17/08/2025
❤️🩹 Happy Gotcha Day sweet babies ❤️🩹
We helped Andrea awhile back with a pup running around Southfield by her house. We were able to recover him and she found a great home for Buster - whose owner didn’t care enough to even call us back. Her mom Linda, was in a situation and was desperate for help with some kitties.
Linda’s aunt had passed away and she lives in Detroit. Linda would come by weekly and bring groceries and items that her aunt needed, but her aunt would never let her in the house. So Linda got a call a few weeks ago that her aunt had passed away in the house and nobody had found her for about 8 to 10 days. And the cats were in the house the entire time with no food or water. Once emergency personnel came through and removed the remains Linda was able to get in the house and try to see if her aunt’s beloved cats could be put in a carrier. Linda was needing some help as the cats Wouldn’t come out and she could visibly see only one. So Linda spent days and days trying to find some help in Detroit, reaching out to all the rescues down there with no response. I think that’s very sad that somebody can’t take the time out to help two cats that are living in deplorable conditions as the house Was condemned since her aunt was a bit of a hoarder.
So Andrea talked to her mom and then reached out to us.
Of course we’re going to help. Not sure why nobody else could be bothered because these lives matter. 😡
So the first thing we needed to do is see how many cats were in the residence. She thought there were three, but she only saw one but was sure there was another one somewhere else in there, but since we didn’t know, we had to get some surveillance set up. So cams went in the house and Our investigation has begun!
There wasn’t a lot of room and Linda had been running back-and-forth from Sterling Heights to Detroit every day to feed these cats and give them freshwater. She had to get in clothing that covered her from head to toe since the house was considered non-livable. So this was hard on Linda for a while. All while trying to find someone to help.
So once we have the camera set up, we did get pictures of two kitties. Linda made an attempt to grab one of the kitties that used to sit and watch as she would put food out, but that didn’t go so well and kitty wasn’t having it.
So once we had our camera set up and we knew how many were coming, which there was only two and we think the third one had passed away as she was 22, we decided to trap the two that we could visibly see and get them out of those conditions.
So yesterday, we had our plan in place we had our traps ready to go and we got the first one within a few minutes and he was not happy about it. Then about an hour later, we got the second big fluffy one. Everything worked like a charm and it was super simple so I’m not sure why no one down in Detroit would not help Linda with something that is such a simple task.
Once the kitties were removed, I was ecstatic to find out that Linda was keeping the cats. Most people who want help don’t wanna keep the cats and they just wanna dump them at the shelter after their loved one dies and that’s super annoying to me.
So today, the kitties are in clean conditions, they have fresh food and water, and they’re in air conditioning.
I will say that the camera would send pictures with nothing there and the species named was human activity. 😳😳😳. There were no humans in the house at these times. I’m pretty sure the aunt was watching over her babies.
We do have food and water set up in case the 3rd kitty is still there with cameras in place but as of today- no movement. We are sad to think that the other kitty passed away. RIP sweet kitty. Lindas Aunt- I hope you can rest easy now that your babies are safe! 💓
Linda we are very sorry for your loss.
I want to say happy gotcha day these two lives that did matter to South Lyon Murphy. And I want to congratulate Linda and her husband for all the hard work that they did with coordinating with us and getting this executed quickly. We were only on the case for a few days and it was super easy.
So welcome to our club, Linda and Family! And happy gotcha day sweet kitties!!!!!
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