PARIS — This week at Responsible Pet Care, MacKenzie is observing her second anniversary, but it’s not a date to celebrate. MacKenzie has been a guest at Responsible Pet Care for two years and is one of the long-timers at the shelter.
Six-year-old MacKenzie is a calico beauty. She came into the shelter as a stray. While she is a quiet cat, she does enjoy being engaged in conversation. She particularly likes it when the children from the Paris Elementary School come into the shelter and read to the cats. When she is being read to, she will come to the edge of her kennel and listen to the story as if she were waiting for the happy ending.
There is no good reason why MacKenzie has not been adopted. Sometimes it just happens that a cat will be overlooked for a long time. Then, all of a sudden, someone will come into the shelter and fall in love. The shelter would love to see MacKenzie get her own happy ending, or happy tail beginning.
To view videos of pets waiting at Responsible Pet Care for new homes, go to vimeo.com/npctv.
Responsible Pet Care of Oxford Hills is a no-kill, non-profit shelter and adoption center for cats and dogs, and the holding area for stray dogs for 12 towns in Oxford County. The shelter is located at 9 Swallow Road in Paris.
Anyone interested in adopting a pet from RPC can visit the shelter as follows: Monday and Tuesday closed; Wednesday and Thursday noon to 4 p.m.; Friday and Saturday noon to 5 p.m.; Sunday noon to 4 p.m.
Most of the adoptable pets and the adoption application can be found online on the shelter’s website at www.responsiblepetcare.org.
Responsible Pet Care operates a thrift shop called Pawsibilities. It is located at 132 Waterford Road in Norway, and is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Donations of clean, usable household items are accepted during shop hours. All the money raised at Pawsibilities supports RPC.
For answers to questions about adopting or fostering a pet, or to make an inquiry about a lost animal, call RPC after noon at 207-743-8679.
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