Izzy (now Chester) Arrives

Izzy was found alone on the streets and rescued by Eleven-Eleven Rescue. Caroline Ross who runs Eleven-Eleven thinks he was dumped there by his owners. She needed to find him a safe place to live until he was adopted. Caroline asked if we could foster him. She said he would be okay here because he is a very easy going cat so he would get along with our other cats. I was very excited. He was supposed to arrive at 8 at night but Caroline and her mom could only bring him at 10:00. They were very tired and still had to go pick up a dog that needed an operation but his owners wouldn't pay and wanted to euthanize him.

We decided to call Izzy Chester instead. He loves to look out the window and watch the birds and squirrels.

Eleven-Eleven rescues stray cats from the street and they find them foster or adoptive homes. Montreal has a lot of homeless cats. They live in back alleys and under porches. It is very hard for them to live outside because winters are very cold. One February we were coming home from a birthday party and we saw a cat that came running out from under a porch meowing and shivering. There was a nasty man on his porch who told us she didn't have a home and that he didn't like her coming to his door. We couldn't just leave her there so we took her and gave her to my godmother Sandi. Her ears had frostbite and practically all of both of her ears fell off.

It is good that eleven-eleven does this for cats. They sometimes have them fixed and release them but if they don't think they will survive outside they try to find them a home. People who who see stray cats should try to help them by feeding them and giving them shelter when it is cold. Eleven-Eleven also rescues dogs.

http://www.elevenelevenanimalrescue.org/

Update: We adopted Chester!