While we at Wow My Pet Did That! love animals from all over, the following story hits close to home because it’s in the county where we live.
This sweet kitty, who is now known as Hanna, was found by a dog in Pitt County, North Carolina. The dog had kept barking, even after being called to the house by his owner. When the dog went back out and started barking again, the dog’s owner was led to the emaciated, 2-3-year-old kitty, who was on the cold ground.
Hanna was lucky to find a friendly human-and-dog-rescue duo, and also to find a safe shelter at Beare Garden Plantation Animal Rescue. Unfortunately, she hasn’t been so lucky in other areas. Her ribs could be counted when she arrived, and she has been treated for hookworm, ear mites, general vetting and severe fleas.
And, all of her teeth will ned to be removed eventually.
Hanna, who is described as very loving, is at the rescue now, getting the care and love needed while waiting for the hold to expire.
“She is receiving high quality food and on multiple medications and antibiotics,” said volunteer David Edwards on the Facebook page created for Hanna’s fundraiser. “She is having some GI issues, so she is being started on plain canned pumpkin to help her stomach. She is getting great care.”
So far, about $277 has been spent in initial urgent vetting, and total costs to get this sweet girl healthy and happy again are expected to exceed $1080.
Your contribution will make an impact, whether you donate $5 or $500. To donate, and, for updates on Hanna’s story, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/donate/437284177386274/1839661329530164/
Such a sad story but she is lucky to have found the right place to be found.
She looks so happy to be somewhere safe and warm. I hope she has a bright, beautiful future.
Every feline in great need is a worthy cause. My entire spending on charitable causes (I don’t donate money to human causes) goes to the local Trap, Neuter and Release organization/program for feral and homeless cats.
About three years ago, it was reported that Surrey, B.C. had/has approximately 36,000 feral and stray cats, so many of which are allowed to suffer severe malnourishment, debilitating injury and/or infection by callously neglectful municipal government as well as individual residents who choose to remain silent.
(Progress can also be made by discontinuing allowing pet cats to roam freely outdoors and notably risk them becoming another predator’s meal or some sadistic person’s target for a torturous death.)
Trap/Neuter/Release (TNR) programs are typically underfunded by governments and private donors, regardless of their documented success in reducing the needless great suffering by these beautiful, sentient animals.
It’s as though there’s a prevailing mentality of feline disposability; a subconscious human perception that the value of such animal life (if not even human life in regularly war-torn or overpopulated famine-stricken global regions) is somehow lessened by its overabundance and protracted conditions under which it suffers.
Thank you for your comment and for supporting TNR. Supporting TRN is so important and can prevent so many kittens from being born into unhealthy, unsafe environments.