Forty-four cats and kittens rolled into the Fort Collins Cat Rescue on Friday from Houston, some of them in a borrowed catering van, to make room in a Texas shelter for hurricane rescues.
Four volunteers drove straight through, except for a four-hour sleep break in Trinidad, to bring the felines to Fort Collins amidst what Mauricio Zepeda described as “a symphony of meowing.”
The team from Rescue Pets Movement stopped every few hours along the way to check the cats and kittens and make sure they were fed; the youngest ones need to eat every four to six hours.
The volunteer group out of Houston brings cats and dogs from the city’s overflowing municipal shelter to Colorado on a regular basis, but that effort picked up due to Hurricane Harvey.
Thursday and Friday, 10 vans chauffeured 300 cats and dogs to shelters throughout the state, making room in Houston for pets displaced by floodwaters. The biggest challenge, Zepeda said, was finding air conditioned vans because most rental agencies had none available.
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