{"id":11742,"date":"2012-06-05T10:31:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T17:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/momservations.wordpress.com\/?p=11742"},"modified":"2012-06-05T10:31:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T17:31:15","slug":"no-good-deed-goes-unpunished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momservations.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/05\/no-good-deed-goes-unpunished\/","title":{"rendered":"No Good Deed Goes Unpunished"},"content":{"rendered":"

Momservation: <\/strong>\u201cCan we keep it?\u201d is the last question a mother ever wants to hear.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>So how\u2019s your week going?<\/p>\n

I get to put down a perfectly sweet, lovable kitty tomorrow. Thanks for asking.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a heartbreaker, but that\u2019s what we get for trying to do the right thing by saving an abandoned kitty struggling to live on the banks of a creek.<\/p>\n

When it let my daughter easily scoop her up and carry her to the noisy soccer game going on at Cherry Island, I suspected this kitty wasn\u2019t just a feral cat.<\/p>\n

When the emaciated, less than a year old female kitty let me pull a fox tail out of its oozing eye, I knew it was grateful for help.<\/p>\n

When Hubby, who adamantly said at the beginning of the game, \u201cTell her to put that thing back, we\u2019re not bringing home a stray cat!\u201d saw just how pathetic the poor kitty looked and how happy it had been in my daughter\u2019s arms for over an hour, he agreed to let her come home. The stipulation being we\u2019d find her another home.<\/p>\n

I called every cat rescue group in Sacramento. No one would take her, being already overloaded. I even called groups in the Bay Area, willing to drive an hour to save her.<\/p>\n

In the meantime we nursed her back to health with food and love, trying not to name the extremely affectionate kitty who just wants to be held, so we wouldn\u2019t get too attached.<\/p>\n

I emailed and called everyone I could think of, trying to put the hard sell on my cat lover friends. I posted her on Facebook. Nobody could take her. Everyone kept joking I should just keep her, being the cat lover.<\/p>\n

But I am allergic, already suffering through eight years of itchy eyes, scratchy throat and eternal stuffed nose with my previous cat I just couldn\u2019t give up.<\/p>\n

Plus, Miss Kitty (who we ended up naming after we kept calling her Kitty), doesn\u2019t like our dog, Darby the yellow Lab, \u2013 going into fight mode, most likely a side effect of having to defend herself at the creek.<\/p>\n

Finally, I convinced a wonderfully compassionate lady at Happy Tails Cat Sanctuary<\/a>, Jodie, to make an exception so we wouldn\u2019t have to surrender Miss Kitty to the pound where she would most likely be destroyed due to overcrowding.<\/p>\n

All I had to do was get her tested for Feline Leukemia<\/a> and if she was negative, they would try to find a foster home for Miss Kitty.<\/p>\n

She tested positive.<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t find a home for a healthy kitty, how was I going to find one for a diseased kitty?\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

But I had to try for this beautiful kitty, a purring ball of affection, that lights up every time a person walks into the room to see her, so happy to have a safe sanctuary.<\/p>\n

A cat with Feline Leukemia can still live a long and healthy life as long as it is an indoor cat and only cat. The disease is not transferable to other animals or humans.<\/p>\n

I posted on Craig\u2019s List<\/a> for a special needs kitty. I posted flyers at PetSmart, vets and grocery stores hoping for that one right person to save her.<\/p>\n

No one has called.<\/p>\n

I called the SPCA<\/a>, hoping there could be a chance for a special needs adoption. But they will euthanize her because of her disease.<\/p>\n

We just can\u2019t keep Miss Kitty as much as we love her. We already have a special needs dog ($3,000 in surgeries so far) who\u2019s terrified of the five pound kitty that wants to scratch her face off. Turns out my daughter, whose room Miss Kitty has been staying in, is allergic too.<\/p>\n

So we feel we\u2019ve done everything we could do to help save Miss Kitty\u2019s life, trying to find comfort in knowing she will die peacefully rather than suffering a slow death on the creek banks.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow is the day we settled on so it doesn\u2019t get harder the more we all become attached.<\/p>\n

If this is a good deed, I almost wish we had never found her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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