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Saving California (Cobra)

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Foster name: California. Earned name: Cobra  "I don't understand, why is she going to be euthanized?" I asked my supervisor. I couldn't believe it when I had spotted an orange card (the orange card of death ) on the cage of one of the cats at the animal shelter where I worked full-time. "She bites. Hard," I was told. "She's bitten a couple employees, very aggressively." The over-weight brown tabby had never bitten me. In fact, she would roll on her side and engage in belly rubs. She would chat and chirp the moment I entered the room and she was always very friendly with me. I was told which employees she had bit and I went and asked them what had happened. I was told that without warning, she would lash out and bite. She didn't like to be handled or touched and would bite when examined. She was not suitable for shelter life. The biting behavior might partially be explained by the fact that she had been declawed by someone i