Justice is Served

This precious little creature is "Sweetnik." My girlfriend and I rescued her from a neighbor. This neighbor has a history of making bad pet decisions. She had a cat in the past that had a broken leg and she wouldn't take care of it so another neighbor had to adopt it. She got a dog when she knew that the landlord didn't allow them and my girlfriend helped her out by introducing her to another friend who adopted that dog. She got another puppy and had to do the same. Said neighbor had taken custody of this tiny kitten before she should have been taken from her mother. Said neighbor then failed to provide proper care and allowed fluffy kitten to get pregnant before she was a year old. Cute cuddly ball of love then began to suffer from mastitis with a section of her belly about 3" X 3" having gone necrotic and having milk drip from the wound. On April 1 of this year, I saw the state of the animal and couldn't take it any more so I took her to a pet emergency room where it was determined that the kittens were too big inside of her (there were only 3, but she was so tiny to begin with...) and her organs were shutting down. And of course, she was rife with infection. Sadly, the kittens were not born breathing and no attempt was made to resuscitate them. I cried, but knew that the mommy was too sick to care for them. The dead and dying tissue on her belly was left so that she could heal from the inside out and she was on antibiotics for a month. Now, despite the inability to share space with my bratty dog, she is fully recovered and very special.

Now, back to the idiot who let her fall into such ill health. The SPCA charged her with criminal neglect, she turned down their first offer to pay the vet bills (she said that if she paid the bill, she wanted the cat back and they said no way.) and ended up going to court to face the criminal charges. She lost and was ordered by the court to pay me for the over $1600 vet bill, PLUS a $500 fine to the SPCA PLUS court costs. Well, I don't know if I can count on ever seeing the money, but at least she was deemed guilty of neglect by an officer of the court. Yay. I only hope she doesn't get any more pets because now she's moving and we won't be able to see if she screws up again and her new neighbors won't know to look out for that.