Northwest Animal Companions

By Sue Davis

UPDATE: There is something special meant for this little girl. Polly is now available for adoption again. Please contact Sue Davis at 208-866-2716 if you are interested in meeting her.

We fostered Polly after she came to our yard one cold, snowy night begging for help.  I knew immediately she was in trouble.  She looked like she was 20 years old and could barely stand up.  She couldn’t see because her eyes were matted shut.  I stroked her back and the bones stuck out, she was starved.  I felt her belly and realized she was pregnant.  After getting her warm and some food, I contacted Nina with NAC.  She got Polly an appointment at Ada Animal Hospital.  This wonderful clinic does so much to help NAC animals.

Polly was in some serious trouble.  Her back feet were hurt.  Some of her teeth were broken and needed to be removed.  Her tail had a bad injury to the bone, nearly the entire length of it.  The life threatening concern was her uterus. It had ruptured and her 3 kittens had died inside her. This was causing infection throughout her tiny body.  Dr. Loertscher said, had we not brought her in to be spayed, the infection would have killed her. Medically, there was no reason for this cat to be alive.  But, she had such will to live, because she knows the best part of her life is yet to come.

Shortly after arriving at the clinic, she underwent a long surgery that involved tooth extractions, spaying, and a tail amputation (There’s about two inches left – it’s the cutest thing!) A couple days after her major surgeries, Polly was a new cat - happy, lively, and healing up.  She had a huge appetite.  She started filling out and her coat began to shine.  She’s on her way and looking for her ‘Forever Home.’

Polly is a Polydactyle.  Her front feet are like big mittens.  She has a blue eye and a green eye.  And now she has the cutest little ‘manx’ tail that looks like she was born with it.  Polly is extremely gentle and loving.  She likes to be held and will knead your neck and kiss you.  Surprisingly, even after all she’s been through, there is not a mean bone in her body.  She is the perfect cat. 

Polly was adopted by a wonderful person shortly after her surgeries. She now can live the life every cat should live! It will be filled with love, companionship and purring. There is a reason this little cat is still around…

  …To Be Continued?

Who knew hockey and pets mixed so well?

After much anticipation, about 30 NAC volunteers gathered at the Qwest Arena on the night of February 13th for Pucks for Pets with the Idaho Steelheads. In hurried excitement, everything got setup and we were ready for the people to start rolling in… and boy did they! Fans were able to purchase chew toys donated by Petco and raffle tickets on the way in and visited with some darling little puppies at the NAC booth just inside the entrance. We had several of our currently adoptable dogs there for visiting and raffled off some great prizes.  

The toys were to be thrown onto the ice when the Steelheads scored the first goal, and was that a sight! Magic 93.1 was also there to sponsor the game and took one of the precious little puppies, Toby, onto the ice during one of the intermissions to show everyone! He was famous after that and started getting his own donations. Go Toby!

 After all was said and done, we raised just over $2000, received over 700 pounds of pet food, and adopted 3 dogs! Just as important, we met so many great people and had a really good time. Special thanks goes out to all the volunteers, Petco (thanks Kent!), the Idaho Steelheads and Magic 93.1!

 Also, a big thanks to RoppOp Photography for documenting the evening for us. If you would like to see the entire collection of pictures from the event, click here.