Dear editor:
After reading my friend, Nina Taylor's, letter to the editor regarding need for help at the Guardian Angels Cat Rescue and Adoption Shelter, I'd like to tell you about the new "teenager" (in cat years) orange tabby in my life! I adopted "Do" (my husband's initials) in June from the shelter. Being confined in a room with other cats, he wore himself out running from room to room when I brought him home. I've warned neighbors there's a peeping Tom close by. He spends hours going from window to window enjoying the view of the great outdoors. (I have an excuse now not to wash the windows. They're covered with his nose smudges.) I don't need TV sitcoms anymore. "Do's" comic antics have helped bring laughter back into my life!
I don't need an alarm clock anymore. I'm awakened every morning -- sometimes too early -- with a nose or paw on my face and a deafening purr! He's so full of love and some mischief. One day, trying to find an item in my file cabinet, one drawer was half empty so he promptly jumped in. (I don't know if he filed himself under "f" for feline or "d" for "Do"!) He's hidden my wrist watch, but that's OK. I can buy another one at the Angel's Thrift Shop at a very minimal price.
He's very sociable. I'm worried he's going to lose his fur from rubbing up against my visitors and his tail from constant wagging!
The volunteers at the shelter are dedicated, hard-working people. So, please help, whether by volunteering, monetary donations or giving a kitten/cat a purr-fect life in your home. The shelter is located in the Indiandale Shopping Center, Malvern Avenue.
Jackie Stuelke
Hot Springs
P.S. Congratulations to all the many young people pictured in The Sentinel-Record for their scholastic, sports and music achievements. You're all the "cat's meow"!
Editorial on 07/30/2014