WAIF

WAIF www.waifanimals.org or Whidbey Animals Improvement Foundation, on Facebook is a brand new facility in Coupeville.  I was impressed by how roomy and how much room is available for lost pets or pets needing a new home.
I spent Friday with my Sketching buddies and...Little girl, Millie, Sophie and Olive at Whidbey Animals' Improvement Foundation (WAIF) in Coupeville.  The facility is new and quite nice.  The animals get loving from the many volunteers.  One volunteer came into the room I was in and took each kitty out one by one and spent time in a quiet room with that one kitty!
Olive is a favorite on everyone because she is so mellow.  Her colors are delicate with fine lines outlining her eyes and nose.  She posed for a while behind the bars but when I opened the cage she took off to explore the room.  I can't sketch a moving target!
Millie and Little girls like hanging out in their cage.  Millie has a bit of OCD with the litter box.  I wrote that she cleaned it about 4x, but it was really 8 when she finished!  Clean kitty and pretty to boot!

I used a brush pen on the Olive sketch to the right! Sophie gave me one minute in the bed, then took off.  Its so hard to sketch details on an all black cat!

 

Freeland Cat Cottage

I met the king of cats this last week at the Freeland Cat Cottage.  He truly was king of the jungle with a great personality but also an automatic self defense response.  I discovered you could approach him from the back and give him a back massage, but please don't try petting this "little kitty" from the front if you value your skin.  He is not mean, just automatically defensive, a response to being cooped up day after day.
Robby is a Norwegian Forest Cat (the Maine coon cat has tufts in his ears).  This guy would be a wonderful, interesting companion, once he settled into your home.  Don't you need a King in your house?  I'll come visit him as he is very cool!

On the other hand we had a tuxedo cat named Rocky.  I think their names should be reversed.  Rocky is a little? chubby from his confinement, but beautiful, curious and mellow all at the same time.

Sherryl found a lovely gray tabby that spent the afternoon warming her up and Sue was all over the place testing all the cats, except Robby, for placement in her home and on her lap.  Just purr baby!  She will take you home.

Robby resting on the floor

Robby in his tree house acting like the King with beautiful eyes

Rocky, the chubby tuxedo cat.