Update: Urgent: If You Can Help A Fellow MyLotter and Send Prayers

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Okay I thought I give a bit of an up-date of what is happening about that situation I discussed about with fellow MyLotter, OreoCookie, and her situation about Sassy, her kitten. You can see the discussion I started here: http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1343192.aspx?p=1 As you know, OreoCookie's daughter adopted and brought home an adorable little kitty named Sassy. And while her daughter adopted it, Sassy bonded with Oreo, now her son-in-law was never thrilled about the kitten and he's allergic to cats. Anyway, the story goes that Oreo, her daughter and son-in-law have to move, and move into the son-in-law's family home. The real sticky part, is that it's being made quite clear that the kitten can't come with them when they move. Oreo is broken-hearted about this, as I would be. So she asked me for help out in some way, since she knew I had some connections and knew a bit about pet rescues due to my own experiences. She said there aren't many shelters in her area where she lives in Georgia, save for the Animal Care & Control, which is a kill shelter. So right away I made contacts with everyone I could possibly think of. So I posted an urgent message with Petfinders.com...got no response there. I posted the story on the various Yahoo pet rescue groups. I got a few responses, but no one could help. One person said she would love to help but she lived in Maryland...another said the same thing but is in Arizona. I got in contact with my pet rescuer friend upstate NY, and she gave me an email address of someone she thought could help...so I emailed ...no good. The woman is in West Virginia. Then wonderfully another MyLotter, CatsandDogs, who is in NC, yet a rescuer herself and often does "transports" said she be willing to take in Sassy, if not permanently, at least until she can place Sassy. The problem of course, that Oreo who is in GA can't go to NC, and CatsandDogs can't go to GA...but said if transport arrangements could be made, no problem. Now for those of you not familiar with the term "transports"...It is not unusual if local shelters or rescuers can't take in pets, they are "transported" from one state to another as long as arrangements can be made...this goes on all the time believe it or not. So CatsandDogs emailed me and gave me the email of a rescuer who makes arrangements for transports in the southern state region of the US--did that. In the meantime, very late last night, I did a search on the ASPCA website for more possible shelter or rescuers in the GA area, and emailed just about everyone. So far only a few responded...none can help, but a few emailed urgent alerts to rescuers/transporters, and ironically one person that was notified was the same person CatsandDogs knows...small world, no? The bottom line, is that there may be a light in that tunnel now...It's just a question of back and forth contacting between us all, and there just might be the possibility that once things get all connected that Sassy will be transported to NC to CatsandDogs. Okay to make this a discussion. Have any of you, to possibly save the life of a pet, had to get this involved? I've been through this myself last year, so this is kind of familiar territory. But say you had a pet, and you couldn't keep it, did you have to do something similar? Like maybe, give the pet to a relative that lived far away? Please continue your prayers for Oreo and Sassy, and of course, CatsandDogs, that all works out! Thanks ever!