1/10/25 – Meet Emerald and Furry Krueger. Emerald was one of three kittens dropped off at Jessica’s home — we have helped Jessica with prior rescues and all have found their way into loving homes. A little girl told Jessica that kitten she was able to catch was named Emerald. Shortly after Jessica had contacted us about Emerald she contacted us about the Furry Krueger. Jessica had turned on her street after leaving Kroger’s and there was a litter of three kittens just hanging out in the middle of the road. There is a gated area for a small business and they were all running from there. Furry Krueger went in the live trap within 5 minutes but when Jessica went back to catch his siblings 2 days later the owner of the business was verbally abusive and threatened her. He said that he feeds a feral colony and wants them as shop cats. Jessica tried to explain that the cats needed to be TNR’d. There appeared to be a mom with kittens and other cats hanging out there. She told the business owner that it was important to remove the kittens before they were hit by a car but he didn’t want to hear it. She didn’t know if she would be able to catch the other two kittens without making him angry but she is very concerned for the safety of the other 2 kittens–they just run back and forth from his area to a neighbor across the street– a very sad situation. She saw 2 deceased cats in that area within the last month. It’s so very frustrating with so many ignorant people in our communities when even offered assistance, refuse to spay/neuter stray cats and allow them to propagate like weeds. More authority and dollars are needed by our municipal animal control shelters to take strays from the streets and at least pay for the neuter/spay — even if it means returning this back to the streets from which they came. Instead, very often the situations are either ignored or people are fined and the authority just walks away without actually taking care of the problem which is leaving cats without being spayed/neutered.

Furry Krueger is very sweet and follows Jessica wherever she goes and loves to ‘make bread’ as we say in the cat world. Emerald is doing good and Jessica will again be looking for furever homes for her little rescues.

If you are interested, please contact Jessica at: [email protected]. – diana