08/07/2026
SORRY FOR THE ULTRA-LONG POST, BUT IT’S A GOOD ONE! 🥰
Because this is what rescue…and this post is all about! (https://fb.watch/IS1MRzh6Bc/?)
A few days ago, when Cindy stopped to check on Mommy cat and her baby…she saw Mommy cat, but no baby. She thought he might be sleeping somewhere, but she had to get to her other stops…so off she went. Yesterday morning Cindy had a cardiologist appointment and was told she had to wear a heart monitor for 48 hours. We are in the midst of a heat wave, but Cindy wanted to check on Mommy cat and see if her baby was there. She saw Mommy, but no baby again…so of course she started looking for him up and down the street in the extreme heat. She was sweating so much that her heart rate monitor kept sliding down her shirt and finally slipped off 🥵. Now mind you, Cindy also has a full head of hair that also sweated profusely and started falling all over her face…so much so…that she tried to fashion a hair tie out of a plastic bag (she’s going to kill me for saying that, but I thought it was hysterical)! The resident who had been feeding Mommy and Baby then pulled up and told Cindy that she had seen Baby two porches down at one point…she also gave Cindy a hair tie and some water. Cindy checked all over the porch and then finally heard some meows from the opposite direction…so she went over as quickly as she could. The house where she heard the meows was all boarded up, but there was a small hole in the porch that turned out to go all the way to the basement…where the meows were coming from…it was Baby! The opening was definitely not big enough for someone to climb in…so the police and Animal Control were called. The police could not break into the house until they found the owner through public records which could take awhile…so Cindy and Stephanie from Animal Control put their heads together to come up with a plan. They found a plastic food container and filled it with wet cat food. They put that in a small backpack that Stephanie had and tied it to a leash. I forgot to mention that Cindy had also knotted up a sheet that she had and put some cat food on it, hoping that Baby would smell the food and climb up the sheet. The backpack wasn’t sturdy enough to hold the container of food and Baby…so Stephanie looked in her van and found an insulated lunchbox. She removed the lid and put the container of food in it. Somehow or other…and by the grace of God…Stephanie managed to create a kitten carrier attached to the leash…and by the grace of God…Baby went to eat the food…and made it to the surface! Cindy was so relieved that she couldn’t stop crying…she told me if they hadn’t been able to rescue Baby yesterday…she would not have been able to sleep…and God only knows what her heart monitor readings would have been! Mommy cat tried her best to be project manager by checking out the opening and tasting the food…but in the end…both Mommy and her Baby Boy went right into the carrier…and took a ride to Homeward Bound where they will both have the chance to get their “Happily Ever After”…maybe even together!!! 😺💕😻❤️
