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My name is Jazzy!

Posted over 4 weeks ago | Updated 1 week ago

Adoption fee: $170

This helps Homeward Trails Animal Rescue with pet care costs.

My basic info

Breed
Domestic Shorthair
Color
Gray or Blue/Orange or Red
Age
5 years old, Adult
Sex
Female
Pet ID
37247
Hair Length

My details

Checkmark in teal circle Spayed / Neutered

My story

Here's what the humans have to say about me:

Breed - Domestic Short Hair
Spayed Female
Front Paw Declaw
Weight - extra chonky
Estimated Age - Around 5 years old

If you are interested in adopting this cat, please fill out our cat adoption questionnaire at https://www.shelterluv.com/matchme/adopt/HTAR/Cat. For questions, email kelseym@homewardtrails.org.

HOW TO MEET THIS CAT: This cat is in a foster home. To meet him, please complete the adoption questionnaire.

LOCATION: Foster home

ADOPTION COORDINATOR: Kelsey at kelseym@homewardtrails.org

ADOPTION FEE: $170. This fee INCLUDES spay, vaccines, and microchip. Ask us about our many adoption benefits that include free exams, pet insurance, and other discounts!

HOW THIS ANIMAL IS WITH:

CATS: Jazzy doesn't really care for other cats. She's the main attraction.

DOGS: Again, she doesn't really want to share the limelight with other animals.

KIDS: Good with older kid who can understand her boundaries.

KNOWN LIKES: Lounging, looking fabulous, sweater weather, snuggling, catnip, pumpkin spice lattes (probably, she's never actually had one - and shouldn't).

KNOWN DISLIKES: Belly rubs and being picked up (unless she really loves you and she's in the mood) and the fact she was previously declawed.

ABOUT THIS ANIMAL:

Jazzy is a big girl with a big personality. She can be a little standoffish to start out, but once you win her over, she loves attention. She does still have a sassy streak when it suits her - mostly when you interrupt her mealtimes or try to cuddle with her when she's playing with her toys. Jazzy was surrendered to a shelter, where we saw her hiding in her litter box. She had previously been declawed and we think that's why she's got that sassy streak.

She loves cuddling and will weave between your feet for attention, rubbing up against your legs until you sit down. She's still getting the hang of sitting on laps (she's a little too big to fit neatly) but if she decides she can't quite get comfortable, she'll curl up as close to you as possible. She loves catnip toys and still uses cardboard scratchers (we don't have the heart to tell her it's not doing anything).

Her next adventure (besides finding an adopter) is getting to a healthy weight through proper nutrition. She loves her daily jazzercise classes.

HT ADOPTION INCLUDES:
Spay/Neuter
A series of FVRCP vaccines, rabies vaccine (if old enough), and deworming
Microchip - lifetime registration with no fees

EXCLUSIVE ADOPTER BENEFITS:
Free physical exam with Caring Hands Animal Hospital, Palisades Veterinary Clinic, Jermantown Animal Hospital and Clarendon Animal Care within 30 days of adoption and all VCA Animal Hospitals (VCA offers $250 coverage - details provided) within 14 days of adoption.

A portion of EVERY ADOPTION fee supports spay/neuter for animals in under-resourced communities.

BE A FOSTER: Save a life: http://www.homewardtrails.org/foster-a-pet/dog-and-cat-foster-program.
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Contact info

Pet ID
37247
Contact
Phone
Address
11116 Fairfax Station Road, Fairfax Station, VA 22039

Their adoption process

Additional adoption info

You will first be required to complete our Adoption Questionnaire (http://www.homewardtrails.org/adopt-a-pet/adoption-forms/). Once received, a Homeward Trails rep will contact you via phone or e-mail. Please allow 72 hours for a response. If it seems you are a good fit for each other based on the info you provided, a phone interview will follow. If you are renting, we require proof that you are allowed to have a pet as well as any breed or size restrictions that may exist. If you have pets or did previously, we require your vet information and we will call them to verify that your pets are in good health, current on vaccines and spayed/neutered. We require that all pets in the home be spayed/neutered unless there are health reasons that can be verified with the vet.

Homeward Trails' adoption fees range depending on type of animal, the originating shelter and the vetting the animal has received. Our adoption fees are set to allow us to cover our expenses as well as to help other animals in our program that require additional care. Our fees cover vetting costs, shelter fees, fuel for transport, copying and printing of contracts and paperwork, our website presence, food, boarding, behavioral training and additional medical care. It is important to note that while the animal you adopt may not require all of these things, many other animals in our system do. Thus, any "extra" money from adoption fees goes to help those animals who may require additional care. By adopting from Homeward Trails, you are not saving just one life, you are helping to save others as well.

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Go meet their pets

Meet Adoptable Dogs at the Adoption Center Every Saturday and Sunday from 10 AM – 4 PM - No appointment necessary!
Come see us at 11116 Fairfax Station Rd, Fairfax Station, VA 22039.

Homeward Trails has dog and cat adoption events throughout the DC area. For a list of our upcoming events, go to:
www.homewardtrails.org/events/

More about this rescue

Homeward Trails seeks to find permanent adoptive homes in the Mid-Atlantic Region for dogs and cats from under resourced shelters or whose owners can no longer care for them. In so doing, we seek to reduce the rate of euthanasia of adoptable animals through the rescue and placement of homeless animals; to support proactive spay/neuter practices; to promote positive and ongoing behavioral training; and to educate the public about how to care for their animals in a humane way. Homeward Trails not only facilitates adoptions from local shelters, but also supports a large network of foster care providers who take homeless dogs and cats into their homes, care for them, rehabilitate them when needed, and prepare them for their permanent adoptive homes.

Sadly, without our help, all of these adoptable animals would face almost certain euthanasia - usually within days or hours of our rescuing them. Each year we take in hundreds of wonderful animals who were left at shelters through no fault of their own.

Many are puppies and kittens – innocent victims of irresponsible pet owners who don’t spay/neuter. Some are abandoned hunting dogs who served their owners well and were dumped in woods or left at shelters when they were no longer wanted. Others are house pets whose owners simply grew tired of caring for them or moved and did not take them along. And even more are animals that have been injured, abused and neglected. Whatever the reasons, these animals all deserve better. And once with Homeward Trails, they get better!

Our Principles:
1. To always operate in the best interest of the animals we take into our program and to advocate for the proper care of those in shelters and in private homes;
2. To provide quality care for the animals we take in for as long as they are in our program and to provide ongoing support to our adopters;
3. To always maintain a manageable number of animals in our system whereby we can ensure proper medical care, behavioral training and housing for the animals;
4. To rescue the widest array of dogs and cats by avoiding general discrimination based on breed, age, and health;
5. To provide our shelter partners and their communities with resources that will result in the highest level of care for their animals, an increase in spay/neuter surgeries and a decrease in the abuse, neglect and abandonment of dogs and cats;
6. To treat our volunteers, adopters and partners with understanding, patience and support

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