09/22/2025
This doesn't apply to rescued spoiled feral barn cats, but please, if you have house cats, they aren't safe free-roaming outside. Just last week I rescued a 6-8 month old kitten that had been dragging her paralyzed and crushed back end long enough to be completely raw on the legs and bottom with open wounds. She was starving and desperately dragged herself to me after I saw her, crouched under the steps of her neglectful home. She was clearly used to people, but her owners (horrible people down our street) dumped her outside, like they do with all their cats. She had to have been crushed or hit by a vehicle and surviving like that for weeks, owners not bothering to notice. We gave her a tasty meal and cuddles and scritches before rushing her to the emergency vet in a cozy blanket where they determined the most loving and dignified way to care for her was humane euthanasia to end her agony. She left this world feeling important and loved, but her tremendous suffering could've been avoided had her owners just kept her indoors. Her name was Dolly.