Archive for May, 2011

Library cat tries paw at prom date

May 13, 2011 By: kwilliams Category: Cats in the Stacks, feline rescue and rehome, Field trips, Kids and library cats, Working for FURR

SUSAN LOESCH

Are there weeks when you are so busy you’d like to clone yourself? That was Shadow and Barney’s
predicament last week. Sometimes working two jobs makes you feel like you are meeting yourself
coming and going … even if you are a cat!

Barn and Shadow have their job as library cats, but they also are kept busy as Feline Rescue and Rehome PR Ambassadors.

What a week they had! A Jeans Day benefit, FuRR’s three-day fundraiser sale and, for Shadow, his first prom! (more…)

Groom wears black: Library cat finds himself married

May 02, 2011 By: kwilliams Category: assistant library cat, Cats and reading, Cats in the Stacks, Kids and library cats

SUSAN LOESCH

So what does a library cat do when he isn’t working with the kids, helping them select books or  work on the computer? He keeps busy with many other things!

Over the past week or so Shadow has dressed for Easter, acquired additional computer skills, worked with the printer and…gotten married!

Barney had the opportunity to become a style icon, and he turned it down.
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