So this past weekend, including Friday, the SPCA did 62 adoptions! We are all so thrilled for all of the animals who found wonderful homes. A big thank you to the Charlottesville-Albemarle community (and the Fairfax community since several adoptions took place at an offsite outing we regularly do at Wylie Wagg in Fairfax), the SPCA staff and our wonderful volunteers. You may already know Braveheart and Henry were adopted (and both are doing wonderfully!), so here's a little info on a sweet cat who luckily found a great home from her spot at Purrin at Pantops:This is a picture of the cat Tony that was adopted at Purrin' yesterday. He is on a special diet due to a skin condition. (When he came in his skin had big ol' blotches and a lot of missing hair. He is obviously much better now...and gorgeous!) It turns out that the wonderful woman who adopted him already had another cat on the same diet, so Tony will fit right in with his new family and his new home. Here's to luck and pluck!


FIV is a lentivirus (or "slow virus") that eventually breaks down a cat’s immune system. It CANNOT be spread to humans or to any animal other than cats, and it is not easily spread between cats either. It’s typically transmitted when "tomcats" carrying the virus attack and bite other cats who can’t get away or don’t want to fight back. So it ends up that that these FIV infected cats tend to be the sweetest cats of all because they’re the lovers, not the fighters.


