This weekend, we got a distress call from a woman who said she had 63 cats and needed help! I don’t go on these calls alone, so I called another friend who also rescues and off we went with our arsenal of tools and help.

The woman lives near a pretty big park that accommodates round-the year campers. People dump off cats at this park all the time- we just pulled 10 kittens out of there someone left in a box near the trash can. The kittens were fine- just a bit wet.

But because of this location, most of the cats dumped at the park end up at this house over time. The house itself, driving up to it was one of those homes where you go “Uh oh, I should have packed my gun!” I was really hesitant at first until I turned the curve and entered the driveway and saw all of these lovely- healthy- friendly cats running out to greet me!

Turns out, one of my other friends Jodi had been working with this woman for about 3 weeks and had trapped and neutered all her cats and taken 27 kittens into the local shelter to be adopted out! On Jodi’s last trip, she told the woman about me when the woman said she needed help feeding this horde.

Although the house is in great disrepair- I feel sorry for the woman saddled with these cats- but I give her great props for the care she has put into them. She buys flea treatment from the vet every month and flea treats every one of them! But then she is broke. She has two heavily disabled teenage sons, 3 grandchildren, and one son who is a tweaker living with her in a 2 bedroom home! She started remodeling the house when they bought it- but then her husband died and she was left to figure it out on her own.

I told her I would help her as long as I am able to to feed these cats and will start trying to find homes for them one-by-one. I know they are safe there, they are cared for and so I am leaving them all there- if I get hints of people wanting to adopt, I will go over and get the woman and the cat and we go through the adoption process.

There was one cat there that someone had tried to stitch up its substantial wound with fishing line! My friend Jodi cut the line off. The wound had long healed!

A few photos show one of the new kittens Tag. When I opened my truck to leave after doing the feeding, Tag jumped in the truck! Deanna looked at me like “Well are you going to take him home?”

Tag jumped on the dashboard and demanded attention. LOL It was so cool and so unlike any distress call I have ever been on. We decided instead that Dee would take photos of him in the truck and I would use these photos to hopefully find him the right home. But I left him there. If I took him, he would be an enclosure all by himself and that isn’t fair to him. He has grown up at the place- it is on a dead end street so cars aren’t as much of a threat. It was funny when I took my food bin out of the truck and opened it up to feed- how many cats just came running. After I fed them and put the bin back in my truck about 14 cats lined up behind me- I felt like the Pied Piper! LOL If all my distress calls were this happy- I would have less stress than I do now.

Enjoy some of the photos shot along the way-