Man, is that not true. It's amazing how cruel and uncompassionate the
people in spiritual and caring organizations can be sometimes. I cat-sat
for a nun who moved down here from Iowa, she was afraid that the Carmelite
Fathers there were going to kill the cat if she left it, and didn't have a
place for the kitty for several months. This was probably 15 years ago.
Ahgg.
Gloria
At 09:10 AM 6/8/2005, you wrote:
Big hugs to Pets Alive for offering to take these kitties. And these nuns
have not decided whether to allow the volunteers to save the
kitties? Boy, they really have a mean streak! If they want the cats out
of there they should be overjoyed at the offer. I'm not the only one
angry about this, am I.
Del
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From: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Doljan, Joan
To: <mailto:'felvtalk@felineleukemia.org'>'felvtalk@felineleukemia.org'
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 7:55 AM
Subject: Update on Bronx Nuns
UPDATE JUNE 7TH 2005
"Pets Alive" Offers Sanctuary to Corpus Christi Monastery Cats
(June 7, 2005 / 7 pm EST) In an exemplary show of compassion, Sara Whalen,
head of Pets Alive
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, has offered to provide a new home for the seven feral cats now facing
starvation and possible impoundment and death at the hands of the nuns of
the Corpus Christi Monastery in the Bronx, New York. The grounds of the
monastery have been home to the neutered and rabies-vaccinated cats for
the past eight years. Sister Helen, Vicar of the Religious Office for the
Archdiocese of NY, has stated that the nuns of the monastery are
considering whether to allow volunteers to trap and remove the cats so
they can be transferred to Pets Alive.
We hope compassion will prevail and all parties will agree to this solution.
The cats have now not been fed for six days and counting.