Sallie Will Need a Home

I bet some of you tuned in to this blog yesterday and when you saw it was a brick post, you clicked out and moved on.  After all, you know all about the brick fundraisers here, and many of you already have a brick in the Walkway.  But if you failed to scroll to the end of the post, you missed a little something.  THIS little something -


Younger Daughter’s boyfriend works the 6am to 2pm shift.  When he got to work Tuesday morning, there sat a kitten.  She was kind of folded up, just sitting there next to the parking area.  Boyfriend saw her and wondered and went on into the building.  He looked outside a couple of times during his shift and she had not moved.  When he got off work at two o’clock, he called me.  There’s a kitten here and everybody’s just walking on by her and she isn’t moving.  She doesn’t look great.  What should I do?  Since there are no homes near there, I told him to bring her here if he could get her.  That wasn’t a problem.  She never moved.  He picked her up and saw that one of her ears was scabbed and crusty.  Also, she was skinny under that slightly scruffy coat.  He sat her down on his jacket in the passenger seat.  She squirmed around a minute, rolled onto her back, and with three of her legs in the air went sound asleep.  That’s how I first saw her.  Boyfriend pulled into my driveway, and I went out to get her.  There she was - sleeping hard.

We went inside and I looked her over.  Fleas.  BAD ear.  Scruffy coat.  Skinny.  And only a couple of months from being a prime candidate for pregnancy.  Boyfriend had done the right thing. 

I put her into the downstairs bathroom with Truly, Autumn, and Shiloh.  They sniffed and she didn’t move.  They hissed and she hissed back.  But when I put food in front of her, she started inhaling it.  She ate and ate.  I finally took the food so she wouldn’t make herself sick.  She spent all of Tuesday evening doing three things - eating, sleeping, and grooming herself.  By Wednesday morning, she looked amazingly better than when she’d first arrived.  Even the bad ear is looking better.  I had Older Daughter check it, and we started an antibiotic ointment.  Little Sallie is now a Winnie’s Wisher - and a sweet one!  Today’s post was supposed to be another adoption post.  How convenient.  Because Sallie will soon need a forever home of her very own.

Food!

So good!

I'd like a home now, please.

May I take a moment to point something out?  I don't know if any of you have noticed this, but Winnie's Wish hasn't had an adoption in a long while.  Sallie makes TEN kittens I've taken in since May.  After finally trapping Shiloh, my hope was that there would be no more "intakes" until we had some "outputs".  Friends - I need homes.  If you're reading this, and you're considering an adoption, won't you please consider a Winnie's Wisher.   Alot of wonderful folks have adopted over these couple of years.  They are my best advertisement as they think their particular Winnie's Wishers are the greatest!  We've set up transports and we've flown cats across the country.  We CAN get a Winnie's Wish cat or kitten into your arms, your lap, your home.  Contact me and let's get something started.  I need you.  And there's a kitty here who needs you, too.

Comments

[Random Felines]

OMC - a cute kitten and a cat guy......good luck Sallie!!!

[Jan (Milo and Alfie's mom)]

Chrystal ~ I do so hope more adopters come along, for their sakes as much as your. After all, what could be better in the feel good stakes than adopting a rescue kitten? I should know, my sweet boy Alfie is former feral. xx

[ginny& the fur family]

Sallie is so sweet and does look so much better. What is with these people out there who never spay or neuter? lets give them a boo out ---Sallie is now on the way to getting a forever home - thank you boy friend for caring and picking up this helpless little soul. She is now alive and being helped. If boy friend had not went with his gutt instinct that she was homeless she might have been killed on that parking lot. God was on her side and gave him the heart to go for it and bring her to Winnies room. Winnie is looking down and smiling today. Please some one out there consider taking Sallie. Have a great beautiful fall day. Ginny & The Fur Family

[Andrea and the Celestial Kitties]

What a little darling! Oh Sallie, I hope we can find you your perfect home so fast you wont remember whatever brought you to this situation!
People, we need, NEED, to find homes! This isn't funny, not a joke, it's getting desperate! There are more cats than spaces in the cathouse!

There is so much need, and I know, one person cannot do it all. (Not even Chrystal!) So lets all do what bit we can. It's easy to tell your friends about kittens, right? That's just words. So if there is nothing else, then please commit to tell at least a couple people about the kitties.
Even a small donation will go far, Chrystal can pinch a penny until it screams, but she can't do anything with NO pennies.
Books, something great for you, and money for the kitties, great gifts too!
Bricks, also a great gift, a perminant memorial or honor to your critter (doggies too! Even other animals!) and money for the kitties!
Adoptions, if there is room in your house, these truly are some of the best kitties in the world! And as Chrystal says, she can work out getting them all across the country. Some of her Wishers are even in Canada! Don't let distance stop you!

[ginny& the fur family]

I think Andrea had hit the nail right on the head. These opperations take more than pennies but pennies add up to dollars.
Think of poor little Shloe alone and is agony lost in a field and Chrystal and her family drove all the way up there every day and finaly caught Shiloe and had his surgery, and now some day he will be able to walk again. Sallie sitting beside a parking lot hungry and lost and now Chrystal's family have fed her and doctored those little crusted ears. Ear mites can kill a cat if left unattended. Now Sallie is looking for a home. Adoptions are so needed and so are donations. Even if it is a very little, it will be appreciated so much. Every amount they taken in goes to care for animals. The wind is still blowing strong and leaves are all down and doing their little dance across the lawn. = Ginny & The Fur Family

[momsbusy]

i was wondering who this cutie was at the end of yesterday's post. she is going to be a real beauty when she grows up. praying she gets her forever home very soon.

[Pit]

What an adorable kitten! I'm keeping my fingers crossed she'll find a home soon.
Best regards, and thanks for what you do for kitties,
Pit