As you may (or may not) have noticed, I completely flubbed this in November. It's not that I wasn't writing that month, it's that I was writing SO MUCH.
My son and I both participated in
NaNoWriMo this year. I managed to
reach my 50,000 word goal on the 21st (at times I was averaging more than 3k words/day) and he got within a couple thousand words of his
Young Writers Program goal; most days were spent furiously tapping away at our stories. Combine that with Thanksgiving preparation and traveling and we were swamped.
Even though I didn't write about our kitties, we were at the shelter visiting them each week, giving them chin scratches and making sure their needs were met. During those weeks, my attention kept returning to this girl. When it came time to decide who to feature in December, there was no contest.
Margaret
UPDATE 12/8: Margaret will be going into rescue once we raise the funds. I will post more details here as I have them.
UPDATE 12/12: Details about Margaret's rescue can be found
via this post.
UPDATE 12/17: Margaret will be flying to Ohio on January 2nd. The funds for her care and transport have been raised. Yay! If you want to help out Margaret or other cats like her, you can donate to
Great Plains SPCA. Thanks!
UPDATE 1/2: As the world turns...the person coordinating Margaret's journey to the rescue found out some really disturbing information about the organization and is not comfortable sending Margaret there. The donations for her journey and care are being refunded and Margaret will return to Great Plains. I trust this volunteer has Margaret's best interests in mind and has made the right decision, even though none of us want to see the sweet girl back in the shelter.
UPDATE 2/12: MARGARET HAS BEEN ADOPTED!!!!!
This cat is so sweet. She cuddled with me for a quarter of an hour and let me take photo after photo. And she purred the entire time.
After nearly 10 months in the shelter, it's long past time for
our beautiful lady here to find a home. She is just under four years old, so she has plenty more years of kitty hugs and head bumps to share with you.
Margaret does have special needs, so she requires some extra love. She suffers from
Manx syndrome, which sounds pretty scary, but that's true about most medical conditions. Though she is happy to be held, Margaret is plenty capable of walking around under her own power. Her main symptom is fecal incontinence.
She has been on a special diet for a while that has helped solidify her poo, so the mess is actually rather minimal. I've never seen any evidence of Margaret urinating outside of the litter box and she does try to go #2 in there as well. She just doesn't always make it.
The little pirate here is very patient and loving and would be a very snuggly addition to your home, if you are willing to accept her as she is and provide the extra care she needs. As with any other condition, the stress of being in the shelter is not helpful. We would be overjoyed to see her find people who can love her despite the occasional surprise tootsie roll.
Come by the shelter and meet this sweetheart. Once you've stroked her soft fur and had her curl up against you and purr purr purr, you'll see that she's worth a little work.
Be Margaret's hero: adopt!
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