07/24/2026
🚧🐱 From a Construction Site to a Second Chance… ❤️
Sometimes the best stories start in the most unexpected places.
The crew from Mazanec Construction, currently working on the new addition at La Vega High School, had a tiny visitor wander onto their job site. Instead of ignoring the little kitten or hoping someone else would help, these guys did what good people do—they made sure the kitten was safe, loved on him (and trust me, it was pretty adorable seeing a bunch of construction workers completely wrapped around this tiny furball’s paw 😄), and reached out asking if there was anything Bellmead Animal Control could do to help.
That’s where one of Bellmead’s true unsung heroes stepped in🌟⭐️✨🤩💫
💜 Marie Mendoza, who runs the Our Bellmead Foster/Rescue Community page, has quietly been changing lives for years! For more than 8 years, Marie has served as a neonatal kitten foster for Bellmead, opening her home—and her heart—to some of the most vulnerable kittens imaginable.
What many people don’t see is the endless work happening behind the scenes. Marie is one of those incredible people leading the charge for our local feline community through fostering, rescue, and support for TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return) efforts. While others may look the other way, she’s bottle-feeding newborns at all hours of the night, nursing sick kittens back to health, and giving countless cats a chance they otherwise wouldn’t have!❤️❤️
Sadly, people have even dumped kittens and cats over her fence because they know she’ll help them. That says a lot about the kind of heart she has…but it also shows how much our community relies on people like her.
And we can’t leave out her husband! Every superhero has a sidekick 🦸♀️🦸♂️ but in this case he’s much more than that. He’s right there beside Marie every step of the way, helping care for the kittens, cleaning, feeding, transporting, and doing whatever needs to be done. They truly are a team, and Bellmead is incredibly lucky to have both of them.
So today, I had the privilege of picking up this little construction-site kitty from the Mazanec crew and delivering him to Marie and her husband, where he’ll be safe, cared for, and given the chance to find the loving forever home he deserves.
❤️ Thank you to the amazing crew at Mazanec Construction for showing that compassion isn’t limited to the job site.
❤️ Thank you to Marie and her husband for proving, day after day, that one family really can make an incredible difference in the community.
Our community is stronger because of people like you.