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| Contributed Photo Dora, who has been at Caribou’s Halfway Home Pet Rescue for six months or more, is now headed to southern Maine, where older cats are more in demand for adoption. Officials at the Caribou rescue center note more mature cats also make wonderful pets as they tend to have well-developed personalities. |
Dora is an approximately 7-year-old spayed female leaving HHPR to go to the Animal Welfare Society in Westbrook Saturday, along with nine other adult cats living at Halfway Home Pet Rescue.
Unfortunately, mature cats don’t seem to have much chance for adoption in Aroostook County, but are much in demand in the lower part of the state right now because their true personality is well known. Other questions, such as if they are good with children, loving, curious, playful, or an inside or outside cat, are already answered.
According to HHPR president Norma Milton, the older cat is the sweetest test of behavior issues.
Personality is a combination of inherited qualities, early environment and care from a mother or foster mother cat, and overall kind and careful handling with their new family, Milton said.
