Another trip to Yorkshire Cat Rescue...

Through a series of events, this is Bella. We took her two fellow cats to YCR the other week and everyone thought Bella was staying with her owner. It would have been fine except for her owner's husband showing back up and causing a big scene. Turns out he brought one of the other family cats with him and when things got ugly and the police were called, they had to move the owner and her 'cat'. Well, they got the wrong cat and poor Bella was left in the flat on her own for a week, trapped behind some furniture, before a kindly neighbough realised and went in to look for her. She was rushed to the vets and luckily has suffered no permanent damage, despite being without food and water for nearly a week.

Luckily YCR have agreed to take her in and reunite her with her kittens (not really kittens, now they're fully grown). I collected her from the vets today and she is a sweet thing. No fuss, just the odd 'where am I?' meow in the carrier on the way there. She looks abit fierce in the one of the below pics, but that's just her mid-meow. For what she's been thru she is in remarkable spirits and still doesn't appear to fear strangers. She was happy for me to stroke and talk to her thru the carrier without shying away. Bless her.

Her owner is happy she is safe and well, and God bless YCR for coming to the Rescue, once again. Anyone that thinks that domestic violence doesn't affect pets is naive. Pets can suffer just as much as humans, sometime more so when they become the focus of someone's anger/rage/jealousy. Pets aren't always lucky enough to survive the situation and if they are can be separated from their owners, for one reason or another, either temporarily or as in Bella's case, permanently. I have had previous experience of having to rescue animals from a bad environment, sometimes at very short notice. Right or wrong, humans understand what is happening. Animals do not.