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
9:02 PM
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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Sent:
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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