🐱 Loki & Gambit & Lucy🐱

Thank you @HealingPurrsPaw for this beautiful remembrance for our deeply love G2 (Gandolf the Second) @gandolf_s 💔💞🌈🙏 How lovely. 🥹💞

💔 A Safe Haven Destroyed... 20 Cats in Crisis Our foster and amazing volunteer Vanessa, @gandolf_s has spent years helping Priya care for 15 community cat groups, making sure no little one went hungry or without shelter. For 3 years, our newest group of 20 souls lived safely on one of the last wooded lots in the heart of the city. Priya and Vanessa had placed feeding stations and winter shelters there so they would never feel forgotten. Fed and safe from the weather. But last week, tragedy struck. Without warning, bulldozers and chainsaws came. The lot was plowed and cleared for construction. No "for sale" signs, nothing to predict this was coming. Feeding stations and shelters were destroyed. The terrified cats scattered in panic. Their home of three years gone in an instant. When Vanessa returned for the evening feed after work, she found it all in a pile of sticks and rubble. She fell to her knees in disbelief and tears. She called out to the babies, but no one came. They were gone. Vanessa has been searching day and night for them. It's been a week, and, so far, she has managed to find and bring 3 kittens to safety, but they were found with now varying degrees of painful eye infections (warning & apologies for hard to look at photos) and need urgent vet care. They are going in. Their mother, who was scheduled to be trapped and spayed, is still missing. Another pregnant mama, recently dumped there, who disappeared during the clearing, has reappeared, along with her grey friend, Paco, but she has already given birth. Vanessa fears her newborns may be hidden in the dangerous rubble left behind in the video below. That means at least 6 lives right now, 3 sick kittens, 2 mothers, and fragile newborns, and one grey boy, Paco, desperately need help. And there are still more than a dozen cats unaccounted for, now homeless and in danger. All we can do at this point is try to trap them and assess their situation and move forward accordingly. Vetting, homes for the ones not completely feral. In rescue, as in life, we rarely get a warning before tragedy strikes. We don’t get to choose the timing. It simply shows up on a day ending in “Y,” and we are left with no choice but to act and little lives hang in the balance. This work is messy. It’s heartbreaking. We see things we can never unsee and step in to help where others cannot or simply will not. We do it all for the love of those without a voice. Their lives are already so hard. We know we’ve asked for so much lately. 😪 Our cancer babies are urgent. Our vet bills are urgent. Our food needs are urgent. And now, this crisis. The truth is, rescue is urgent care for cats. Every week, often every day, the emergency changes. One day it’s a dumpster fire, the next it’s another. It's difficult to choose which hair on fire issue to post, honestly, as there is a never ending supply. So as not to inundate our follower family we try very hard to handle so many of them quietly. There is so much that happens, as with all rescues, that you don't see. Wouldn't want to see. We quietly go about trying to do all we can to help the fur babies. But sometimes it becomes too much and we must reach out. It’s never easy to ask for help. And it never gets easier. It's hard to feel like a pest. But we must because they need us, and we need you. Considering that Priya's rescue space is currently full, she is caring for her two precious boys Leo and Chester, simultaneously struck with cancer, and she is currently battling a Covid infection...her plate is overflowing to say the least.😮‍💨😪 This task will be undertaken by our saintly foster Vanessa, who's tireless compassionate heart never fails to show up for the rescue. When you can find a friend of the fur like dear Vanessa, you have found gold. If you are able to help us help them through this heartbreak, by providing funds for vet care, food, and safe shelter for these cats it would be a blessing they so desperately need, and one we could never thank you enough for.🙏 Please, also share to get them the help they deserve. 💞😪🐾 It's all links in a beautiful chain of love for the voiceless in need of help. 🐾Adopt. If you cannot adopt... 🐾Foster. If you cannot foster... 🐾Donate. If you cannot donate... 🐾Volunteer. If you cannot volunteer... 🐾Share their story. There is something each one of us can do.🙏🫂 Ways to help are in the reply below. 💞

GAWD...Priya has Covid😭🙀 Not the "just a bad cold" Covid, but the can barely move, everything hurts, can't smell, can't taste, truck ran over me, flat on her back Covid. She is diabetic and this makes it harder on immune system. Can barely stand to feed cats and 26 litter boxes to clean. The cancer babies need care and she's down for the count. Please put paws in for @gandolf_s 😪🙏🐾💔