Cats and dogs and horses, oh my!

This kitten we rescued is kind of gross. After consulting a vet we've found that to get rid of the wolf worm in his head we're going to have to coat it in Vaseline and wait for it to come out and then grab it with tweezers and kill it.

It's like something out of Alien.

I can't believe our idiot neighbors let a kitten this small get this sick and still made it stay outside to fend for itself in this Alabama heat.

All of this has got my mother and I thinking about opening an animal shelter. We'd have to find a plot of land or perhaps a house and get tax-exempt non-profit status from the IRS as well as getting on board with a vet's office that would be willing to donate services to animals we take in.

At first the idea began that we'd open a cattery but after thinking about it we decided we could never turn down somebody needing to find a shelter for an animals. Now we're thinking we'll take in cats, dogs, horses and livestock, birds, and really anything we can.

We're hoping to get some preliminary volunteers and start raising funds or seeking a backer to perhaps donate or fund a location.

It's odd that after over a decade of taking in stray and neglected cats we're actually just now considering the possibility that we could do this on a large scale. I think I should name this kitten so that at a later time I can name the shelter program after him.