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Please help Pepsi's kitten and cat friends from our accidental, kitten/cat rescue(ish). We're in dire need of food, litter and supplies.
Hi!
My name's Emily from South Texas. My son, daughter and I have been fostering kittens and cats and doing tnr for about 6-7 years.
It tentatively began with a 1 yr old cat named Monkey, who we adopted from a shelter. He was the sweetest, black cat and he taught us how wonderful shelter cats are, and also taught us about unconditional love.
Monkey lived to the ripe old age of 15. His passing was truly 💔 heartbreaking.
About 2 years before Monkey passed, a gray-brown tabby we began to call CATrina, suddenly brought her litter to our patio after we began feeding her.
Unfortunately, when Catrina's kittens were pre-teens, the litter was killed by a pack of stray dogs, except for Lynx and Mittens.
A kind neighbor tnr'd Catrina and Mittens, but Lynx hadn't been caught, so she soon became pregnant.
We tried to tame Lynx but it was difficult. Luckily, I was able to get her indoors a couple of hours before she went into labor, and she had 6 kittens.
We kept the babies in our laundry room to keep them safe and tame them. Lynx wasn't thrilled, but she would grudgingly come inside to care for her precious brood.
I learned about tnr from the most wonderful, amazing person who has devoted her life to rescueing cats.
So, Lynx and her babies were tnr'd and 4 babies found homes from another person who runs local adoption events, and we kept 2 baby sisters, Peaches and Daisy.
Eventually, my mother adopted Peaches and Daisy and they became quite spoiled.
The years went by and we continued to tnr the neighborhood cats and/or dumped strays, though more slowly due to my health problems. We rescued a pregnant calico from the streets and named her, "Pepsi". She had 3 kittens we intended to adopt out, "Sprite, Rootbeer" and "Fanta" (boy). These were our foster fails.
Unfortunately, my auto-immune diseases and other medical conditions kept getting worse, and although I didn't expect to, I had to stop working in April 2023. Financially speaking, it's been quite rough.
Currently am applying for disability but that will take several years before "possibly" getting approved.
In the meantime, the feral kittens and cats in my area haven't stopped needing help. In fact their needs seem greater than ever.
At this time, our current kittens and cats are in dire need of cat litter and food. We are also greatly lacking supplies, such as kmr, bottles and dewormer and many other things.
We currently have 4 foster fails, 2 outdoor ferals who transitioned to indoor cats, 1 socialized feral kitten that will be placed in a home soon, 3 semi-social feral kittens that need human contact to become tame, and 2 feral kittens who were neutered yesterday.
Yesterday, we released a neutered adult male and a neutered kitten back to their neighborhood.
My human family is struggling with food insecurity, but the cats are not at fault for these circumstances. Thank you, kindly for your consideration.
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I don't know why I couldn't post a pic before this, must be my phone. These are the 3 new babies from this am. Excuse the not so pretty background. They're still scared and hiding.
Thank you so much! I'm going to try to post a pic of the 3 new babies that came in this morning. They're semi-feral, so we want to get them familiar with humans so they can be adopted out.
Oh, and sorry for the unfortunate background, lol.
first time doing this, sorry to ask: how do i know if someone already bought something off the list?
There is a pop up saying "someone reccently bought this" but some items say "we need 2"?
All the cats and kittens are beautiful! Thank you for caring for them! Is there something on your wishlist that you need more? Let me know. Keep us updated as well!
Hi! A few of you asked if there was anything we might be needing, and there is.
We very badly need a safe, indoor kitten enclosure.
I worry that they will injure themselves in a bathroom, even with precautions taken. Kittens can get into all kinds of mischief, especially at night!
There are 2 different ones on the wishlist, so that there are 2 different price ranges.
These enclosures are specifically made for kittens and cats vs. a standard dog cage.
I don't know if anyone can swing this, but just wanted to let you know.
The electrolyte replacement powder is helping Kit-Kat! She's about 10 weeks old, former feral who has been kind of down lately.
She had been living with her 3 feral (but tamed by us) cousins in my bathroom for about 1 month. All the kittens were neutered 2 weeks ago, and after about 4 days of recovery, they (3 cousins) went with my contact at SAFCC (San Antonio Feral Cat Coalition) so that they can be placed for adoption.
All 4 lost a little weight after surgery and deworming, so Kit-Kat's cousins are currently living with my SAFCC contact so they can gain a little weight and get probiotics before adoption. I've been giving Kit-Kat probiotics and monitoring her closely.
Saturday, she seemed to be drinking less, so yesterday afternoon when the electrolyte powder arrived, it was a godsend.
I stayed up til about 4am holding her and giving her the kitten lyte every 15-20 min.
She's much livelier today and eating and drinking a little more, now.
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