I got this email from Hillary, the blue-haired cat lady cashier at Shawn’s who apologized for the mass email but explained that she needed to get the word out to as many people as possible. Then she added: “Second, I know that many of you already have cats, are allergic, can’t have cats, don’t want or like cats but like me so you put up with my lunacy.”

That’s right, Hillary. Here’s the rest of what she had to say:

Recently I discovered a mother cat, calico/tabby mix with a white bib, living in a storage lot in my neighborhood (Crown Heights). I thought she only had 1 kitten, a fluffy 4-5 month old orange tabby but it turns out she has 5 more little kittens! A brown tabby, brown calico, orange tabby, a tuxedo, and a mostly all black kitten, around 6-8 weeks. As if that weren’t enough, I found another mother cat with 2 kittens around the same age just up the block. Mama is mostly white with grey patches, the kittens look like muted calicos.

Here’s the problem, we need to trap the mothers and kittens in about 10 days. If the kittens are friendly we don’t want to release them back onto the street so we need foster homes for them. The mothers may be friendly enough to find a home but we won’t know that until we trap them. Most of you know that I’m at maximum cat capacity right now so I’m hoping that one of you knows someone who would be willing to foster one or more of these babies. I would, of course, be willing to help with the adjustment period and anything else. I’ll work with the rescue groups I know to get everyone their vet care and help find homes. So please don’t worry that I would just dump kittens on someone and skip town! If anyone can help in any way I would be eternally grateful and if you can’t foster but want to help, food, litter, old towels or sheets for bedding, toys, and small bowls for food would be a big help also.

If you’ve made it this far without deleting my email, thank you, thank you! I chose you guys to contact because of your kindness and big hearts, I adore you all.

xoxo
Hillary
(the blue-haired cat lady cashier

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