Mom of 5 finds a sweet tortie cat crying in the snow, following desperate meows to save the kitty buried from the blizzard: 'I yelled 'hello?' out the window and she went, mew!' (VIDEO)

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  • Found This Sweet Crying Baby In The Snow

  • So a little background about my neighborhood, because some people were like, oh, "she's definitely somebody's pet"
  • I live on a block, a cul de sac street, and then the rest is a straight drop. I'm in the middle of three houses, and there's a house, me, and then another house, and then woods, woods, and a ravine. Then across the street, it's four other houses, and then their whole backyard is straight ravine and a drop.
  • She couldn't have come from anywhere, but somewhere close, and the snow was so deep and it was so cold that she did not walk any distance to get to my house. It just doesn't make sense, like, where my house is located. There's nothing around me.
  • My neighborhood is famous for people just coming up here and dropping animals off because I do live on a de d-end street. Um, and we have, honestly, probably right now, we have like 20 cats, but they will not come to you. My neighbor across the street, she feeds them all.
  • Long story short, there have been two cats that I have made my pets, who have come from living in this neighborhood. I've lived here 11 years. The last cat that we had, his name was Willie Nelson, and he was my boy. He got really, really sick
  • when he was, I think he was two and a half or three. And I kept taking him to the vet, and they finally did a bld test and found out that he had FIP. Which they said that he probably got from eating with all the other strays.
  • he ended up getting so sick, we had to put him to sleep, and it broke my heart, and I've been telling my son since then, it's been like four years, that I will not get another cat because I can't handle it. I can't handle it. I know the type of person I am, and, and I can't handle pet death like normal people do.
  • So I've been telling him no every time he asked me for a cat. So the night that this happened, I was doing laundry in my room. So there's my room, the bathroom, and my twin girls' room. And they were
  • building a fort and there all the kids were in there, and there's a window at the back of each one. And I'm listening to Chevelle, and I paused it so I could go put the washcloths away in the bathroom and the bathroom window was cracked open, and I could hear meowing.
  • Just being funny, I was half out of it and I was like, "hello!" Like, I just yelled hello out the window. And she went, mew! And I was like, what?
  • I was like, where is this coming from? So, I told my son, I'm going outside. And he's like, no what if you get bit? What if you get scratched? You can't even see out there.
  • All of our backyard security lights had gone out during the storm. I don't know why, because I had electricity in the garage and everywhere else. Um, but I couldn't see anything.
  • So if I didn't have my phone and flashlight on, I would have never found her. I recorded it because, honestly, if you saw where I lived, nobody would, nobody would have believed, like, how I found her. And I just needed the proof, just even for myself.
  • So, I didn't start just grabbing at her and picking her up is I didn't know what kind of cat she was. I wasn't trying to get scratched or bit and then come in the house and, you know, not
  • be able to seek medical attention or, you know, you know what I mean. I'm not gonna just pick up a random animal that I don't know.
  • I can see her eyes, like, shining, but I didn't see it the first time. And I was, like, so distraught because I was running through the snow, like, around my house. I couldn't open my back door because the snow was stacked up so high. I literally couldn't even shove it open. So I had to run around and find her.
  • to address the whole like, she's somebody's pet, she's probably chipped, she's this, she's that. That was the very first thing that I did after I defrosted her. I didn't even realize how long her hair was until I got her inside, got her brushed, took all of the ice chunks out of her, out of her, not her skin, but her fur underneath her.
  • Oh, this is somebody's pet. I posted her on all of our community pages, all of the block watch pages, lost and found pets in our area pages.
  • The next day I called around at the vets. Most places were not open because that's how much snow we got and how cold it was. Some places returned my calls, some didn't. Some of the shelters were like, do what you can to keep her because we are so overwhelmed. We can't take any other cats in.
  • I am not new to the animal thing. I know to check for a chip. I was not trying to steal anyone's cat at all. I don't want my kids to get used to her being here or fall in love with her because this is definitely somebody's cat.
  • So my grandma was a dog groomer and she groomed cats. Um, she worked for the humane society. I have owned everything from goats to bunnies, cats, dogs. So like, I'm not new to knowing the difference between a stray cat, a feral cat and somebody's pet.
  • Long story short, we do still have her but she definitely needs to go to the vet. I wanna make sure that she doesn't have FIP, um, like the other cat did. And I also absolutely feel like she needs to be fixed, even though I don't plan on letting her get outside again.
  • But it is really hard. Like I said, I have five kids and four of them are under four. So it's expensive. It's expensive to feed another mouth. It's expensive to give her the good quality life that she's gonna need. I'm not gonna just give her trash, dry, generic cat food.
  • I want her to be healthy and happy and have a good, long, healthy life. And I feel like it's unfair to keep her and not know if I can provide all those things for her.
  • But we are all pretty attached to her already, so it's becoming more and more obvious that I'm gonna have to just figure it out. I don't know. I love her. And she is unlike any cat I've ever had and I've had a lot.
  • She knows how to play and most stray cats don't know how to play. But she is thin and definitely has worms. So that needs addressed immediately as well. And all of this stuff costs money and I am doing the best I can.
  • So thank you to everybody that was sweet. Life is just expensive and it's hard for everybody. So, I'm trying and like I said, we love her.
  • Her name is Chevelle, but I will call her Chevy for short. I'm sure Chevy will stick. We love her, and she very clearly loves us as well.
  • And I hope she's not missing whoever dumped her because that, it breaks my heart that she obviously, she had to have been loved at one point by somebody.

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