Chappy Part 2

 Update on the little guy I rescued on Grand on Monday morning.  Vet reports:  "He is doing really well.  He is very social and loves to have his head and chin scratched.  The wounds on his rear and underbelly seem to be healing well.  He has had really bad diarrhea since he first came in.  We started him on Metronidazole today and the doctor said he can stay until we get that figured out and under control.  I think they are going to run a fecal sample to see what is going on with him but I haven't heard yet."  And the other good news is that my sweet cousin Patty has offered to foster him until October, when she leaves for Florida.  Hopefully he will be adopted by then.  The bad news?  No picture of him yet!

I did however take a picture of the girl he left behind.  This beautiful calico is there every morning.  She is very sweet.  I think she is already fixed as I've never seen her pregnant.

Thanks again to my pal June for going out with me this week and being my water girl.  She's pretty awesome.  Thanks to Kim for helping me fill bags of food and fill water jugs!  She's pretty sweet too!  

Have a great day!

"If we believe that tomorrow will be better, 
we can bear a hardship today."

Chappy!

 So I was offered a spot for TNR by the clinic for yesterday.  My mind was racing thinking where I would set the trap.  There are SO many cats out there either getting pregnant or being impregnated.  But then I thought of the black kitty on Grand and Chamberlain, the one I've been caring for for so long.  I stuffed straw under a porch last year for him to nestle in through the winter, which he used because you could see the indentation in the straw from him.  I've been feeding under there since I saw him, and knew that was his home base.  Early this year, the store in front of the porch on the corner was robbed, and the clerk/owner was killed.  It was scary going there the morning I heard it on the news, but I got over it and continued to go feed there.  I've been noticing that Chappy, whom I named after the store Chappas, was getting very thin, even though I left a good amount of food every other day, for him and his lady friend - a beautiful friendly calico.  So that was going to be my TNR - I knew I wanted to have him tested for leukemia because thats what happens to leuk postive cats, they become emaciated before they die.  I was going to have him euthanized if he was positive.  So, luckily when I arrived there, I pulled out the carrier and was going to try to get him by scruffing him by the neck.  It worked!  

Off he went to the vet for neutering, and turns out he is a sweetheart and there was no way we could put him back out.  And he was negative for leukemia.  And he is polydactyl!  

Cyndy will provide pictures for later, but I am very grateful to the clinic for holding on to him for a few days while we try to find him a home.  Thanks RCAC!

On another note, Red from 4th Street is being neutered today, and has been adopted by a great couple, who also happens to have a dog.  So he will go to his new home in a few weeks after Foster Janessa can work her magic and slowly introduce her dog to Red so he can at least know what a dog is!

And Billy and Bobby went to their new home.  But guess what, they turned out to be both girls! 

OK, pictures hopefully tomorrow of little Chappy.

Have a great day!

Monday's Child

 Today's rescue!  Meet Red #2 from Fourth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.  He has waited a very long time for me to scoop him up.  Lucky boy!  He would run to the truck when I pulled up each day, roll over on his back, and zig zag in front of me all the way back to the shelter for his breakfast.  He would then sometimes walk back to the truck with me.  I knew he had to get off the street.  He's a purr machine as well.  Thanks to Janessa, my foster girl, he will be safe and sound until he finds a home, which won't be long.  Remember Honey from Parsells Avenue?  I rescued him several weeks ago and had a ton of applications for him.  This kitty is identical in personality and looks!  He will have a home in no time!  :).

Billy and Bobby are also being adopted, together!  Great news!  

Mick and Starr are also adopted together.   Great family who comes to visit them until they are ready to go to new homes.  They are seven weeks today!  They are Tuesday's kids.  We have four more of them waiting for a good home, and possibly adopted in pairs.  Their mom is being shown today so fingers crossed!  Many thanks to Foster Mom Estelle!

Otherwise, nothing too new.  Just too many kitties out there that need homes.  We need fosters!

Have a great day!

Hump Day

 Hello Blog.  Its been a while!  My life is so full of ups and downs.  I am still unemployed but looking steadily and doing an occasional interview.  Problem is, no one is paying!  Fingers crossed for Friday though.  :)

Other than that, its still cats cats and more cats.  Thank you to June for heading out with me occasionally and doing the dirty work.  Someone dumped some really nasty garbage on the side of the building on Niagara where I feed the cats.  June had the forethought to bring garbage bags and gloves and pick it all up.  Its bad enough the cats have to live like they do, but to have garbage on top of it, it isn't right.

Honey, the pretty buff colored kitty from Parsells that I rescued about three weeks ago was adopted on Thursday.  Really nice people.  I had SO many applications for this little guy who is just under one year old.  Its nice to see people want adult kitties and not just kittens.  I would take an older cat any day.  Kittens are too much work!  

Speaking of kittens, I still have Billy and Bobby here at my house and would love to get them adopted out.  As I said, kittens are too much work, and you feel obligated to entertain them.  The very reason I have adult cats is because they are self sufficient and I don't have to do a thing other than make sure they are fed and clean up after them.  They are pretty easy creatures to have around.  Kittens on the other hand...

I am rescuing the red kitty on 4th Street as soon as I can get an appointment at the clinic.   There is interest and Janessa has offered to foster again now that Honey is adopted.  Janessa is good because she has dogs and the cats on the street learn to interact/tolerate with them, which makes them so much more adoptable.  

Other than that, its quiet out there, and the cats are hungry.  They now go a day without food because I am feeding every other day.  I just can't do this alone day after day anymore.  And the cost of food is huge.  Someday soon, I won't be able to do it anymore, especially with winter looming.  I am sure there will be a lot of starving cats out there without me.  I wish someone would step up to help.

Have a great day!

Tuesday!

Making this short and sweet.  The kittens that Kristin and I rescued last Tuesday, along with their mother Tuesday, from the boarded up shed in the city were photographed yesterday by the famous Jennifer,  and I share them with you now!

How adorable are they?  

Have a great day!

Monday!

A lot has happened since I last wrote last week.  So much.  Last Tuesday, I was asked to help hand out fliers on Grand Avenue in the city, near some of the shelters I have set up in the surrounding areas there, by a very kind and compassionate black woman that lives a block away.  She feeds cats in her back yard to many strays in the early morning hours - and very carefully as she says as there are a lot of people there that would like to harm the animals.  She asked me to join her to pass out fliers for the reward and information leading to the arrest of people that stuck firecrackers in the butt of a cat that lived on that street earlier that week.  I believe Hearthside Cats came and took the cat, that was found on the porch of a house near Culver Road, on Grand, that was found injured.  The cat was euthanized.  There is now more than $3000 waiting for someone to snitch on their friend that did this heinous act.  I helped her pass fliers as we walked down Grand Avenue, while the City of Rochester police department had an event where they would talk to the kids on the block about what they could be doing during this pandemic.

Angela asked me to go to this house a block away from my  car to meet this woman that had many cats outside her house, and come to find out she had a momma and six newborns the day before in her closet.  The woman, a black woman named  Lisa, a very kind woman who had food outside her little rented place on Grand for the cats and kittens.  As I walked up, I saw two baby kittens lying there in the 90 degree heat.  I slowly and quietly walked up to them the second I saw them and scruffed thier litttle 7 week old necks, and walked them back to my car a block away.  I then drove back to the house and met this woman Lisa, and she showed me the mother and kittens in her closet.  Apparently there are many more kittens and cats that need TNR and rescue, but I can't do it.  I just can't do it.  I am a one woman band.  Luckily, a girl that was heading the task force for the abused cat was there, and offered to foster the two kittens I had rescued, who are now named Billy and Bobby.  The sweetest little flea bags ever.  I bathed them and applied Advantage to them, and bought them bell collars, and they are now up on my website for adoption.  Take a look.

BILLY 

BOBBY

There are more at this site but I just can't do it.  Its too much with all I have on my plate.

I also received an email from a woman that runs the Teen Empowerment group in this area, who was kind enough to allow me to add shelters to Grand Avenue and Baldwin many years ago who told me the land, owned by a church, was being sold to a neighbor there.  The neighbor wants the shelters gone this year.  I was told that I could move them to the other side of the neighbor's in a vacant lot. The shelters there were built by students at a city school as a project many years ago. They weigh several hundred pounds.  They are great shelters.  I need help moving them.  I can't do it by myself.  I am waiting to respond to Jennifer until I can figure out a plan.

That's all I have for now. There is just too much.

Have a great day!