Yukon’s Last Territory

Jul 02, 2020

Today, we're here to tell you an adoption story 1,290 days in the making. Yukon found a home! Green-eyed, outgoing Yukon is a foster fail after more than three and a half years here at PAWS.

Yukon came to PAWS Chicago as a stray from Chicago Animal Care and Control, ready to take on the world like every day was playtime. As much as he loved people, he needed some extra help learning how to be a housecat.

He spent almost a year with our feline behavior pro, Erin, as her office cat, learning how to express his desire to play, visited five different foster homes that helped him acclimate to life as a housecat, and explored every inch of our Lincoln Park Adoption Center’s rooftop with our Kitty City volunteers. With help from the entire PAWS family, Yukon’s finally understood what it meant to add a little calm to his very full life.

His fifth and last foster, Sharon, wandered into our Adoption Center last December to ask if Yukon needed a foster home. As our staff members describe it, it was “like a miracle.” Over the six months of being Yukon’s foster mom, she worked closely with Erin to ensure he had the happiest possible home and fell in love with his spunky personality – so much so that she welcomed him into her family as a foster fail!

You can bet we sent Yukon home with some very happy tears. We can't wait to watch him experience all the adventures of a PAWS Chicago Alumni!

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