FOUND! Tribal, sister of India (the Bengal).

[Lorien]

Last week Tribal, India's sister, was finally captured in the same area where she and her sister were dumped by their uncaring former owner. A diligent witness to their dumping made it her goal to capture and re-home the Bengal twosome, and after several weeks-SUCCESS! Now Tribe will be reunited with her sister (renamed "Delhi") at their new home, which India/ Delhi now happily shares with a male kitty named Kokopelli.

Tribal:



Nice spots!



Happily shredding the cat tree to bits:



Yes, her eyes really are a pale aquamarine!





Her sister, India/ Delhi:

[BrklynLiberal]

1. From the pics, Tribal is a lot more exotic looking! How is her personality

compared to India's? I remember your saying that India was not exactly a loving feline.
Tribal is really stunning..

[Lorien]

2. Tribal is a lot sweeter, which is funny considering her wilder looks!

she growls and hisses sometimes when I pick her up, just like her sister did (makes me wonder if they were abused)-but she doesn't try to bite and she will let me cuddle her. She also rubs, kneads and purrs when spoken to. India/Delhi walked right up to Lynn, her new owner, and rubbed and purred immediately; it was as if she were saying "there you are! I've been waiting for you; you're MY person now"!Hopefully Tribe will react to Lynn the same way when she picks her up tomorrow (they haven't met yet).

[IndyOp]

3. India/Delhi walked right up to her new owner, and rubbed and purred

I BELIEVE!

They know so much more than we do.

O8)

[ET Awful]

6. Indeed they do :) Althea pretty much picked me.

The lady doing the adoptions said that she was afraid of everybody and I watched her for a while and whenever anyone came near the cage, she'd burrow farther into the pile of kittens :).

One by one I pulled out the other kittens, held them and pet them, etc. .. without exception, they all squirmed to get away (these ones had been completely relaxed around everyone else I saw them with), but when I finally pulled out Althea (who had tried to get away from anyone else that touched her), she promptly curled up in my arms and started purring :)

How could I deny that? :)

[Robeson]

4. Great ending Lorien. Bengals are beautiful....

...:thumbsup:

[I_Make_Mistakes]

5. Same with birds! If they pick you, it is a match made in heaven.

[demnan]

7. What gorgeous cats, especially Tribal

Incidently, aren't Bengals related to Abbyssinians in some way? If so the growling may come from that. Lily is a growler as was her mother. She rarely growls at me but mostly growls at her brother.

[superconnected]

8. oh those green eyes!

very very beautiful!

Wonderful they are being reunited.

[Lisa0825]

9. Bengals are sooooooo beautiful!

and your pics are great too! I have a hard time getting good pics of the foster kitties. My new digital isn't very fast, and as soon as they notice the camera, they come toward it!

[Lorien]

10. I've found that toys and good natural light are the keys

to good kitty photos. Tribe was a tough subject; she is mostly disinterested in toys, and the proximity of hurricane Ophelia to my state made "good light" tough to find for the past few days!

[ET Awful]

11. WOW, those eyes are something else . . .

she's a very purty kitty!

[newsguyatl]

12. tribal's stunning!!!!!!!

one of the most beautiful cats i think i've seen...

[SiouxJ]

13. That cat ought to be in pictures!

Or calenders or something. What an exceptionally beautiful feline. She is absolutely stunning! That little smile she has is just precious. Glad you found her!

[Lorien]

14. Damn.

Lynn, the woman who adopted Delhi, is now backing out from adopting Tribal! She said that she just can't afford three cats. I sent Tribal home with her as a foster, hoping that she will change her mind by weeks end (because I hate to break up the pair). I know that Tribal will get a home quickly if I put her up for adoption at Pookie's (Delhi went within an hour)but still, I'm really disappointed that she won't be with her sister!

[MsTryska]

15. those cats are beautiful.....

who dumps cats that look like that?

[wildeyed]

16. It's amazing to me, too.

My parents have a young Aussie Shepard that is a rescue. Prettiest animal you ever laid eyes on. Really nice dog, too. Turns out that she was from a breeder and the owners paid thousands for her. The original owners were dropping her at the Humane Society when my father, who had an Aussie previously, fell for her like a ton of bricks. After adopting her, my dad contacted the breeder. The breeder was pissed that the dog had been left at the shelter. He would have taken her back. He was also mad that she had been spayed. Apparently she was of "show" quality, whatever that means.

[MsTryska]

17. means she's beautiful enough to win a Dog Show...

and he would have loved it if she were "whole" so he could breed her.



That's the thing I just don't get - how people have zero commitment to the animals they adopt, or buy.

I don't know hwo soemone can comfortably throw away a pet when they become "inconveninent"

[superconnected]

18. My sister has been doing it for years

She has the ability not to feel empathy.

The rest of the family loves pets so I think it was just her that got the bad gene. I believe my brother has 5 or 6 of her throw away animals.

[MsTryska]

20. so why does she keep getting animals?

does she think that "this time will be different" or soemthing?

[superconnected]

24. No, shes a compulsive person who likes the puppy/kitten and gets it

finds out it goes to the bathroom in the house, then drops it off in a neighborhood somewhere. I bet shes done this 30 times. Onces she dumped 2 puppies at once in a neighborhood. My niece told me about it afterward.

She got into cats 2 years ago(she's always adopted cats and dogs for short times, probably all from the humane society and all let go in nice neighborhoods when they became inconvient). But this time she got into a few that she decided to keep and became a "cat" person.

This is the kind of cat person she is: she was responsible for her momma cats having 20 kittens - same cat - one batch 12, the other batch 8, this summer. She did give away the kittens this time and she did attempt to get the momma cat fixed by going to one of those places with a spay mobile. But, she showed up at 6am on time, and the mobile was late and didn't come by 10am when she left. I know she actually stayed for that as my nieces reported it to me. Then a few months later that cat she didn't get fixed had the 12 kittens.

So my sister is now a major kitten factory with her 5 cats shes letting run around and breed.

I doubt it will last long till they all become inconvient and she moves to get rid of them, and saves the random pet and makes it homeless again. The good news is I think my brother is saving her pets now. I don't see them enough to be there and save the newly ousted pets.

The kittens do all get homes. You gotta wonder what kind though because they are my sisters aquaintences...

[MsTryska]

25. that's horrible......

you should work in cahoots with your brother and niece to kidnap the breeder, and get her fixed on the sly. I'm guessing your sister wouldn't even notice.

[superconnected]

26. I've considered that. Got to get her when her kittens are weaned.

[AirmensMom]

27. Please do!

That kitty needs to stop having kittens.

This is from T.L.C. Adoptions, an all-volunteer cat rescue and adoption organization:

"One unaltered female and her off-spring (conservatively, only 2 litters a year, with 2.8 kittens surviving each time) will produce, in a 10-year breeding period 80,399,780 cats!!! "

I thought that was pretty sobering ... especially since it's a "conservative" number. I'm sure the real number is much higher.

[wildeyed]

19. And instead of sending her to the shelter,

they could have simply sent her back to the breeder. He would have taken her back, fixed or not. And this was not a dog with any major behavioral issues, either. She was a little rambunctious when my folks got her, but morning romps at the park and a little obedience training fixed her right up.

[MsTryska]

21. exactly....especially

after spending so much money on her. I guess they jsut didn't think about it.

[Eurobabe]

22. eyes like limpid pools...gorgeous!

[demnan]

23. I'd love to have that cat

but I don't think my condo is big enough, especially now that I'm feeding Charley.

[AirmensMom]

28. Those cats are just gorgeous!

Good work!

:applause: