· BREAKING🚨 A volunteer at a Queens cat rescue found a carrier abandoned on the porch with a note: "I am in the process of being deported." Mia, a tabby, sat in that carrier on the porch of Puppy Kitty NYCity for about six hours before a volunteer arrived on a Sunday morning and carried her inside. The note said Mia doesn't get along with other cats, that she loves Churu treats, and that she might have bladder problems. "She was losing everything, and she was still trying to protect the little life that depended on her," the rescue wrote. Apart from the bladder tests, Mia checked out healthy. She is also terrified and shut down, and the group holding her is an all-volunteer rescue in Middle Village that takes in more than 900 animals a year, which means she is now surrounded by hundreds of other cats. The exact thing her owner wrote the note to prevent. They are trying to get her into a quiet foster home as fast as they can. Staff say Mia will most likely never see her family again. She is one of thousands nobody is counting. In Los Angeles County, dog surrenders to shelters more than tripled in the fourth week of June last year. St. Paul Animal Services logged a 38% increase in stray, seized and relinquished cats and dogs in January 2026 compared with January 2025, as ICE ran Operation Metro Surge through the Twin Cities. In Tampa Bay, the nonprofit Mercy Full Project has taken in record numbers of animals left behind by families forced out of the country. "ICE doesn't have a social work department. There's nobody to come and get those animals," said Melissa Behrens, a volunteer with the St. Paul rescue Pet Haven. "The people bringing them in are neighbors, family, friends, those who know the house is now empty, but remember there's an animal there." If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here