Adoption offers pour in for inseparable Bonnie and Clyde

An animal shelter has been inundated with offers to adopt a cat and dog who just won’t be separated.

Bonnie the cat, and Clyde the dog, are being cared for at the Animal Heaven, Animal Rescue (Ahar) farm near Killarney after being found wandering the roads near Tralee during Christmas.

Even when the pair were brought to a vet for emergency treatment for what transpired to be third-degree burns — they refused to be parted.

Suzanne Gibbons, who rents the 29-acre farm near Gneeveguilla that is shelter to an increasing number of unwanted pets, said she is in no doubt the pair were deliberately scalded.

Bonnie and Clyde had been wandering the road near Ardfert when they came to the attention of Ahar volunteers.

“We have had over 60 calls already today. I am delighted with the response,” Ms Gibbons said.

She was not willing to let Bonnie and Clyde be separated, but few people wanted to adopt both a cat and a dog.

That was until the pair’s story appeared in the Irish Examiner yesterday, after which 60 people contacted Ahar.

Ms Gibbons hopes the photo of the pair will jog the memories of those who have information on what she believes was a deliberate attack on the young animals — they are both only months old.

The Ahar farm is run by a team of volunteers. One of its great supporters is musician Sharon Shannon.

Pedigree dogs are among the increasing number of animals now being abandoned as owners can no longer afford to feed and look after them, Ms Gibbons said.

Increasing cruelty is also a problem.

* www.ahar.ie