Shingilana Rescued Felines

This small volunteer group rescues cats from high-​kill shelters in the area, some as far as PA or WV. They foster them and provide needed medical care (One of the foster parents we spoke with was also a veterinarian, fostering and treating a beautiful black manx who’d contracted conjunctivitis). Then they try to find these animals permanent homes through Petfinder and adoption events at Petco.
We visited one of Shingilana’s foster homes in our search for Bartleby’s successor. The lady was super nice; you could tell that her fosters were much-​loved, well-​groomed, and nicely socialized. A couple of them had been declawed by their previous owners, but they were still very sweet and trusting. They were also adorable: a gorgeous Himalayan, a sweet big-​eyed Chartreux, a wonderfully friendly Norwegian Forest Cat, and of course that cute black Manx. I couldn’t believe that these apparently purebred, perfectly adorable cats had been in high-​kill shelters! So sad.
In the end we decided to adopt from the Washington Humane Society, but we were impressed by the generosity and kindness shown by Shingilana’s volunteers.