All-Creatures Ministry and Web Site
By Patti - 21 Nov 2012
Hello,
I hope you can help me I guess I wanted to hear personally from you.
My name is Patti I am a woman on disability.
I take care of 30 or more feral cats.
I live in a place though where a lot of people don't like cats, and I have
had so much trouble with these people, but it never stopped me from taking
care of the feral cats. When i first came here I fed 2 and now it is
20 and more. I have put up shelters (not the best shelters but they
have to do)in the back of this building where I live in a wooded lot,
through a organization I have gotten them spaded and neutered. Every
morning I go out to feed them and they all cuddle around me.
I am writing because I have seen a lot of them die, and it hurt so much. There was a feral cat a darling girl , who was very timid and shy , she would always hide in the bushs and cry to me. the past few weeks she started to get to know me a little more and gain some confidence, she would be sitting on the stoop where I come out waiting for me.
Yesterday I went to throw the garbage out and saw her dead in a box in the garbage, I almost fell crying I couldn't take seeing this. I took her into the lot where I used to feed her to take a look at her and touch her and didn't feel any broken bones, but saw blood coming out of her mouth. someone said they saw her and put her in a box thinking she got hit by a car, I will never know what happened. all I know is I couldn't stop crying, and I was so upset. I had nowhere to bury her and I just couldn't put her in a horrible garbage to be thrown into a garbage truck.
So I put her in a corner by a empty building in the lot where she used to
go. I put a heavy boat cover over the box then put some leaves and
twigs , then took a tarp and put it over that and then put some more twigs
and branches and leaves over her. My friend said I shouldn't leave her
there, but it has been 4 days now and I just can't move everything I did ,
and pick up the box, I will get all emotional again, I feel I have to leave
her there, it was her home. I am hoping this will be alright.
Also I want so much to know she is in Heaven , I know I am asking childlike questions but can I be sure that this feral cat is there. Also by where I put her I noticed a small cross that was painted on the building which made me feel even more to keep her there. I have been so sick, and miss her so much.
Please can you help alleviate my pain.
Please can you be so kind to get back to me.
With true Sincerity
Patti
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