SUSAN LOESCH

Wooo. Pig. Kitty, Kitty??  Maybe not usually, but that’s the way it was today as Feline Rescue and Rehome PR Team Barney and Shadow headed to a tailgating fundraiser for FuRR.

Chris Tirman and Dan Eaton of the Alloplastic Facial Reconstruction Clinic at B St. and Van Buren graciously let us use their parking lot to benefit our cats and kittens!

The lot filled quickly, and we set up a table by the sidewalk offering brownies, cookies, drinks and hot dogs for a donation to FuRR. Our main attractions, though were Barney and Shadow. 

Mr. Shadow was handsomely dressed in his Razorback bandana. He settled down in volunteer Ms. Carma’s lap.

She and Shadow have become quite a team, and Shadow sat there watching all the people, as
comfortable and calm as if he were on the couch at home!

It didn’t take long for him to attract some admirers. FuRR supporters Joshua and Monica came by, and gave first Shadow and then Barney all the attention a kitty could possibly want.

We loved hearing all about their cats who were adopted from FuRR.

I am discovering that when food is involved at an event Shadow, wants to be first in line.

He feasted on a turkey hot dog and wasn’t thrilled that we told him no to a chocolate brownie.

Barney seems to be more of a money man. Every time he was on duty he seemed to end up at the donation box checking out the contents!

Barney had his coat on for a while but decided it was too warm. Besides, without the coat he could show off his purple harness and leash, quite striking against his tiger-orange fur.

We soon had both Razorback and LSU fans hanging out together! The FuRR boys don’t care which team folks are for as long as they are for cats!

We met a FuRR volunteer, Ms. Linda, who stopped by to see the boys.

“I have read about you on the Internet,” she said to Barney.

While the Barn was on duty there were even some dogs walking by.

Luckily, they moved past quickly, and he didn’t see them.

As game time approached, the stream of fans briskly walking toward the stadium increased.

The people were more interested now in getting to the game than stopping to visit.

One lady, though, walked past the table and then came back.

She has cats and was quite taken with Shadow and held him a while.

Then she put some money in the donation box and we offered her brownies and cookies.

“I don’t need any treats,” she said.  “This is just for Shadow!”

I definitely saw a satisfied smile on Shadow’s face!

On our way home from each of our events, Barney and Shadow and I talk about what happened. This event was such a success that it would be hard to think of something to change for next year to make it better. I did, though, have one idea to run by them.

I had seen a little Chihuahua on TV the night before, wearing, um, a Razorback cheerleader uniform. “Guys,” I said.  “I could probably find ones that would fit you…”

A grumpy “Rahrr” came from Barney. Shadow didn’t even justify it with an answer. Maybe I need to look for little kitty hog hats instead.