This has been one of those months. My husband who had serious surgery in Dec is back in the hospital again after complications.
This leaves me to manage getting our colonies fed at night with the help of volunteers and feeding and caring for our huge cat rescue household
With the exception of a core group of cats that moved here with us from NY, the cats I refer to showed up here on our South Alabama property or who we found while doing TNR and weren't fixed but were not feral and some had health issues that precluded them being returned to place found.
I'm wondering if there are any others like us here. I'm struggling lately with health issues of my own that include arthritis in my hand and hip, and with a lack of help from the rescue we do volunteer with.
The cat rescue-which is a one person with a few volunteers-including us-makes me crazy because she will ask help fromus and then, doesn't help us when we need it. For instance, she referred to us a girl who found kittens in a parking lot not too far from here. We went and got the kittens and they have grown up here. Despite pleas to get them into her Petsmart window this never happened. I now have 5 rambunctious boycats that are all over driving my old guy cats nuts. When I've bought this up to her, she's told me we're welcome to show them on pet adoption days there. The problem is we both work those days and taking off means we lose income we need. I feel sometimes like we're left to our own devices with no support.
This isn't the only time this has happened. We helped with another rescue here with TNR and stopped when they started to order us to do their TNR projects, then abandoned us because we weren't raising funds in our town to 'get it funded'.
We now work doing TNR with the local larger Humane Society, using one local vet. But it leaves us trying to find homes, or absorbing the expenses for feeding our own cats, 'fosters' and colonies alone, let alone providing vet care.
I'm so tired and frustrated. The answers I got from the one rescue we tried with-the one mentioned was 'go to Walmart and ask for the food they have to throw away'. We did and were told another rescue/shelter gets it.
Feeling so discouraged today.
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Debra Hoffmann
TNR and Foster Pawrent
Azalea City Cat Coalition
Bay Minette AL
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