A photo of Mamoa the cat recovering from the Maui fires in August.Photo:FieldHaven Feline Center
FieldHaven Feline Center
Mamoa the cat has endured a distressing past few months and is now paw steps away from the happy ending he deserves.
A photo of Mamoa after he survived the Maui fires.FieldHaven Feline Center
Maui Humane Societygave the cat the temporary name L557. The rescue then posted on social media looking for the pet’s owners, assuming the well-socialized feline was a former housecat, not a feral feline.
A woman named Diane saw the post, walked into the rescue, and showed the shelter’s staff a picture of the cat, whom she and her husband called Mamoa. She said he regularly visited her backyard before the Maui fires to receive food and attention. Diane and her husband couldn’t provide a permanent home for Mamoa, per FieldHaven Feline Center’s Facebook post, so she signed off on Maui Humane Society putting the cat up for adoption.
A photo of Mamoa taken before the Maui fires.FieldHaven Feline Center
“She, and her husband, had a misty-eyed reunion with Mamoa, sharing photos before and after the fire. In place of his sparkling white fur, which he so meticulously kept clean, was a nearly solid grey cat. Remarkably, not even a whisker was singed, despite their neighborhood being completely obliterated.” FieldHaven Feline Center wrote on Facebook about Diane’s reunion with the cat.
Determined to help the well-loved but homeless Mamoa find a family, a FieldHaven Feline Center rescuer working with Maui Humane Society brought the cat to the center in Lincoln, California.
Mamoa the cat meeting his foster family in Sacramento.FieldHaven Feline Center
“We will find him just the right home with a family who will cherish him as much as his Maui one did,” the animal welfare group shared.
Rescues and companies nationwide assisted animals displaced in the Maui wildfires. In August, PEOPLE reported thatSouthwest Airlines provided a planeto transport emergency care to people and pets. The aircraft returned with more than 130 shelter pets from the Maui Humane Society to be adopted out in the mainland U.S.
source: people.com
