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.