🐾   Sugarfoot: A Spicy spirit Seeking Freedom

Sugarfoot wasn’t your typical gentle rescue. From day one, he had a fiery spirit and a streak of independence that made him known as the "spicy" one in our care. Before he came to us, he was spotted darting across busy roads throughout the day, risking not just coyotes but the threat of traffic. If the coyotes didn’t get him, a car very well might have.

It took months of patience in our catio just to earn his trust enough for a treat without a little sass. He would complain at night, making it clear that confinement wasn’t his style, and that a life indoors just wasn’t in the cards for him.

As much as we want to place every cat into a cozy indoor life for their safety, some cats simply aren’t meant to be sequestered. Sugarfoot was one of those souls who needed freedom more than anything. We honored that by finding him a place at a family farm at the base of Mount Diablo—rolling hills, plenty of mice, and a watchful human presence to look after him in the most basic way.

While there’s no guarantee in farm placements and we had to trust his fate to the property owners and to the wild, we ultimately gave Sugarfoot the life he wanted. In that wide-open space, he could be the independent, spicy adventurer he was always meant to be.