paris is yearning
I’ll just lay it all out and put it bluntly. Paris needs a home. Jack Talman found the adorable black and white momma and her five kittens in the woods near a Shell gas station in Plant City. The cats were lucky Talman found them. His commitment to animals, particularly free-roaming and stray cats, is significant.
The owner of Talman Tank ponied up the money to open the Animal Coalition of Tampa’s spay/neuter clinic. In the interest of full disclosure, I work with ACT and am paid by the group.
But that has nothing to do with Paris, whose kittens were almost immediately adopted at Humane Society of Tampa Bay.
Talman took Paris home. (He had named her Shelly, after the gas station. His wife Jewel changed it.) An unabashed cat guy, he expected to have Shelly/Paris around for a very long time. 
Like a proud pappa, he brags that she will play with a feather on a wand for hours and she comes when she’s called. “She only weighed six pounds when I found her,” he says. “She’s up to a healthy nine pounds now.”
Not surprisingly, as a free-roaming cat she hadn’t had a lot of contact with humans, so Talman says she doesn’t like being picked up yet. But she loves to be petted while she lies on the floor.
There’s another “but,” however. Turns out Jewel is allergic to Paris the cat. So the adorable animal lives on a screened porch at the Talman home. “She loves to watch the squirrels and birds,” says Talman.
But he wants more for the cat than a home on the porch.
Paris has been spayed and tested for FIV and FeLV. She’s had all her shots and will soon get a microchip. Talman also says that she has a wonderful, shiny coat, eats dry cat food and uses the litter box.
“I haven’t had her around other pets,” says Talman, “so I’m not sure if she would get along with other cats and dogs. But, as we know, somehow they adapt.”
If you are able to give Paris a home, email Talman at jtalman@ij.net or call him at (813) 376-0480.
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