Update: Sylvester

Sylvester has now been living at the sanctuary for a year and he's as mellow as ever.

The "pooping outside the box" problem that No. 5 Rd. staff had encountered last year was solved by giving him a big cat sized litter box. Staff also seem to have got his weight down a bit. He comes across less "enormous" now than he does simply "big."

All in all, he seems to be doing all right. And even better when he receives a visit from one of his human friends, who he's happy to reward for the attention with a nice, comfortable, mellow kind of cuddle.

Sylvester

Sylvester is a very nice, very large cat who was transferred to the sanctuary from the No. 5 Rd shelter at the end of May. A mellow kind of guy, he took the transfer easily in stride, approaching his new quarters in the Gericatrics (aka Kitten Trailer) with little more than a blink and a sniff before settling right in.

"How large is very large?" you may ask. Try 20lb large. Ann first described him to me via a comparison to Mario, her preferred measuring stick for largish kitties. According to a scale of small to Mario-size, Sylvester apparently comes in at "cat who ate Mario."

... not that Sylvester seems the type to do this sort of thing literally. The 13 year old's fault, if any, is that he has a tendency to poop outside the box.