starrynightlisa999

In a corner of this world, I remembered something, and my heart found peace. I remembered that the cruelty I endured hadn't diminished my true essence, that I was still the same person I was in my most genuine state. And that my heart, despite witnessing the injustice of war, hadn't learned cruelty, but rather learned to forgive before judging, and to pause before condemning. And so, a profound peace settled within me, knowing that remaining pure amidst this turmoil is not weakness, but rather steadfastness in the essence of humanity at its most beautiful. But there are days that I cannot erase, days that have left a deep mark on my soul. There are moments that haunt me no matter how hard I try to escape them, and they remain within me even when others think we have moved on from them... Some memories... are unforgettable; they remain silent within us, but they are alive, and longing for them becomes a mirror to the most beautiful things we have lived and the most painful things we have lost... That's why we've learned from our past experiences and we must be prepared for the coming days... The coming days hold difficult times after the army was ordered to advance and occupy 70% of Gaza. We learned to store up our good times in preparation for our bad times. We learned to be resilient. We learned not to waste food and to be grateful for blessings... My dear friends, I am so grateful for your support in buying cat food. I want to let you know that the level of support has drastically decreased. What I receive is only enough for the time being and not enough to feed them. So, we will soon be setting up a fundraising campaign on GFM for storage only. The support I receive via PayPal is for food and veterinary care in the meantime. What do you think of this idea? I appreciate your continued support for the cats at the shelter. paypal.me/animalrescue703 I am proud of those days that seemed unbearable, yet I overcame them, leaving behind hidden scars that no one saw. And I want to be clear: without you in my life, I wouldn't have been able to get through them. You were always there for me. We consulted together about alternatives and ideas related to needs that were denied to us. You supported me financially, morally, and psychologically when all the leaders were conspiring against us. I owe you my life, my friends. Without you, I wouldn't be here. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Update on the 🐾Forgotten Field Project🐾 It's long...pls hang in there. Last night, Priya @gandolf_s went to try and trap the 6 kittens in the back of the field, near the dangerous highway. I say try, because when it’s pouring down sheets of rain, as it has been for days, they hide in the bushes and won’t come out for food, or go in traps to get the food. Seven hours she sat. Waited. The rain was relentless. But finally, at 1am, 2 kittens and an adult (a mother?) emerged and hunger guided them in. Back home, the kittens and mom, safe and warm in their own bathtub. At 2am, it’s as good a holding place as any until crates can be arranged. Warm, dry, fed. She needed to rest. 1.5 of sleep and eyes pop open. The mind reels…gotta get up and get everyone fed and organized. Must get ready to go feed and check on the Forgotten Field at the front end. Some of the babies were waiting at the edge of the parking lot. Famished for their breakfast. A heartbreaking discovery. The mother and her 4 kittens, we’d hoped to get next were no where to be found. Hopefully she moved them into the bushes, but Priya could only go into the heavy picker weed brush so far, until it’s not walkable. The lot has a deep ravine with a 20ft drop into a dry creek bed. With all the heavy rain we’ve had, it’s now a dangerous rushing river. ugh. 💔 All were fed. Seemed to be ok. As well as can be expected. They don’t deserve to live this life. Heavy bug laden picker weeds, mud, trash, and I’m sure the occasional predator skulking about. We do what we can. The vulnerable first. The kittens. The sick. Then one by one, the rest. Vetting, Assessment. Hopes for a home somewhere that is safe, warm and love exists. Not this life. She will return tonight, trap in hand, and hopefully, if the rain doesn’t interfere, bring in the other 4 kittens. They are too close to that dangerous road, and the thought of having to pick them up off the highway is too much to bear. We’ve seen way too much of that! It’s so incredibly hard to sort your heart from your head in rescue. It’s what keeps you up at night and infiltrates your dreams. Your heart wants them all in right now. When you’ve seen what a rescuer sees, the heartbreaking scenes. The conditions they are trying to survive in. It tears at your gut. But your head knows you must do diligence to your wallet. Funding needs to be in place, or the majority of it, for that new baby, before you bring them in. Otherwise, you wind up with 100 cats, who need vetting and a home. Without the vetting, they can’t get adopted, and then the space they occupy stops another baby in need from being saved. Mouse on a wheel. So that’s why we ask for help. For funding to help with vetting and food. If all there was to it was trapping, we’d be all set. Trapping is free. However, the food and vetting are expensive and our pockets are often committed to others in our care who need medicine, medical treatment, cancer care, special food etc. We are indeed, a sanctuary also. So yes, we are asking for help to get these 6 little ones (and we assume we've caught the mother) the vetting they need. Each kitten is ~$200 for initial vet visit. Exam, testing, 1st shots, deworm, flea. Adult, a bit more. It’s hard to ask, we know it’s hard for so many right now. We understand and experience the same. But it’s the only way we can help them. If we didn’t ask, we’d have to turn our backs on them. And that’s not a thought we could ever bear to entertain. These precious lives deserve help. Warmth, food, healthy bodies, home, family, and love. If you are so inclined to help, our hearts and theirs! Would be so deeply grateful. Even if 20 folks came up with $5...that's $100...half way to one kitten's vetting! Thank you for being such a wonderful compassionate and kind community! Sending Whisker Love😽 *here are the details to assist...x.com/PicklesMil/sta…

Introducing… 🐾The Forgotten Field Project🐾 What began as a simple errand to the dollar store last week, became a desperate situation Priya @gandolf_s could not walk away from. Movement in the field next door caught Priya’s eye. Six abandoned 4 wk old kittens without their mother. A baby mother herself, barely six months old, with eyes clearly indicating illness, trying to care for 4 tiny two-week-old kittens. Her head sticking out of a makeshift shelter, eyes festering and a pleading look for help. She showed no fear, perhaps too unwell to run, or too weak. Cats running everywhere. Some terribly thin. Some appeared sick. Many with goopy, infected eyes. And a couple appear possibly pregnant. There are obvious signs that someone, at some point, had tried to help… Old makeshift shelters. Empty food dishes long dried up by the sun. But now they’re left alone, sick, hungry and a couple appear possibly pregnant. Priya hurried to get food and water, and they ate and drank with wild desperate hunger and thirst. This is not just a handful of cats. This is an unmanaged colony of approximately 30 fur babies living beside a dollar store, in an empty lot thick with brambles. Unsafe from road traffic, a busy parking lot, predators who roam the area. Trapped in the cruel cycle of kittens having kittens. It’s not a “lovely spot out in the woods”. We have managed many colonies over the years, and coming upon this tragedy never, ever! gets easy. And it never comes at a time when it’s financially or spatially feasible to help them. Because in rescue, perfect timing hardly ever exists. And wasting time and your breath harping about the neglect and cold hearted actions of humans…is well, just that. You just do…because turning your back would only be more of what has already been done to them! And they deserve Help. Food. Vet care. Relief. Love. Home. A Safe Soft place to land. So starting now and over this summer, with your help, we are taking this colony on as a full Rescue and TNR project. The Forgotten Field Project will focus on: • Regularly feeding every cat • Rescuing the adoptable ones/finding homes • Vet care/Treating all the sick and injured ones first! • TNR’ing the feral cats. Hopefully relocating them perhaps into a barn cat program, as releasing them back to this location is not the ideal place for them to be. And/or hopefully, finding homes that are willing to house and work with the feral ones. Some are just more “feral” than others and can be rehabilitated. Honestly, when the fear is handled, so is the “feral” in so many cases. They need a chance to discover what love is! • And most importantly… fixing all of them to STOP this heartbreaking vicious cycle of suffering and reproduction. This will not happen overnight. It’s a huge undertaking.🦾 It will take food, vetting, medication, spay/neuter appointments, recovery space, patience, and an enormous amount of community support. But we cannot turn our backs now that we’ve seen them, we must do. ❣️The six abandoned 4 wk old kittens are already safe with us and, thanks to your help, have their first vet visits on Wednesday, 5/20. Safe and loved, their lives are changed forever. Next up… 🚨 Immediate priority is to get the Momma with the goopy eyes and her 4 little kittens out. Though it appears it might be just infected eyes, it’s imperative that we get her out now, to get vet care. She’s nursing 4 babies, and she needs proper care, nutrition and a proper place to nurse and raise her babies. A mosquito laden, picker weed field, filled with fleas and ticks, in the soon to be sweltering Georgia heat is not that place! Hopefully, $200-$300 might prove to be sufficient for her vet bill, but there will be food to consider. And as the kittens grow, they will need their vetting as well. We expect that this could be at least an ~ $8000 project. Possibly more, depending on illness discovered. But we’ll start with one foot in front of the other. And continue. One cat at a time. One full belly at a time. One life changed at a time. If you can help us help them, we would be endlessly grateful. And THEY will be grateful to know that someone has finally come along who cares about them. Sentient beings know what love is...even if they exist in fear. Love lives here… even in forgotten fields.🫂 There is more in my reply that is informative.

They say there's light at the end of the tunnel! But I say it's a train coming to crush us. I know the tunnel well. I've been there, I've reached the deepest point of that dark place. I know it by heart, its details unforgettable. I've become burdened with awareness and wisdom, and that light no longer tempts me... The agreement will not hold... and the war will continue. When you realize, my friends, that this war is existential, you will understand the truth of my prediction that it will continue until one of the parties leaves this land... Tonight they evacuated an area in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza and bombed three houses... and they bombed another house five houses away from me at dawn.. They bombed yesterday, and they bombed the day before, and they bomb every day... The army was ordered to take control of 70% of the Gaza Strip... The remaining 30% of people live in miserable conditions... So the war continues... and the so-called ceasefire is one-sided... the bombing continues, the land confiscation continues... and the entire region will soon be engulfed in flames.. Those who live far from the front lines and give their orders from luxurious offices are the most enthusiastic about the continuation of the war. The citizen wants to return to his home, even if it is destroyed, while the leaders want the country to remain a battleground.. My friends and loved ones... I'm still desperately trying to secure funding to stockpile food for the cats. If war breaks out, believe me, there will be no food left for the animals. I've been feeding them with human food that we could barely afford, and the prices were ridiculously .. Prices are reasonable now, but if war breaks out, they will increase 100 times... I would be very grateful for your support in buying food for the 17 cats who survived the genocide in Gaza with me... I intend to buy enough cat food to last them for at least 6 months. paypal.me/animalrescue703 Your support helps us through our darkest times. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I owe you my life.

🐾🚨Urgent Last week, we thought our worst problem was a food shortage. Today, kitten season, the hellfire of rescue, said, “Wait… we’ve got a better problem for you.” An trip across town, an errand to the dollar store this morning became a heartbreaking reminder that this is what rescue is. A field beside a parking lot. Tiny faces peeking through the grass. Six abandoned kittens (4-5 wks old?) without their mother. People nearby said their mother has not been seen for about a week. A note here: it never ceases to amaze…there’s always someone around to tell you their story..how long they’ve been there, how many there are, if the mother is around…blah blah. But…then they walk away as if they’ve done their part, giving you information. But not help. 😮‍💨 Another sick mother trying to care for four fragile babies barely two weeks old. Four older kittens, (6 mo?) appearing sick themselves. Looks like someone was attempting to care for them. An old shelter there. Some old empty dirty dishes. She went and got them some food and water. And suddenly, the world changes. What was a simple errand, turns into an urgent storm. Because once you see them, you cannot unsee them. You cannot drive away pretending you didn’t notice scared, lost babies waiting for a mother who will never return. We do not have the funds for this. Truthfully, we barely have enough to cover food for the rest of the month. Some incredibly kind angels have sent supplies, and we are so grateful… but we are still struggling badly. So now we do what rescuers always do… we figure it out somehow, one terrified kitten at a time. Our immediate goal is to get the six abandoned kittens to safety first, then work to help the others. Kitten season is relentless. Brutal. Exhausting. Heartbreaking. But those babies deserve a chance to know safety, full bellies, soft blankets, medical care and love instead of fear, illness and a sad death in a lonely field beside a dollar store. If you can help us help them, we would be endlessly grateful. Love lives here. Love extinguishes hellfire. We can’t bring them in unless the funds are there for an immediate vet check. Each kitten will be ~$200 for initial check up/first shots/testing. X6. I will personally match the first $600 to @gandolf_s to get them to safety, and a chance at life. Can we do this?🐾😔

@Herb_Minstrel @vivaneil1234 @davidsupercat @PeterAskin1 @PostsOfCats @cory20191 @weskrantz @taylorswift13 @Trailer_Swift69 Only 4 days left to raise $175 to reach our goal, i that we can be able to get our next month food drive, kindly please help and donate to match $300, All your donations goes straight to rescued cats and dogs, please help us and donate to save them, gofund.me/0d28f2ebf