She cried today...

Yep.  "The Woman" who works for me here at Our Mother's Keepers, she cried today.  Now, I've seen her cry a few times out of frustration when someone says mean things to her because she won't pay to have their 30 barn cats "fixed" or take them all to be re-homed (I've been to The Woman's house, and there is barely room for the 10 cats who live there now!!),and I've seen her cry a lot from sadness because she can't rescue every homeless cat she's asked to help (She fundraises ALL the time and sometimes STILL doesn't make enough money to cover the Vet bill of some of the cats she's rescued!!), and I didn't think she'd EVER stop crying when her special-needs rescue cat, Ivy, died (Now that I think about it, she sometimes cries over Ivy even now!!), but I rarely see her cry because of happiness, like she did today.  Sure, there have been a few times when I've seen "The Woman" cry out of joy: when someone makes a large donation to her rescue cats, when somebody buys a lot of fundraiser items, when someone donates items for her to sell for the homeless cats she rescues, or when someone simply tells her they appreciate what she does for homeless cats.  Today, however, several people made donations: someone donated fundraiser items; someone else donated food, blankets, and even laundry detergent ("The Woman" washes a LOT of cat blankets, especially when she rescues sick cats, and she's had a few of those lately!!); and some other people put money in the fundraiser jar.  I think "The Woman" was overwhelmed by the generosity of so many people...and she cried.

Don't tell her (She'll get an inflated ego, and then I won't be able to do a THING with her!!), but I really love "The Woman"...

So. Many. Cats!

"The Woman", who works for me here at Our Mother's Keepers, has been tired and sad lately.  She says there are too many homeless cats out there.  I think she's done a great job taking in so many homeless cats: she has 5 formerly homeless cats of her own, 3 foster cats still living in her home, plus she just took in a new foster cat with a seriously wounded leg (that makes 9 cats in her house right now, and I know what a small house that is!), then there are the 6 homeless cats she took in, vetted, and adopted out to new homes...and don't forget ME...she took me in when I was a homeless cat!  But she says there are more...many, many, many more.

I know "The Woman" is tired from being up most nights with the new foster cat, Bobby, and his wounded leg; she says it's a real mess, and she's not sure it's healing very well.  She says fundraising is tiring too; vetting homeless cats is expensive and she has to work hard trying to raise enough money to pay the vets bills for the cats she helps before she finds them new homes...she says she doesn't think she'll ever catch up to the vet bill!

I also know that she's really sad right now too.  She's sad about the passing of Ivy, one of her rescue cats, who had a terminal bone disease.  Ivy was a homeless kitten, who was born outside and lived under someone's house with her abandoned mother cat.  Ivy was a sweet, tiny, lovable cat, and just over a year old; "The Woman" thinks it's sad and cruel that Ivy had such a tragic life, right from the beginning, and that she had to die so young.

I wish I could help "The Woman" feel better.  I'm the ''Ambassacat" for her cat rescue fundraising program, "Street Rescue - Ivy's Memorial Fund" (named after her rescue cat Ivy, of course), and I do what I can to help raise money to vet our rescue cats so we can help them find homes.  The only other thing I can think of to help is to ask everyone to PLEASE spay and neuter your pets, and do NOT ever abandon them.  I can also give "The Woman" head boops.