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Cats with microchips looking for their families

Here are seven cats who have microchips; we're trying to locate their families.

As we went through the hundreds of cats here, doing health checks etc., we came across seven who have microchips. We called the phone numbers, but the families appeared to have moved. If any of these look like your cat, please let us know.

This kitty is now in foster care and his foster mom says she will adopt him if his family is not found..

This striking short-haired tuxedo came from Henderson, according to the chip. But again, the family has moved..

Rodeo’s microchip shows that he has a family who live in Reno, but we have not been able to find family yet. Rodeo has feline leukemia and his health goes up and down.

This kitty has unusual pale green eyes and a buff coat, and hails from the Las Vegas area. We have not been able to locate his family.

A sweet-faced domestic long-haired cat with the distinctive brown tabby blaze on her head and gold eyes.

Her name is Acacia, but we can't find his family.

This kitty has a microchip with a Henderson address, but the family appears to have moved.

Kevin was reported missing 4 years ago by a Las Vegas family, but we have not been able to find the family. He is a domestic short-haired cat with green eyes, grey-brown tabby markings on head and back, blaze down the center of his nose and a half-mustache.

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HOW YOU CAN HELP

DONATIONS
Donations are deeply appreciated, since costs are rising by the hour. You can donate to the Best Friends Emergency Rescue Fund.

VOLUNTEER
No previous cat handling experience is needed but you do need to be able to work outside in extreme heat doing physical labor and lifting. If you have availability to volunteer, please contact Ellen Gilmore at elleng@bestfriends.org or 805-698-5959.

CAN YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP THESE CATS?
Best Friends is looking for organizations that can offer permanent placement. If your organization would like to help please email nmhp@bestfriends.org or call 435-644-3965 ext 4254.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THESE CATS:
Email: nyecorescue@bestfriends.org
Fax: 435-644-2701 Attn: Nye County Rescue Adoption
Phone: 435-644-2001 ext. 4885

Directions from Las Vegas to the FLOCK property in Pahrump: Take Blue Diamond Highway (Highway 160) to Pahrump, turn left on Homestead (directly across from the Shell gas station), turn right on Silver, right again on Vicki Ann, and then right on Bond. The address is 2171 Bond. Look for the “Welcome Volunteers” sign with the Best Friends logo.

Las Vegas drop-off location for donations of food and other cat supplies: Intermountain Farmers Association Country Store, 3176 W. Martin Ave. on the corner of Martin Avenue and Dean Martin Boulevard

Posted Aug 27 2007, 07:14 PM by michaelm

Comments

Posted 28 Aug 2007 7:35 AM by atuttle32

Best of luck to these precious furbabies. It is so frustrating when you find one microchipped, only to hit that stumbling block because the family did not update their information. I will pray for their reunions with their families.

Posted 28 Aug 2007 9:29 AM by catmominme

Sadly, many people probably assumed their pets were killed by a car or some other tragedy and did not update the info because (I believe) microchipping costs money to renew.

And with people more transient than ever, its not surprising that people moved...who knows how long those poor kitties were in that concentration camp?!

I hope all avenues are being addressed to locate these people, including identity searches online as well as contacting old neighbors. Someone must know something.

At the very least I hope all these kitties find their way into a loving home, whether it is with their original person or not.

Posted 28 Aug 2007 10:08 AM by rsqpaws

We are actively searching various online identity sites as well as checking up on some of the last known addresses. Unfortunately, it is slow progress to say the least.

Posted 28 Aug 2007 11:06 AM by CritterHugger

If y'all are using, or would like to use, one of the fee-based search engines for locating people, I would gladly subsidize a few searches for you. Just post here and let me know. I'd love to help these babies find their homes.

Posted 28 Aug 2007 11:22 AM by veganmarcy

glad to hear online identity location searches are happening, that's likely to help. also, there's the option of (having members/locals/the paper itself chip in to) have these photos and last known info printed in a LV and Reno area paper or two. it's heart-renching though - they look like they know they're abandoned and wondering why. sigh. so much pain in these babies' faces.

Posted 28 Aug 2007 11:25 AM by veganmarcy

another idea - i use micrchipping on my pets so i know what info is recorded. normally the vet is listed (in addition to an alternate contact). if so, even if they no longer use that vet, the vet might have better past contact records, full names of the people involved in that family, and maybe even know where they moved to because their records might have been requested at the new vet's (i.e. knowing if not the new address, at least the info for the new vet and therefore a way to contact the family).

Posted 28 Aug 2007 12:28 PM by ratmom

Even if these beautiful kitties' families cannot be found, at least they are not alone, scared, and hungry anymore.

Posted 28 Aug 2007 8:29 PM by Squeakie42

Rsqpaws, I know that I and others are willing and able to help with the online searches. I've been pretty good at it in the past. I don't know if BF is concerned about privacy issues, but I've been a member and contributor for a long time -- and since I can't come out from the East coast to work in Nevada, and have given money, I'd like to help in any other way I can.

Posted 29 Aug 2007 12:35 AM by tabbysc

Those poor babies look so sad...it breaks my heart. I'm praying that they find their families soon or at least a new loving family to care for them as they deserve. It infuriates me that they were taken away from the people who loved them and placed into this horrible situation. Thanks to Best Friends for rescuing them!!!!!!!!

Posted 29 Aug 2007 3:55 AM by mystique777

You could also check the clark county assessors website

http://gisgate.co.clark.nv.us/openweb/asp/openweb.asp

That site has current owner information for the housing market in southern nevada...so if the owners moved, you might find them by putting in their names..........good luck!

Posted 29 Aug 2007 6:42 AM by rescuerCalifornia

Someone said how infuriated they were that FLOCK had taken away someone's pet.
I am in no way defending what this group has done to these poor cats but I must say, being in cat rescue for over ten years, some of these owners may have dumped their cats on this group claiming it was a stray they didn't want or they admitted it was a pet they didn't want anymore. I tried to return two microchipped cats to owners in the past thinking they would be thrilled at the sight of their cat coming back home, only to find out they didn't want the cat anyway. People can be absolute scum sometimes.

Posted 29 Aug 2007 11:10 AM by ratmom

rescuerCalifornia, Y'know, that thought hadn't even crossed my mind, but having read about your experience, it shouldn't surprise me. I agree, people can be real scum sometimes. Animals are still too often seen as disposable commodities.

This experience probably isn't unique either: A family came to a local shelter and surrendered their adult cat. Just didn't want it anymore. Then a few days later they came back TO THE SAME SHELTER to "adopt" a kitten. The shelter people threw them out. They'll probably just moved on to another, unsuspecting shelter, but another example of "people can be scum."

Posted 29 Aug 2007 12:03 PM by lemming

Very true about some people.

Since we don't know who these people are, we have to find out first.

Posted 29 Aug 2007 3:35 PM by Nevada10

Unfortunately this is true that some people get pets and then when it does not suit them any more they either just leave them behind or put them out or whatever. Just look at their faces, they do not deserve this, but deserve loving homes and to be pampered as they ought to be. What a shame and it makes me feel real sad, for I know if I lost one of my cats, I would be devistated. Also please do not let your cats roam outside as it is easy for them to be picked up and brought to people like FLOCK where they will be mistreated and die for sure. So many of these cats needs home, please open your home and heart to these beautiful purr babies. We took one and he is a gem and so sweet and loving. I hope they find their owners and that their owners genuinely want their pets back and just do not take them back because of the publicity of this horrid event and then get rid of them again

Posted 29 Aug 2007 3:39 PM by czimmer671

Ratmom, are you kidding! People actually do stuff like that? Wow, I am naive. It's hard to imagine "not wanting it anymore"! If the first place, it's not an "it", cats are warm, loving creatures, who should be considered family! Oh well, I will stop my rant, I am just shocked..they actually had the gall to return to the shelter!?! to adopt!?!

Posted 30 Aug 2007 12:02 AM by kittychump

Such sad little kitties - some obvious physical scars too - so much heartbreak. It is such a huge blessing that BF is handling their care & fostering. They need so much healing, "inside and out." Prayers for these dear precious little furry-folks.

Posted 30 Aug 2007 8:58 AM by MartiL

Ratmom's experience is spot on correct. It's sad and frustrating. We have it here with dogs. I have copies of emails, from a rescue, of people who at first wanted the rescue to 'take' their dog for one of the various reasons they could come up with, then apply to adopt another dog from the same rescue within a matter of days. As the rescue director said to me, "What are they thinking?".

Posted 30 Aug 2007 12:15 PM by veganmarcy

i dealt with that for years mostly with rabbits. we were always taking in rabbits that weren't wnated by folsk we knew or shelters. why? most of the time, people would get bunnies or chicks around easter (through pet stores, breeders, or by trying to steal private pets like ours!!! i'm serious, we had cages ripped into by humans, we prayed it wasn't for food) like they would buy a cute stuffed toy (people do same for kittens or small dogs), and yet have no idea what to do to keep it alive and happy, and in fact theyw oudln't care, and would let it die or dump it on a shlter or someone like us. sigh.

Posted 30 Aug 2007 12:15 PM by ratmom

For some people, like the people who want to "swap" their animals, animals are still a commodity or a light switch--you turn it off, you turn it on. For most of on this blog, that's not even a consideration.

Many years ago, I adopted a kitten from a local shelter. He turned out to be a crabby, cranky little bugger. He didn't like to be handled and bit quite readily. I told a friend about this and she asked me if I'd be returning him to the shelter. I had to stop and think about her suggesting that very idea. I would NEVER have returned him to the shelter, EVER. He was mine, for better or for worse, in for a penny, in for a pound. He lived with me for 14 years until he died of kidney disease and while he wasn't easy to like, I did love him. After all, he was my kitty.

Another time, I adopted a feeder rat that my vet had found in an aquarium with a ball python. He wasn't well and we tried to figure out what was wrong with him. The vet bills ran up and at one point she offered that I could return him if I wanted. (Now understand, she wasn't as awful as this may sound. She'd been my ratties' vet for years and she knew I loved them all. I think she felt badly that she had somehow given me a sickly rat that was running up vet bills.) I looked at her and very quietly said, "No, he's mine." I had fallen in love with him the minute I had first laid eyes on him and he wasn't going anywhere except back home with me. He lived a short, but wonderful, life, my little Finney.

Sorry to have gotten off the path there, but thanks for listening.

Posted 30 Aug 2007 12:30 PM by Alex

They're too good for us, animals are - the most amazing part is that, after all they have been through, they will open their hearts to humans again if given the chance...

Posted 30 Aug 2007 12:36 PM by Antonia732

I was reading some of the comments and one person writes that she beleaves that it costs money to update a chip. A lest for the home again chip this is not true. I have eight cats with them. I did have one chip fail in my cat Annika, but the company replaced it free.

Posted 30 Aug 2007 1:32 PM by mxipp

I sent this page to the columnist at the Reno paper who does a daily blog on animal issues. He did a write up with link to the webiste and ran the photo of Rodeo whose last address was Reno. Maybe people could try to get this page printed in the Las Vegas papers? I don't know who covers animal issues there.

Posted 1 Sep 2007 8:20 PM by jeannettelasvegas

Please include the first and last names of the families you are looking for. I have called and asked Whitney for this info. but have not gotten a phone call back. I have lots of connections here in vegas with the DMV and local police. I promise you i CAN find some of these poeple. If you don't want to post the names publicly please email them to me.
lvrabbitlv@yahoo.com
Jeannette

Posted 2 Sep 2007 8:54 PM by cuda

A CAT'S PRAYER
I ask for the privilege of not being born....not to be born until you can assure me of a home and a master to protect me, and the right to live as long as I am physically able to enjoy life...not to be born until my body is precious and men have ceased to exploit it because it is chep and plentiful. Author Unknown.

I found this and a lot of other really neat stuff on www.sniksnak.com.
Read the Ninja story if you think this is sad this will bring many tears.

Posted 4 Sep 2007 11:21 AM by marys

Kudos to all involved in helping these cats find their homes, and to the folks getting the word out to the papers! Praying for all the kitties.

Posted 24 Sep 2007 1:33 PM by nutmegger

Have any of these kitties besides Acacia found their people or new homes?

Posted 4 Apr 2008 6:31 PM by jmuhj

Ratmom, you're right. And you're wonderful! :) And about those others, yeah, there are those, just like there are apathetic, ignorant, and downright sick people of all persuasions. Doesn't mean we have to acknowledge them or give them airtime, though! We all have work to do for the positive. Let's not get sidetracked into a morass of paying attention to the losers -- the cats need us!