Adoptee #: 10931
Name: Loretta
Sex: Female
Birthday:
Status: Crossed the Rainbow Bridge
Location: FurryTales Foster
Date departed: 2026-01-06
On the evening of January 6th, we had to say a heartbreaking goodbye to Loretta.
Loretta was found dumped in a box on farmland, left to fend for herself. To the person who left her there: this is the reality of your choice. Indoor cats do not “figure it out” in the wild. They don’t just “become barn cats.” They suffer, and they die.
The kind souls who found her on their property did everything right—they brought her into the warmth and tried to feed her—but the damage was already done. By the time she reached us, she was unable to eat enough to save herself. It was already too late.
Loretta arrived in care severely dehydrated and dangerously anemic. Because she had been without food for so long, her body began breaking down its own fat stores too quickly, leading to Hepatic Lipidosis (Fatty Liver Disease). Essentially, her liver was overwhelmed and failing.
She was only four points away from needing a blood transfusion, but we were caught in a cruel medical paradox: if we corrected her dehydration, her anemia would have worsened to a fatal level. Her body was simply too far gone to be saved. This didn’t happen because of a “natural” illness—it happened because she was abandoned.
This is a living, breathing being. You cannot simply dump a cat outside and hope for the best. Even when they are found by kind people, the physical toll of starvation and exposure is often too much for their small bodies to overcome.
Loretta knew only love, soft blankets, and warmth in her final moments with us, but her story should have been so much longer. It didn’t have to end this way.
Rest in peace beautiful Loretta.