would be purrfect for me, love the kitty’s. Downton Abbey one of my...Wordless Wednesday
What happened before this was written—and what’ll happen next? 
P.S. Know the answer? Then give us a sign and type your response in the comment box. Even dogs can play, too! Just check out the answer to last week’s Wordless Wednesday.
UPDATE, September 21: Sigh. We love a happy ending. Click on the comment box for the story behind this adoption success, courtesy of the photographer, the ASPCA’s Miranda Spindel, DVM, MS, Senior Director, Shelter Medicine.
Look who was waiting in this kennel!
Related links:
Shelters Helping Shelters: Staff from 85+ Agencies Aid Animal Tornado Victims
ASPCApro: Disaster Preparedness
Tags: Disaster & Cruelty, disaster response, Wordless Wednesday
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Nancy Clark Says:
A family visited the shelter, looked at all the animals, played with some, talked to staff and fell in love with a kitten and made the decision to adopt. The kitten had not been spay/neutered yet, so it is being done now and the lovely family left this note to inspire others to adopt to send their love to the youngster as they wait for Friday when they will pick up their new family member and take them home. This is the scenario I would hope for, the one I dream of for every shelter animal and every family.
Kat Hodges Says:
Pre-adoption?
Sarah Says:
Someone got adopted and is getting fixed before going home! Yay!
Sarah Says:
Yup someone got adopted! How awesome is that? However, that someone needs to be altered or is fighting off infection. He or she will be ready and healthy to go home on Friday!
Pune Dracker, Shelters' Edge editor Says:
Everybody’s right and we’ve got an incredible adoption success story?! Wow, is this a happy ending or what?
The photo was taken at the emergency shelter set up alongside the Joplin Humane Society — where responders from agencies all across the country worked to reunite nearly 500 animals with their owners and prep over 700 animals for adoption this past spring after the devastating tornado hit. The ASPCA’s Miranda Spindel, DVM, MS, Senior Director, Shelter Medicine, was on site to assist with this incredible rescue effort. The sign was left on the kennel of a lab/hound mix displaced by the storm and then adopted by a new family.
“They had to wait a few days to take him home after adoption for medical procedures to be completed,” explains Dr. Spindel, who snapped the pic. “One day while he was out of his kennel at the clinic, they stopped in to visit, and instead of being upset that he wasn’t there, they left the pictured note on his kennel. Not only was it a sweet indication of the life to come for this great dog and likely many others from the Joplin situation…it was a great morale booster for all the staff and volunteers.”