More Cats Need Your Help

For years the stated mission of the Cat Sanctuary has been to carry on a project that was actually initiated by a cat (Magic), of offering a safe home and healthy life to needy cats and kittens.

However, since the rescue of the almost equally special alley cat, Mackerel, and his mother, Patchnose, and sister, Polly, the actual function of the Cat Sanctuary has basically been to provide a good home to this cat family. A few other cats have come and gone, but we've not been doing any real cat rescue work because there's been no real need.
I'm serious, Gentle Readers: Although uninformed people have been bringing pets they can no longer keep into "Cat Auschwitz" (the Humane Society shelter), "Cat Auschwitz" has been relying on actual pet-napping to supply the market for Shelter Pets...in Kingsport, Tennessee, and also in Denver, where I'm told a batch of local cats were shipped, and other cities.

This changed over the weekend. We have been informed that a nearby trailer park has declared a Cat Problem and is looking for homes for several abandoned pets and/or friendly feral cats. We have agreed to accept these cats as they are trapped and vaccinated against deadly infections, and will be actively trying to place them in permanent homes.

We will not expose the Patchnose Family to un-vaccinated cats. However, when we say that other cats can stay here (at PK's home) on the approval of the Patchnose Family, we mean that very seriously. What's special about the Patchnose Family is that they're very social cats. In at least three cases the cats have been the ones demanding that we feed and shelter new cats! For cats who don't get along with the Patchnose Family, other foster homes have been located...of course it's best for the cats to go straight to a permanent home if possible.

We urgently need a digital camera in order to post photos of these cats, and a late-model laptop computer to ensure adequate online time to handle the cat situation as well as General Assembly 2013 and the general-magazine-type content of which several readers are requesting more. We have advertised these needs in newspapers, and we're advertising them here.

I don't know these cats yet. I don't know whether any of them is as social as the Patchnose Family; I do know that the Patchnose Family have bonded, to the extent possible, with non-social cats and seem to help socialize these cats to some extent. I don't know whether any of them is anything other than American Shorthair. All I can tell you is that they're friendly, lovable cats who need your help to survive.