‘Sweetheart’ cat and her shy brother have spent 4 years in shelter. They need homes
A “sweetheart” cat and her shy brother have spent four years in an animal shelter — and they still need homes.
A North Carolina humane society hopes timid cats Katrina and Ivan will be matched with patient new owners.
“Katrina is looking for a human who will love her unconditionally and give her the time and space she needs to come out of her shell,” the Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society wrote on Facebook in August.
More recently, the shelter in an Oct. 14 post said Ivan was “on the shy side so he tends to get overlooked in our cageless playrooms in favor of the more extroverted kitties who run to greet visitors the moment they walk in the door.”
The cats are waiting for homes after arriving at the humane society as kittens in 2020. Four years later, the two are now considered long-term shelter residents, according to social media posts and online adoption profiles.
Like her brother, Katrina also has been passed up as shelter visitors consider more outgoing cats. She’s described as a “an introvert, yes, but a sweetheart nonetheless.”
Meanwhile, the shelter said her brother “needs the companionship of a patient and gentle human who will give Ivan time, space and plenty of love and affection.”
Katrina and Ivan don’t have to be adopted together, the shelter wrote in June.
As of Oct. 15, the shelter’s website still listed the brother and sister as available for adoption in the Sapphire area, a roughly 55-mile drive southwest from the mountain town of Asheville. The shelter in recent social media posts didn’t say what happened to their sibling Frances, who also had a hurricane-related name.
The humane society didn’t immediately share additional information with McClatchy News on Oct. 15. More details about its adoption process can be found at chhumanesociety.org.
This story was originally published October 15, 2024 at 11:14 AM with the headline "‘Sweetheart’ cat and her shy brother have spent 4 years in shelter. They need homes."
