Inside Bainbridge

by Melissa Byrd, of PAWS of Bainbridge Island and North Kitsap Thank you Paws & Fins Pet Shop for sponsoring our weekly Animal Tales feature. Lincoln was one of last year’s kittens, part of our Presidents litter from a feral colony. The local trap-and-release group, which captures and spays/neuters feral cats and releases them, often brings…

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by Melissa Byrd, of PAWS of Bainbridge Island and North Kitsap Thank you Paws and Fins Pet Shop for sponsoring our weekly Animal Tales feature. Dobby and Scotty are loved and lovable Chihuahuas in need of a new home. When their person became too ill to care for them, she called upon friends for help rehoming them….

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by Melissa Byrd, of PAWS of Bainbridge Island and North Kitsap Thank you Paws and Fins Pet Shop for sponsoring our weekly Animal Tales feature. There is something about an orange male tabby. Everyone seems to be attracted to them, and they seem to know they have this appeal. Herbert was a stray who came to…

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by Melissa Byrd, of PAWS of Bainbridge Island and North Kitsap Thank you Paws and Fins Pet Shop for sponsoring our weekly Animal Tales feature. Monkey is a 10-year-old short-haired tuxedo kitty now at PAWS after going through some crazy times. His mentally ill owner dropped Monkey off unceremoniously at his parents’ house. The parents wanted…

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by Melissa Byrd, of PAWS of Bainbridge Island and North Kitsap Thank you Paws and Fins Pet Shop for sponsoring our weekly Animal Tales feature. Bree is a four-year-old Belgian Tervuren. She is a very sweet and highly intelligent girl who has been living in a foster home with several other dogs ranging from a Maltese…

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by Melissa Byrd, of PAWS of Bainbridge Island and North Kitsap Thank you Paws and Fins Pet Shop for sponsoring our weekly Animal Tales feature. Olaf, a handsome red and white male, and Torril, a beautiful dilute tortoiseshell, find themselves in the sadly all-too-common situation of losing their person because she lost her home and entered…

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by Melissa Byrd, of PAWS of BI and N Kitsap Thank you Paws and Fins Pet Shop for sponsoring our weekly Animal Tales feature. Luisa and her brother were delivered to PAWS when their owner determined he was allergic after having had them for seven years. The two cats had lived with him indoors their entire…

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by Melissa Byrd, of PAWS of BI and N Kitsap, with Julie Hall Thank you Paws and Fins Pet Shop for sponsoring our weekly Animal Tales feature. Green-eyed Macy’s elderly best friend recently was admitted to a memory care facility, but she didn’t forget her beloved kitty. Unfortunately she couldn’t find anyone to adopt Macy, but…

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by Melissa Byrd, of PAWS of BI and N Kitsap, with Julie Hall Thank you Paws and Fins Pet Shop for sponsoring our weekly Animal Tales feature. Some two months ago we got a call looking for a home for a pregnant cat. We argued there was no way the cat could be pregnant because it…

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by Melissa Byrd, of PAWS of Bainbridge Island and N. Kitsap Thank you Paws and Fins Pet Shop for sponsoring our weekly Animal Tales feature. Toby is an 8-year-old purebred Cocker Spaniel. He and his dog mom Emily were sent to live temporarily with a friend of their owner’s because her failing health made her unable…

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by Melissa Byrd, of PAWS of Bainbridge Island and N. Kitsap Thank you Paws and Fins Pet Shop for sponsoring our weekly Animal Tales feature. Melvin the Manx (a short-tailed breed) is a friendly, affectionate, head-bumping honey. He came to us because his owners said they have a new baby in the house and felt Melvin…

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by Melissa Byrd, of PAWS of Bainbridge Island and N. Kitsap, with Julie Hall Thank you Paws and Fins Pet Shop for sponsoring our weekly Animal Tales feature. Barley Boy has an odd problem: Everyone finds him irresistible. His recent adoptive family loves him. His trainer and dog walker are crazy about him. And the six-year-old…

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To look at him now, Boone is a sturdy character—muscular, well-fed, and affectionate. But his anxiety betrays the horrific trauma he endured, abandoned, trapped, and helpless in a mobile home that his owners left him locked in with no food or possibility of escape after they skipped town. About seven months ago Kitsap Humane Society…

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by Melissa Byrd of PAWS of Bainbridge Island and N. Kitsap Thank you Paws and Fins Pet Shop for sponsoring our weekly Animal Tales feature. Six-year-old Tahoe, a Beagle mix, lost his best friend a few months ago. The in-laws on Bainbridge Island of his deceased owner’s son took in Tahoe from his home in Denver…

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by Melissa Byrd, of PAWS of Bainbridge Island and N. Kitsap Thank you Paws and Fins Pet Shop for sponsoring our weekly Animal Tales feature. The look on Pebbles’ face says, “Now what?” There have been a lot of changes in the last few days for this 16-year-old Persian/Himalayan mix and her brother Ewok. Their…

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by Melissa Byrd, of PAWS of Bainbridge Island and N Kitsap, with Julie Hall Thank you Paws and Fins Pet Shop for sponsoring our weekly Animal Tales feature. Ever feel like you don’t fit in your family? Puma apparently didn’t fit in hers. They surrendered her to PAWS, saying she “was not able to cope”…

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by Melissa Byrd, of PAWS of BI and N Kitsap with Julie Hall Thank you Paws and Fins Pet Shop for sponsoring our weekly Animal Tales feature. Last year a self-proclaimed “fashionista” adopted two sibling kittens from us named Chanel and Dior. She joked about how appropriate their names were for her. We were happy…

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by Melissa Byrd, of PAWS of BI and N Kitsap Thank you Paws and Fins Pet Shop for sponsoring our weekly Animal Tales feature. Several days after tenants moved out of an area apartment, the landlord entered to clean the premises and, to her shock, was greeted by a very friendly feline who had been…

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by Melissa Byrd, of PAWS of BI and N Kitsap, January 4, 2012, 11:50 a.m. Thank you Paws and Fins Pet Shop for sponsoring our weekly Animal Tales feature. Willow Mae is a 13-year-old tortie point Himalayan who came to us like many of the cats in our care, through unfortunate circumstances beyond her control….

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by Melissa Byrd, of PAWS of BI and N Kitsap, December 29, 2012, 10:26 p.m. Thank you Paws and Fins Pet Shop for sponsoring our weekly Animal Tales feature. Mary is a petite brown tabby with exotic markings and, as you can see, lovely green eyes. She came to us from North Beach Paws, near…

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