Naga-Four Paw Declawed Domestic Short Hair Mix Anchorage, AK

Shelter Hours
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 7pm-9pm: Visitation Only
Wednesday: 7pm-8:30pm: Visitation Only

Weekend Hours by Appointment Only.
Please call the shelter at 344-8808 to make these arrangements.
Appointment times are:
3:15, 4:00, 4:45

Purrlease ensure you have purrmission to have a cat where you live before considering adoption! We will need to see a copy of your lease agreement along with a contact number for your landlord to ensure the adoption is allowed.

All parties interested must meet Naga before the adoption can happen. If you are not living in Anchorage, you must come in to meet Naga before the adoption and make arrangements to transport her to your home. This is to ensure that everyone is in agreement with the adoption and that there is a purrfect connection.

Naga may be the sweetest, most beautiful and tender sweetheart you could ever meet. Her journey to AHS has been one filled with stress, unfairness and sadly trauma. You see Naga came all the way from Oklahoma at some point. Down in OK this sweet girl was put through a barbaric and unnecessary surgery of having all of her paws declawed. Yes you read that correctly. Naga is a 4 Paw Declaw! Try not to cringe when you look at her poor mangled paws, yet Naga is the loveliest sweetheart around. We did some detective work and even though we found the facility where she received her microchip, we could not get a straight answer out of anyone as to where the declaw surgery occurred. We were kind and purrofessional when we talked to various places, we just wanted to find out when this happened to his purrecious girl. Then when Naga came to Alaska she lived in a home with dogs and developed litter box issues. From what we could conclude from her owner surrender paperwork (as she was surrendered at AACC) she was very fearful of the dogs and not having claws to defend herself left her very vulnerable. We also know that declawing has long term ramifications both behaviorally and emotionally (despite what the naysayers will say), with litter box issues being one of them. This is not because the cat is being spiteful, it could easily be that her paws hurt and scratching the litter is painful. Since Naga has been with us at AHS she has been successfully using her litter box, although she has had chronic diarrhea. With guidance from our vet she has tried various treatment plans with this last one being injections of Vitamin B12. Our next step is a fecal transplant which she has started and we are hopeful that will help our sweet, purrecious ginger girl. On top of having all of these issues, sweet Naga also had a horrible hernia that was impacting her body as well, so she had to undergo yet another surgery to correct that!

Despite all of these impacting factors, Naga is exceptionally sweet. She will look at you with those gorgeous amber eyes, chat with you about her daily escapades and then she will flop herself over on her back kneading away into the air making purrfect biscuits. Naga is affectionate, loving and ever so trusting. Purretty remarkable after everything she has been through. She is a fierce hunter and LOVES herself some catnip. She will pounce, tear and show that although her claws were barbarically removed she is a meowty kitty warrior!

We are still working with our vet to resolve her diarrhea issues, however we are hopeful we can help her to feel better soon all around.


AHS will also purrovide behavioral support for the transition and more to ensure that everyone feels secure with the adoption.

Our adoption agreement prohibits declawing an adopted cat, and stipulates that the cat will be returned to us if the adoption does not work out. This also applies if the adopter is no longer able to keep the cat or is able to purrovide him/her with the necessary healthcare to maintain a healthy and happy life.

For the first 30 days, cats who do not work out in their new homes may be returned for a refund or exchanged for another, more suitable, cat.