JOEY

My story

***I am bonded with my sister, Zoey, and we must be adopted together.***Zoey and Joey arrived from to their original shelter in Creston, IA as very, very shy teenage kittens. The shelter tried to work with them, but their limited volunteer and foster network meant they weren`t making a lot of progress. They were transferred to our shelter in the hopes one of our fosters could work their magic. Despite the best work and love from our foster families that work with scared cats, Zoey and Joey have just never seemed happy being indoor companion cats. Zoey has made more progress than Joey, but still seems she would prefer to be a cat doing her thing outdoors without much human interference. So Zoey and Joey will be part of our Working Cats Program.Because they don`t have a lot of experience fending for themselves outside, we`d like them to go to a home who genuinely enjoys their barn cats and will closely look after them and make sure they`re settling in well to the property. We have all of the confidence in the world they will be excellent mousers for the property once they settle in!The Ames Animal Shelter`s WORKING CATS PROGRAM offers an environmentally-safe alternative to poisonous pest controls. Our working cats, who aren`t suited for indoor living due to their feral or semi-feral behavior, would love to spend their lives helping to control your warehouse, ranch, mill or barn`s rodent and pest population. All they ask for in return is shelter, food, water and care.Best of all, when you give our working cats a job, you`re saving the lives of homeless pets who otherwise would not have been suitable for adoption. There is no adoption fee for working cats, who are spayed/neutered, vaccinated and have tested negative for Feline Leukemia Virus and Feline Immunodeficiency Virus.

If you have any questions or would like to adopt JOEY, please reach out to the adoption group directly. PetSmart Charities does not facilitate the adoption process. Thank you.