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When you're a well known politician you get your
portrait hung up in a government building. A
famous soldier may be immortalized with a big
statue in a park or monument. At the Shadow Cats
sanctuary we're not quite that fancy.....but if
you're really special you might get a room named
after you! We haven't done that often - Cookie's
Place and Nana's Corner have been the only two
up until now. But we realized that we had the
perfect room to name after a very special
friend, and so we've just christened Cathy's
Closet.
There's a small closet in the hall right across
from Cookie's Place that we use to store all the
food for our sanctuary kitties. And until last
year, it seemed to run low - especially on
canned food - much of the time. And then one day
a longtime friend and supporter made what
seemed, at the time, like a simple little
suggestion - why not start an Amazon.com
wishlist for Shadow Cats so that people
everywhere could send food directly to our
kitties? We had never thought of this, but it
seemed like a terrific idea so we did just that.
To our amazement, packages began to show up on our
doorstep and the food closet began to fill up.
There's something about sending food that people
really seem to like - and with Amazon they can
often send it for the same price or less than
we'd have to pay to buy it locally.
Over the past few months we've grown to really
depend on those Amazon boxes, and they just keep
coming. And while they come from people all
over, we also noticed that quite a few of them
seemed to have a note inside letting us know
that they were from Cathy. She lives in another
state, but came to know Shadow Cats in 2007
through her participation in the Great Kitty
Rescue in Pahrump, Nevada that resulted in 17
FeLV cats coming to live at our sanctuary in
Cookie's Place. Cathy has not only followed the
progress of those kitties closely, but she's
come to Texas to visit us several times and has
become a dear friend.
Lately it's seemed like every time we open the
door to that closet to stack up a few new boxes
that just arrived, or to take out a case of food
for the daily wet feeding, we think of Cathy -
so it only seemed fitting that her name should
be on the door, and now it is. It's not a grand
portrait or a fancy statue, but it's just about
the highest honor we can bestow on a member of
the Shadow Cats family. So from all of us who
care for the kitties, Cathy, a big thank you for
all that you do! And from all of the sanctuary
cats, your favorite felines.......a big YUM!
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