06/03/2025
Short and succinct, short and succinct...
We brought the kitties from the hoarding case to be spayed and neutered at Kershaw County Humane Society yesterday. We had them combo tested, surprisingly and super happy, they were all combo negative!!! 3 of the boys were previously neutered, so we had 5 boys neutered and 3 girls spayed. Momma cat is 100% a "hands off" cat, so we will get her in a trap and have her TNR at a different appointment.
The orange tabby that you may have seen the video of, he passed away a few days ago. Personally, this case in particular has taken a lot out of me. A lot. We are used to people surrendering animals to us, pulling animals off of the dreaded euthanasia list, pulling momma cats and kittens, pulling senior cats, etc. I helped our rescue buddy Shanin, Violet's House Cat Rescue, with the hoarding case she did last year, this is different. The person who Shanin helped at least cared for, to the best of his ability, the cats...did things get 100% out of control, hell to the yes it did. The case I'm helping Kershaw County AC with, this was just different. These cats were super emaciated, disgusting water, living in their own filth, the cats were filthy, loaded with worms, just in awful and horrible shape. It's been weighing on me. The cat that passed away, he was probably the worst looking of the group. Did we give him fresh water several times a day, yes, did he get electrolytes, yes, was he being fed kitten food (both kibble and pate), yes...the damage was already done to his poor riddled body. We tried.
After these guys have fully healed from their respective surgeries, we will be putting them up for adoption. I'll be leaning heavily on my rescue friends to get them adopted. We will be adopting them from our home and not the store. All of the kitties, except Momma, have been fully vaccinated, de-wormed, combo tested and clear x2, micro chipped and are being spoiled here.
We will be posting pics of them later on tonight :-).