New rescue**Update**

[mruffruff]

Tuesday night I saw a black cat in my front yard. Checked my crew and they were all there. So I proceeded to make a fool of myself by getting on all fours to look under the neighbor's truck. Yup, it's a new one! Totally black, scared to come out. Finally let me pet him/her, rolled around on the ground for a while, then left when the neighbor cat came out.

Time to pull out the cat trap.

Wednesday night I saw the same cat across the street. When I called, it came right up to me. Since I didn't know anything about it, I pushed it into a trap. I thought it was probably a female, about a year old and either in heat or had kittens in the past because of the obvious nipples. I named her Tootsie.

Took Tootsie to the vet for the "usual" (test, shots, spay/neuter) in the morning.

Tootsie is now Smokey, a neutered male about 2 years old, who has already been declawed!!!!!

He now resides in a cage in the cat room (so no one will beat him up) with the other 12 until I can find a home for this sweetheart.

Haven't seen any signs or flyers for a lost cat. How could his owners not be frantic?

[moosmom]

I'm so glad you got "Tootsie/Smokey" off the streets. Mainly because he's declawed, but also because Halloween is nearing and black cats are at high risk for animal rituals. It's a sad fact. That's why alot of shelters won't adopt out black cats for the entire month of October.

Great job Mruffruff!!!

[jenluckenbach]

Declawed and roaming about, how sad. I am also glad you got ahold of him.

[Sevaede]

I'm so glad you got "Tootsie/Smokey" off the streets. Mainly because he's declawed, but also because Halloween is nearing and black cats are at high risk for animal rituals. It's a sad fact. That's why alot of shelters won't adopt out black cats for the entire month of October.

Great job Mruffruff!!!

Who does rituals like this?

[AbbyMom]

Who does rituals like this?

I'm an adoption counselor for a cat rescue and we have strict rules and training about cats, especially black cats.

No black cats are allowed in the adoption center during the month of October because Bad People will "adopt" them and use them for real or imaginary satanic rituals or just plain old torture.



You are a sweet person and probably don't realize that there are evil people out there that do these things. But they are out there.



It's up to people like us to protect these innocent creatures.

[moosmom]

Wenisrubber,

All sorts of sick $#@%&* who get off on torturing and killing innocent animals.

[smokey the elder]

You should have kept the name Tootsie, in honor of the Dustin Hoffman character! Good job getting the kitty off the streets.