12/6 all good news!
Surgeries successfully completed for Munchies, Nancy, and Bernard. They are now available to be adopted!!!
Ambrosia had double luck! Her eye was more closely examined prior to surgery and it was determined it was best not to do a second third eye release as it would only create more scar tissue and the third eye lid would only reattach. And a staff member gave Ambrosia a home!
https://www.petfinder.com/search/cats-for-adoption/?shelter_id%5B0%5D=CA3008&sort%5B0%5D=best_match
still waiting for their forever homes this group are Munchies, Nancy, Bernard, Brie, Butterscotch, Rhubarb, Zephyr, Quinton, Romeo, Honey, Joyce, Suzy, Elle, Robin, Bubbles, Buttercup, Blossom, Professor Utonium
A good deed turned into a big rescue.
It’s no secret that the number of animals needing help greatly exceeds the resources and availability of non-profit organizations (“501c3s”) and people wanting to adopt. This is how I got involved in fostering, which ultimately led me into rescuing independently, at my own expense, cats and kittens that would otherwise be left to fend for themselves, or worse.
Four kitties, in group rescue, need more than the usual vaccinations, spays, and neuters. At just over a year old, Munchies, Nancy, and Bernard each need one eye enucleated (removed), and Ambrosia ended up not needing a second surgery and found a home.
Here’s the story of how a good deed turned into a big rescue.
Two bottle babies (very small kittens who are not yet able to eat solid food) have a rescue, but the transporter can’t get to San Bernardino Animal Control before closing. This means the kittens will be euthanized, so I offer to pick the kittens up and meet the transporter. I arrive shortly before closing, where I’m told five more bottle babies will be euthanized if not picked up so, of course, I pick up all seven. When I meet the transporter she graciously takes the younger litter of five and I end up with two.
While waiting for the shelter staff to bring the kittens out to me people waiting in line tell me about an older woman, Jean, who is trying to surrender many friendly cats. Jean's husband had passed away and she’d moved off a property where they’d lived more than 20 years in a semi truck trailer with a homemade outhouse next to it (I kid you not!). Unfortunately, the shelter refused to take any of the six to nine young cats or a mother cat with four new babies, she'd brought to the shelter in the back of an open-bedded truck in makeshift cages, telling her the overpopulation was her fault, so they won't help the cats.
A quick decision is made. At that moment I can only take the mother cat (later named, Joyce) with her four newborns, and exchange numbers with Jean. A few days later a call from Jean led to picking up two newborn kittens and their young mother with a bad eye (later named Nancy) that I'd seen in the back of the truck.
This is shortly followed by a visit to the property, where it's discovered that most of the cats have untreated upper respiratory infections (URIs), and in addition to Nancy, two more, Bernard and Munchies's URI's had gone untreated for so long that now all three have one eye that is beyond saving and must be removed (enucleated). A 501c3 that had originally agreed to accept some of the cats backed out of the arrangement because of the illnesses. So what to do? We had already crated the cats; it is either release them or rescue them! And so we take them home and put them in quarantine, treat the URIs, medicate the eyes, administer vaccinations and de-wormers, and get them all spayed and neutered beginning with the girls, so we didn’t end up with more kittens. A month later a call from Jean telling us a cat she’d taken home gave birth to five babies, who I then picked up, making this a rescue of twenty three kitties, who we spayed, neutered, vaccinated, and micro chipped … and all but a three of them, are still waiting for their forever homes. (Munchies, Nancy, Bernard, Brie, Butterscotch, Rhubarb, Zephyr, Quinton, Romeo, Honey, Joyce, Suzy, Elle, Robin, Bubbles, Buttercup, Blossom, Professor Utonium
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