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 ...
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.Probably ran all the way, chased by indigent drunks.
Sounds like this cat, once settled down in his new home, might benefit from corneal transplants to improve his vision. Does anyone know anything about corneal transplants in cats?
Wow...what are the chances they saw this cat wandering the streets....great story!!
Why couldn’t Jim Bean’s owner adopt him? The story said they belonged together.
*shrug*
Many of these shelters are not attended in the evenings and since the cats are secured in cages a missing animal means a break in. We had one here recently and the shelter operators were concerned that someone would come back and injure or take other animals. I offered to donate for an alarm system, but they claim it is just not practical.
luv cheezburger-get it in my inbox everyday-it’s my Obama-antidote.
as someone said on the comment board at the story-link(and I’m paraphrasing):
“...he was doing well living in NY and if he can make it there, he’ll make it anywhere, but he must have left his heart in San Franscico....”
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