Thursday

 A former adopter sent me the following pics to share with everyone.  This is Claus, who was a polydactl cat that my foster Sue took in.  He was the cutest little kitten, and has turned into a very cute older kitten!  Thanks Steve for adopting Claus!  

The adult tux on 7th and Central that I was able to rescue maybe three weeks ago has been adopted by the woman that wanted to pay for her vetting, and then turn over to another foster, wound up being adopted before he could even go to foster care.  The woman that wanted to vet adopted him!  I called him Gabi, because he was so vocal each time I pulled up to him on Central to feed him on the porch of this vacant house there.  I am sure 'Debbie' has renamed him, as most adopters do.  He is a lucky little boy.  No more struggling on the streets for you Gabi.  

I am getting tons of updates from two batches of kittens I've last rescued, and I need to upload their pics and I will post them.  Just the cutest little things.  Costly and destructive to start with, but they turn the corner when adopted.  People just don't realize the cost of getting them to the point of adoption, and how time consuming it is, not to mention the price you pay.  Especially when you have SEVEN at once!

We now need to get the mommy of the last seven kittens adopted.  Felicity.  She is the sweetest little female.  Petite, and loving and follows you around like a dog.  In fact, she also is compatible with dogs, thanks to Foster Mom Sue who has Rose, loud barking dog whenever I step foot in her house.  :)  But Rose is very sweet and I am sure if I were there enough, she would come to love and trust me.  :)

Huey the kitten is still available.  His brothers Dewey and Louie went to their new homes, but poor baby Huey has not had anyone asking about him.  Lets get him adopted!  He is tinier than he looks in this picture!  Thanks to Sheryl for fostering him!

The cats I feed under a tree on Parsells, due to the very nasty man that lives in the back apartment of this house that tore up my shelter that I tried to build on the city lot in back of it, I found a dead black one, one of the ones that I was feeding.  It was just laying under the tree.  If I didn't notice its face that looked like it got hit, I would have sworn the man poisoned it.  In fact I have not seen the sweet red tabby in weeks either.  I am keeping my eye on this situation, but in the meantime, I must find a kind person in that vicinity that I can place some shelters and a feeding station for when the weather turns bad.  I've met someone recently that lives in the next block down, but too far down to coax the cats to go there.  In fact this morning, as I got in my car to leave after placing food under the tree (that is removed and thrown away after the nasty man gets up in the morning), I saw a fat rat waddle its way over and sat there WITH the cats and eat the food.  

Have a great day!

Tuesday Trials

 

Its been a while.  Life is busy.  A week ago this past Saturday, I was able to rescue ‘Gabi’, the black and white kitty that ‘gabs’ a lot, each time I pulled up to this boarded up house on Central and 7^th.  He was due for rescue.  Just a sweet boy, and come to find out already neutered.  I was only able to make this happen thanks to a woman named Deb, who offered to come get him, keep him, and get him to the vet sometime that week.  It was also due to the fact that Kristin offered up her mom to foster after the vet visit.  Deb would be delivering Gabi and Kristin would bring him to Sue’s house.  He was brought to the vet last Friday, clean bill of health, and is up for adoption to the right person.  He is a very sweet cat.

Yesterday I picked up the SEVEN kittens from Sue’s house to bring for a check up and deworming at the vet.  Sue asked me to keep them after that, and I agreed, reluctantly.  I am so sick of kittens, as adorable as they are, they are so much work.  And Sue --- I don’t know how she has done it over the years for me.  She is a true angel on this earth.  I completely understand her ‘kitten burnout’.  They are messy little things, and I am not much for messes.  But thankfully, they are all adopted, and will be going to their new homes.  Sheryl will have one left out of the three she has fostered for me, one going to its new home tomorrow, the other was delivered last week to its new home.  Hopefully he will not be too lonely without his siblings, and gets adopted quickly.  They are all totally adorable and in all honesty, I am enjoying them (knowing they won't be with me next week!)  Pics above of some of them.

This is mom Felicity, that is also up for adoption.  She is the SWEETEST!

I am not sure if I mentioned this, but there is a man on Parsells, who lives in Lisa’s old apartment (remember Crazy Lisa?), who keeps throwing away the food I leave under the tree next door to the CITY LOT near the curb for the 8+ cats that have been left ‘double homeless’ due to the people a few houses down that placed their huts to the curb for trash a month or two prior.  When we went to rebuild the huts on the CITY OWNED property, the man trashed them, and put the huts down a few houses down for trash day on Wednesday, which I spotted and was able to take before the trash collectors came along.  Let’s call the #@$@% “sneaky Pete’.  JERK.  Luckily the weather has been mild enough that I am not too worried about the cats yet, but I must find an alternative.   I just can’t understand how mean people can be when it comes to animals suffering right under their nose.  Not even leave a bowl of water.  I am grateful I’ve had a large supply thanks to donations years ago, of paper plates and bowls.  The guy even put a note on the tree weeks ago, not to feed the cats.  I’ll be damned before I allow a cat to starve.  So they get to eat between 5 am., when I leave the food, until the $@%@#$ wakes up, goes out and throws it all away.  Mean Mean Mean.  Just let him confront me some morning.  I have every right to feed them on this CITY OWNED property.

I need adult fosters!  You will never know gratitude once you foster an adult cat, and see them change from scrawny and frightened, to a sleek and loving cat.  Try it!  All you need is a room, and patience and love.

Have a great day!