Have you ever gone to Dutch Bros and in the middle of ordering coffee, you start to hear meowing… So close it sounds like the call is coming from inside the car; and you’re not quite sure if that’s real or if the caffeine-deficit that you’re currently experiencing is having you hear things??? But I knew it wasn’t just me when my husband looked at me and asked if I heard it too. The likelihood of both of us going through withdrawals and hallucinating a meow was zero to none, there was no way that both of us were caffeine crazy. Now, how could we focus on coffee anymore when there was a kitten to be found. Where is she? Is she okay? Is she hurt? Now, meet Rosemary. The cat that had me question my sanity, but has very much become a joyful part of my reality. And she needs help right now, and I’m kindly asking anyone who has the time to read this, to help her out.

I found Rosemary when she was 6 weeks old, in the engine compartment of my husband’s truck, after traveling for 3 miles to order some Dutch Bros, on what seemingly was just another ordinary day. Who would’ve thought that the truck she got stuck in would be owned by a RVT. Call it luck, or serendipitous, but she picked the right human, because there is a sense of responsibility to her life that as an RVT, I need to honor and see through. I took her in and integrated her into my world. She is the bonded friend to my 2 year old son, Harrison. She has taught him the joys of having a furry friend that most of us pet-owners can only speak to, the special bond that that is. She is the younger, pesky sister to my outgoing adventurous cat Sage, who keeps her young and spunky, and to my dog Wren, who teaches her patience and acceptance. She has also managed, to my biggest surprise, to wiggle her way into my husband’s heart, creating such a soft spot that we couldn’t imagine a life without her.

Cut to her being 4 months, and one day, when she was playing, she went into respiratory distress. I took her into work, and the team at Bishop Ranch, Dr. Susman, Dr. Dodd and my tech family, were able to find the reason for why such a young and healthy cat would now be exhibiting critical signs. She has been diagnosed with having a peritoneal-pericardial diaphragmatic hernia, which she needs corrective surgery for, in order to live out the rest of her life comfortably. Although this surgery gives Rosemary a good prognosis, the surgery itself is something that a specialist would need to perform due to the high risk of complications. The team at VCA Encina will be taking phenomenal care of her, but at this time, we need help covering a portion of her surgery. All donations would directly be going to Rosemary’s surgical bill. Any little bit helps, and it would mean the world to my family and I, if Rosemary was able to be continue to be apart of our lives for more years to come, with the biggest thanks to you all.