So Sad

[critters]

Let me know if you get picked; HP has people in GA, SC, NC, and VA. SCAT (Special Cats Action Team) might also be able to help with transport. HP is now in the process of moving a pupper from GA to Canada. http://handicappedpet.net/helppets/v...hp?f=3&t=12420

[momtomany]

Wow Mary, my internet was down yesterday. Posting this story and niw reading that you will give this baby a home.........well I am sitting here crying. I can't wait to hear!!

[Medusa]

Let me know if you get picked; HP has people in GA, SC, NC, and VA. SCAT (Special Cats Action Team) might also be able to help with transport. HP is now in the process of moving a pupper from GA to Canada. http://handicappedpet.net/helppets/v...hp?f=3&t=12420

Excellent, thank you! Transport was the only thing that concerned me somewhat. Do you have any idea of who ultimately makes the decision in cases such as this?

[pomtzu]

Mary - I think it would be just wonderful if you could give this sweet baby the loving home that he deserves. What a spunky little fighter.
I'd like to see the ones responsible for this cruelty pay dearly for what they did. Perhaps an eye for an eye? Maybe the PTers would like to line up for a chance to dropkick these creeps a few times!!!
Yeah - I know - not a very forgiving or Christian like attitude - but...............

[Medusa]

Mary - I think it would be just wonderful if you could give this sweet baby the loving home that he deserves. What a spunky little fighter.
I'd like to see the ones responsible for this cruelty pay dearly for what they did. Perhaps an eye for an eye? Maybe the PTers would like to line up for a chance to dropkick these creeps a few times!!!
Yeah - I know - not a very forgiving or Christian like attitude - but...............

I just hope that they don't insist on the new home being in GA but I'll keep my ego out of the way and know that they'll be sure to place him in his perfect permanent home.

As for the criminals who did this unspeakable thing to him, I guess I've become cynical in my old age. It's doubtful that they'll get caught and even if they are, probably nothing will come of it. My first "official" rescue was my RB Peeka. My vet felt that kids tried to skin her alive (there was a lot of this kind of violence towards cats in my area at that time) and they almost managed it, stripping off the fur from her tail except for an end tuft plus they broke her tail. My vet believed that they also tried to cut off her toes because she had a huge gash in between her toes on her left paw which caused nerve damage. Clipping claws for her was so traumatic that I cried every time I had to do it. She sat so cute w/her one paw up but I knew that it was because she was in pain. The people responsible were never caught. That was in '91 and it's disheartening to see that things haven't improved one whit for cats since then but the violence has escalated.

Peeka belonged to my neighbor and was missing for days in subzero temperatures so we feared the worst. My son, husband and I went out for hours day and night looking for her and finally one day my son yelled "Mom, the cat's back!" She was hiding behind our air conditioning unit and when she saw him, she tried to pull herself up and that's when he saw all the blood on her paws and in the snow behind the AC unit. When I called my neighbor to tell her that Peeka was back and that she needed emergency vet care, she said "Hey, she's an outdoor cat. Those things happen". I immediately said "May I keep her?" and she said "If you'll take her brother, too", which, of course, I did. So Peeka and Boo were my first "official" rescues.

Catastrophes always seem to happen on a weekend so I took her to the emergency clinic and they treated her w/antibiotics until I could get her into my vet's the next morning. He took one look at her and said "This tail has got to come off". I was so afraid because if he cut too far, it could cause her to not be able to jump or to use the litter box but the surgery went well. She had a raging infection and he said "Surviving the surgery was the easy part. Now we have to pray that the infection doesn't kill her". This was during the holidays and I called her and Boo my Xmas miracle. Peeka was as cute as a button w/her little stub and she loved getting stub rubs. She became a fat lazy cat who liked to lie in the sun all day and that's exactly the life I was determined to give her.

I've attached a photo of Peeka before and after her tail amputation. Be advised the first photo is graphic. Peekie led a pampered life w/me and the rest of the Fur Posse until she died of acute renal failure at age 14. It was her trauma that made me vow that only seriously ill, injured/abused cats or ones in imminent danger would become part of my Fur Posse.

[pomtzu]

OMG - poor little Peeka. I just get so infuriated when I see the cruel acts that people inflict on poor innocent creatures of all kinds. I just don't understand - and I suppose I never will - what drives people to do these things. And unfortunately the law does not do enough to protect these critters, or prosecute the offenders if they happen to be caught. It's just like when I hear someone say "It's only a cat" or It's only a dog" - I could just slap them! It's a living, breathing creature that is capable of all the feelings that their own kids feel. I don't think you'd ever hear anyone say "It's only a kid".

[blue]

Its a pretty sick what kids have been doing over the last 10-20 years to animals. If the kids that did this to Polly dont get caught I hope karma catches up to them repeatedly.

Medusa I hope you get to take Polly into your posse.

[Medusa]

OMG - poor little Peeka. I just get so infuriated when I see the cruel acts that people inflict on poor innocent creatures of all kinds. I just don't understand - and I suppose I never will - what drives people to do these things. And unfortunately the law does not do enough to protect these critters, or prosecute the offenders if they happen to be caught. It's just like when I hear someone say "It's only a cat" or It's only a dog" - I could just slap them! It's a living, breathing creature that is capable of all the feelings that their own kids feel. I don't think you'd ever hear anyone say "It's only a kid".

Yes, I agree w/you, Ellie. When I first rescued Creamsicle, a CH baby, I was working at a church rectory and one of the priests, a woman, said to me "You should just put her down. It's only a cat; you'd be doing her a favor". I really had to bite my tongue and I said "How so?" She said "Why would you keep her alive like that?" and I said "Because God breathed into her the breath of life just as He did for you, that's why!" One of the other priests there rescued animals, too, and he later pulled me aside and said "I'm saying a special mass for your cat today", so the "it's only a cat" comment was cancelled out.

[Medusa]

Medusa I hope you get to take Polly into your posse.

Thank you, Blue. I need all the good thoughts, prayers and well wishes that I can get.

[jazzcat]

Oh, what a heartbreaking story. It really hits close to home for me because my little Scout was rescued from the same kind of abuse. They told me at the rescue shelter that someone saw some boys put her in a backpack and were throwing her around like a football, she was only around 7 months old. This person stepped in and got her away from the boys and took her to the shelter. She didn't suffer any major injuries from that but when they spayed her they discovered she was pregnant (of course that was ended) and then she got a hematoma on the spay incision which took weeks to heal. Poor little girl went through a lot.

Good luck Mary!! I hope it works out for you and little Polly. Even if you don't get him I bet he'll get a good home and can finally know what being loved is like.

[Kirsten]

Thank you, Blue. I need all the good thoughts, prayers and well wishes that I can get.

That would be awesome if you could adopt him!! What a happy ending that would be for him! Imagine that sweet little purring machine becoming a PT kitty...

Keeping my fingers crossed,
Kirsten

[Catty1]

kak, you beat me to it - the name and location of the clinic was mentioned on the video I saw!

This little baby loses a leg - and, like the vet says, he is purring and playing and getting around on three legs.

Trying to find news on the teenagers...eejits!

[Emeraldgreen]

Mary, I hope that Polly will be yours!! What a wonderful life she will have if she joins your family.
That is an amazing story about Peeka and Boo. I had to laugh when I read about her 'stub rubs'. I'm sorry she had endure that kind of suffering but all the years she had with you made up for it I'm sure.

[phesina]

Oh, I so hope you get to take him into your family, Mary!

So many people just make me so sick.

[Medusa]

kak, you beat me to it - the name and location of the clinic was mentioned on the video I saw!

I can be a bit of a doink sometimes, especially after I take my meds. I apologize if I inconvenienced anyone.