Melisandre needs a home. She’s a young adult who is the mother a litter of kittens that were all easily adopted and has been with Community Cats for a couple of months.
She is spayed and friendly and playful, a little timid in unfamiliar situations, says Darlene Phillips of Salem Community Cats. She’s easy with cats, has never been around dogs.
She is in Salem, New York in Washington County.
Darlene thinks she would make a wonderful pet. Darlene’s group has been focusing on feral cats – trapping, neutering, and returning them to where they were caught.
There are 70 million feral cats in America and Darlene’s group has caught and returned more than 100 of them.
She also has 27 cats and kittens in foster homes and is running out of space as well as money.
I’m going to talk with her this week to see how she might get money for a larger space – I’m thinking of a GoFundMe page that I could support on the blog.
I strongly believe in trying to help feral and abandoned cats, they suffer awful sickness and death in a country that mostly ignores the problem.
Darlene Phillips and her group are doing heroic work in this field. You can contact her about Melisandre through her e-mail ([email protected].).
You can visit the group’s website here. You can donate to the group here.
I hope they agree to a gofundme page, it’s the best way for them to raise the money they need, with our continuing help. In the meantime, they could use some help.
Just this weekend they dook in two mama cats and their combined seven kittens as well as another sweet ginger kitten they trapped and a friendly adult stray.
“The majority of the adults are either healing from injury, recovering from illness, or waiting to be spayed or neutered,” writes Darlene. “The majority of the kittens will very soon be ready to go into homes. In the meantime, we are about out of space and need to either move along the few adoptable cats we have or find more fosters. Any help you might offer would be greatly appreciated. We are so grateful for all you’ve already done to boost our cause.”
I’m hoping to adopt this group of animal angels into the kind realm of the Army Of Good and support them as best we can. As you know, this is a rough kind of work to do. And expensive.
I’ll keep you posted. I’m glad to be supporting this work. I hope someone goes for Melisandre, she needs a home and sounds like a great pet. ([email protected])
You are a kind and intelligent man. I would take her but i have 3 indoors and 2 outside (The Kennedys: Jackie and Caroline). I, too, have become tnr certified w Neighborhood Cats and The Kennedys are my community cats, protected in NYC by the Mayor’s Alliance. The Kennedys are well fed, spayed and have rabies shots. There are a few boys occasionally who pop over for food who I’ve named: Patrick, Joe Jr and Teddy. I think Patrick has a home. Well, that’s my story but i understand how imperative it is for you and your friends to help. I have a nice winter/bad weather house nestled in my neighbor’s shrubs, and I believe Jackie may one day decide to come inside. She naps in the garden i just planted this year and she’s extremely affectionate with me.
Anyway, I’ve been meaning to write to you regarding proofreading your posts. I used to be in editorial in magazines and I would be happy to do it for free. It’s a skillset sorely needed on the internet in general, but since you’re so kind to animals, I would like to do a little something kind in return and proofread your journal entries before you post. You can reach me at my email address below! ?
Thanks, Joni, I am happy with my posts, thanks for the offer. If I wanted a proofreader or editor, I would have hired one by now. I love my typos and you owe me nothing for my writing. I’m sure the cat will find a home.. Best J