Loading ...
Wes and Cleo take a ride.
Thank the heavens for good souls who will always go out on a limb to help a friend. Even if that friend’s a new one, with four paws and soft fur. Times Four.
With the situation at home right now, there is no way our family could have taken in the four kittens a pair of … expletive deleted … dumped on our road the other day. My husband was driving up the hill on our very backwoods dirt road and came up behind a couple in a jeep. The woman was tossing a kitten across a drainage ditch into the bushes, and ran for her vehicle when she saw the car coming. Joe pulled around, and in front of them, effectively blocking their escape.
They, of course, denied abandoning the kittens, making up a lie about taking a walk on the road and the kittens following them from the local farm. Joe got their plate number as the jeep drove off, and the four adorable little eight or ten week old tabby kittens came running out of the brush to him. He played with them as he called me on his cell — but I’m not living home at the moment, and the situation is “difficult to say the least”.
I suggested he call our friend Wes, forgetting that Wes was on his way to Cornell University to pick up Oscar, the injured bobcat who just had surgery, and ask if we could store the kitties at the farm till we were able to take them to the local animal shelter. Wes’s wife, Darcy, answered and, as she said, made an executive decision. The sanctuary does not usually take in domestic dogs or cats, but under the circumstances, how could these poor little ones, who were climbing my husband’s pantlegs and crying for help and affection, be denied?
Darcy and her daughter showed up shortly, and brought the babies back to the farm. Two have already been adopted. Two are left. If you are in the area of the Capital District of New York State, and would like a lovely, friendly, healthy kitten, please visit http://redmaplefarm.net and use the email link to contact Wes! Donations are also accepted on the website, for the care of the kittens, as well as Oscar’s expenses, and the other vast costs of running a sanctuary of this magnitude! Visit the center’s blog, as well, to follow the adventures that Wes and Darcy, and all of their helpers and cohorts, enjoy each day.
I just cannot fathom how anyone could be so cruel.
What were these people thinking? That because there was a farm nearby, the kittens would automatically find their way there and be cared for? Did they ever stop to think that the state of the barns and lack of animals in the fields might mean the farm was no longer operational? Did they have a clue that the only person living there is a sweet, elderly lady with a large number of health problems who would not even be able to get outside to feed the cats?
Apparently not.
All these people cared about was getting out of the responsibility for the lives they created. Yes, that they created — for had they spayed their cat before she went a’strayin’, there wouldn’t have been an unwanted litter in the first place.
Unfortunately, getting the plate number and reporting the crime was useless — there was no proof but one man’s word. It looks like these creatures will get away with their cruel act.
The human race is not necessarily a lost cause, but there sure are plenty of bad apples in the barrel. These people cared not for life, for safety, for the dangers they were dumping these poor babies into. All they cared about was not having to find them homes, feed them, spay and neuter them, get them their shots….
For these babies, I wish them wonderful homes. Two have already found them, thanks to Darcy the rescue angel and her family, and to Joe for stopping and making sure the kitties were safe from cars and danger till they could be brought to the center. The other two, I’m praying will have homes soon.
For the rednecks who dumped them? May they learn the full meaning of the word “karma”.
[...] Two have already found them, thanks to Darcy the rescue angel and her family, and to Joe for stopping and making sure the kitties were safe from cars and danger till they could be brought to the center. The other two, I’m praying will …Continue Reading… [...]