BELLEVUE — The feast was set.

Pureed pumpkin and grandma’s chicken stew.

But Sgt. Tibs had little interest in Thanksgiving dinner. Thursday was his first day out of isolation following a respiratory infection and he was entranced by admiring visitors. The 3-pound kitten nuzzled his tabby coat against the plexiglass, pressing his pink nose through dime-sized air holes to cooing onlookers.

“I want to see if Gertrude or Atticus want to eat theirs,” said Jacob Beardsley, the shelter care supervisor for Seattle Humane.

Gertrude and Atticus, a pair of kittens snuggled resolutely into a wooden box, also turned their noses up at their special dinner. But Banana, a panther-like 2-year-old domestic shorthair, devoured his feast, using his paw to scoop shredded chicken from his dish.

Each year,

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