10/11/2023
It is strange that after a full year of no new content, we continue to get more engagement with this page. I've not yet figured out what to do with this space, as our situation has radically changed since we created it, and the purpose for which it was built no longer exists.
A year ago, we made the difficult decision to leave Houston and to give and receive personal support from family. We took the two cats we had adopted out of the colony, which is the most we've been able to handle at one time. The rest remained.
The first one to leave was still near enough to check in on our furry friends, bringing them food as often as possible. A few months ago they reported that the entire colony had vanished. We have no way to follow up and find out what became of them.
Our hope is that they were delivered to one of the excellent cat shelters that Houston is home to. It is far more likely that they were taken to BARC, and from there... who knows?
I have no complaints with BARC. They've worked very hard to improve their save rate in recent decades; however, with the pandemic and recession many more animals are being brought in than in past years, so the chance that many of those cats were destroyed is sadly higher than ever.
To end this post on a hopeful note, please be kind to the "lost" and the "stray". It can be easy to feel powerless in the face of so much suffering. You can't change the world, but any one of us can change the world for one other soul.
