<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Courtesy of My San Antonio (San Antonio, Texas) at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/life/pets/article/Cats-given-up-by-San-Antonio-owner-for-being-too-5874004.php#photo-7104747">http://www.mysanantonio.com/life/pets/article/Cats-given-up-by-San-Antonio-owner-for-being-too-5874004.php#photo-7104747</a></div><div> </div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><h1 class="headline entry-title" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; outline: none 0px; clear: both; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 40px; font-size: 36px; font-family: Sanchez, serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Cats given up by San Antonio owner for being "too old" looking for a home</h1><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ANTONIO — Three senior cats in good health — two are 20 years old and one is 25 — are in need of a new home after their owner gave them up because they were "too old."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Two are blind, but are otherwise healthy and have adapted to the visual challenge, and veterinary staff at Animal Care Services said none of the three have any health problems.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They walk just fine, interact with people and don't need any medication.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Because they have been together so long, ACS wants to find them a home for all three, named by the staff for the "Golden Girls" of TV fame: Rose, Blanche and Dorothy.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They’ve definitely bonded with each other," said Bethany Heins, live release manager at ACS.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ACS spokeswoman Lisa Norwood said the trio fall under special hospice adoptions and adoption fees would be waived.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Experts say a 12-year-old cat is equivalent to about a 70-year-old human, which would make these cats well over the century mark, if they were people.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Few cats live to be 20, let alone in good health with no need for medication.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“These are good-looking cats. Because they’re older doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be treated like the queens that they are,” Norwood said. “There’s still life left for them and we want them to have that life together.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Blanche</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;"><img src="cid:BC3FCCC8-FE28-497B-B0FE-CF6F91EFBC45" alt="image1.jpeg" id="BC3FCCC8-FE28-497B-B0FE-CF6F91EFBC45"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;"><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com/Caturday/Blanche.jpg">http://www.MoscowCares.com/Caturday/Blanche.jpg</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rose</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;"><img src="cid:B6F07278-8395-4CCB-AE8B-83F104207FAC" alt="image1.jpeg" id="B6F07278-8395-4CCB-AE8B-83F104207FAC"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com/Caturday/Rose.jpg">http://www.MoscowCares.com/Caturday/Rose.jpg</a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dorothy </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;"><img src="cid:A618D096-76C4-42F6-99A0-7B40912007C4" alt="image2.jpeg" id="A618D096-76C4-42F6-99A0-7B40912007C4"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;"><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Dorothy.jpg">http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Dorothy.jpg</a></p></div><div>--------------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div></body></html>