This is the rocket age, he was the cat that hated people, went to the moon, and was glad to land back anywhere people can step on ya, walk on ya, step on ya...
Posted on 08/11/2010 8:19:16 AM PDT by nickcarraway
If Jack Daniels could talk, he could probably explain everything.
But alas, Jack can only meow. So it remains a mystery as to how the nearly blind black cat, abducted from the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals a year ago, ended up on the streets of Harlem last week.
Tuesday morning, Jack Daniels' journeys brought him back to San Francisco, courtesy of JetBlue and a cat-loving book designer from Brooklyn named LeeAnn Falciani.
"He's this superstar cat," said Falciani, who took a week off work to escort Jack Daniels from New York's animal shelter to San Francisco's SPCA. "He's wonderful. I'm actually kind of sad right now to say goodbye."
Jack Daniels' saga began in May 2009, when San Francisco animal control officers brought him and his brother, Jim Beam, to the SPCA for adoption. Jack Daniels was suffering from scarred corneas because of a viral infection, a common condition among kittens, SPCA veterinarian and interim co-president Jennifer Scarlett said.
With his milky gray eyes, Jack Daniels relied heavily on his brother, who acted as a sort of seeing-eye cat, Scarlett said. SPCA staff intended for the brothers to be adopted together.
But a week after the pair were put up for adoption, Jack Daniels vanished from his enclosure. Someone had catnapped him.
"How or why that happened, I can't say," said SPCA spokeswoman Jennifer Lu. "But we had the police involved, volunteers looking for him. We were very worried."
Jack Daniels seemed lost forever. Jim Beam meanwhile, was adopted by a nice San Francisco family, Lu said.
But on Aug. 4, New York City animal control officers spied a nearly blind, apparently homeless, black cat ambling along 110th Street, and they brought him to the city's nearby animal shelter.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
I imagine the cat, with a depression style, stick and sack knapsack, sitting in the open door of a boxcar riding the rails.
You know its bad when cats become hobos.
Great story. I wish he could be adopted by the same family that got his brother.
Someone had catnapped him. "How or why that happened, I can't say," said SPCA spokeswoman Jennifer Lu. "But we had the police involved, volunteers looking for him. We were very worried."
Seriously? The cops were out looking or a stray cat that probably just escaped. What reason do that have for believing that it was a catnapping?
Thank you very much for posting a heartwarming, cheerful story!
Nice story ... hope the cat gets adopted. The media coverage will help. My wife volunteers at the local animal shelter. This is a very well run and well funded animal shelter. Dogs typically get adopted quickly, cats less so.
The shelter has a great selection of both, although I’m mostly a dog lover type I find cats to be very charming.
This is the rocket age, he was the cat that hated people, went to the moon, and was glad to land back anywhere people can step on ya, walk on ya, step on ya...
*snif*
I don’t know if I can handle any more kitty stories today.
*snif*
But fangs for the ping.
What a beauty. If we were still in Benicia, I’d be applying to adopt him.
YES! I’d take yet another basement cat.
Always a pleasure.
;o]
Agreed.
They say he looked as though he had been an indoor cat while in NY, so why didn’t they try to find the NY owners rather than ship him back to SF and an uncertain fate? Doesn’t make sense.
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