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My name is Orange Chicken aka "Orange"!

Posted over 9 months ago | Updated 2 days ago

Adoption fee: $299

This helps Luckydog Sanctuary with pet care costs.

My basic info

Breed
Domestic Shorthair
Color
Orange or Red Tabby
Age
3 years 9 months old, Adult
Sex
Male
Pet ID
Hair Length
short

My details

Alert icon Not good with kids
Checkmark in teal circle Good with dogs
Alert icon Not good with cats
Checkmark in teal circle Spayed / Neutered
Checkmark in teal circle Has special needs

My personality

My story

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

Loveable Orange is 3 years old and looking for love. He has a lot of conditions for his care so the chance of finding him the right home is slim, but we have to try. He deserves to have the love he so craves. We do our best to give him what he needs at Luckydog Sanctuary. He is welcome so stay here for life. We love him to pieces.

Orange needs to be the only cat in the house. He will spray if there are "enemy cats" in his territory. We seek a foster/adopter committed to meeting his needs (even if it means you can't bring home another adorable cat that you fall in love with later on).

Orange had been a gentle roommate to our 20-year-old resident cats but had to move into a cage because he started spraying. He's content to spend most of the day and night in a cage, but we don't like to see him living his life in there and not getting the pets and lap-time he deserves. [UPDATE: he's getting out of the cage more often now and enjoying the "first shift" and "last shift" in the yard with his brother, Boots (also a sprayer)]

We named this cutie "Orange Chicken", because he isn't very brave. He runs from confrontation and cries like he's being murdered at the slightest threat of aggression. Because he's so confrontation-averse, we have to force him to go out in the yard to stretch his legs and we have to remove most of the other cats. Thankfully he has a few feline friends he isn't afraid of and he likes the dogs. Did we mention he's a BIG chicken? At 13.5lbs, he could stand to be more bold, but it isn't his nature. He is a gentle, kind soul.

Orange likes the company of gentle cats but that doesn't mean he won't spray around them. He will not like losing his home and his friendships with the dogs and passive cats he's grown to love only to find himself in a situation where he still feels threatened by other cats. We won't do that to him. He will only be moved on if he can find a single-cat home.

Orange loves adult people and is the kind of cat that starts purring just because you look at him. While he loves being around people, he's afraid of kids and loud people (or other loud sounds). Since he's large and sometimes gets nervous, accidental scratching is bound to occur if he's restrained or happens to run across you while terrified.

Requirements for his health:
3 Luckydog-approved raw meals per day
detoxification supplements added to each meal
raw meaty bones (fed with supervision 2-7 times/wk) to keep his teeth clean
lots of love
clean house (he may have asthma)
fragrance-free environment (any chemicals like bleach should also be avoided)
daily brushing in the warm months

He got very sick after being vaccinated as a kitten so he cannot be vaccinated again. He will have to remain on our immune-supportive diet and supplements to help ensure a healthy life without further vaccination. Because his health is at risk, he will be placed as a long-term foster or co-owned kitty so we can be sure his health insurance remains in effect and he gets the care he needs for life.


If you were planning to raise a cat holistically, and you already live fragrance-free, you would likely be able to add him to your life without much trouble. We realize meeting his conditions is a lot to ask of any adopter so he will likely be with us for life. We just want to put it out there in case the perfect situation arises and it makes sense to move him.

We know it is a long shot but we wanted to give Orange a chance to have more attention. If you cannot bring him into your home, consider volunteering to care for and entertain him and his "scentsitive" brothers in their home. They would really appreciate any help you can offer. If you cannot help in person, donations of quality, raw food (free of fish oil and rosemary) are welcome, as well as donations for vet care, supplements, etc.

Thanks for rescuing!
Rescue
Luckydog Sanctuary

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La Jolla, CA 92037
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If we have an adoptable pet you are interested in, please message us with some details about your home/family and request an application. Please allow 5 days for a response and if you don't get one, please email again.
If you're interested in helping us keep special needs pets alive and well, please arrange a recurring weekly or monthly donation at LJK9.com Even $5/week helps a lot. Thank You.

If you wish to adopt a single kitten, please note this. Kittens who have no other kittens to grow up with can be too rough as they grow larger and don't realize their increasing strength. Humans can communicate with cats, but fall short of what other cats can teach. Single kitten syndrome is a major factor in cats being given up to shelters so please do your part in preventing this by refusing to adopt a single kitten under 12 wks of age.

Prior to applying for a pet from any rescue, Please watch The Truth About Pet Cancer (linked below) to learn about common products linked to cancer. No doumentary is perfectly unbiased, so please ignore the unsubstantiated, biased claims and those based on single events. Please pay close attention to the parts backed by convincing evidence.

Please also note that Luckydog is generally against the use of essential oils in homes with pets. Many vets recommend them because they have some beneficial effects in some pets but nobody has propertly studied the long-term effects of exposure to these oils. Even undetectable vapors from EOs can be deadly. A pet owner may not realize a pet's been exposed and that pet may go on to be diagnosed with non-specific liver or kidney disease, for example, or seizures. The problem may never be linked to the EOs in the home. I'm yet to see a veterinary laboratory order form that offers a test for EO toxicity. The only way we find out a pet's been injured by EO's is usually when they've been acutely poisoned (exposed to large amounts in a short period of time) and get extremely ill. We recommend avoiding most fragrances and EO's in a home with pets.


Luckydog is big on promoting natural, holistic, and integrative health-optimization-protocols and wil like to help you keep your pet healthy after adoption (or while being fostered). Our experts scrutinize information gathered from thousands of medical journal entries and hundreds of experts rather than simply regurgitating the opinions of a single expert or community.

What Luckydog does isn't easy but we hope that it makes pet care easy for our followers. Luckydog's goal is to ensure you have no regrets on the day that you say "goodbye" to your furkid and that that day doesn't come any sooner than it has to. With that in mind, please enjoy this video series then come to our website (a work in progress) for more information. LJK9.com is our website.

1: https://www.facebook.com/449177788861175/videos/449201708858783

2: https://www.facebook.com/449177788861175/videos/449281812184106

3: https://www.facebook.com/449177788861175/videos/449299102182377

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More about this rescue

"You can't buy love, but you can adopt it, at Luckydog Sanctuary!"

Luckydog Sanctuary is San Diego's premiere holistic pet rescue and sanctuary. At Luckydog, we use nutrition and gentle remedies to help pets achieve balance. Our specialty is lifetime care and support of pets who require special care, training, and protection. Many of our pets cannot receive vaccinations. If you don't own your home, the risk that your landlord could require vaccination, is too big a risk for us to take. We can only adopt out to homeowners with a clear desire to raise their pets holistically.

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