Madeleine                                  Born 5/31/04

If you ever go to Las Vegas , you might want to pet Madeleine first for luck…..she’s been pretty successful at beating long odds. She was with a litter of kittens at a local colony who were successfully trapped. But Madeleine was very sick with bad infections in both eyes and wouldn’t go into the trap. It’s especially difficult to see a sick or injured feral cat and not be able to trap them in order to get them the care that they desperately need.
 

Somehow, Sheila was able to corner her and pick her up – no easy feat with a ten-week-old scared and hurting feral kitten. Madeleine stayed sick for a long time, but finally after lengthy medical treatment, she spent six months in a foster home, recovering and becoming somewhat socialized.

Like many feral cats, especially ones who’ve been through any kind of trauma, Madeline is very shy around people. But that’s no problem in the Outback section of the sanctuary, where we understand cats like her and have the perfect place for her to live just the way she wants to. These days she’s completely healthy, absolutely gorgeous, and – as we’ve just discovered recently when she decided to let herself be petted occasionally – very soft and lustrous. When Madeleine and Shadow Cats came together, we both got lucky!