Happy Endings

Our cat Simon was feeling lonely after we moved to a new city and he had to part with his best friend. He adjusted well to his new home, but we could tell he wasn’t as happy being a solo cat. Just a few weeks after we adopted our sweet kitten, Jolie, from CARE, she and Simon were attached at the hip! It has brought us so much joy to see them playing and snuggling together as their bond grows everyday. Jolie has been an amazing addition to our family and we have loved watching her adorable personality develop! Thank you CARE for bringing Jolie into our life’s and for all of the amazing work you do!

I’ve always loved Siamese cats and had two glorious male rescues for a lifetime. Twenty years later, I was finally ready to adopt another. In 2019 I found a beautiful Siamese girl through CARE and brought her home. Ariel then proceeded to hide in my closet for eight months! Slowly she became my buddy, helping me through the isolation of Covid. It’s been six years in her company and I couldn’t be happier. She runs the place and I spoil her to pieces.

We lost our 17 year old fur baby in May of 2023 and buried her in the yard with a cement block on top with her name and age on it. A few months later, we were riding around and stopped at the river for some fishing. That’s when we noticed feral cats in the area. We brought them food off and on for about a year before we met Newby, who was very friendly with us. We started going weekly to see him in June of 2024 but he disappeared by the end of July. In February, we rode back to the river to feed one of the ferals and met Joan Cunningham doing the same thing. We were telling her about the sweet cat we met there and discovered Newby was in her care after being shot and losing a leg! I got information about CARE from her and we went to meet him the following weekend!

My husband has been firm about not getting another cat unless the cat sat on our deceased cat’s grave. Well, yesterday…the decision was firmly made. My sweet little boy!

Our beloved Chuck was 18 yrs old and had been the best cat ever with my sons and me! I have never had a home without pets and my two doxies (siblings, now 10) are in the middle of it all! I had adopted Chuck almost two decades ago from CARE and prayed for the right kitty for our home. Well, Elizabeth reached out quickly to offer meeting me at the facility, as she had 5 kitties left at her home from a litter of seven plus Mommy, Clementine. She brought little carriers in and I was in heaven. You could tell that she and her family had surrounded them with stability and affection! I wanted to take them all! She allowed me to take my time to enjoy watching the different personalities and sweet faces. Yes, Billy (Male Ginger) and Millie (Female Tabico) settled in and my doxies LOVE them! Billy is my goofball and cuddlebug (and chatter) and Millie is our gentle, more independent PURRer! They have taken over an entire cat tree carnival by my big window and sit inside the window sill watching all the birds outside as they nap in the sun! It is because they were SO cared for my Elizabeth and CARE that they have brightened up our home!! I know Chuck is smiling from heaven 💕

In early August I lost my 17-year-old Pumpkin—the cat of a lifetime. A few weeks later I was starting to look at rescue sites, searching for a longer-haired female like Pumpkin. A friend who’d been involved with CARE checked with another CARE volunteer, who sent photos of this wonderful bonded pair, owner-surrendered, probably related, and somewhere between 1 and 2 years old. Then minutes later I was told that the cats were scheduled for transfer the following day to the Humane Society of Charlotte, without a way to halt the move. Well! The information supplied by CARE was so positive, as well as Cinnamon’s gorgeousness, that I followed up with Charlotte Humane and was lucky enough to get both cats on August 24. Both Cinnamon and Nutmeg are extroverted (new for me), very attached to each other, affectionate, playful and energetic, and wonderful in all ways. Their cat sitter threatened to kidnap them while I was away on a recent trip (just kidding, and they love her back). So thankful to have made the leap to my next wonderful generation of cats, thanks to Pumpkin and the good people at CARE.

I saw these two online and fell in love right away. They are the absolutely sweetest kittens with such big personalities. Callie is my shadow and rarely leaves my side, so she is the perfect work from home companion. Phoebe has really opened up and loves playing with my adult kitties. I often hear them running up and down my carpeted stairs together. CARE was really great through the whole adoption process and I can’t thank them enough for taking such good care of these two and allowing me to add them to my family.

I lost my sweet dog in June, 2024 and had been so sad without her. She had been my buddy for 12 years. My family and friends encouraged me to get another dog, but I just couldn’t imagine another dog doing doggie behaviors in the house. And then I had the thought of looking for some kitty friends instead. I knew I wanted a pair since I have to work in the office and didn’t want my new friends to be lonely while I’m away. I came across my sweet Juniper’s photo on the CARE website and fell in love. I soon found out she had a sibling and they had been found together at about 10 days old. Her brother, Finn, is just the sweetest baby ever and their foster mom had done such an amazing job caring for them, bottle feeding and socializing them and training them. I feel so lucky to get to be their forever mom. They have brought so much joy to my house and are so funny and loving. I’m so grateful that CARE gave them a second chance at life and took such good care of them. Many thanks to Rose and CARE for the sweetest sibs ever, Juniper and Finn.

We adopted Squeaks after losing our ginger kitty Tiger in February. We followed CARE over the last year as Tiger was declining and wanted to adopt locally. We couldn’t have done better! He is a joy. Sweet, affectionate and loves our dogs. We also adopted a feral from a friend within a day of Squeaks adoption and they are fast friends. Patti took wonderful care of him. She raised a good little kitty. He loves his food, likes to try to nibble my toes and play fight with his adopted sister Mugsy. Should we enlarge our pet family, CARE is where we’ll go! Thanks for all you do! We love our baby!