Ceasar Lee

Ruby Lee, New Boston

Enclosed are pictures of  Bella (previously Maude), Bea (Earl), and Candace (Lucinda).  As you can see, everyone is doing just great! I was really in a rut and they sure have lifted my spirits!  The kittens are so comical and fun to have around!  I have one big happy family with my 3 dogs, everyone gets along wonderfully.  I’m so happy! It was perfect timing and meant to be!

I would like to become a foster home / person.  I have the room and the time.  If you need some help with this, please send me the paperwork or give me a call.

Merry, Merry Christmas,
Arlene Baughman
Bahama, Bella, Beau, and Candace

Daisy and Violet Eastman

Daisy

Violet

My husband, Charlie, and I had been thinking of getting a cat for quite a while and finally in December we decided to take the leap. I visited the Dearborn Animal Shelter with a friend and found both the kitten and puppy rooms filled with adoptable cats. They were all very beautiful but there were two sisters named Iris and Ilia that captured my heart.  I had planned on one kitten, but TWO???  I called Charlie at work and proposed the idea to him. "They are both so adorable, I can't choose between them," I said. And besides, they needed each other! We decided to do it and adopted both of them.  We brought them home on December 15 and have been loving them every minute. They each have their own distinct personalities but love to play together too. Daisy (Ilia) is the more docile of the two and will lay down in your path so she can have her tummy rubbed. Violet (Iris) is much more active and continually explores every nook and cranny looking for toys. She can play nonstop with feathers, strings, ping pong balls, and wads of paper. No time for cuddling! She pounces, runs, and wrestles with her sibling with hardly a rest.

We are just so thrilled to have these adorable kittens and are looking forward to many happy years with them. Thank you for sheltering them until we could bring them home!

Linda and Charlie Eastman
1/5/06

She is the best dog I have ever had.  She scratchs on the door when she wants to go out.  I have her trained to sty out of the kitchen.  She loves long walks in the field behind the back yard!  She loves her toys and her raw hide, and at night when we go to bed in my room she goes right in her pen and goes to sleep or plays until she ets tired.  I do not even have to close the door.

She guards me so well.  I just love her to pieces and I am sure she loves me too.

Lila and Trudy Thorn

December 6, 2005

Dearborn Animal Shelter,

Last month we adopted 2 cats, Delilah and Fiesta, now known as Lila and Trudy.  I want a refund!!!  Just kidding. You said Lila was a loner.  HA!  You were joking weren't you?  The only time that she is alone is when she is using the litter box.  She is constantly playing with Trudy, or wanting attention from us.  The two of them constantly play, run, fight,or jump.  They chase each other, hide and pounce.  they must have a list of things they must do each day.  It probably reads as such: 

• demand attention as soon as someone wakes up
• run across the house from the bedroom to the bathroom and jump in the tub, fight with each other in the tub, jump out
• jump on the windowsills to check out the birds
• run downstairs to the scratching post
• see what they can take off the Christmas tree
• rearrange the room decorations
• knock anything off the sofa, chairs, bathroom counters
• hide in the show curtains while people are taking a shower hitting at them
• playing in the toilet, tracking water on the Pergo floor
• pull clothes out of the laundry basket (they want to help)
• check to see if the plants grew leaves that need to be pulled off
• pull the plastic out of the litter box
• climb into the rafters and pipes in the basement ceiling
• unwrap the Christmas presents
• rearrange the tool bench to the floor
• that takes care of the morning

Lila sleeps on the water bed.  Trudy sleeps on the top stair with a pair of nylon panties.  I had to get her new ones, she kept pulling them outof the laundry.  I think you sold us some psychotic cats.  They love the warm towels right from the dryer. 

I thought it would be difficult for them to adjust after being in cages so long.  They went from being caged cats to lovable, spoiled, active, adorable queeens of the house.  thank you for keeping them so long.  I'm sorry it took us so long to find them.  They changed our life, for the better of course.

Jerry and Irene Thorne, Lila and Trudy's servants, Canton

Mimi Escobedo

Luke Knox

I adopted Luke (The Husky Formerly Known as Titan) from the Dearborn Animal Shelter about 4 years ago.  He had been rescued, due to the previous owners neglecting him.  They were afraid of him, and kept him chained up in the garage all the time.  That's no way to raise a husky!  Well, he absolutely LOVES his new home (and his big brother Travis).

Despite a lot of huskies enjoying the outdoors, as you can see from the attached photo, he feels right at home on my couch......enjoying a hot summer day in the nice air-conditionting!!

Thanks again to Petfinder and the Dearborn shelter for this great addition to the family!

                   *************

Update on Denver from an email from Jessica:

"Here's a few pictures of Denver. He is doing very well. I actually am on
an internship in KY this summer working for the Thoroughbred Retirement
foundation. I bring Denver with me to the farm every once in awhile and he
seems to love the horses and they ignore him just as well. Either way he
loves to run out here :o) But it was quite funny the first time he met the
horses he went right up to them nose to nose, no fear. I was thinking
thank god the horses are used to dogs, because he sure went up to them
quick. Anyways, I am very grateful that Denver came to me and now he is my
best friend in the world. I don't know what I'd do with out him."


 

Kelly Wojnar

 
See Kelly's entire photo album

Stephanie and Kirk Wojnar

Fiona Garza

"Hi!  My name is Fiona  and I have a great story to share with you.  It’s about my former home, my new family and me.

  I was living at the Dearborn Animal Shelter.  I was brought in as an orphaned kitten about a year ago.  There I received great care that included food, shelter, medical treatment and playtime.  I was watched over by a wonderful staff.  But I still dreamed of having my own family.  However, after weeks and months of strangers checking me out but never choosing me, I began to feel as though I never would be adopted.  I was just so grateful that this shelter never puts its residents to sleep.  But enough about that lets get to the exciting news...

  ...so she went on the internet to the Dearborn Animal Shelter website.  Guess whose picture was front and center when the website popped up?  That’s right, me!  ...

  My handler came to my cage and said, “Fiona, there’s some nice people here to take a look at you.”  I didn’t get too excited; I am a cat you know.  Besides it gets hard after being turned down.  So I licked my paws, wiped my eye and strutted out.  The nice lady picked me up and I just purred and showed her how gentle and affectionate I can be.  The nice lady fell in love with me on the spot.  Her daughter saw how happy I made her mother and she insisted that we sign my adoption papers right then and there.  I turned in circles I was so happy, “Let me get my things!”  I meowed.  But my handler said that I had to stay for a while because I needed to be spayed.  That made me scared when I heard that but just for a moment because I understand it’s not right that we have so many kittens and not enough homes.    So off to the animal hospital I went while my new mom and sis went to get the house ready for my arrival...

  I was sore after the operation but the pain went away as soon as my new family came through that door to pick me up and take me to my new house.  They took such good care of me holding me oh so gently so as not to hurt my stitches.  They made sure I took my medicine even though I didn’t like it.  No more cages for me.  I have a big house to roam around in and two, yes two flights of stairs to run up and down and closets galore to go exploring.  I was in heaven. ..,

   I still have friends at the Dearborn Animal Shelter waiting to be adopted and that is why I am writing this letter.  If you are reading this then I know you’re on the website looking at my old friends.  Please stop by and check them out, don’t pass them over, open up your heart and find out how wonderful it can be to share your life and love with a pet.

Love,   Fiona & Family, Frank, Ondrayah & Sis Drayonah Garza
August 16, 2006 - Lincoln Park

P.S. Thanks again to the Dearborn Animal Shelter for taking good care of me until my new home was found."

Read Fiona's entire letter