This is Lit’l Boy, a beautiful kitty owned and loved by Elaine White in Rockwell, North Carolina. Lit’l Boy was rescued by Barbara Hart from Rowan County Animal Shelter back in January 2017 after he was turned in as a stray.
Elaine found Lit’l Boy several years ago. He was a stray who was too beautiful to be an outdoor cat but he was scared to death. Someone had been mean to him and it took awhile for Lit’l Boy to learn to trust again.
Lit’l Boy trusted Elaine but he was afraid of others. He turned from an outdoor kitty into an indoor/outdoor kitty. Unfortunately, after rain hit the area for several days Lit’l Boy was nowhere to be found. Elaine searched the woods and canvassed her neighborhood looking for him.
Then Elaine saw Lit’l Boy on the Rowan County Animal Shelter page. His available date was January 23 and that was the day Elaine went to the shelter, where she learned he’d been rescued by Barbara Hart.
When Elaine contacted Barbara she was told Lit’l Boy was theirs now and that the cat they had wasn’t her cat. Elaine offered to pay for him. Anything to get him back home where he felt safe and loved. Barbara even agreed to meet with Elaine so she would see the cat they had wasn’t even her missing cat, claiming the coat pattern and eye color was different on the cat now in their rescue.
The meeting never took place. Lit’l Boy is still out there somewhere. Elaine would like to find him and is asking those on social media to share his photo in the Rowan County area. Please do all you can to help her find her cat. It may not be possible legally to get Lit’l Boy back (I don’t know what the law is in NC), but at least Elaine can get closure in knowing he’s alive and safe.
Elisa
But if Elaine didn’t go to the shelter and identify him in time then Barbara had the legal right to pull him on the first day he was available. A lot of owners don’t even think to check the shelter. They assume their cat is roaming the neighborhood and will eventually come home.
At no point in this article did I state he was pulled before he could legally be pulled. I didn’t go by what Elaine said happened as far as pulling but I don’t see anywhere in my writing that Barbara pulled too soon because I can’t back that up. My only hope in doing this article is for her to learn her cat wasn’t one of the cats found dead in the house. Legally I don’t believe a new owner would be forced to return him. So YOU need to read the article thoroughly and not I didn’t say anything about him being pulled too soon.
My cats are current on shots and fixed. I don’t want to stay in the house for the rest of my life nor do they. They are happy to go outside and play with each other run around and catch mice. There’s nothing wrong with cats going outside. I could drive down the road and be killed myself by a car.
Thanks for commenting Elizabeth.
Phew this seems complicated although it should be simple. It seems to me that Barbara knows or is fearful that the cat belongs to Elaine. If the cat is the same one and that may be contentious, then Elaine owns him and she can sue Barbara and the shelter provided tried to re-adopt him in time which she did as I understand it. It goes to show how messy these cases can be.
You really need to check your facts because Rowan Animal Shelter WILL NOT allow any animal to be adopted or pulled by a rescue before their stray hold is over. This woman is NOT being honest! I saw in one post she said the cat was rescued before it was available and on another post she said Barbara adopted him as soon as the cat was available. That cat was not neutered and was being allowed to run loose. Also, she obviously wasn’t going to the shelter to check for her cat or she would have known he was there.