Our Largest Rescue Efforts This Year

This year has been one of our busiest since starting our rescue 3 years ago. This year we have had two large rescue efforts.

One of which our very own Carmen Appelt organized. We were contacted at the beginning of September by a concerned citizen claiming that someone was poisoning cats. Carmen took the time to speak with said person, gathering all the information, and speaking with all parties involved in the situation. While we still do not know if the poisoning was intentional or accidental. Carmen jumped into action and started looking for new homes to relocate the cats off the property. With help from the concerned citizen, they were able to catch the surviving 20 cats on the property, have them spayed/neutered, vaccinated, dewormed, and put on flea prevention AND found all of them new homes!

Our largest rescue effort this year is an ongoing one. Our co-founder and fearless leader Ginger Kirk has been working tirelessly for most of this year to get the cat colony located near the KC Hall under control. She has worked hard in Trapping/catching, spay/neutering, and fully vetting, and when possible, relocating over 30 cats and kittens from the area. And in this situation, we have had to battle FeLV (Feline Leukaemia Virus) which is a retrovirus belonging to the coronavirus subfamily, which means it is a cancer-causing virus. FeLV only affects cats and is spread easily through saliva and other bodily fluids.

There is a vaccine that can prevent this disease.

Because of the presence of this disease Feline Friends Hallettsville had every cat and kitten taken from the area tested and vaccinated against the disease, any cat or kitten that tested positive was humanly euthanized as the disease incurable.

We are still caring for the cats and kittens that remain in the area, and we continue to work on TNR (Trapping Neutering/spaying Returning or Rehoming) those that remain. And we have also began TNR efforts behind Snowflake Donuts.