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Tammy and Socks

Heavenly Creatures!

The question is not’Can they reason?’,nor ‘Can they talk?’,but rather, ‘Can they suffer?'”
Jeremy Bentham, English Philosopher
[1748-1832]

Heavenly Creatures has been active since June of 2001 and started by Jessica Rendell because of her love for animals and helping those animals in need. Her and her group of volunteers and fosters have helped thousands over the years. Heavenly Creatures has had an active Facebook page for a number of years even though they have gone through much controversy. Jessica and her team have had much controversy over the years simply because they are in the public eye however this has never seemed to touch their Facebook page. I have followed their page on Facebook since I myself started fostering cats for them in 2009.

Social Media has had a very positive impact on helping heavenly creatures raise money to care for the many animals that they have in their care. Heavenly creatures continuously uses Facebook to update any of the current issues they have regarding cats and dogs. They post for food drives, adoptions,auctions and most especially for injured cats needing medical help. I have seen so much positivity regarding people donating money to these unfortunate animals to help in their care that it warms my heart. In 2010 I fostered two cats, Tammy and Socks and they never got adopted mostly because they wanted them to go together because the cats were so close. I still have these two cats today but two years ago Tammy developed an issue with her teeth. She had to get them all extracted and I could not afford the surgery. I called upon Heavenly Creature to see if they could help. Jessica posted it on Facebook that she had a cat that was once a Heavenly Creature cat that needed help. I was amazed at the amount of support that came pouring in. In a number of hours the money was raised and Tammy was booked for surgery. No one even asked any questions regarding the issues with Tammy, they just sent money. Social media in this respect was truly amazing and very rewarding especially for Tammy.Today ,Tammy is a healthy ,toothless ,orange female cat that loves everyone she comes in contact with.