Samantha

$200 for proof of Samantha the cat’s whereabouts! Please share

Samantha was originally at Indianapolis Animal Care Services (IACS) and IACS Shelter Rescue Team (formerly called IACS Rescue). She was “rescued” from the Indy shelter on March 15, 2020 by Chesterton-based Humane Society of the Dunes in Northwest Indiana (NWI), run by Jane Hullsiek.

Samantha was never posted by the IACS Rescue page until her “freedom ride” post, but we have some information on her from public records requests to IACS. She was adopted 3 times from IACS between 2016 and 2020.

Samantha was first at IACS in 2016 as a kitten. She was adopted and came back in July 2019, declawed but with no notes entered about her health otherwise. She was adopted a second time and was only gone a few months before she was returned again at the end of December 2019. She was noted to be a little overweight during her third stay at IACS, and the shelter vet at the time noted she may have bone fragments in her paws based on radiography, leftover from the declaw surgery. She was started on gabapentin and her notes say to consider a consult with another vet for possible paw repair. She was adopted again soon after in January 2020 (her third adoption), and her notes said it was okay to discontinue the gabapentin because she didn’t appear to be in pain.

Once again she found herself back at the shelter in April 2020, surrendered by her third adopter for house-soiling (an issue that can be common in declawed cats). Her notes stated she returned very overweight, over 3 lbs heavier than she had been just a few months before during her last shelter stay. At the shelter she used her litter box and soiling outside the box was observed only when she was given a small litterbox, but it improved immediately when given an appropriately sized litterbox for a large cat. Six days after she found herself at IACS for the fourth time, she was sent to Humane Society of the Dunes.

Humane Society of the Dunes never posted a single thing about Samantha on their now-deleted Facebook page. We’d like an update on Samantha and will pay $200* for proof of her whereabouts and answering a few questions. If you know where she is, reach out. She’d be 9 years old now.

• *$100 from the admins of this page
• *$100 from a generous supporter