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This will be a long post, but people who love animals and those special people who do volunteer work for rescues will understand. Spunky is a perfect example of the transformation that comes with the care, love and dedication given to these animals at rescues…the first few pictures were taken at Halfway Home Pet Rescue, from there you will see the transformation of what love does.
I became familiar with Spunky’s story when Norma Blackstone Milton, of Halfway Home Pet Rescue, made a post about a cat found in a potato barrel on February 11, 2019. I will never forget that date because it was my birthday. The ball got rolling when he was found in Fort Fairfield by kind, compassionate people, Gene and Patty Helstrom who were checking their potato house. They found Hobo aka: Spunky in the barrel frozen, starved, and very near death. They called Fort Fairfield PD, one of the officers picked him up and brought him to Halfway Home Pet Rescue. The very dedicated volunteers went right to work saving this beautiful boy.
He fought so hard over the weekend, Monday and yesterday, but it was so obvious to me Monday that he was in pain. He was so restless, before I took him to the vet. Our hearts broke yesterday when we got the word, no one wants to hear, that their pet has cancer. I was given the option to bring him home for a couple more days with pain medication so we could come to terms with losing him to this awful disease. I declined that offer because my heart was breaking and whether he came home for two days or two weeks nothing was going to change that, and all the while he would be suffering. It wasn’t about making me feel better, it was about doing what was right for him. He had suffered enough already. He was down to 7 lbs and so weak when he opened his mouth to meow, no sound came out. So, we went to the vet earlier and I got to hold him longer, and talk to him, I pray he understood. Until we meet again my beautiful, sweet boy. I will love you forever. Thank you to all of you who wouldn’t give up on him, and I got to spend those most precious moments with him.