A Bittersweet Update To Urgent: If You Can Help A Fellow MyLotter

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SInce many of you have been following the past two discussions I started about a fellow MyLotter's predicament, that is OreoCookie and her hopes of placing Sassy, her kitten in a new home, I thought I'd give a "bittersweet" up-date. I say bittersweet, as no one who has a pet and who has bonded with it, and the pet bonding with their human owner relishes the idea of having to give up that beloved pet, even if it's for the best all way round. When I say I know what OreoCookie is going through, I MEAN IT, I do, as I had been in that exact same predicament myself last year. I had to give up a lot of my kitties due to the problem my mother had created with too many cats, and we were facing eviction. According to our landlord, we were only allowed two cats. No ifs, ands or buts about it. With the rents the way they are now, there was no way we could afford to be evicted and lose our apartment that we had lived in for so long. That is why Oreo, had asked for my help almost a week ago, since I had gone through this myself of trying to place my cats elsewhere, and knew the "ropes" of getting in contact with pet rescuers. Well all that frantic emailing around has paid off. One of the things I had done was to go to the ASPCA website and tracked down all the listings of pet rescuers and shelters in the GA area since that is where Oreo is...I emailed practically all of them. Most said they couldn't help but placed cross-posting alerts to other rescuers who might help, especially with the idea of transporting Sassy to another MyLotter, who lives in NC and was willing to take in Sassy. One rescue place, Pup&Cat Co, came through, and one of the owners, an Ursula was willing to take in Sassy and keep her until arrangements could be made for Sassy's transport. Before any of this could happen though, Ursula wanted Sassy vetted, that is properly examined, and given shots, to make sure Sassy was indeed healthy. This is a common practice. When one rescuer took in some of my kitties, she first had them go to her former vet, when she lived in Staten Island (she now lives up-state NY), where not only were they examined but stayed boarded at the vet until she could come down and transport them to her place upstate. This is all just a precaution to make sure the pets are healthy (they were of course). So in a private email to me on Monday, Oreo informed me that Ursula was going to meet her around 5 or so in the evening on Tuesday at the vet that happens to be near Oreo, and is Ursula's private vet. In a later email on Tuesday night, Oreo told me that she did indeed go to the vet, and met with Ursula, signed some papers, and the vet took Sassy to be examined. I won't go into any details about all that was said in the email. So now it's just a question of time, when Ursula can then arrange for Sassy's transport and her new home. You can see my former discussions about the "adventures of Sassy" here And thanks to those who have responded previously and some of the suggestions you gave. http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1344136.aspx By the way Oreo, if you want to share anymore about this with us, please do....and if you want to rant and rave, scream, holler all I can say it go for it...And don't take offense but I still like to deck out your son-in-law for putting you through all this crap! Grrrrr!