SOUTH CAROLINA - DECEMBER - 2025

SOUTH CAROLINA RESCUE

MAMA’S STORY

Happy Holidays from Little Feet Haven, a small, but mighty 501(c)(3) cat rescue in South Carolina.  We partner fairly often with Save Our Strays, offering additional feet on the ground, local resources to contact and utilize locally and, sometimes, a sanctuary for a tiny soul in need of a safe haven.

Save Our Strays contacted our organization about a cat in New York, a related senior to two little ladies we accepted 2 years ago, from living under a boardwalk in Brighton Beach.  They were 12 years old at the time, and are still doing well.  There were originally 5, trapped as young adults, altered and released as part of a feral TNR program.  This little girl had evaded capture when the first two were trapped in 2023, and continued to evade for the intervening 2 years. Then, suddenly…success!!

Mama was thin from struggling to eat the food the colony caregivers were providing, before the raccoons and rats took it all away, and suffering from a pretty heavy flea load.  She was taken immediately to the clinic, sedated, treated for the fleas and intestinal parasites, and had blood drawn for full labs and common feline viral testing as well as heartworm.  For a 14-year-old, tiny senior, all came back with no real red flags.  She had some anemia from the fleas, and she has pretty significant dental work needing to be done, but overall, is in very good shape.  She will gain her weight back in time.

Since we already had her sisters here, we agreed to take this little feral girl in.  She was picked up and flown to Charlotte by our Save Our Strays Director of Animal Welfare, Carol Leshnow.  Carol turned the cat over to Shirley Lustig, and the Director of Little Feet Haven,

whose name is also Carol.  The Director of Little Feet Haven took the cat, named Momma, to the sanctuary to start a new life.

She is still hiding, but is seen slipping out for food, and water.  From her history, hiding is what she knows.  It represents survival.  The minute I try to take her picture, she is smoke.  So be it.  She will have the time, and peace that she needs to finally feel comfortable, to come out in the daytime and curl up in a sunny window with the other seniors.  To know that humans are good, and there are no struggles for food here.

Her dental issues will also be dealt with, within a few more weeks down the road.  A little more decompression time is needed.

Save our Strays works tirelessly for the betterment of each animal they step up for. Your contributions make it possible for them to accomplish this.  Thank you for your past assistance, and new assistance that you might be able to provide.