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!