It is Easter Sunday, and a Noé event, we potter around, do what we have to, and have been doing so since morning. We await the visitors, we hide the eggs for the kids, so that they can find their little presents, we mind them also, and we just keep on making the aromatic coffee, the hot chocolate, and in worse cases, when the sky clouds over, the hot tea.

We are on our feet all day, then tidy up, and count the revenue. In our little cash register, where we collected the donations for our rescued protégés, there is a grand total of 40.000 HUF. I look at the
money and my heart sinks. This is exactly the amount which was needed for one day of
medical costs for our cat Tapsi, just one cat out of the 49.

Tapsi, who came to us seemingly healthily as a teen cat, and lived his daily life for a few months during which we had him
innoculated, neutered. Tapsi suddenly became ill, and died within a day. X-ray, antibiotics, the last night spent at the clinic. The results of the laboratory test came in by the time, Tapsi had already lost his brave fight for life., but, there on the bill the fee for these tests stood in black and white: 26.000 HUF. In our cash register the only amount we have is what we collected on this Easter Sunday, 40.000 HUF that is. And Tapsi’s medical fees must be paid for, even if the treatments could not save his life. You can read Tapsi’s story:
HERE

Soon the kitten season will be here again, and here we stand with an empty cash register. The little kitties will just keep coming, even at the time of admission they will not be in as good a shape as Tapsi initially was, so we admit them knowing that our medical cost will keep on rising, right until they hit the sky.

What to do? Should we say no right at the start? Should we say no to the cry of help? Do you think that we, who do all we can for animals, and care for them putting everything including family and work on the back burner, and tend to cats who are so much the worse for wear that it is easy for us to say no? Each time we do that, part of our heart breaks. But we have taken responsibility for those 49 cats already lodged with us. And as Tapsi’s heartbreaking case shows trouble comes like a fast train, and crushes down at any time and place. And with our empty pockets, who can we say no to? To those we have once already said yes and looked them in the eye, and promised that it can and will only get better from now on? We do all we can, above our power, to help as many abandoned, hurt, and orphaned cats as we can, but we cannot make magic.

We need your help too! Angels, help us, so that we will not have to say „no”:

Unfortunately, over the past months, it wasn’t just Tapsi we lost:

Thank you so much in advance in the name of all our protégés!