The Feral Cat Alliance of Los Angeles recently rescued a large number of cats which had been abandoned in the San Gabriel Mountains after their families had been evicted, putting many of their guardians on the streets, homeless, and incapable of caring for their equally homeless cats.

A report I wrote on this group’s rescue of these cats can be found at:

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/02/147322.php

With photographs of the rescued cats at:

http://www.soundboxgraphics.com/campfollowscats

While all of the animals that were rescued have been spayed or neutered and have been examined by veterinarians, the Feral Cat Alliance still needs loving families to adopt these rescued cats, all of which are approximately 1 to 1.5 years old.

http://www.feralcatalliance.org/

feralcatalliance@yahoo.com

If you’ve considered getting a new family member – one that has been “fixed” – the Feral Cat Alliance would be a good place to go.

Also I’ve been told that there’s one cat named Willie G who is currently in the hospital and desperately needs help with his medical bills. If you can help – no matter how little you can donate to his medical bills – please contact the Feral Cat Alliance of Los Angeles.

Thanks!

i just wanna say, and i do not mean to disrespect the feral cat alliance cuz it is great to have people dedicated to helping animals, too.
but, i think this is some osrt of sad reflection on our societyt hat when a cat or animal becomes homeless or needs help w/ medical bills--we can jus tpost it anonmously--i mean, w/o anhyone having any previous contact w/ these animals, and expect them to be helped,

meanwhile, when a person faces homelessness, poverty, medical bills even for small children w/ no resources,
to psot such a thing on this kind of a website would be a farce, or ridiculous, unless it was somehow politically related.

you know what i mean?
it's like they say---we treat animals better than our own people (in the U.S. and our "colonies").

Yep, I understand what you mean. The humans were evicted because the property they were living on is much more valuable to corporations than what they had been paying for 7 to 10 years. The corporation that purchased the property or the lease from the US Forest Service basically dumpped the humans on to the street, many of which were and are forced to live out of their cars.

MOST found family, friends, or were able to put security deposits and first/last rent down to find places to live. SOME fought the eviction -- such as the lady who fed and took care of the abandoned cat's medical needs up there, a position that evaporated as she faced forced, possibly armed eviction if she puts up a struggle toward the end.

But some humans who had been living there for many years had the choice of either putting their cats in a pound for eventual extermination, or abandon them to predation, slow starvation, disease, or exposure.

Personally I suspect that taking the cats to the pound to be put to death would have been a better choice in many ways, but people who suddenly found themselves homeless couldn't have the cats living in the same cars that they themselves were living out of, and they apparently didn't want their family members gased. I believe they decided to give their cats some kind of chance for survival by abandoning them -- which left it up to the Feral Cat Alliance or _some_ good citizen group to try to take care of.

Horrible, isn't it, how economics drives mankind's soul. As a species we have the morality that we can afford at any given time. Table manors degrades when one's hungry, degrades further when one's starving, disappears entirely when one's survival is in question. It's a behavioral trait established early in mammalian evolutionary development, and it's with us today virtually unabaited from the earliest advent of mammals and reptiles.

Then when we hear of humans going hungry, starving, winding up in soup kitches, shelters, prisons for the mentally unfortunate, and all that, humanity looks at the suffering, dictate that it's a shame, and for the most part does what it can up to a point, and no further. Then when non-human suffering or need evidences itself, there seems to be something within the homosapien sapien species that finds _that_ to be even more of a shame than the suffering of our fellow humans.

If a dog is crushed in a vehicle accident, the dog's health and status becomes more of a concern than the health and status of the humans who were driving the vehicle.

It's just funny -- or not so -- the way human behavior and economics drives mankind's soul.

What corporation?
Any details about the deal?