Home for Abandoned Cats

Lily was found on March 27, 2016, Easter Sunday, in an Allegheny County park. Somehow she had found herself abandoned, alone and struggling to find food and shelter. As difficult as that was for this tiny cat, her struggle was made more challenging since she was suffering from a spinal injury, which had rendered both of her back legs useless. When I first saw her she was fearful and tried to run from me. It was then that I saw that she had been injured as all that Lily could do was crawl away from me using only her front legs to pull herself through the brush. It was apparent that she had been managing to move through the park finding food in this manner for some time since the fur was completely worn off of both of her back legs. 

It wasn’t difficult to capture Lily and take her to a veterinarian. Sadly, there was nothing that could be done for her. The injury was too severe. And so Lily,, who had suffered alone in the park, was euthanized as I held her and stroked her fur.

Lily has come to stand for the remaining kittens and cats who face the daily struggle to survive simply because they have been abandoned and forgotten. They are being dropped off to fend for themselves at an alarming rate. These poor souls face the daily exposure to parasites, disease, contaminated water, extreme temperatures as well as predators. Most of these cats are domestic and unprepared to survive such a struggle.  This is why I created the Friends of Lily.

Friends of Lily, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization has been established to raise the much-needed funds to provide for the food, veterinary care and for finding homes for these ababandoned cats that our organization rescues from the unsafe conditions in which they are found.  We are committed  to raising the funds necessary to either purchase and rehab an existing structure or to build one suitable for providing care to the rescued kittens and cats.  Such a structure would also serve as a central location for kind and caring individuals to come and adopt of of these sweet cats.  So many cats are discarded because they are ready to have a litter of kittens and so these innocent animals are born in the brush; sometimes the mother has no food and is barely able to feed her kittens.

Please help us to help the cats that are being unfairly abandoned and would provide only love to their adoptive families.

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