11/03/2025
on Desperate People
A couple in Dripping Springs came home from running errands to find eight friendly cats and kittens in their yard! These people have no cats. There were pie pans with water and kibble left for the kitties. What are ya' gonna do?
The couple put the information out on Nextdoor. Everybody and their brother suggested contacting Thundering Paws, so they did.
We think these kitties are from two litters. Four are about eight months old and the others are just under three months.
Avalon had already had kittens. We don’t know where they are. She seemed very sad when we brought her to Thundering Paws. She will be getting special attention.
Her two sisters, Igraine and Guinevere, and their brother, Lancelot, are being fostered together. They were all spayed/neutered and rabies vaccinated on Tuesday, 10/28. They will need additional vaccinations, which we can do at Thundering Paws, in a few weeks. They can be adopted right now!
Lancelot is a very outgoing fellow and he doesn’t like to be alone. He would be happiest being adopted with one of his sisters.
The four, three-month old kittens will be spayed/neutered on November 11. Brothers Shrimp and Sardine, and their sisters, Shark and Snapper, will be ready to be adopted in the second week of November. They could go home as foster-to-adopt kittens right now to the right circumstances.
All are healthy, friendly, happy, and appear well cared for. It’s a mystery why they were dumped, and why they were dumped in that particular yard! We wish we could spay their mom, find Avalon’s kittens, and help the obvious cat lovers whose desperation drove them to commit this crime.
Animal abandonment is indeed a crime in Texas. We have never pursued filing charges, even when we know who left them. In Texas, the “evidence"–that is, the dumped animals–must be held in a municipal shelter until the trial. We would never allow that to happen!
Please, if you know of anyone in such a circumstance, ask them to take the pets to a shelter. San Marcos Regional Animal Shelter is the municipal facility in Hays County, and there are many private shelters for dogs and cats.
To read the rest of last week's Mewsings go to: https://mailchi.mp/thunderingpaws/spayed-cats-in-heat-10353813?e=9edf0f5f35
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