Male Cat aged 21 weeks.
Dashiell (Dash) is a short-haired tuxedo kitten with beautiful gold/amber eyes, born in mid-May. Dash is an unusually self-assured kitty. He is comfortable with a houseful of people he has just met, including young children. He is highly, highly active. If he were a dog, he would be a border collie, to be sure.
Dash can entertain himself in the kitty playground that we have in our upstairs, but he also loves to play with his people. He is especially fond of the feather-string-stick toy and he loves the kitty sheet (see the videos in his album). Dash understands the concept of offering a behavior in order to get what he wants. He sits to get a treat and to get fed and he will jump over objects, through hoops, and cross a narrow board bridge to play with his feather-string-stick toy. He jumps onto a shoulder, as well. He’s used to wearing a harness; we’ve been taking him outside for walks and in the car for short rides. Understand that when Dash is active, he is not a cuddler at all. He just wants to go, go, go! Do not even try to pet him when he is in go-mode, he will just play-attack your hand. If you catch him when he’s in down-mode, though, he will relish a nap in your lap.
Dashiell was dropped in the middle of a Wasilla street by his likely feral mother when he was about 3 weeks old, and needed to be bottle fed. This means he is very human-oriented and has had lots of time to be socialized. That is, after all, the advantage to adopting from a foster home—the kitties that are raised in a foster home are well socialized and familiar with being handled and loved. In addition to being socialized to people, Dash had quite a few weeks with a foster sibling and surrogate mother, allowing him to develop intra-animal skills.
Dash eats both wet and dry food, uses the litterbox well, is dewormed several times over, and has had his second round of kitten vaccinations. He will need one more round of kitten shots and neutering once he’s in your care. There is an adoption fee of $90. We fosters are volunteers, so the adoption fee goes entirely to ACAT so that ACAT can continue in its mission to rescue kitties in need. In addition to the adoption fee, there is a refundable alter deposit of $75. ACAT will refund this fee once you show us that the kitty has been altered.
To learn more about Dash, fill out ACAT's preadoption application online. He is fostering in Anchorage. Contact his foster family Steve & Heidi in Anchorage at 907-444-9595. If it is before noon on a weekday, send a text versus calling, but if it is after noon or on the weekend, go ahead and call. If there is no answer, then send a text.
To see pictures and videos of Dash, go to his Google photo album:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/BAFD9NKkpCupgNvf6
When you join the photo album, you will be able to see when new pictures and videos are added. We keep an extensive photo album of our foster kitties so that you can get familiar with them before we take the next step in the adoption process, which is a video interview. In the interview, we would like to see the home where our sweeties will be going and we would like to meet you and ask a few important questions. If things progress beyond the video meeting, we will invite you to come over and meet the kitty(ies) in which you are interested.
Alaska Cat Adoption Team
PO Box 212555, (907) 982-2228