12/22/2025
LOUIE 🌈🪽😭
Life isn't fair. It's just not. My heart is just - I can't explain the depth of ache I am feeling right now. I just can't. I also can't stop crying. He was such a sweet, innocent soul. This little boy, living his life, hanging with his friends, belonging. Louie was a warrior. Tough as any young cat dealt a sh*t hand in life with his health, facing life on the streets, limited to whatever care was kindly given to him as he wandered from house to house, their yards his "home", but not really.
Can you believe when Louie was first posted seeking help by his finder/feeder back in 2022, I was tagged in a comment or sent his post link and I purposely ignored it for 5 days. Five days. Why? Because we had no room for another medical kitty and no money - same unfortunate song, always. I thought surely, in 5 days, someone will have stepped up for whatever the issue was. So, I checked the post. I scrolled the comments. I found one offer of help, but when I checked to confirm if help was given, I learned it wasn't. And so the story and journey of Louie and Random Rescuer began. What a crazy whirlwind he sent us on.
Louie was a survivor and fighter without question. He was special. So shy, nervous, and so incredibly sweet. Our Liver Shunt Louie - many of you who have been with us for years, you'll remember Liver Shunt Louie's story. We've never raised so much money in as short a time as we did, together, for this gentle boy of 9 months at the time of intake. Somewhere in the ballpark of $15,000 give or take with his various hospitalizations for urinary issues on top. In a literal matter of mere months, you gifted him a CT scan and shunt surgery. I would do it all again, even knowing now, that no matter what, his life would be lost far too soon because his little body was unknowingly, dealt a hand of medical challenges. In the end, kidney failure reared its ugly head like a monster lurking, waiting.
Louie lived a short life, leaving us at barely 4 years of age. But, he lived a very full life because that's the only thing any animal knows how to do - just live life. He learned to trust and love pets. He learned to play and banter with his friends. He learned about and felt the depth of a love he would never have found if left on the streets. He lived his life. And his life was full - that's all he knew. It's what I need to remember - That his life, while too short for me, was still very full and happy for him. And that's what matters.
To everyone who stepped up when Louie's life hung so precariously - Thank you for seeing his worth.💜 Thank you for not hesitating to help him. It's because of you, that Louie got to enjoy these last few years of his life. He would have been lost long ago, but for your kind hearts.
Louie passed away Sunday morning, peacefully. From our beginning to his rainbow crossing, Louie was not alone. He was wrapped in love and sent on his way. This sweet angel - forever, etched in my mind and heart - his little self, dancing and swirling around, chirping for his endless pets - this is how I'll always remember him.💗
We have a dollar match up to $3,500 happening til December 31st. It is in memory of our babies lost - please remember Louie, and give in his memory.🌈🪽
