People suck. Okay, not the orbsters – you are great, caring, cat people. I’m lead on the cat medical team for a local rescue. Yesterday morning the executive director messaged that two young cats – a tuxie and a black cat – had been left at the rescue front door at some point during the night with a kind note saying they had found the pair abandoned and were moving, couldn’t take them, etc. Security footage showed that at 6am a man with a face mask and hood up, approached with the carrier and left it. His car was parked on the far side of our dumpster so the tags couldn’t be seen. So clearly he had been to our facility and knew we had security cameras.
On Tues we have standing vet time with a practice that does ER and rescue medicine. It was a bit of a scramble, but came up with names (needed for online platform we use to manage animals in our care) – Kuro for the black kitty and Takishido for the tuxie (Japanese for black and tuxedo – not original, but we had about 5 minutes to come up with names and I’m an anime nerd), we got the kitties on the schedule, on the van, and to the vet within a few hours of them being dumped. They were chipped so we knew they were initially from a neighboring county’s county shelter. There were no missing cat notices associated with the chips. No record of who had adopted them – or they just wouldn’t tell us, no medical records, just that an estimated DOB and that they were adopted out at 8 wks.
Vet visit went well. They were negative for FIV/FeLV, had not been spayed/neutered (kitties are a male and female bonded pair). Vet was able to get them on the surgery schedule yesterday so they are now altered. All their vaccinations have been updated. In a couple of days they will be available for adoption. If I thought my husband wouldn’t have an absolute fit I would seriously consider adopting them. I know that our adoption team will do their absolute best to find them a loving forever home.
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People suck. Okay, not the orbsters – you are great, caring, cat people. I’m lead on the cat medical team for a local rescue. Yesterday morning the executive director messaged that two young cats – a tuxie and a black cat – had been left at the rescue front door at some point during the night with a kind note saying they had found the pair abandoned and were moving, couldn’t take them, etc. Security footage showed that at 6am a man with a face mask and hood up, approached with the carrier and left it. His car was parked on the far side of our dumpster so the tags couldn’t be seen. So clearly he had been to our facility and knew we had security cameras.
On Tues we have standing vet time with a practice that does ER and rescue medicine. It was a bit of a scramble, but came up with names (needed for online platform we use to manage animals in our care) – Kuro for the black kitty and Takishido for the tuxie (Japanese for black and tuxedo – not original, but we had about 5 minutes to come up with names and I’m an anime nerd), we got the kitties on the schedule, on the van, and to the vet within a few hours of them being dumped. They were chipped so we knew they were initially from a neighboring county’s county shelter. There were no missing cat notices associated with the chips. No record of who had adopted them – or they just wouldn’t tell us, no medical records, just that an estimated DOB and that they were adopted out at 8 wks.
Vet visit went well. They were negative for FIV/FeLV, had not been spayed/neutered (kitties are a male and female bonded pair). Vet was able to get them on the surgery schedule yesterday so they are now altered. All their vaccinations have been updated. In a couple of days they will be available for adoption. If I thought my husband wouldn’t have an absolute fit I would seriously consider adopting them. I know that our adoption team will do their absolute best to find them a loving forever home.