Cats for Adoption: Amelia and Wilbur, Who May Be Familiar

July 29, 2019 Bernadette

You may remember a story about a litter of kittens and a mom and a car engine and an airport from a couple of years ago. A person who worked at Pittsburgh International Airport heard kittens meowing in her car the morning after she’d driven home from work. Indeed, there was a litter of six neonatal kittens who she turned over to Beaver County Humane Society, who contacted Pittsburgh C.A.T., who said, “We’ve got to find that mom!” With clues from the person whose car they were found in Margo went to that place, set up the traps, and really did catch the mom! They were reunited, fostered, and all given names of famous pilots. You can read the whole story here.

All were adopted, but mom and a son, who were adopted together, had to come back to Pittsburgh C.A.T., so these two purrfect tabbies are looking for a new forever home. Here is their story.

Meet Amelia & Wilbur, mama and son. They are named for Amelia Earhart and Wilbur Wright, inspired by their airport beginnings. You may remember their story from a few years ago, when Wilbur and his littermates took an unplanned ride home from the airport in the engine of a car! Well, now this loving bonded pair is in need of a new forever home after losing their previous home through no fault of their own. Amelia and Wilbur are both very affectionate cats. They just want to be loved and give you their love in return. They love being brushed and just sitting and enjoying your attention. Wilbur is still young at 2 years old and enjoys his playtime. He likes wand toys and the laser light. Amelia is slightly older, estimated to be around 3-4 years old, and a bit more sedate.

Both Amelia and Wilbur are fine with other cats and with respectful children. While they haven’t lived with dogs, we expect they could adjust if introduced properly, since they are both sweet, easy-going kitties.

If you’ve got the forever home for this sweet loving pair, please apply today! http://tinyurl.com/pghcatapp

You can also see them on Pittsburgh C.A.T.’s Petfinder page and Facebook page.

Adopting from Pittsburgh C.A.T.

All Pittsburgh C.A.T. adoptions begin with our application. After it’s reviewed you’ll be contacted about meeting your cat or kitten. All cats have been fostered in homes and are healthy, spayed or neutered, up to date on vaccines.

Also look for more adoptable cats on Pittsburgh C.A.T.’s Petfinder page.

Help Pittsburgh C.A.T. with kitten season!

You know that Pittsburgh C.A.T. is the rescue I volunteer with, but even when I’m rescuing cats and kittens for others they still provide support to me in the form of traps and transport, fostering, food, kitten formula, and low-cost clinic and surgery appointments. I couldn’t help anyone without their support. Rescuing adult cats to foster and adopt to a forever home can be expensive depending on their condition, but rescuing kittens is always expensive because they need complete vetting, often they are orphaned and need formula and bottle feeding for weeks, they often develop illnesses or conditions specific to young kittens and they eat A LOT. We don’t adopt kitten out until they are spayed and neutered and have all age-appropriate vaccines, so we make a substantial investment in their future.

Here’s what you can do:

Donate Amazon gift cards to [email protected]. Because our cats are fostered in homes all around the Pittsburgh area, gift cards enable us to send supplies directly to fosters!
You can also buy supplies through our Amazon wishlist
Or donate cash through Paypal ([email protected]) or Venmo (Pittsburghcat).

Can’t adopt? Foster! Can’t foster? Donate or volunteer.

There are so many ways you can help cats who need homes and care. You may not have room to adopt another cat, but can foster a cat or kitten for a few weeks. If not that, you can volunteer at a shelter or with a rescue, or donate. You do this because you love your cat, and by doing so you help all cats. No matter which of these actions you take, you help to save a life, and make life better for all cats.

Adopt one of the cats I’ve posted here, or from any shelter or rescue near you, or from Petfinder, to open up a space for another cat to be rescued and fostered.
Offer to foster cats or kittens for a shelter or rescue near you.
Volunteer at a shelter or rescue.
Find a group of volunteers who work with homeless cats and help them with their efforts.
Donate to a shelter or rescue near you.

If you can foster kittens or adults cats to help prepare them for a forever home, please run to your nearest shelter and find a cat who needs you! Anyone can help with this effort at any level, even if all you do is donate to a shelter or rescue so they can help to pay for the food or medications needed for their foster, or the spay/neuter/veterinary care during a clinic.

Need to know more? Read Fostering for Your Shelter and Fostering Saves Lives

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Each month features one of my commissioned portraits of a feline or felines and their rescue story along with a kitty quote on the left page, and on the right page the month name with enough lines for all possible dates, with standard holidays and animal-themed observances and events. Great Rescues also includes a mini cat-care book illustrated with my drawings including information on finding strays or orphaned kittens, adopting for the first time or caring for a geriatric cat, a list of household toxins and toxic plants, or helping stray and feral cats and beginning with TNR.

Each book includes also 10 sheets of my “22 Cats” decorative notepaper with a collage of all the portraits in black and white so you can make your own notes or write special notes to friends.

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