Pele

Help Heal Pele



Late on a Saturday afternoon Homeward Trails got a desperate plea from one of the shelters we work with occasionally. Five tiny babies with no mother, starving to death and nobody to help raise them. We quickly brought them to the safety of one of our experienced foster homes.

Since the World Cup had just started, the foster parents named the litter the FIFAs and gave the kittens soccer-related names. Pele was named both after the soccer star and as an abbreviation for "peg-leg"; when she was brought to the shelter, the ankle on her right rear leg had been crushed, and her leg was useless. The shelter splinted and bandaged Pele's leg before transferring her and her litter to Homeward Trails. Since then her leg has been resplinted several times and is healing well, and Pele has improved from being unable to walk at all to being able to scamper, hop, and pivot as fast as her siblings.

Pele's foster parents have raised 120 kittens, and they've been astounded both by Pele's positive attitude and by how well she's handled a setback that many kittens might not have survived. She's also a play-machine and one of the cutest kittens they've ever met.

You can read more about Pele's adventures in foster care at 50kittens.com.

Gender: Female

Approximate age: 4 weeks as of 6/13/2010

Location: VA Foster Home

Declawed: No

Coat Type: Short haired

Personality: fun-loving, unsinkable Molly Brown

The adoption fee for Pele is $50.00, which helps with cost of routine vet care.

Thank you for contacting Homeward Trails Animal Rescue and helping to save a life!

If you're interested in adopting Pele, please fill out our cat adoption questionnaire and e-mail it to [email protected].

Can't adopt but want to help? Please contact Tina to find out about sponsorship, fostering, and other ways you can help this cat! Please note that financial sponsorship will be applied to the specific cat you indicate unless it is not needed, at which time we will let you designate it for another HT animal of your choice.

You can save animals like Pele by becoming a foster! Fosters are like way stations between high kill shelters and forever homes. We need fosters so that we can save cats before they are euthanized at the shelters, so that they have more time to find a permanent family. If you are interested in becoming a foster, please check out our information about fostering animals.

Want to meet a handful of cats in person? Check out a list of our upcoming pet adoption events.