What a DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is 4:00 pm, and I just got home. I was at the shelter before the doors were unlocked at 12:00 noon. I'll try to make this as brief as possible.

I was contacted by another rescue (stranger to me) by e-mail last night, desperately looking for someone to pull these two Sphinx cats from my local high-kill shelter. They were afraid that they were coming down with URI and would be PTS soon. (I know for a fact this "shelter" does that as soon as any signs of watery eyes show up! Anyway, I told this person (Peggy) that I had no room, but I would help with the pull fee. She then referred me to another rescue via an e-mail from lady #2 (Beth). Long story short.... through many e-mails late last night and all the way up til FIVE MINUTES before I left to go this morning, we had it arranged that I would go and just pay their $160.00 pull fee ... then Beth would have them transported to her vet where they would be altered. She then had a good potential adoptive home lined up. Beth said her paperwork was already started and PAWS (the shelter) would be expecting me.

I get there before the doors are unlocked and there is another woman with two empty carriers at the door as well. They unlock the door and I let this lady go in right before me. She begins saying that she is there two pick up 2 cats ... that they were "expecting her". So, I said "they wouldn't happen to be the Spinx would they?" Well, yes, they were. Ok.... so what the heck? They have 2 different notes saying that each of us were to pull these cats. I tried to explain, and defend my position, that I was only there to PAY their pull fees, but I had an agreement / obligation to this rescue that they would be "their" cats. Well things were pretty uncomfortable as you can imagine.
Then this other woman walks back to the back of the shelter (like she is "comfortable" there) and goes behind the doors. She comes back out with an employee who starts processing her paperwork for the cats.

I spoke up and asked ... didn't she even tell you that we are BOTH here for these cats and there has been a mix-up? So .... she ends up calling the original lady who started this whole process (Peggy) and Peggy says they are to go to this other rescue. (Agape) Ok, no skin off my back personally, I was just there to "post bail" for these two. They were getting "sprung" so no big deal.

Well, I got to the end of the street and turned around and came BACK. I walked back up to both ladies (still at the counter) and said. "You know, I have to wonder if all this would have happened if these cats were NOT purebreds?!!!!" The shelter worker immediately replied "NO, it wouldn't have! You wouldn't believe how many rescues have called wanting these cats" I then said, that I had come there to pull 2 cats and that is what I was going to do. I wanted to pull the 2 oldest cats there. A volunteer was kind enough to go through all of the records of the available cats there and find me the two oldest ones. Coincidentally they are both siamese / snowshoe mixes. You wouldn't believe how many of those "types" of cats were there!!!

Anyway, 4 hours later .... all the paperwork and calling my vet and just plain waiting, and waiting, and waiting .... my 2 new elderly boys are home.

I guess all in all, it was a successful day. The 2 Sphinx kitties will get homes (hopefully with someone doesn't just want them for "show") and the two most elderly boys came home with me. God definitely had His hand in this day!

EDIT: I never even got near enough to them to touch them. That woman made sure to snatch them up pronto!

EDIT #2: About "Agape" rescue. They used to be a cat and dog rescue. Last year they had to euthanize ALL of their cats because they had a distemper outbreak. Likely because they used poor housing / separation/ medication. Now they advertise that they "only" do DOG rescue. So, WHY did they fight to get these 2 cats????