Size
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Details
Good with kids,
Good with dogs,
Good with cats,
Spayed or Neutered,
Shots are up-to-date,
Story
*Callahan is bonded to Kevin*
In a world where stores like PetSmart are still selling parakeets, horses have yet to be exempted from pulling carriages through Central Park, and SeaWorld somehow hasn’t yet been prohibited from breeding more dolphins, NGL, cats ruling the world sounds like a swell attempt at order. But amid so much doom and gloom, one man in rural southeastern Virginia recently gave PETA staff members a little glimmer of hope. And while Kevin and Callahan’s initial guardian might not be everyone’s idea of a quintessential knight in shining armor, PETA’s two most recent adoptable kittens can attest that not all heroes wear capes.
When Community Animal Project (CAP) fieldworkers first met the cat-loving, bearded man mentioned above, it was clear that—although his intentions were nothing but good—feeding the free-roaming cats on his property had quickly left him feeling overwhelmed. Fieldworkers picked up and transported several cats to one of PETA’s mobile clinics, where they were spayed or neutered and received additional veterinary care. CAP gained this guardian’s trust and formed not only a game plan to continue helping the cats but also a friendship of sorts.
Amid PETA’s ongoing efforts to spay, neuter, vaccinate, and vet the goodhearted guardian’s cats, he alerted fieldworkers to one sickly kitten: a 6-week-old calico gal who was indeed in need of more than her guardian could offer. Knowing he couldn’t commit to keeping the sickly girl—with her gnarly upper respiratory infection (URI) and goopy eyes that were in danger of sealing completely shut—indoors and with supervision, the cats’ guardian relinquished custody of newly named Callahan to PETA for immediate TLC. Not two days later, Cal’s former guardian rang CAP’s emergency pager phone, requesting the same royal treatment but this time for Kevin, a 7-week-old solid-gray kitten king who, sadly, channeled Darth Vader when he breathed.
While Cal’s vital veterinary care and miracle medicines were certainly the queenly care the tiny, fluffy empress needed, it was being buddied up with Kevin—whom she may or may not have ever encountered before—in foster care that really turned things around for the sweet-natured calico. After declaring victory against their URI battles and finding strength in numbers, Kev and Cal were quick to transition from “Help us—we’re sickly!” to “Fill up our food bowls, peasant!” and judging their foster guardians’ life choices.
Just in time for Cat World Domination Day, it seems the world’s tiniest, fluffiest dictators are feline fine and ready to be carried (on thrones, preferably, while tube treats are squeezed onto their tongues) from their temporary foster flat to a permanent, proper pad. Too busy plotting to take over the world (one paw at a time) to have time to advertise their adoptability themselves, Kev and Cal have been meowing orders at PETA staff members for days, including directing them to find the kitties a new family that will—preferably—welcome the bonded baddies into a home together. And like good little peons, CAP is searching for just that!
Callahan and Kevin will be spayed and neutered as well as vaccinated before CAP fieldworkers chauffeur them—in a luxury vehicle, of course, and possibly with an armed guard—to their true forever castle. If you’re keen to apply to become the tiny tyrants’ servant—er, sorry, we mean adopter—e-mail Adopt@peta.org or click below:
https://www.peta.org/news/adopt-kittens-kevin-and-callahan/
