She is such a delight and would make someone such a loving companion. Our hope is we can find her a forever home before the Christmas madness sets in-

Here is a better picture of this beauty-

Darcie

There are seventeen kittens in the other room, who should have never hit the ground running. For whatever reason, whatever neglect or horror they endured in their early life, they found themselves on the doorstop of the local crazy cat lady in town. (She really isn’t crazy as she has been labeled) she is just passionate for cats and feels they don’t quite get the breaks that other animals do in her small town.  As she tried to figure out how to juggle feeding so many mouths, a miracle appeared in the form of an 8 month old Tortie who had four kittens of her own. But when asked, this Tortie didn’t even blink, she began to help to feed and stimulate these little ones which was a blessed relief for the rescuer- both on the emotional and the financial level.

They have been forced to stay in a room 17’x11′ and through it all they have formed a family. They love to trash this room daily and are so delighted that mom and dad never had the time to put doors on the big closet because climbing clothes so they can get to the top shelves is so much fun! If they don’t dump their water bowls over once or twice a day, then they compensate by jumping into the dry food bowls and flinging food everywhere- and speaking of flinging- they are experts at litter pan flinging!

Ringworm invaded and although recently the thought was the fungus is gone, it has reappeared. It was even found on their substitute mom yesterday during her spay! This made Mom sad because she prides herself on the care these cats and kittens get while they are here. So the ringworm treatments will continue.

These seventeen kittens need to be neutered before they can go anywhere, and the kitty is completely tapped out. Mom has done several local fundraisers in town- but folks aren’t thinking about the plight of abandoned cats and kittens. They have other focuses this year and that’s okay. It’s a bit frustrating, but it’s okay because the economy is seriously in trouble and folks want trees and presents underneath them to make them feel like life is still normal.

Mom woke up this morning in a bit of a panic. She is wondering what it going to happen next and what she can do to help these kittens find what they need. A new, loving home where they will never want for nothing and will not have to worry about the next meal or the water pans going dry.

I know I ask a lot of all of you. I ask for prayers, for support, for a place to vent and I can’t give back what has so richly been given to  me this year (for the cats). I can’t even begin to express my gratitude for the deliveries of kitten food, cat food, trash bags,  warming beds, heated cat bowls, money stuffed into envelopes and quickly put in the mail to my attention. But I am grateful for all of it.

Now, I am asking for one last push with only one goal in mind: to let these seventeen kittens find their forever homes. My vet is giving me a 20% discount on the spays- The goal we are reaching for is $1,589.00  IF you feel you can help out, praise God. If not, no worries. My life may not make sense to me at time, but apparently, it makes purrfect sense to God.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays to ALL!

M.A. and-, Abatha,London, Paris, Brutus, Marble, Autumn, Nutmeg, Pigeon, glacie, Bramble, Gemini, Lunar, Lego, Tweedledum, Tweedledee, Ginger, Caesar and last, but certainly NOT least- Pumpkin!

If you can spread this plea around social media, I would be grateful for that as well.

These cards have recently come to my attention, and for any animal lover they are stupendous! You can’t get better quality shots even if they are in black and white. I love the cat cards (of course) but also the dog cards and other animal cards are wonderful as well. These would make some awesome Christmas or Thank You cards-

Maybe you could think about spreading the word through social media? I know the gal behind this collection would appreciate  it a lot. She just recently adopted Lake from us!

The Woof-gang

Inside the kitten room, Brambles was lying in the water bowl. How dare I let the water run out! They have four pet fountains in there as well- but the look he gave me was priceless.

Brambles giving the hint

Going to be a busy vet morning. Aurora and Slater are going in for spay and neuter. My fellow rescuers are urging me to keep Aurora intact because she is such a good surrogate mom! I would never do that to her. It is tough on any cat to raise their own kittens and she “helped” me raise 13 that weren’t even related to her! I know that because of her Pumpkin was able to kick her auto-immune disease. She nursed Pumpkin longer than any other kitten this year warning the others off with some impressive growls if they tried to steal her milk. She’s an amazing cat and my hope is her mothering instincts will still kick in for the next abandoned kitten that comes here. I know she won’t be adopted out unless another miracle appears. No one locally appears to love or appreciate torties. They just think they are ugly!

Not only do we think Aurora is beautiful, but we also think she deserves a medal for all her heroic efforts towards the kittens now tearing up our room on a daily basis! I am going to put a xtra small dog jacket on her after the spay to keep the kittens off her. With such cold weather, the only place I have to put her is back with them and she has been inside that large cage long enough. Three days from now, she will be back with her extended family as she still is hostile toward the other cats in the sanctuary.

I LOVE this cat-

also please pray that my vet will decide to give us a decent break on the 17 spays coming up. OSU has already filled their schedule (their spays are free) but they limit them to the students who can perform them and if you don’t get there early enough you can’t get in. The ringworm really hurt us this year- we had to wait until all the kittens were clear of it before even entertaining the notion of spaying and neutering anyone.!

I made them all a promise this morning. That I would run a successful fundraiser and everyone would be fixed by the end of January and in homes before the beginning of next year! A tall order considering most of the lot are mackerel tabbies, torties and torbies. But through God all things are possible~