September 4, 2020
By: Dwayne Page
“Mother Teresa” is a most remarkable cat.
This 18 month old feline, the WJLE/DeKalb Animal Shelter featured “Pet of the Week” has not only nursed four of her own but five other orphaned kittens during her stay at the shelter, thus earning her the name “Mother Teresa”. It’s time she found her forever home. Can you help?
DeKalb Animal Shelter Employees Emmaly Bennett and Jennifer Angaran with Mother Teresa from dwayne page on Vimeo.
“Teresa came into the shelter with four kittens of her own and we had five baby orphan kittens that she also nursed. She is about a year and a half old. She is super affectionate. She gets along well with everybody including kids and other cats. She has been at the shelter the longest of all the animals we have here after Oscar, the four month old cat we featured last week, got adopted. Teresa’s adoption fee is $85. She has already been spayed and is up to date on all her vaccinations. If you would like to meet her go online to fill out an adoption application. Email it to us and we will call you to set up an appointment so you can come in and meet her,” said Shelter employee Emmaly Bennett.
“We are still doing everything by appointment only. Give us a call and we can walk you through that process or visit our facebook page. You can find our adoption application at dekalbanimalcoalition.org. On the adopt tab scroll all the way to the bottom to find the application and send it to our email and we will call you and schedule an appointment,” said Bennett.
The shelter, located on Transfer Station Road behind Tenneco Automotive off Highway 70 east in Smithville, has been in operation since November, 2017 under the DeKalb Animal Coalition, a 501 c 3 non profit organization.
Phone 615-597-3647 (DOGS) for more information.