2024-01-08 22:00:00
A month-old kitten rescued from the street chases her around the house meowing. It’s time to eat. A few days ago, the little one began to feed himself and learned to use the bottle of milk that Evangelina gives him with dedication every two hours..
“He immediately turns upside down because he likes to be picked up like a baby,” said Evangelina González, member of the group “Huellas Callejeras” from Roca. Before she used the syringe to feed him, now she learned to suck.
It doesn’t have a name yet, the cat is in transit and sick. As soon as he recovers, they will look for a family to adopt him. He belonged to a feral colony in Roca and all of his little brothers died. A rescuer found him and he survived. She took charge of housing him and caring for him in her house. With the necessary dedication and time, he will get ahead.
Evangelina is 31 years old, she is a mother, an employee and has a great family. He lives with his partner, four children, and four dogs and six cats were added in recent years. A large yard allows her to open her heart to these ten animals and give them the best she has. “All the animals I have are rescues,” she said.
“At most I had 14 at a time between cats and dogs,” counted, between their own and those who were in transit. For six years he has been dedicated to animal protectionism in addition to his daily work in a real estate agency.
From the patio, barks and grumbles Athena, a dog who suffers from TBT, a tumor. He doesn’t let anyone touch him. She is very aggressive and they can no longer give her adequate treatment, no one adopted her either and that is why Evangelina has been taking care of her for some time. She patiently takes care of her and tries to create a bond.
Your objective as part of the group is rescue, protection, castration and responsible adoption. They communicate through social networks with veterinary professionals and with the Municipality of Roca. They detect stray animals, if they don’t have owners they see who can rescue them, and they take them to the veterinarian, then they look for ways to pay them for their work.
“I went little by little. First I brought a kitten, I helped it. More than anything with the cats at the beginning because I lived in an apartment and it is easier because the space they need is less,” he said.
When they ask him why he does itEva can’t help but remember her childhood cat, Antú. “I found her at the school entrance,” he recalled. It was a before and after, because she was previously afraid of cats. “She was the only cat I had for a long time,” she summarized.
A lot of volunteer work and dedication
““It takes you 50% of the day to take care of them, feed them, take them to the vet,” responded after the consultation of Diario RIO NEGRO. The vast majority of animals in transit are sick or injured, depending on the case. All this work is unconditional, because nothing is expected in return. There is no financial remuneration.
There are people who always give transit, but it is difficult because there are several cases in which the “transients” want to stay with the animals. “We because with so many animals, we know that another one is going to appear and we need the place”explained the young woman.
“When I was younger I had to go to the canalito and give up puppies for adoption.“I had found it on the street because social networks were not used at that time,” he recalled.
From Their group “Huellas Callejeras” began with talks in schools in 2023 to raise awareness about responsible ownership and castrations. “Now there is early castration starting at four months and we always try to insist on that, which is the main thing to avoid the overpopulation of animals,” explained Evangelina.
A great human chain
Protectionism consists of a large human chain of animal rescue, care and welfare, in which several actors usually intervene: rescuers, veterinarians, transit houses, collaborators, with money and all kinds of resources. Social networks are a space for addressing the emergency, for information and dissemination so that “the cases” advance.
Some fThey form groups and others prefer to work alone. In Roca, they are all women except for one man.
In the city “Almas felinas” is in charge of capturing cats in feral colonies with trap cages to be able to castrate them with the help of the municipality, in this way returning them to the place to guarantee a balance of the species.
“The work that all groups do is obviously non-profit. It’s hard for people to understand it because generally it’s like they think we do this and someone pays us,” Evangelina questioned.
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