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With a sad heart I bid goodbye to my Leo. He passed in my arms a few minutes ago. He lit up my life for four years; now he lights the rainbow bridge with all my other fur babies who have gone before him.

Fly free, my little Leo, my love, wait for me; our bond is forever. 💔

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[Gandolf’s Legacy Cat Rescue @gandolf_s]

9 precious souls rescued in the last 4 weeks and 37 since May. I can only get 67 free retweets💔. I don’t need accolades or likes just retweets. This black floof is next. I have posted videos before of the 2 coyotes and they always miss each other by minutes every night. She is struggling amongst the outside elements. Food is not always available when she shows up. This will be her lifelong sanctuary home, while 99% of people are trapping cats and dropping off at Cobb AC never looking back. They have euthanized 2000 this year. Can I please just get free retweets for the CASH MATCH that runs through November? PLEASE 🙏 Monthly expenses are in the thousands. 42 babies plus outside colonies only have me. Thank you 🙏

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@FartyCheddarCat Such a scary story, Cheddar!

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@Depression_less Such a sweet story. I love his name! From the movie, Pet Sematary, the first one from the 1980s cuz he looks like that cat, right? I love it!!!

You're an angel 😇💕

[Variety @Variety]

George Takei is remembering his longtime “loyal friend” and “Star Trek” co-star Walter Koenig, who died Sunday in Los Angeles:

“My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades,” the post continued. “When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man. Just last month, on Sept. 14, he turned 90, on the same day Brad and I celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary. I will always treasure that he and I shared that date. Walter was more than Chekov. He was a writer, a teacher, a thoughtful man, and a loyal friend. To the fans who loved him for so many years, thank you. He loved you too. Rest well, my dear friend. Keep navigating a steady course.”

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[Bonnie Boden @designergirla]

This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.

"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.

You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.

Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.

Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.

And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban in Afghanistan thanked you very much for losing again.

And you're calling Greenland poorly run?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.

'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.

And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.

So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."

Credit to: Jim Keller

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@Darekbrzoza She's beautiful. So beautiful. Such a wonderful story filled with love. ❤️

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@FartyCheddarCat Just cuddle with her, Cheddar ❤️

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@PaulStanleyLive Well, he's absolutely gorgeous!

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@MesBlaugrana I'm so sorry

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@MustafaAmeen30 ❤️

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@ColeTheBlackCat We will all miss you, Marmalade. Run free with Cole.

I am so very sorry for your loss.

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@darkITler I'm so sorry

[Protected Paws @ProtectedpawsAR]

THEY DO NOT JUST DIE WITHOUT US, THEY SUFFER HOURRENDOUSLY.

Two days ago, Geoffrey walked into the garden of one of our foster homes, Barbara’s, and quite literally asked for help.

A six-year-old, unneutered male cat. Another boy failed on the streets.

We thought Geoffrey would need the usual: a health check, bloods, castration, vaccinations, a microchip and then the chance to start again.

Unfortunately, it’s not that simple.

Geoffrey has a diaphragmatic hernia.

His abdominal organs have pushed through his diaphragm and are sitting up inside his chest, against his heart and lungs, when they should be safely inside his abdomen.

It sounds horrific, because it is.

But Geoffrey’s condition is operable. He has a chance.
And this is where we desperately need you.

We know we're always asking for money. We know there is always another emergency on our page.
But that's because there genuinely is always another emergency at our door.

Right now Joshua is in hospital fighting FIP.

Four tiny kittens are in hospital after being dumped outside a pet shop with severe diarrhoea.

We have colonies containing hundreds of cats still needing trapping and neutering.

We currently have 48 end-of-life animals in our care — cats and dogs with kidney disease, hyperthyroidism, arthritis and other chronic illnesses who deserve comfort, medication and dignity for however long they have left.

And while all of this is happening, we're trying to catch another cat in Ealing whose eye is literally hanging out.
And now there is Geoffrey.

Our phone doesn't stop
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The emergencies don't stop.

But our money does.

Our veterinary bills are now regularly reaching £20,000–£30,000 A MONTH — if we're lucky.

And that doesn't include the mountain of medication we use.

It doesn't include food.

It doesn't include litter.

It doesn't include all the everyday costs of keeping hundreds of vulnerable animals safe.

This is not sustainable.

Protected Paws has become known as the rescue that takes the sick ones. The old ones. The broken ones. The ones requiring surgery. The ones other people simply cannot afford to help.

We're incredibly proud of that.

But being the rescue that says “yes” comes at an enormous cost.

Because what are we supposed to do when a cat like Geoffrey arrives?

Look at a six-year-old cat with a surgically treatable condition and say, “Sorry, the vet bill is too high”?

Agree to euthanasia when an operation could give him years of life?

We can't.

These animals have already been let down by humans.
We are just a small rescue fighting what increasingly feels like a huge war — and right now, we desperately need an army standing behind us.

If you've ever respected the work Protected Paws does, followed one of our animals' stories, adopted from us, fostered for us or simply believed that these animals deserve better, please help us now.

£2. £5. £10. Whatever you can spare.

Thousands of people giving a couple of pounds could genuinely keep our doors open and keep us saying YES to animals like Geoffrey.

And if you can't donate, please share this post. Sharing costs absolutely nothing and could put Geoffrey's story in front of someone who can help.

We've also created a new Amazon Wishlist with the everyday essentials our animals desperately need. If you would rather send food, litter or supplies directly, that helps us enormously too every item donated means money can be kept aside for veterinary care.

Please help us keep fighting.

For Geoffrey.

For Joshua.

For those four tiny hospitalised kittens.

For our 48 end-of-life animals.

For the cat we're desperately trying to catch in Ealing.
For the colony cats still waiting.

And for the next animal who will inevitably need us tomorrow.

We don't want to stop saying yes.

Please don't let money be the reason we have to.

DONATE • SHARE • SUPPORT • SAVE A LIFE
Ways to donate:

Gofundme https://t.co/8YpGnmLVM1

JustGiving –
https://t.co/S0MEWR11hV

(Please note the platform tip is optional — click “customise amount” to change it.)

PayPal –
[email protected]

Amazon wish list
https://t.co/uF7XiV1FVZ

Protected Paws Animal Rescue
Registered Charity No. 1202369

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@genesimmons Aww, Gene, so sweet! ❤️

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@FartyCheddarCat You're so right, Cheddar!

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@sweetgeorge84 I'm so sorry. Some people in this world need to learn to mind their own business!

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[🌻Samson Cat🐱 @MeowMiya88]

📢🇺🇸🗽🆘️🚨⏳️💔😿Please RT to find Finn #NYC #missingcat #lostcat #Queens #CatsOfTwitter #CatsOfX @HAPetRescuer