04/07/2025
Meet Tallulah - our pet of the month winner for our Dixie Trail location!
“Tallulah is entering her nineteenth year of life in our family—after defying odds and surviving her perilous first weeks. A college kid had rescued her from a highway near Morehead City during a fierce storm and next day begged folks visiting Fort Macon and the beach to adopt her. He had no takers until we and our kind young daughters came along. It was clear Tallulah was in great danger, never mind that we knew nothing about caring for a tiny seven-day old kitten--eyes just beginning to open. An angel of a veterinarian, just seconds from locking the clinic door, saw the dilemma and instructed us in detail on how to keep Tallulah alive. Her most encouraging words: “Though this orphan is exceedingly feisty, that could ultimately save her.” Tallulah’s first weeks in Raleigh were spent on a heating pad, being fed every two hours, and learning about us, including our mature cat, Sage Wager (a tortie adopted from Safe Haven in 2002). We were all heartbroken when Wager died in September 2019. Still grieving, we went to Safe Haven and brought home Bella, a tuxedo cat thought to be one or two years old. (She had come there in a convoy from Myrtle Beach due to a hurricane threat.) Tallulah retains her feistiness and a degree of independence. Yet she is also very social (except with the good Oak Heart staff). She loves to be with her family; and now that the girls are grown, she especially likes sitting on her mama’s lap and perching on her daddy when he’s stretching on the floor. Throughout the night in all seasons she snuggles up against her mama. Tallulah naps more than ever and cannot run and jump as well as in younger years. In spurts, however, she can chase and zoom almost as fast as Bella; and they love to sun and snooze together in some of the best seats in the house and screened porch.”
