and 15 of their 31 resident cats found new homes in a single day.
I lost my shelter kitty, Pollyanna, to age and liver disease on Christmas Day.
The day after, I headed to the shelter to donate her remaining cat food. There at 2pm, I found a jammed parking lot. Inside, I found the staff ecstatic that since they'd opened at 11 that morning, they'd found homes for 12 kitties.
I left with gratitude for the food and compliments that Polly, who'd come to me after a year at the shelter as the most unwanted kitty due to her plain face, angry wail and liver disease, had lived 7 years of nonstop purring, despite her illness. Oh, I also left with kitty #13 in the carrier I had brought along 'just in case.' 
And while we were rounding up kitty #13, who was the current most unwanted kitty, just shy of a full year at the shelter (despite her beautiful pure gold eyes and dilute calico coat) due to her diffident and aloof nature, a small family was looking for kitty #14 (an always hard to adopt black kitty).
As I stepped out the door, a lovely young woman was walking up the stairs carrying a carrier. I asked if she was coming to adopt a kitty. She positively beamed, "Yes!" 
In other adoption holiday news, the young woman who sits across from me at my new job brought home a homeless, family-less 16 year old boy to live with her. He was about to be thrown out of the shelter on Christmas Eve. Instead, last weekend they discussed him possibly staying with her. She advised him there would be rules and consequences if he broke them. And found herself reassuring him that no, he would not be sent back to the shelter for breaking rules. 
He asked if he stayed with her if he could call her "mom."
It seems that at least some people have figured out that the gift of love is worth far, far more than all the cheap, slave-made, plastic junk in the world. 
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