The cats below are available for adoption at the Lethbridge and District Humane Society. There are more cats shown on Facebook. To view any of the cats, you will need to make an appointment by calling 403-320-8991.
| Tahoe | This boy talks back and bosses you around and won’t stay still for a picture but he will if you’re ignoring him while also yelling at you for your audacity! Tahoe’s a sweet boy, he’s just not your typical cat. He likes to talk, he lands his jumps like an elephant and he does as he pleases… ok, well that one’s pretty cat typical… Anyways, he’s looking for someone to train – I mean, someone to love and spend the rest of his days with |  |
| Peppo | Peppo is still with us, despite his winning smile when you scratch his head or his willingness to distract you from whatever work you’re doing, because Peppo’s philosophy is “Will you regret all of the work you didn’t accomplish when you’re on your death bed? Or will you regret not spending time with those you love the most?” By which he means himself – Peppo is who you love the most. I suspect it will take him some time to adjust to a home life, as he’s been at the shelter for what he remembers of his existence. Homes have different schedules, strange smells, and vacuums! So please be patient if you’re taking a long-termer home. |  |
| Enola | Enola was found, by her lonesome, outside a gym. Now, you would think she is some kind of gym rat, but you couldn’t be more wrong. Is she active and silly? Of course – she’s a kitten! But her idea of ‘working out’ is zoomies for 10 minutes, followed by a meal and a nap. She’s never going to get into one of those body building competitions and she’s not going to be encouraging you to, either, because that means you’re going to be spending an unconscionable amount of time away from her! Enola is a little bit chatty, won’t move from the middle when you want to go to bed and likes to lie on the floor while you scrub her fur back and forth but she’s also a great listener, likes to help you work on the computer and will hide your phone so you can practice being more ‘present’. |  |
| Jingles | Jingles likes to find her own spot with a good toy and hang out by herself. You know, like when you have lunch in your car to decompress from the overly active, highly needy customer base that constitutes 95% of your job and you just wish you could say the things but then you’d get fired and that would look terrible!…Jingles. We’re talking about Jingles. Look, I’m not saying that Jingles won’t get along with other cats, she just doesn’t have the energy to be friendly with the other cats. Like, they touch her toys and try to lick her and are just generally annoying. And she definitely wouldn’t be putting up with these entitled jerks that expect you to give them service even when their attitude is a problem. No way – and neither should you! You deserve to be treated like a human being! And so does Jingles! Don’t forget about the massages. For you, too. |  |
| Tabitha | Tabitha is one of our beautiful, shy girls that likes things to stay the same all the time. Yup, she’s basically the reincarnation of your sweet little great grandmother with the bowl of hard candies and who had to have her tea, AT TEA TIME and hated it when ‘those whippersnappers’ were being too loud and would give you a dollar and say ‘don’t spend it all in one place now’ and there was no doubt she loved you to the moon and back. Tabitha will enjoy a quiet house with no young children and maybe a laid back dog that doesn’t jump around. If you really want to win her over, she loves ribbons! Get yourself a wand with some and she’ll forget all about tea time. |  |
| Sonny | This character is still available! He will give you joy and stories and maybe even generate so much heat at night that you’ll need less blankets! And he’d prefer to be the one and only in your life, so there’s no having to balance love between the animals – you can just give it all to him! Just remember your 3s! 3 days to decompress, 3 weeks to learn the new routine and 3 months to feel at home. Is this dependant upon the animal? Of course! But this is a good starting point! |  |
| Satin & Chenille | Satin is the more outgoing one and wants affection more often than not. Chenille is the shy and sweet one. I mean, these sisters both have a healthy dose of stranger danger. They won’t crawl into your lap right away. They have to know that they can trust you 1st! And then they’ll start showing off. Like, letting you know they know where the good food is stored and – their favorite – the Disappearing Cat Toy trick! |  |
| Sundance | Sundance’s update includes the fact that he has since irritated everyone to the point that he is now in exile and is no longer allowed to come out with anyone else because he’s having a hard time figuring out BOUNDARIES. He just doesn’t get why the hoomans laugh with him and love him but the other cats get all bent out of shape when he dive bombs them or steals their food jeesh, there’s more somewhere! Just ask the peoples! So, ya, Sundance might just have to be your one and only. Ever have one of those birthdays that turned into a 3 day bender and there was too much dancing and too much… well, everything? Ya, Sundance doesn’t understand that reference either. Why? Because this little boy just celebrated his 1st birthday with us and we didn’t take him out on a wild night on the town because we’re all way too tired to waste a weekend on anything but napping. Sundance will nap, sometimes. His real love is being Master Hide-&-Seeker with a side hustle in Sprinting. He’s about as old and as smart as a toddler and he enjoys leading us in his version of exercise class right around the time when we have to put him away so we can go home. He also has no idea why the older cats don’t want to play. Like, what’s their deal? Why’re they so cranky? So, yes, if there’s a buddy in Sundance’s future, make it a tolerant and/or active one because he doesn’t get the whole boundary thing very well. |  |
| Schuler | Schuler was named after the place she just nonchalantly walked into one day. Yes, it was the Helen Schuler Nature Centre and, yes, she walked in like any other patron. After having a little look around, she parked her pregnant self on a bench and waited patiently for someone to come pick her up. Now she’s had her kittens, her shots and her spay and she’s looking for the next adventure! Schu Schu is only about two years old (she was very young to be pregnant) so she still has some kitten energy to get out. She’s quietly curious and likes to know what you’re up to but not so much that she’s in your face about it. Schuler is quietly hanging around, waiting for her chance to just move herself on into your house. It’s kind of her MO. Walk in, sniff around, claim it as hers. She’s not a free loader though! She’ll pay you with purrs and snuggles. |  |
| Quinn | Quinn has plenty of things to do and sights to see, so don’t think you can just laze about all day with her! You’ll need to at least rescue all of her toys from under the couch and just start accepting the fact now that for every good photo you get of her, there will be 20 blurry ones that precede it. Quinn is a beautiful girl with some unique markings on her sweet little face and she’s a little lacking in her understanding of boundaries so she will suddenly fly-by bomb the other cats and volunteers while she’s playing. The other cats do not appreciate her sense of humour! |  |
| Bren | Bren is a beautiful lady but she does kind of melt into the background. In a sea of cats, she’s perfectly fine not having the spotlight on her. Which means that she has been over looked time and time again for just not standing out. She would do great in a home – just don’t ask her to do weird things like come out and meet the strangers. Someone just needs to give this aloof beauty a chance. |  |
| Dillon | Dillon is a forever single man would like to take over your lap when you’re home and chirp at the birds while you’re at work and maybe hide a few things you won’t notice are missing right away. Like a couple of those Q-tips you foolishly left on the bathroom counter. I know he looks a little silly with his big butt in the air and getting a chin scratch besides, but don’t let this minor break in character fool you – Dillon is a very serious man. |  |
| Brock | Poor Brock has been out and come back to us. Brock is a great lesson to us to meet your adopted baby where they’re at. Brock has spent the majority of his life in the shelter so when he went to a house, it was a super scary place for him. He didn’t know the routines and he din’t know the smells and he didn’t know the people that were wondering why he was hiding so much. Brock is a lovey dovey, but he is going to need the things we recommend for all new furbaby owners. Please set up a safe place or ‘home base’ for your new guy. I am personally fond of the bathroom because then he gets to meet everyone periodically through out the day. Once he feels pretty comfortable there, allow him to explore a little bit but keep ‘home base’ accessible in case something scares him. Have other pets? Do a little swap of rooms! Lock your existing pet in the home base area so they can smell the smells and you don’t have to worry about them while the new critter sniffs around, or put up a barrier between them if possible like a baby gate. There’s always the 3-3-3 rules ( 3 days to decompress, 3 weeks to learn the routine, 3 months to feel at home)but give everyone a little grace. After all, you’ve just invited in a new roommate whole will soon graduate into overlord and it will take some time to figure all the details out. |
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| Ketchup | Ketchup can be super sweet but he is also very active and does sometimes forget that you may not see yourself as a great landing spot for the flying squirrel cat – but you are! Because you are the bestest thing at whatever Ketchup deems you to be the best at, and you can’t argue because he’s spot-on with his intuition! |  |
| Helios | Helios is the most politest boy you will ever meet. His dream job is Ratatouille-esque; to sit on his spot (like a folded dish towel) and watch you cook while you tell him about your day. He won’t steal, he’ll ask with a quiet whisper meow, and if he needs attention he will politely wait for you to finish what you’re doing. He is just the sweetest little man. |  |
| Lavender | Lavender is our sassy little cutie patootie. She wants nothing more than to get her way and will cry to get it, but in true kitten fashion will completely forget about it just as soon as something else catches her eye. She has a few brothers that were way bigger than her, so don’t think she’s a delicate princess that wants to play dress up – not unless she can do all the stuff the big boys are doing while wearing that tiara! |  |
| Mendlessohn & Strozzi | Mendlessohn & Strozzi are our sister duo. Now, it’s not that Mend wouldn’t be able to figure out life by herself, it’s that Strozzi would fall apart in a puddle of self doubt if she didn’t have her sister around and Mend just couldn’t have that on her conscious so these two are looking for home together. These two are pretty friendly and come running to the door to see if it’s their favourite people come to visit them. They are a little overly cautious around new things so they do need a patient sort of person in their lives to reassure them that ‘everything is ok’ and ‘new isn’t bad’, but a calm voice and the promise of a good brush will talk them around most things. |  |
| Derrick | Derrick is a super nice boy with shortened ears from frostbite and a delicate digestive system. Let’s face it, eating what you can on the streets is like the diet of college kids – some of us make it out ok but some of us don’t and have to eat Tums whenever we look at fajitas – and now Derrick needs a friendlier diet. Will he pay you back in super cuddles and always listen to you when you need to say something? You bet! Can you brush him while you’re talking, though? He’d really appreciate it. |  |
| Scion | Scion is the little boy caught in a cat body. What do you mean, he can’t taste test supper? Or see what’s in the top cabinet? Or quality control test your clean laundry? He will also try and chat with you because somewhere along the way he figured out people like to make a lot of noises at each other and he just figured he’d give it a try. He is a loving little boy, he just needs to get the wiggles out before he can properly appreciate the attention |  |
| Mr. Schmidt | Mr. Schmidt is one of our senior boys who’s come to stay with us. What’s wrong with him? He’s old. He’s not grumpy – far from it. He still wants to follow you around, he’s just a bit slower; his meow is a little croaky; his blood pressure is a little high (he has meds for that); he has no interest in that new fangled diet these hippies want to put him on but so far those same hippies have given him an assortment of big fluffy beds to lounge in, and they’re great. Schmidt would like to go to a quiet home. Other cats are ok, as long as they aren’t kittens (he’s a little too old to babysit). His former human pal was elderly, so he’s used to that sort of life. You know, the sitting in the sunshine, or curled up with a book, or re-watching an old movie like Now You See Me, a little massage, a good snack – what we all strive for our Sundays to look like but every single day! |  |
| Clementine | Anyone know the rest of the words to that song? If you don’t, save yourself and don’t look it up! But this is Clementine’s look when you sing it to her. That vaguely ‘wth is wrong with you?’ sort of look. It might also be because I sing off key. She’s a quiet, curious roll of a girl that just likes her things the way she likes them and will more than likely sit beside you rather than on you, but just to be warned, the pillow at night is hers. ‘Kay? good, glad we understand each other. She does like her attention and doesn’t mind a soft brush; she’s also pretty smart and will probably figure you out a lot faster than your therapist. |  |
| Cassidy | Cassidy is the Ruler of the Void, the Purveyor of Croaks, the Giver of Finite Attention. This big girl really should have been moved to the Big Cat Room but she is still in Kitten because she just really prefers the quiet consistency of the smaller place, so we’re pretty sure she’s also going to need a low-key home. Also, she croaks. Her meow is broken and now she just responds to all of your riddles with a single croak while she demands more head scratches. You have to go to work? Sorry, dude, you’re going to have to call in and tell them you’re going to be late because the Void is calling. |  |
| Dot | Dot is a sweet, friendly and quietly curious little lady. She’s happy for the company she gets and the cuddles you’re willing to give her but she can also give you the classic Mom Look when you do something you shouldn’t. We don’t have a lot of history on this pretty girl as she was just dropped off on our doorstep, so if you want her around dogs, we will have to test her, but we know that the other cats give her no issues. We do know that she will pop up at your elbow unexpectedly for a good head scratch and would probably love movie marathons with you both on the couch in a snuggly blanket. |  |
| Bobby | Bobby is always finding himself in unexpected places. It usually happens right around the time someone says “ok, sweetie, time to go back in” or “come on, honey, the vet needs to see you for a check up” and then this boy finds the most fun places to go that no one else has discovered. He is so smart! The great thing about getting a young adult cat is you get to miss the messy, teething-on-your-wires kitten faze and go straight into he comes with experience but still gets the zoomies and does weird things that will make you laugh. |  |
| Sunflower | Sunflower is quiet and super polite and will use her bestest manners to get your attention, so you have to watch out for her because sometimes she just materializes at your feet and you end up tripping over her and then you feel super bad because she’s the sweetest thing you’ll ever know and you just full out tried to squish her and now she needs more love. |  |
| Pickles | Pickles is a sweet girl looking for unlimited head scratches and someone who doesn’t mind that winter weather sometimes gives her bumps in her skin because it’s so very dry and her fragile skin just can’t handle it. It is a wonder that this girl was outside at all and made it to the door of a lady that was willing to help. Now she is looking for her forever family, someone she can mother and who will brush her and love her and call her a beautiful princess. She’s not very fond of the K9s but may learn to love one given a little patience. |  |