Celebrating our area's four-legged, feathered and finned friends

By Kelsie Gray

November 22, 2011

Clubfoot

Friends, there is a very special little cat in dire need of a very special, big-hearted home. He’s about five months old with an adorably owlish face and a squeaky meow. He’s black with a silvery/brownish undercoat, and…he was born without a foot on his right hind leg. His name is Clubfoot.

Now before you go accusing me of giving a kitten a horrible name, please note that my front porch has become something of a flop house for wayward felines, all thanks to my neighbors refusing to spay (and feed) their two outdoor female cats.  In order to keep track of the population, these cats and their progeny frequently end up with monikers such as “Fatty Two-Tone,” “Extra,” “Extra Extra,” “Handsome,” and “Screamer” (who now, against my better judgment, lives in my house). I’m managing the crisis pretty well, and Clubfoot’s mama (“Extra”) is due to be spayed next week (after nursing her fourth litter in one year). Extra’s “owners” call her a “slut.” I call them “irresponsible a-holes.”

The point is, Clubfoot needs a home. The great outdoors just isn’t a safe place for a three-footed kitty—especially not when the great outdoors is edged on all sides by busy streets and chained dogs. Clubfoot is also so endearingly sweet, he belongs in someone’s lap rather than under the abandoned house next door. I’ve never seen a cat who acted more like a dog. When he sees my car coming down the street, Clubfoot takes hobbling leaps and bounds (he can run like the wind, if awkwardly) to follow it into the driveway and waits for me to disembark so that I can pick him up. When I cuddle him, he licks my chin. He has also been known to wait on my back stoop in the pouring rain, on the off chance that I will come out and scoop him up for some more lovin’.

You will not find a more devoted, more handsome, or more unique feline companion than Clubfoot. If this story and these photos are not enough to convince you, keep in mind, too, that handicapped animals always make for great cocktail conversation! Clubfoot knows how to use a litterbox and will come to you neutered and negative for feline leukemia. As such, I am asking for a fifty dollar adoption fee which will help defray the cost of his veterinary care (and the five tons of food he has eaten while living on my porch).

For more information and an opportunity to meet and adore the incomparably awesome Clubfoot, please e-mail Kelsie OR call/text her at 502.345.7191.