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I am beyond overwhelmed with emotion by the kindness of both friends and strangers alike over the past many days and weeks.
I could have never imagined though, the incredible generosity, support and guidance I was about to receive after both friends and I shared my desperate pleas for help in finding a FURever home for my brother in law’s precious cat Nana on several social media pages, including my own.
It’s been more than 6 weeks now since my brother in law passed away suddenly, leaving behind sweet Nana. For five of these six weeks, family members continued to enter his apartment regularly, searching for the cat, but could not find her anywhere. They’d leave food and water and change her litter. There were signs showing she was in there, somewhere, and alive. Then, by some small miracle, last Sunday morning, when Rich and his other brother opened the apartment door, Nana scurried past them, ran into the kitchen, and jumped up top the cabinets. They could not get her down.
For weeks now, I have been worried sick about Nana and can’t even begin to imagine how frightened and sad she must be feeling, traumatized, and unable to understand where her daddy has gone to. It’s a difficult enough concept for us as humans to comprehend our emotions when a loved one passes, let alone any animal. Animals do go through a grieving process, too.
Over the last while, I have been reaching out to several beautiful souls I know who I knew had been involved with rescues and fostering cats. They guided me to names of reputable organizations to contact for help but every email or Facebook message I sent either went unanswered or I was turned away, only to be told they can’t surrender anymore cats at the moment and don’t have enough fosters to keep up with the demand.
It felt hopeless but then, after sifting through the 100’s of comments and heartfelt private messages I received in less than 24 hours from posting in several local community groups, I was now faced with the daunting decision of choosing who I felt would be the PURRfect match. There were so many incredible offers from people wanting to help trap Nana, foster her, or give her that FURever home she so desperately needs and deserves right now.
It didn’t take long, though, because one particular message stood out above all the rest. It was a message from a guardian angel wanting to connect two warrior women together with one common goal in mind; saving Nana.
I felt an instant connection to her before we even spoke. I learned from my guardian angel who’d first connected us the other night that, Denny (that’s her name) had started her own cat rescue just over a year ago with the strength of her husband by her side after they had been fostering kittens for years through other organizations. Tragically, though, just 6 months into establishing their new cat rescue mission, her husband was killed by a drunk driver this past summer.
She suddenly found herself alone with her new mission, and instead of giving up in her time of grieving, she has worked tirously to keep her cat rescue going, wanting nothing more than to make her husband proud. Which I’m pretty sure he is.
When my guardian angel first reached out to me the other night (who helps run a non-profit pet rescue organization called “Good Will, Good Karma”), I could hear the excitement in her heart when she began telling me how she had the PURRfect person in mind and had already sent her a message to tell her all about Nana. But when she told me the name of Denny’s rescue, I got chills. It’s called “Newmans New Beginnings”. For those of you who don’t know, or wouldn’t know, my maiden name is Newman!!!
Denny was all in as well. Wanting to come to the apartment to not only rescue Nana but to keep as her own among her other fur babies. Another guardian angel 😇.
Later that day we spoke on the phone. You could tell how heartfelt she was and had such passion for the amazing work she does. I asked her where the name “Newmans New Beginnings” originated from and she began to share with me that it was named after one of her beloved cats who’d passed away and that she and her husband were huge Seinfeld fans. If I hadn’t been sure before this moment, this sealed our fate. Rich is such a huge Seinfeld fan as well, and just the evening before, I heard him laughing hysterically from another room in our home. I got up to see what was so funny. He was watching a TikTok video. It was a scene from Seinfeld with none other than “Newman” himself.
Nana is now safe in the arms of her angel and new family. I had a good cry this afternoon, right after Denny and her son drove away to Nana’s new home. I feel like it’s no coincidence that Nana has brought these 2 incredible warrior women into my life. And I have all the confidence in the world that Nana will be able to live out the rest of her deserving days surrounded by so many new fur friends and so much more.
I am FURever grateful to everyone who offered their support and willingness to help our family out during this difficult time.
And if I didn’t believe it before, I truly do now, cats really do have 9 lives!!!
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