03/06/2026
Last week, someone abandoned this tiny girl in the park.
This is exactly how I found her — still sitting inside the carrier they had brought her in, too terrified to come out. Frozen with fear, she didn't move.
I immediately secured the carrier to make sure she could get a veterinary check-up and be spayed. After her surgery, I kept her with me for a few days so she could recover safely.
Unfortunately, I couldn't keep her permanently, and I had to return her to the park. Now she has to learn how to navigate colony life.
She isn't very friendly, and I often wonder why. Is it simply fear after being abandoned? Or was she always this way? Was she once a child's toy, handled too much, bothered too often, until she learned not to trust human hands?
I don't know the answers.
What I do know is that treating animals this way is shameful.
And treating volunteers this way is shameful too.
Nobody asks us whether we have room for one more cat. Nobody asks whether we can afford another spay surgery, another vet visit, another mouth to feed. People simply dump animals and walk away, leaving the consequences for someone else to deal with.
It is unfair to the animals, who lose everything familiar in a single moment.
It is unfair to the volunteers who are already stretched beyond their limits.
She deserved better.
Every abandoned animal does.
