Honestly, I would never be able to pass an animal in distress. You should be really proud of all that you have accomplished and how many cats you have saved. All your volunteers should be immensely proud.
My partner volunteers with The Cat Protection Agency in the UK. They do such great work in really difficult circumstances. I see the videos of their cats and they're all so friendly and gorgeous. she would bring all the cats home if she could too. No doubt about it. I wasn't really a cat person until my dog died a few years ago. I now belong to a 7-month-old tabby called Lily and I love her so much. I think she feels a little sorry for me because she feels I need grooming - a lot of grooming.
When I realized I couldn't adopt them all, that's when I decided to do what I could...Trap Neuter Return, not my favorite choice but I feel that way, at least I'm doing something to ovoid all this cats coming to this world thay it's not nice to them
@@LilyTheCat151, Lily grooming you means that you are her very special, chosen person. Cats don’t do that with everyone. To be chosen by a cat is a special honor. I wish you and Lily many, many happy years together.
@@ItsJustLisa I hope so. I want her to feel safe, secure and loved. I think she is but sometimes one just never knows with cats. I have to say I'm surprised by how attached I am to her. She's the best cat ever as far as I'm concerned.
Oh man, I never connected the Mani in your newsletter to this video before! So happy you rescued her, and shame on the people who walked by an obviously suffering kitten.
"We can't rescue or adopt our way out of problems this big." So, so true. You have such a way with words, thank you for helping get this message out there. And for saving Mani!
I have admired your work for a while now, and it has inspired me. I saw at my new job (working at a bank now) there is a colony of 12 cats living across the street from the bank. Only one was fixed, and I knew I had to do something before it got worse. I set up an appointment with the local humane society, and thankfully they have a clinic come out there twice a month that pays in full for spay and neuter services (the only thing I had to pay was the $10 rabies vaccine for each cat). Unfortunately they only had enough appointments for me to bring up to 7 of them, but I went for it anyway. I did a lot of research into TNR, got the equipment I needed, and my coworkers also pitched in and helped with the costs. After a lot of planning, time, and effort, 7 cats (3 boys 4 girls) were caught, fixed, and have returned to their outdoor home in good health. I plan to get the rest of them on the next day the clinic comes to the humane society (they aren't visiting this week due to Christmas). Thank you for your work not just in TNR, rescue, fostering, and kitten socializing; thank you for inspiring others as well.
Thank you! You are a hero! I know how much work you put in to get all those cats fixed. I got three done, and was quite proud of myself. A charity called the Paw Fund paid for their spay/neuter. Volunteer vets did the operations through an organization called Fix Our Ferals at one of their monthly cinics.
"I know this is hard to see but thank you for not looking away, because that's how we got here" i'm fucking tearing up already jesus that wrenched at my heart
I can't imagine how hard it must be to rescue cats. Knowing that sometimes you can't help certain ones or doing everything right only to have one pass away.
It's heartbreaking and yes sometimes I still think about the one cat that I couldn't help on vacation in Jakarta but this motivates me to help others 'in honor of...' please do whatever you can! If you can't foster them or have much money donate food to foster charities or at least try to allow them on your property. Spay, neuter and at least be considerate with them. We can't help them all but we can all do something small to help and achieve a better world for us and ferral cats.
Agreed. My family are cat lovers anyway, but to your point, these cat and animal videos on YT provide me a glimpse of a love and decency that's sorely absent in the world these days. God bless, and happy holidays :)
Kind people feed stray kitten because they cute, ignoring the fact that in a year 75% of them will die horribly. Good person do TNR and prevent those tragedy. Dont be kind, be a good person.
Jacobi, the feral cat I sponsor after TNR here in Houston approves this video. It's never ending caring for a cat colony in Humble,TX- a Houston suburb. The cats are eating more now preparing for colder weather as fall here on the Gulf Coast has just ended. I've found forever homes for the last kittens of the summer that were just spayed. Stay safe, friends!
I never realised Mani was a rescue with such a difficult past. She's a beautiful angel. Bless you guys, and everybody who volunteers to help you. You're extraordinary people.
I am not a religious person, but truly bless you and your work! I am electrician at work, watching this at break and tearing up! I donate a lot of money to my local cat rescues and have a great rescue cat that adopted us!
@@edbovee2786 I know your pain of losing an pet kid. I held my yellow lab while she passed. I still get sad about that and it took 3 years to open up and get our rescue kitten. But I love that cat as much as I did that lab. They are similar in mannerisms, but different in wonderful ways as well.
My late husband was also an electrician and a cat lover. I'd never had a cat before I met him. Now i don't know how I ever lived without a cat in my life. Thank you for introducing me to the special kind of love only a rescue cat can give, Eli. ❤️
I can't believe the city has allowed thousands of cats to suffer on the street - and thousands more to be euthanized every year - for more than two decades. This video attempts to help people see the scale of the problem and understand this is a systemic issue. It goes far beyond individual responsibility.
@Sasuntidictous Rhoireiphapos That's a really, really unfair analogy. Most of the same people who stop to help an animal will do the same for another person... I certainly do.
@@FlatbushCats I couldn't agree more. We don't have the same problem in our neighborhood bc our municipal has bylaws on all stray animals. In fact its hard to adopt from the shelters as there are not many cats or dogs that come in anymore. I would become the real CatLady they all think I am if I lived in Brooklyn, I'm very impressed with the work you do. Happy Christmas to you and your family.
I found and recused a cat on my way to work one day. His right eye was injured and hanging out. He went to the vet for surgery and had that eye removed . When I went in to take him home the staff at the vet's office were in tears because in a few short days he had touched them deeply with his personality. I named him after the road I found him on and that moment forward he became Jack Afton. My sister thought of him as a dashing Captain so he later became Captain Jack Afton. Unfortunately we lost him all too soon do to heart failure. We think he may have had heart worms. Thank you for all your hard work and dedication saving street cats.
It leaves me absolutely baffled how people could just walk past her like that in the beginning of the video, like she didn’t exist when obviously she was in tremendous amount of pain
With all the fakes out there who are nothing but murderers and torturers of animals. It's wonderful when I find one so genuine.. But yet out of all the real one's out there out of country or local.. I found the best and most informative out there. Never break that promise 💯 you have inspired me to start volunteering in my state and local area.. Let us all help keep that promise 🙏
The mere fact that she had impaired vision and was only sensing people come and go throughout all the time she was on the streets is heartbreaking. Thank You for Your work!
I foster for my local shelter. It's so hard to not "foster fail", but if I did, I wouldn't be able to help more cats. I just wish more vets would help with discounted spay/neuter surgeries for feral cats. Ty for all you do, saving Mani, and I can't wait to see Garfield's story.
Dr. Jeff - Mountain vet from Colorado for instance does this with his whole vet crew once a year in Mexico, the spay and neuter cats and dogs FOR FREE around the clock for I dont know how long, a week or so. A great doc with a big heart! "Dr. Jeff Young is a big vet with a big heart. His love for animals has made his Denver clinic one of busiest in America. Once a month Jeff takes his team and mobile surgery on the road, through the Cowboy States, to stunning remote locations where people can't access vets".
"we promised that one day soon we'd be able to prevent other cats from ever suffering outside at all" 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 if more people committed themselves to some philanthropic activity for both animals and to other people the world would be an anteroom to paradise.
You're absolutely right! Just imagine if people donated just $1 a day. Or even just $1 each. As I right this, this video has more than 32,000 views. How amazing would it be to have raised $32,000 to help end the cat overpopulation crisis? The crowd has tremendous power! That's why leaning into the power of social media by sharing these videos and asking friends and family to get involved is so important. I hope we can get to the day where you see that $1 per person milestone.
@@leedomaszowec131 I'm Brazilian and it would be interesting if there were subtitles in Portuguese for me to pass the videos on to my list of non-English speaking contacts. most would be moved to make a donation.
I used to have stray cats showing up at my door all the time, and I would have to scramble around to find a place to have them fixed that I could afford. The Feral Cat Project was started in Seattle in 1997 and since then they have fixed over 133,000 cats. I haven't had a new one in 10 years, and now am fostering through a shelter instead of street rescues. The shelters around here are able to take in cats and kittens from other counties and even other states because the stray population is so low. My own personal colony only has 1 feral left and he's 15. It's a miracle organization.
I have one of these cats. I rescued her at 4 months. She was feral and blind, missing one eye completely and the other was so enlarged and scarred that it doesn't have a pupil. The woman I took her from who saved the remainder of her last eye, took her to the vet but was going to let her live outside, blind, thru a Michigan winter. I took her Thanksgiving week and my husband didn't speak to me for 3 days (we already had 4 cats, 2 were her age). I began a placement search but it's hard to find a home for a blind kitten. I ended up keeping her and she is the joy of my life. She fetches and chases toys and she beats the hell out of her ping pong ball in the bath tub. She gets around find and she is less trouble than my full sight cats. I would do it all over again. I hope others will consider adopting a blind or sight challenged cat. Thank you both for all you do
Lol good idea. I have a 2 eye cat named Odin because he’s orange. Found him crying outside and sitting in the engine of my car! I’m so happy that I have him and lucky he has no major issues.
Your job is the hardest job in the world, you need to make tough decisions, do hard work and you need to say goodbye to cats that you have taken care of for most of the cats life. This is the hardest part of fostering and we all salute you for doing this work that nobody else has the courage or determination to do this. I am a very young person who cannot help cats. Even if I have the resources to do this, I am not experienced enough to know how to foster or put cats up for adoption or when o take them to the vet, even the slightest symptom could be fatal and I cannot spot even a big symptom. Thank you for everything and I hope that you will be able to foster more kittens.
I feel the same every time I go to the shelter... so many fuzzballs just wanting to be held, or scratched - anything. I had to stop going - I'm at six permanent residents plus one who is gone now that touched my 60 year old life forever. (Lucy cat - I miss you so much.🥵) PLEASE adopt an older cat. Sometimes their family abandons them, sometimes their caretaker passes away, sometimes... they just end up in a shelter alone and scared - missing the family they once had. Don't do it for me, or for the kitty... do it for yourself. The kitty will let you know it was the right thing to do.
I am supporting on monthly basis our local TRN organization, in Czech Republic. They are trying to force towns to do their work in regards of care of freeroaming unspayed animals. But you guys were reason why I started to engage with the topic in the first place. Thank you
@@viviangargano4497 Well some certainly can't be bothered. But many don't have the knowledge or resources to directly help. This is why it's important to assist Flatbush Cats and similar groups who are equipped to relieve the pain of wounded street animals.
I am feeding a teenage mom with kittens in backyard where I worl. I wish could trap them. They won't come near me. They don't even trust the house I bought for them. Hope they make through the winter.
my dream is to be able to do something like this when I grow up. you guys are a huge inspiration for me, thank you so much for the care you have for these animals. I know the outcome is not very rewarding professionally but the knowledge that you saved hundreds of innocent, powerless and special lives, and even gave them home, that alone makes it up for me. I wish you guys all the best and hope I can be like you someday.
To get started, you might want to look into buying a humane animal trap. I got mine for about $50 on the internet. Make sure it's big enough for cats. Look up feral cat rescue organizations in your area to get advice, and possibly help in paying for the surgery. It's a big job to get a feral cat spayed/ neutered, but after you do, you will know you have done a huge kindness to an innocent animal. Good luck!
I watched so many videos of you rescuing street cats and bringing them to their forever homes. Now, watching you actually fall for a kitten yourself is... really satisfying. You deserve her :)
How people can just walk on by a kitten in clear need of veteran assistance I’ll never ever comprehend. This isn’t something we experience here in the UK, so so many cats living on the street, the same goes for dogs, shame on the government for not handling this crisis effectively or rather at all! It’s so very sad, and no doubt disheartening to the Flatbush team.
Wow, when Mani told Charlie she needed space I never ever realised that she'd lost an eye. Hearing her name from the beginning I kept thinking to myself, no, it can't be the same Mani, can it? Such a beautiful girl and an uplifting story. She has the greatest song of her people too!
I can no longer watch these videos without tearing up now that I have my own special boy, he has given me such a deep love of these animals. Thank you much for preventing their suffering.
Yeah it's already the best $25 a month I spend. That and what goes towards my own kitties and the homeless kitties I take provide for. What would life be without y]the kitties?
@@lynnmartz8739 Agree so much. I can't have cats right now, but I volunteer at a shelter and love seeing other peoples' cats and cat-related work. They are just pure joy 😻
I wish there were organization like flatbush that focuses on TNR in my country. All shelters are extremely overcrowded and in poor condition, so most people just feed the cats on the streets and leave them there as if that's an ok life for the cats. Systematic TNR, adoption, and public education are so much needed.
The breeding of animals for sale also needs to end. It's a key element to this equation. I commend you for your work. As a colony caretaker I know what it means to care a lot and never do enough. Beautiful story: thank you so much for saving her!
Beyond heart warming, so glad to see Lionel happy and thriving. I had a 24 year old tabby until a year ago, who was asthmatic, and has loads of arthritis. He couldn't jump on and off the counters like he used too, but I made sure to hoist him to whatever his desired platform would be, as well as off. He would sleep with me because of this, otherwise he would be lonely somewhere else in the house. His name was Lionel too, and my biggest regret was not being there for him when he fell down the stairs, and needed to be put down. Lionel, I love you buddy.
Honestly, I would never be able to pass an animal in distress. You should be really proud of all that you have accomplished and how many cats you have saved. All your volunteers should be immensely proud.
THANK *YOU* FOR NOT LOOKING AWAY !
Beautiful people helping beautiful animals.
I am in tears. In my country there are no feral cats so it is possible. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the love you give these cats.
This has ratcheted my willingness to adopt even more.
It's so sad to see so many cats suffering outside :(
I wish I could adopt them all, I have so much love to give them
My partner volunteers with The Cat Protection Agency in the UK. They do such great work in really difficult circumstances. I see the videos of their cats and they're all so friendly and gorgeous. she would bring all the cats home if she could too. No doubt about it.
I wasn't really a cat person until my dog died a few years ago. I now belong to a 7-month-old tabby called Lily and I love her so much. I think she feels a little sorry for me because she feels I need grooming - a lot of grooming.
When I realized I couldn't adopt them all, that's when I decided to do what I could...Trap Neuter Return, not my favorite choice but I feel that way, at least I'm doing something to ovoid all this cats coming to this world thay it's not nice to them
@@LilyTheCat151, Lily grooming you means that you are her very special, chosen person. Cats don’t do that with everyone. To be chosen by a cat is a special honor. I wish you and Lily many, many happy years together.
@@ItsJustLisa I hope so. I want her to feel safe, secure and loved. I think she is but sometimes one just never knows with cats. I have to say I'm surprised by how attached I am to her. She's the best cat ever as far as I'm concerned.
Adopt a couple at least to share your love with them please.
The laugh before the "we never got around to putting her up for adoption" made me tear up y'all ❤❤
Heartless people , passing near sick animals without helping ….
Thanks for taking care of them ❤️
Oh man, I never connected the Mani in your newsletter to this video before! So happy you rescued her, and shame on the people who walked by an obviously suffering kitten.
"We can't rescue or adopt our way out of problems this big." So, so true. You have such a way with words, thank you for helping get this message out there. And for saving Mani!
I’m not TNR certified, but I’m a proud colony caretaker. ❤️
So THAT'S the cat with the beautiful voice from the other video! That's so sweet!
"I know this is hard to see but thank you for not looking away, because that's how we got here." What a powerful and moving line.
I have admired your work for a while now, and it has inspired me. I saw at my new job (working at a bank now) there is a colony of 12 cats living across the street from the bank. Only one was fixed, and I knew I had to do something before it got worse. I set up an appointment with the local humane society, and thankfully they have a clinic come out there twice a month that pays in full for spay and neuter services (the only thing I had to pay was the $10 rabies vaccine for each cat). Unfortunately they only had enough appointments for me to bring up to 7 of them, but I went for it anyway. I did a lot of research into TNR, got the equipment I needed, and my coworkers also pitched in and helped with the costs. After a lot of planning, time, and effort, 7 cats (3 boys 4 girls) were caught, fixed, and have returned to their outdoor home in good health. I plan to get the rest of them on the next day the clinic comes to the humane society (they aren't visiting this week due to Christmas).
Thank you for your work not just in TNR, rescue, fostering, and kitten socializing; thank you for inspiring others as well.
That's so awesome that you got inspired to do that!! WTG!!! Keep up the good work. 👍
You live in a better, kinder place than most people.
You are awesome.
Thank you! You are a hero! I know how much work you put in to get all those cats fixed. I got three done, and was quite proud of myself. A charity called the Paw Fund paid for their spay/neuter. Volunteer vets did the operations through an organization called Fix Our Ferals at one of their monthly cinics.
YOU ARE VERY KIND.
Danke!
"I know this is hard to see but thank you for not looking away, because that's how we got here" i'm fucking tearing up already jesus that wrenched at my heart
I can't imagine how hard it must be to rescue cats. Knowing that sometimes you can't help certain ones or doing everything right only to have one pass away.
When you lose one, you go out and rescue another 'in honor of...'
@@socalslk - exactly!
Help them instead of a comment give them what you can spare and make a change not a comment
This happened to me recently... A street kitty I was trying to save died from the fading kitten syndrome. I cried so much
It's heartbreaking and yes sometimes I still think about the one cat that I couldn't help on vacation in Jakarta but this motivates me to help others 'in honor of...' please do whatever you can! If you can't foster them or have much money donate food to foster charities or at least try to allow them on your property. Spay, neuter and at least be considerate with them. We can't help them all but we can all do something small to help and achieve a better world for us and ferral cats.
You guys are the best... Big love from Spain.
Thank you for your big love ❤!!
who would keep on walking by kittens who are that ill and in need? its very sad.... I am glad you guys rescue them.
Bless you all! Thank you for all that you do, all that you inspire, and all that you heal in so many ways...
Tack!
these videos got me through a rough patch, thank you for being such kind people
Agreed. My family are cat lovers anyway, but to your point, these cat and animal videos on YT provide me a glimpse of a love and decency that's sorely absent in the world these days. God bless, and happy holidays :)
echo that
I agree.
Fuck your rough patch, donate like us and end these beautiful animals rough patch!
Kind people feed stray kitten because they cute, ignoring the fact that in a year 75% of them will die horribly.
Good person do TNR and prevent those tragedy.
Dont be kind, be a good person.
Jacobi, the feral cat I sponsor after TNR here in Houston approves this video. It's never ending caring for a cat colony in Humble,TX- a Houston suburb. The cats are eating more now preparing for colder weather as fall here on the Gulf Coast has just ended. I've found forever homes for the last kittens of the summer that were just spayed. Stay safe, friends!
Thank you so much dear friend from Germany
Good for you, William!
Thank you.. from Katy tx
Thanks fellow Houstonian
One-eyed wonder cats are the best! I loved my one-eyed girl so much. We had 15 lovely years together. Miss that sweet, silly girl.
I never realised Mani was a rescue with such a difficult past. She's a beautiful angel.
Bless you guys, and everybody who volunteers to help you. You're extraordinary people.
when i heard that it was her, i teared up :') shes a little angel
Donate and help them, comments don't
@@KimJung-un4747they do actually. It helps the algorithm
If this was a documentary series, this would be an epic series finale message
I am not a religious person, but truly bless you and your work! I am electrician at work, watching this at break and tearing up! I donate a lot of money to my local cat rescues and have a great rescue cat that adopted us!
No doubt the cat rescues appreciate it a lot...but don't let the tears near the electricity 😊
@@edbovee2786 I get it.
It makes me come to tears too.
@@edbovee2786 I know your pain of losing an pet kid. I held my yellow lab while she passed. I still get sad about that and it took 3 years to open up and get our rescue kitten. But I love that cat as much as I did that lab. They are similar in mannerisms, but different in wonderful ways as well.
My late husband was also an electrician and a cat lover. I'd never had a cat before I met him. Now i don't know how I ever lived without a cat in my life. Thank you for introducing me to the special kind of love only a rescue cat can give, Eli. ❤️
Beautiful work done by beautiful people. Glad you exist!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
I can’t believe how many people just walked past her and did nothing! Shame on them, and bless you!
I would NEVER pass a sick animal without trying to help. I couldn't live with myself if I didn't.
I can't believe the city has allowed thousands of cats to suffer on the street - and thousands more to be euthanized every year - for more than two decades. This video attempts to help people see the scale of the problem and understand this is a systemic issue. It goes far beyond individual responsibility.
@Sasuntidictous Rhoireiphapos That's not what this video is about.
@Sasuntidictous Rhoireiphapos That's a really, really unfair analogy. Most of the same people who stop to help an animal will do the same for another person... I certainly do.
@@FlatbushCats I couldn't agree more. We don't have the same problem in our neighborhood bc our municipal has bylaws on all stray animals. In fact its hard to adopt from the shelters as there are not many cats or dogs that come in anymore. I would become the real CatLady they all think I am if I lived in Brooklyn, I'm very impressed with the work you do. Happy Christmas to you and your family.
I found and recused a cat on my way to work one day. His right eye was injured and hanging out. He went to the vet for surgery and had that eye removed . When I went in to take him home the staff at the vet's office were in tears because in a few short days he had touched them deeply with his personality. I named him after the road I found him on and that moment forward he became Jack Afton. My sister thought of him as a dashing Captain so he later became Captain Jack Afton. Unfortunately we lost him all too soon do to heart failure. We think he may have had heart worms.
Thank you for all your hard work and dedication saving street cats.
It leaves me absolutely baffled how people could just walk past her like that in the beginning of the video, like she didn’t exist when obviously she was in tremendous amount of pain
With all the fakes out there who are nothing but murderers and torturers of animals. It's wonderful when I find one so genuine.. But yet out of all the real one's out there out of country or local.. I found the best and most informative out there. Never break that promise 💯 you have inspired me to start volunteering in my state and local area.. Let us all help keep that promise 🙏
The mere fact that she had impaired vision and was only sensing people come and go throughout all the time she was on the streets is heartbreaking. Thank You for Your work!
Don't thank them, help them donate as much as you can even a dollar would help more than your thank you
These cats are so precious !
HOW CAN PEOPLE PASS WITHOUT HELPING. Poor baby xxxx
I foster for my local shelter. It's so hard to not "foster fail", but if I did, I wouldn't be able to help more cats. I just wish more vets would help with discounted spay/neuter surgeries for feral cats.
Ty for all you do, saving Mani, and I can't wait to see Garfield's story.
Dr. Jeff - Mountain vet from Colorado for instance does this with his whole vet crew once a year in Mexico, the spay and neuter cats and dogs FOR FREE around the clock for I dont know how long, a week or so. A great doc with a big heart! "Dr. Jeff Young is a big vet with a big heart. His love for animals has made his Denver clinic one of busiest in America. Once a month Jeff takes his team and mobile surgery on the road, through the Cowboy States, to stunning remote locations where people can't access vets".
@@sabthie5836 yeah, but he's in Colorado. Try finding a vet in Brooklyn who'd do that.
Спасибо!
"we promised that one day soon we'd be able to prevent other cats from ever suffering outside at all" 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
if more people committed themselves to some philanthropic activity for both animals and to other people the world would be an anteroom to paradise.
For those who want to skip over the rough start skip to 1:10 if you can stand post surgery looks or 1:42 if you can't
Thank you
Unbelievable how many people passed by and ignored her.😭😭😭
I wish I could donate more. If everyone who watches and comments just donates even $5, it would be a big help 💜
You're absolutely right! Just imagine if people donated just $1 a day. Or even just $1 each. As I right this, this video has more than 32,000 views. How amazing would it be to have raised $32,000 to help end the cat overpopulation crisis? The crowd has tremendous power! That's why leaning into the power of social media by sharing these videos and asking friends and family to get involved is so important. I hope we can get to the day where you see that $1 per person milestone.
@@leedomaszowec131 I'm Brazilian and it would be interesting if there were subtitles in Portuguese for me to pass the videos on to my list of non-English speaking contacts. most would be moved to make a donation.
I adopted at my local shelter 🐱🐈
You have a kind soul. The world is lucky to have you.
I used to have stray cats showing up at my door all the time, and I would have to scramble around to find a place to have them fixed that I could afford. The Feral Cat Project was started in Seattle in 1997 and since then they have fixed over 133,000 cats. I haven't had a new one in 10 years, and now am fostering through a shelter instead of street rescues. The shelters around here are able to take in cats and kittens from other counties and even other states because the stray population is so low. My own personal colony only has 1 feral left and he's 15. It's a miracle organization.
To a large degree domestic cats are a human creation. We have a responsibility toward them. No cat should be unwanted.
Flatbush fr #1 channel worth donating to
Oh my god. This is the story of Manny... And Lionel 😢 Thank you for your hardwork and determination..
I have one of these cats. I rescued her at 4 months. She was feral and blind, missing one eye completely and the other was so enlarged and scarred that it doesn't have a pupil. The woman I took her from who saved the remainder of her last eye, took her to the vet but was going to let her live outside, blind, thru a Michigan winter. I took her Thanksgiving week and my husband didn't speak to me for 3 days (we already had 4 cats, 2 were her age). I began a placement search but it's hard to find a home for a blind kitten. I ended up keeping her and she is the joy of my life. She fetches and chases toys and she beats the hell out of her ping pong ball in the bath tub. She gets around find and she is less trouble than my full sight cats. I would do it all over again. I hope others will consider adopting a blind or sight challenged cat. Thank you both for all you do
The urge to call all one eyed cats "Odin"
Lol good idea. I have a 2 eye cat named Odin because he’s orange. Found him crying outside and sitting in the engine of my car! I’m so happy that I have him and lucky he has no major issues.
horus also works :D
Your job is the hardest job in the world, you need to make tough decisions, do hard work and you need to say goodbye to cats that you have taken care of for most of the cats life. This is the hardest part of fostering and we all salute you for doing this work that nobody else has the courage or determination to do this. I am a very young person who cannot help cats. Even if I have the resources to do this, I am not experienced enough to know how to foster or put cats up for adoption or when o take them to the vet, even the slightest symptom could be fatal and I cannot spot even a big symptom.
Thank you for everything and I hope that you will be able to foster more kittens.
lots of sad and happy crying on this vid. loni and lionel trill meows are probably the most perfect and romantic ive ever heard.
Thank you amazing people. The world is a much better place because of you.
Indeed
A comment won't help them, donate anything you can
Thank you, Flatbush Cats 🐈, for showing us the reality of feral and stray cats' and kittens' lives.
You guys were absolutely correct, Mani is a keeper.
谢谢！
I feel the same every time I go to the shelter... so many fuzzballs just wanting to be held, or scratched - anything. I had to stop going - I'm at six permanent residents plus one who is gone now that touched my 60 year old life forever. (Lucy cat - I miss you so much.🥵)
PLEASE adopt an older cat. Sometimes their family abandons them, sometimes their caretaker passes away, sometimes... they just end up in a shelter alone and scared - missing the family they once had.
Don't do it for me, or for the kitty... do it for yourself. The kitty will let you know it was the right thing to do.
I am supporting on monthly basis our local TRN organization, in Czech Republic. They are trying to force towns to do their work in regards of care of freeroaming unspayed animals. But you guys were reason why I started to engage with the topic in the first place. Thank you
Idk how ppl can just walk past a sick or injured animal! Thank u for all that u do❣️
They are as helpless as the poor animals - they simply don't know how to help.
@@donnavorce8856 no i don't agree, you pick it up and give it help....ppl just cannot be bothered
@@viviangargano4497 Well some certainly can't be bothered. But many don't have the knowledge or resources to directly help. This is why it's important to assist Flatbush Cats and similar groups who are equipped to relieve the pain of wounded street animals.
I perked up when i heard that name "Mani." I remembered that she was part of the story of Lionel.
Thanks
After so long, we might finally see Garfield's story. I can't wait.
Poor baby 😭😭😭😭 I have my three fluff butts sleeping around me and couldn't imagine them being so sad and hurt. Fuck. 😭
Gosh this gladdens me but breaks my heart at the same time
Mani looks so much like my girl! Even down to the one eye and the bullseye marking on her side. She had to have emergency surgery a few years ago.
I put in an application to adopt a 3 month old simese mix who sadly had one of his front legs amputated. Wish me luck on being pick to get him :)
I am feeding a teenage mom with kittens in backyard where I worl. I wish could trap them. They won't come near me. They don't even trust the house I bought for them. Hope they make through the winter.
Thank you so much for all that you do! More power to you! Best wishes for the New Year!
how the literal fuck can anyone walk past this cat like the intro? Hurts my soul, man.
my dream is to be able to do something like this when I grow up. you guys are a huge inspiration for me, thank you so much for the care you have for these animals. I know the outcome is not very rewarding professionally but the knowledge that you saved hundreds of innocent, powerless and special lives, and even gave them home, that alone makes it up for me. I wish you guys all the best and hope I can be like you someday.
To get started, you might want to look into buying a humane animal trap. I got mine for about $50 on the internet. Make sure it's big enough for cats. Look up feral cat rescue organizations in your area to get advice, and possibly help in paying for the surgery. It's a big job to get a feral cat spayed/ neutered, but after you do, you will know you have done a huge kindness to an innocent animal. Good luck!
The greatest compliment you can get is when a wild kitten trusts you and loves you.
Man, you deserve heaven. A true inspirational life you are living saving these creatures. Thank you
I watched so many videos of you rescuing street cats and bringing them to their forever homes. Now, watching you actually fall for a kitten yourself is... really satisfying. You deserve her :)
Mani, must have been so scary out there. So glad you are okay ❤️
You guys are amazing. Thank you for what you do.
I love you guys!
Poor little girl, so glad you found her.
How people can just walk on by a kitten in clear need of veteran assistance I’ll never ever comprehend.
This isn’t something we experience here in the UK, so so many cats living on the street, the same goes for dogs, shame on the government for not handling this crisis effectively or rather at all! It’s so very sad, and no doubt disheartening to the Flatbush team.
Thank you 🙏
Wow, when Mani told Charlie she needed space I never ever realised that she'd lost an eye. Hearing her name from the beginning I kept thinking to myself, no, it can't be the same Mani, can it? Such a beautiful girl and an uplifting story. She has the greatest song of her people too!
Wonderful story! You are awesome people, thank you for your work
I can no longer watch these videos without tearing up now that I have my own special boy, he has given me such a deep love of these animals. Thank you much for preventing their suffering.
People just walking by, at the beginning of the video. I'm livid.
Flatbush Cats, you're awesome!!!!!!
I fully support all you do. You're wonderful people
This is the solution!! Looking forward to hearing more about your spay/neuter efforts and will support!
Yeah it's already the best $25 a month I spend. That and what goes towards my own kitties and the homeless kitties I take provide for. What would life be without y]the kitties?
@@lynnmartz8739 Agree so much. I can't have cats right now, but I volunteer at a shelter and love seeing other peoples' cats and cat-related work. They are just pure joy 😻
It also helps so more cats aren’t made in bad conditions.
I wish there were organization like flatbush that focuses on TNR in my country. All shelters are extremely overcrowded and in poor condition, so most people just feed the cats on the streets and leave them there as if that's an ok life for the cats. Systematic TNR, adoption, and public education are so much needed.
All cats are beautiful ❤️
We need more people like you. When I’m old enough, I’m going to do as much as I can for this cause, whether that’s big donations or actually doing it.
This is the tale of a sick kitten rescued to come a perfect circle to save another who needed it like her.
😭😭😭😭😭
I wish that I've got money to help you out. May Allah grant you health and wealth for all your good deeds towards these helpless animals
The breeding of animals for sale also needs to end. It's a key element to this equation. I commend you for your work. As a colony caretaker I know what it means to care a lot and never do enough. Beautiful story: thank you so much for saving her!
Beyond heart warming, so glad to see Lionel happy and thriving. I had a 24 year old tabby until a year ago, who was asthmatic, and has loads of arthritis. He couldn't jump on and off the counters like he used too, but I made sure to hoist him to whatever his desired platform would be, as well as off. He would sleep with me because of this, otherwise he would be lonely somewhere else in the house. His name was Lionel too, and my biggest regret was not being there for him when he fell down the stairs, and needed to be put down. Lionel, I love you buddy.
We are polar opposites, politically, but I thank God for you every day.
Thank you guys so much for all you do to help these cats and cat babies
ياعمري حبيبة قلبي
God bless you forever.thanks
You are the best charity in bklyn.. 🐈🐈🐈
dear sir, WHENEVER U LOOK IN MIRROR, PLEASE KNOW UR LOOKING AT A HERO!!!
So THIS is Mani's story!! ❤
THANK YOU.
Lionel 😢❤️
Seeing people walk by made my cry.
You are so right. People just walk past a suffering kitten and go home and can actually sleep at night.