Rescuing Tobin: An Abandoned Cat's New Home

Posted by Mia Carter Jul 1, 2008

...I ultimately decided that someone else would be better suited to catch Tobin. So I called the Animal Rescue League. To make a long story short, they did go out to attempt to catch her. But they were unable to find her roadside perch - it's not somewhere you would easily find unless you already knew where it was. So she remained on the Tobin Bridge. Sunday passed. Most of Monday passed. I [incorrectly] assumed they had picked her up shortly after I first called, but I soon learned otherwise. I was driving home Monday and to my horror, there she was...sitting on her shelf, three days after I first spotted her. So I got on the phone and started calling and just as I decided I would have to go catch her on my own, I got a phone call from a Boston Animal Control Officer named Matt. Thankfully, Matt was able to find poor Tobin, saving her from a slow and certain death. And while she probably used up at least a couple of her nine lives on that bridge, she was pretty much unharmed and healthy. A bit dehydrated and hungry - yes, but healthy; young too - only about six months old. And very sweet. Well, the right person spotted Tobin that day. I wasn't going to stop until this cat was rescued. Sometimes, through no fault of their own, animals end up in precarious and potentially deadly situations and it's up to us humans to help them. We've decided to adopt Tobin. She'll come home with us early next week to start her new life with five other kitties, and a plethora of other critters - dogs, birds, rats and guinea pigs. And she'll never have to go hungry or experience abandonment ever again.