Yeah for TAD!!!! He and Jen talked today and little
Switters is moving to New
England!!! We
just need to work out transp. Jen has someone who works in Delta & is
going to see if she can get a steward to take little Switters. If not, I
may have a contact with a stewards group who had offered to take small pets in
Cabin with them… Just little details, how to get from New Orleans to Vermont. What a tale little Switters will have for his new
brothers and sisters!!! “and then the water came, and then I swam,
and then I didn’t have any food, and then I went inside to this house,
and then I went on this BIG bird, and now I’m here!”
TAD—THANK YOU SO VERY VERY MUCH==YOU ARE A TRUE HERO!
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Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006
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To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: Re: One last URGENT plea
for help...
Oh Tad----you are a total hero! I
hope transportation can be worked out for little Switters. It's so great that
you've given him the chance of a forever home. Thank you! Kerry
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Monday, February 06, 2006 1:06 AM
Subject:
Re: One last URGENT plea for help...
Chris
I could take him but I am way up here in Vermont...
Is there any way you could get him as far as Albany
or NYC or New England area....
I know there were several rescue people from Boston
Mass. area that have been back and forth and brought
some back with them.... Don't know if there is any chance
of hooking up with them....
Tad
Chris wrote:
I posted before about Switters the
Katrina kitten found on the street by a New Orleans resident after the
hurricane. I ‘met’ Jean through group I’m in working to
reunite Katrina pets with their owner. She’s nursed him back to
health, domesticated him, chipped him, neutered him and generally brought him
back to health! He is FELV+. She has to move out of state next week
and cannot take him with her. She has contacted every rescue group and
feline organization she could find. She has asked her friends and
neighbors but part of the problem is that those handful of people who have
returned to New Orleans are all taking care of other pets found in the
street! ALL shelters in the Gulf Coast areas are full; almost none are
no-kill and almost all would euthanize Switters because of his FELV.
Jean, his caretaker, found a place in
Ashville that will take her and her three cats but landlord would not even
consider a fourth cat—go figure. Her cats hate Switters and she
really can’t just keep them separate.
Someone told Jean, Switters’
caretaker, about a place called “animal rescue” in Denver but she
knows nothing about it nor can she afford to fly Switters up there. Jean
has talked to Marley’s fund and they are full but put him on a waiting
list. Jean is moving to Ashville. Is there anyone in the area who
could even foster Switters until Marley’s fund could take him. Jean
says he really is a people person cat who is very sweet. He tries with
the other cats but they just won’t accept him.
I’ve got 5 adult cats in my apt
and live with turf wars so adding one more would just put everybody over the
edge. Anybody out there who might be able to help? This little guy
went thru so much to stay alive! This is Switters.
Chris
914-632-4672
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