Mobilizing
The babies need to go. If I don’t get rid of the babies something bad is going to happen. I can’t find any places that will take them. Someone I know suggested mobilizing the blogging community and people I know. I can’t do that when I’m immobilized myself. I’m at the office 10 hours a day. Then I come home and send emails and make phone calls trying to find somewhere for the babies to go. If I can’t find something soon they will be turned out (and they are totally clueless on how to take care of themselves) or I’ll be forced to take them to a kill shelter. That includes the famous Rambo from the Wise Guy video.
So this is a plea. If any of you are good at mobilizing… would you? I need to find no kill shelters or foster homes or homes for the babies and a couple of the adults. There are a lot of SoCal people on Twitter as well as SoCal bloggers, but I can’t even turn on Twitter or Yahoo during my lunch hour at work anymore. Everyone is tying my hands and my babies are going to die.
You’d think if the blogging community could send a dying woman to Disney World that they could save a few cats from dying. If anyone knows how to get the Twitterverse and bloggers to help save my babies… you do not know how grateful I would be. This has been killing me. I can’t eat. I can’t sleep. I’m messing up at work. I look at them and start sobbing imagining them being put to sleep or run over because they’ve been kicked out of my house.
If there is a way to start a grass roots movement to find places for my babies I know you people can do it. This is not a joke. It’s not funny. It’s making me sick it’s that serious. I’ve had a few people make jokes about it, and it’s not funny. You’re a nice person but making a laughing remark about a situation that is causing me so much stress and unhappiness isn’t a nice thing to do. It’s so bad, I can’t write. I can’t read. I can’t even look at my edits. I just want to throw up. Or hug my Geeky or my Louie. I can’t even imagine not having my Louie to wake me up in the morning or sleep on my foot.
If any of you have hearts and time and maybe even resources, please can you help my babies … and me? We live in Orange County, CA and we are not opposed to them going to many different places – separating them – as long as we know they will be cared for and not killed.
Thank you all for reading. (Please see comments for more specific info.)
Updated info:
I appreciate everyone’s good wishes and the links. Thus far, all the links provided are links we already have. We have checked all the shelters and rescues. No one is taking cats at this time. We have one no kill shelter left to check. We did receive word from one rescue group to please not send them to any shelters that do not specifically tell us they will NEVER kill them because some places say they are no kill but after the alloted time, they do. I’m told the kill percentage in Orange County is 80% currently. So basically, any shelter I take them to is signing their death warrant.
More info re the situation: We cannot have the cats here anymore. To do so risks the loss of the roof over our heads. My DH is newly out of rehab and shaky emotionally. He loves cats but the threat of losing what little stability we have has freaked him out to the point that if I cannot find somewhere for the cats to go soon, he could well turn them out.
In this economy, losing your home is difficult. I will not get a raise this year as my company instituted a wage freeze right before my review date. I don’t live in the greatest neighborhood but losing this place means probably living in a worse neighborhood or going into motel living. Putting my DH into that kind of situation is a guarantee that he will not make it.
We love our cats but we cannot keep them any longer. We had already been trying to find homes for the 5 kittens but now we have to let the adults go too – Dummy and Swirly the formerly feral kittens, Rambo, Noisy, Bitty Junior, and Louie.
My babies are all going to the vet on the 11th to be fixed and get a clean bill of health. After that we need to find homes for them. Even foster homes will do because we are putting them on lists to go to rescue shelters where they will have every opportunity to be adopted. Two of the cats – Rambo and Harlequin Girl – are listed at Petfinders and so far all the emails I’ve received (and there have been a lot) fit the criteria listed for probable brokers who will sell them to labs. It’s disgusting and disheartening.
I’ve not gone to Craig’s List yet in part because of how bad all the Petfinders emails have been. These people trolling for animals should be stopped. I will probably be listing them on Craig’s List this weekend when we have more photos and can put up a page for them because it looks like we may only have homes for a few of them so far.
I’m not sure how Neil Gaiman got my link but I appreciate him re-tweeting the link and I appreciate his fans’ offers to assist. This is the kind of grass roots assistance I was hoping for – real people with real hearts, not people looking to lecture and turn their noses up or people who are pretending to be genuine adopters but are really just murderers.
Please know that we are doing everything we can to ensure that our kittehs will be happy and safe and loved. That is our only focus. Any help or new resources that people can provide is appreciated.
Rambo is featured in the book trailer for The Wise Guy here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr4gcFQShMM
Some of the other kittehs can be seen in this Flickr stream:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26303384@N08/sets/72157604862875988/
New photos are forthcoming this weekend.
Again, thank you all for your good wishes, positive thoughts, helpful suggestions, and offers of help. My daughter and I sincerely appreciate them.
