Cats & Kittens need adoption & fostering in & around Delaware

[Susan_P]

If you love cats and kittens this is your year to help them. There are an extraordinary number of kittens and cats needing foster homes and to be adopted this kitten season. I live in Chester County, PA and I get calls every week, sometimes 2 days in a row and it’s not even my job in the organization.

They need volunteers in every capacity, at the store where the adoption centers are, in Delaware and Philadelphia. They need miscellaneous volunteers for a variety of jobs. They need clinic and warehouse volunteers, so medical people to do vet tech work, people to clean cages and feed, people to transport cats, pick them up and deliver and BARN HOMES ARE NEEDED and that is my job. I’ve been wearing several hats at different times just because I’m in the right place to do it.

If you are anywhere from north Philly to the DE/MD/NJ/PA combined area then you may be close enough to help. They have volunteers from all states but not enough.

Now I’m going to get out of the house and try to get to the store to help before the cats that have been fixed today need to be picked up and delivered to their people. It’s pretty hard to get people to take the cats to the clinic so I just say that I’ll pick them up and take them and return them…
KEY POINT…RETURN THEM…:yes:

[Kachina]

Wow, you are really in the trenches helping the animals out in so many ways there. I hope that some folks in your area will be able to lend a hand. And if karma is for real, you’re going to win the lottery at some point. But someone like you would end up using most of it to save more kitty lives. There are not words to express appropriate gratitude and admiration for people like you who do this work.

[Susan_P]

Kachina, Thank you very much, you are too kind. A lot of people are volunteering to this end. I’m not alone. But it takes so many people to help animals because a few people are irresponsible. As Ben Franklin said, “A stitch in time saves 9”. As a kid I never understood that but then if you ever needed to mend something and didn’t you would see the hole or ripped seem just got bigger and that one stitch truly would have saved 9. In my case if I would have found a mamma cat a few months prior “the single and original stitch” and gotten her fixed, she would not have had the “9” kittens which of course I adored. But that would have been homes for 9 other kittens and maybe saved 9 other lives. Prevention is the key, that stitch just in time.

I don’t remember a time in my life when I wasn’t bringing some animal home and hoping that they needed me as much as I needed them. I have come to accept that God just makes some people this way to balance out the others. I stopped fighting it and just follow, the animals that come my way are those that I consider God has sent to me and I need to help. If I have room in my home there is always room in my heart.

I just took a cat that came from a racehorse farm to an elderly lady’s home and she is thrilled. I’ve had this cat since March so she has become part of my family and I have to not think about never seeing her again because she was so much fun. My husband and I would laugh as she sat in front of the TV watching Animal Planet. When I let the little kittens run around the house they would run to her and she would lick them and they rubbed their heads on her lovingly. I will have that image in my mind always. I will miss her. But there would be no room in my home if I kept all the cats and never got them homes and this way I can keep space open for another rescue. It’s about saving lives and helping not only the cats but the community and people that would love a cat or kitten. It’s good all the way around but I can tell you that I will really miss this sweet girl and so will my husband, she was a joy. I told the adopter to turn on the TV when her house is quiet and watch what she does. I hope they are both very, very happy together.