The Rexphiles: Cornish Rexcue success stories

Rexcue success stories
Last updated on Sept. 18, 2007.

Arizona - Hope, a 5-year-old fuzzy Sphynx calico female.
Texas - Odie, a 13-year-old odd-eyed white male.
New Jersey - 10-year-olds Bobby, a CRex male, and Jose, his DSH buddy.
California - Tzar, a neutered male.
Illinois - Piper, a black_&white van female.
California - Peanut, an ~12-year-old black smoke male.
Arizona - Pharaoh & Tut, two males.
California - Apricot, a 10-year-old red-&-white spayed female.
Missouri - Lisa, a 12-year-old black-&-white female.
Arizona - Minime, a Devon Rex/Sphynx hybrid male.*
Texas - Alexis, a deaf, ~2-year-old blue-eyed white female.
Arizona - Poindexter PurrNibbles, a red-&-white male.*
Arizona - Thal and Xeno, two Devon Rex/Sphynx hybrids.*
Arizona - Jor-El, a cream-&-white Sphynx male.*
Tennessee - Bopazita, a black-&-white female.
Arizona - Kitt Katt, a blue-&-white van male.*
Michigan - 28+ of 78 Cornies seized from a breeder.
Nebraska - Ryan, a red-&-white FeLV+ male.
Nebraska - Topper, a black-smoke-&-white male.
Illinois - Sweety, a torti female.
Arizona - Tommy & Kyuss, two cream-&-white males.*
Arizona - Squeekie, a black-&-white female.*
Arizona - Pinky, a blue-&-white female.*
Arizona - Kurley, a black-&-white male.*
Arizona - Dartanyun, a black-&-white male.*
Texas - Dixie and Pixie, two black-smoke females.
Florida - seven cats from a backyard breeder.
Pennsylvania - Dexter, a black & white male.
Arizona - Jalapeno, a black-&-white male, and Fajita, a calico female.*
Arizona - Ernie, a red-&-white male.*
Arizona - Cynthia, a red-&-white female.*

Plus more than 507 others
since September 1999!

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*My foster cats

Fostering is an important part of rescue. Fostering can mean the difference between life and death for many cats. Not only does it give them a time to recover their physical and mental health but it gives you an opportunity to observe and evaluate their needs. You also get the joy of spending time with additional cats, their colors and their personalities.

Minime, a 6-year-old black-&-white neutered Devon Rex/Sphynx hybrid male. He was turned in to the Apache Junction shelter saying he was not good with kids or other cats - neither of was true. Minime spent more than a year with me before finding the a forever home in Prescott.

Although declawed, Poindexter Purrnibbles was found wandering in east Mesa. He was clean and well-fed but he didn't have a collar or microchip. I only fostered him a day or two before a friend took him in. No one ever claimed him so he moved to Texas.

Thal, a red-&-white Devon Rex/Sphynx hybrid male (left), Xenomorph, a torti Devon Rex/Sphynx hybrid female (right), and Jor-El, a cream-&-white Sphynx male. Their owner was moving and could no longer keep them. Jor-El found a home in Scottsdale with my parents, while Thal and Xeno now make their home in Glendale. It took me nearly six months to find them the perfect home so they could stay together.

Kitt Katt was taken to a local vet for euthanasia due to inappropriate urination. The vet asked to contact rescue instead and the owner surrendered him. After two rounds of antibiotics Kitt Katt stopped his inappropriate urination. I fostered him for one year with very few inquiries before I told him he had a forever home with me.

Tommy and Kyuss stayed with me for about seven weeks before finding the perfect home in Gilbert. Here they are happily sleeping less than two days after arriving at their new home.

Squeekie was surrendered by her family due to a pregnancy. She lived with me for five weeks before going to join my former fosters Jalapeno and Fajita (below) in Fountain Hills. In two weeks she was already strutting around her new home.

Pinky went to live with a Lake Havasu City couple and their two children. She was with me for more than one month. She was turned in at the Arizona Humane Society by her owner who said she didn't get along wth other cats. She does.

Kurley went to live with a New York City woman after staying with me for about a week. He was surrendered when his owner said he was allergic to other cats.

Hope, a black Devon female, stayed with me for a couple of months after her family moved east without her. She now lives in Mesa a couple of miles from me.

Jalapeno and Fajita live in Fountain Hills and were with me for more than one month. Their previous owner retired and couldn't keep them.

I also fostered Dartanyun, an overnight guest, who now lives in Phoenix.

Marley was abandoned in Apache Junction in 2001 where a co-worker found him and brought him to me. I had him less than three years before I had him euthanized due to illness.

Rex Q was intercepted by a R.E.S.C.U.E. volunteer as he was carried into the Maricopa County Animal Care & Control in 1997. He now lives with me and is the mascot for my rescue efforts.

He was the third rescue I did, and the first that I kept, and started me down the rescue path.

Ernie was discovered in 1995 at the Arizona Humane Society. He had been declawed on all four paws. Ernie lived with my brother and sister-in-law and their two daughters for nine years until he was euthanized in February 2004.

A friend rescued him and I helped find him a home.

Cynthia was abandoned at a local apartment complex when her people moved. She was rescued in 1994 and lived happily with my brother and sister-in-law for 4 1/2 years before her death in 1999.

She was the first rescue I ever did.

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