Hair Length

short

My details

Not good with kids

Not good with dogs

Good with cats

Needs experienced adopter

Shots current

Spayed / Neutered

My story

Here's what the humans have to say about me:

Presenting Calum!

We know that he is not going to be easy to find the right home for - but he deserves a chance!

It took months of intensive strategy to gain the trust of this fellow
When his foster mom noticed him outside last fall, he was wearing a collar and had a complete tail.

We later found out that he had escaped his carrier while enroute to the vet for a checkup and had been lost. Sometime later his tail was cut? Squished? Caught in something?
Anyway, infection set in and chunks of tail started falling off, frozen to the ground. Was it gangrene? Frostbite?

His foster mom was determined to get him in and get him help. For many weeks she blasted a space heater into her basement bathroom, and opened the window (under her deck) - to lure him to come in.

She heated up bowl after bowl of food - and finally the day came when he was far enough inside that we could shut the door.

He had a visit to the vet where the remaining tail needed to be amputated back to healthy flesh, and he's doing so much better now.

Calum is still a very shy fellow. He will tolerate occasional petting and is curious about other cats but not getting along with the older resident male cat in his foster home
He would be fine as a single cat, or possibly in a home with one or two gentle cats
.
He is about 2 years young, and is looking for a quiet home with one or two adults that will give him space to blossom into the cat we know he can be.

If you think that place is with YOU, please apply online at compassionforpaws.ca
Thanks!

Rescue

Compassion For Paws

Contact info

Pet ID

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Contact

Shelly Hawley-Yan

Phone

(519) 939-9725

hello@compassionforpaws.ca

Website

http://www.CompassionForPaws.ca

Address

36 Holmes Drive, Caledon, ON L7K 0A7

Donation

Thank you for your support! etransfer to hello@compassionforpaws.ca or paypal.me/compassionforpaws

Their adoption process

1.
Interview

2.
Submit Application

http://www.compassionforpaws.ca/cat-pre-adoption-questionnaire.html http://www.compassionforpaws.ca/dog-pre-adoption-questionnaire.html

3.
Home Check

At the moment, because of Covid, this is done virtually via Zoom.

4.
Approve Application

5.
Sign Adoption Contract

6.
Pay Fee

7.
Take the Pet Home

Additional adoption info

Adoption involves an interview, a meeting and home visit (in person after Covid, currently virtual), vet references, and an adoption fee.
Our greatest concern is the animals that we care for, and matchmaking is what we do best..

Adoption application

http://www.compassionforpaws.ca/cat-pre-adoption-questionnaire.html://www.compassionforpaws.ca/dog-pre-adoption-questionnaire.html

Go meet their pets

Most of our cats and all of our dogs are cared for in foster homes. They are not available to meet until your application has been started, you have been interviewed and approved.

Some of our cats may be featured in the Global Pet Foods store located in Alliston, ON and in Shelburne, ON.
And we occasionally hold "meet and greet" events at PetValu, 184 Front St., Toronto, ON.

In those cases, the adoption process is the same and conducted by CompassionForPaws - NOT by the staff at the store. We never do adoptions directly from an event but applications may be tendered.

More about this rescue

We are a network of compassionate individuals that care for homeless paws, in foster homes throughout Southern Ontario, until they can find a new, permanent place to call their own.

Shelly Hawley-Yan has more than 20 years experience in rescue, and the team of Debbie Hunt, Vickie Janetos, Andrea Maenza and Dale Reilly add another several decades of combined rescue experience.

Our adoptable paws come from shelters where the animals may not have been coping with that environment, or may have been surrendered by people whose lives have changed,

All paws have been vet checked and are spayed/neutered, vaccinated and microchipped.