Loving Cat FAMILY

Did you ever think that a momma cat would also have her sister to take care of her growing family.  Well, if not, check out this wonderful family who I am now fostering and will be ready for adoption in the future.

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Help Little Evie Fundraiser

I have started a Fundraiser at YouCaring.Com for Little Evie who was hit by a car and left for dead.  Please check it out and donate if you can.  Thank you. https://www.youcaring.com/pet-expenses/little-evie/74989

Evelyn (a 10-12 week old gray kitten nicknamed Evie) was struck by a car on a Sunday on Bennett Drive in Caribou, Maine and the driver DID NOT stop to help her.  For two hours, local people stopped by the road and tried to get agencies to help and received no response. Finally, someone realized that perhaps HALFWAY HOME PET RESCUE had not been called and within 10 minutes,  rescuers Kevin and Kate McCarthy had Evelyn at the HHPR intake center where she was examined and called in for an emergency visit to the HHPR vet at the Presque Isle Animal Hospital, Presque Isle, Maine. Within 30 minutes of that call, Evie was in hospital and after X-rays, snap-combo testing, she was set up for a surgery date to pin her little leg together in an hopeful attempt to save her leg from amputation. The surgery has been remarkably successful and Evelyn is in a foster home enjoying lots of loving attention and limited safe exercise while she continues in her recovery. At a very greatly reduced surgical fee, exams, x-rays, testing, Evelyn’s current medical bills are close to 700.00 now with a couple of hundred dollars more expected in her future. Evelyn is a sweet, very loving and kissable kitten who just loves her new foster family.  HHPR considers the McCarthy couple Evelyn’s HERO for saving her life.

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Adopt A Special Needs Cat

MR. PAWS

Mr. PAWS was rescued by the Fort Kent PAWS rescue group and sent to HHPR to see if our set-up would help his nerves. He haD bounced around the city for at least 3 years and lost an ear as a result of frostbite. He was in dire medical need which made him nervous and HHPR (being closer to the vet than PAWS by 60 miles) offered to oversee his care and the PAWS group paid his medical bills. He is very sweet, He responds fully to any loving attention. He is very clean. He is an indoor/outdoor cat who loves relaxing in the sun or just lying in your lap.  We believe Mr. PAWS has some food sensitivities but he is responding well to Taste of the Wild dry and canned food, available at the Tractor Supply Store.

CHESTER 

Chester was approximately 8 to 10 months old when he came to live at the Halfway Home Pet Rescue in Caribou. He was found on the side of the road between Lyndon St and Sleeper’s Store. Chester was not able to walk because of a very damaged left front leg. The man who found him brought Chester to his apartment and called HHPR. We immediately took Chester to the vet where X-rays revealed that the leg was so badly damaged from an old and terribly infected bite wounds that it could not be saved. Two days after the amputation, Chester was out and running around. We had to take turns restraining him to a cage so that he would not over do his activity. Rest was a medical priority for him. But Chester rebelled and soon all efforts to cage him ceased. Chester ran up and down the stairs at his foster home, climbed to the highest spot on the cats’ castle and jumped up and off stairs. Chester considers himself to be a hunk. The sound of a can of food being opened brings him at a full gallop to be first at the dinner plates. Chester’s healing continued smoothly and by the time his hair grew back over the surgical wound, he was acting like any other young, curious, playful young cat. He has no trouble running and climbing the cat tree in his foster home. When kittens are around, Chester is right there ready to play with them. Chester remains in a foster home but would very much love to have a forever home.

HARRY 

Harry, a declawed, neutered, young male cat was found outside and unable to defend himself, and just skin and bones and extremely weak. He was such a sweet loving boy with a beautiful gentle soul and we wanted to help him in any way possible to start his new life in a much healthier and happier way. This poor declawed cat was left outside and unable to catch any food. He would have starved to death if he had not been rescued by the Fort Fairfield Police. The first visit to the vet came with a recommendation of lots of TLC and wait to see if he can recover. Harry had a serious case of internal parasites and we treated him for that thinking this was sapping all the nutrients from his food. But after two weeks, he had not gained one ounce despite eating like a pig. So it was time to return to the doctor. Harry stayed at the hospital for testing. He needed to have blood work to check out a few things. He could not ever recover the way he was then and HHPR felt he deserved the chance to get well. He may need some dental work as well. His heart was working very fast so that will have to be checked out. We told the vet we would give him this chance like we would any rescued animal. There was some kidney issues to consider. He is still so loving. Harry was found to have a hyperthyroid condition and surgery was an option. We had 4 options: 1. Go to Portland for radiation treatments (hugely expensive), 2. Do surgery and remove the swollen gland, or 3. do a lifetime of medication using about $400.00 of medication in every year and a half, or 4. Have Harry put down. Having Harry put down was never an option. We wanted him to have a future, a great future, a sick-free future. We chose to do the surgery and have his swollen thyroid gland removed on April 22. He was so anxious to live and so extremely loving that we would want to give him a chance to know what it felt like to be healthy as well as happy and he is now. Harry was our 1,000 intake which made him even more special than we already thought he was.