Chirpy’s Allies

02/11/2024

💔 Maggie update 💔

Maggie’s bloods came back last night and didn’t show the best results sadly 💔

Maggie has something called Protein Losing Enteropathy, which might not be treatable. This means that her intestines are not working as they should and are losing protein rather than allowing her body to absorb it and gain weight. Cats need a very high protein diet as natural carnivores, so this is a major issue.

A few things could have caused this, but her horrendous worm burden may likely be the root cause. Other things such as cancer, other parasites, immune system issues and general intestinal upset can also cause this condition.

The only way to 100% say what the cause is or was, would be to biopsy a part of her intestine which she’s not physically strong enough to go through at the moment. She is literally skin and bone.

The plan for now is to treat her and aim to help her put weight on. If later down the line she can have a biopsy and needs one, we may explore this.

So today she’s had a long lasting antibiotic injection, steroid injection and a vitamin B12 injection, along with some other vitamins to aid her body to recover. We’ve also bought her a low fat, high protein cooked diet along with a hydrolysed protein kibble. The hydrolysed protein will allow her intestines to absorb more protein effectively.

Her food in total was £70 and her treatment so far is over £600.

If Maggie continues to deteriorate over the next 2 weeks on this treatment and specialist food, the prognosis is extremely poor 😢💔

I’m obviously beyond devastated but I’m investing every single thing I can, including my own money, to get her right. What makes me sick to my stomach is that her so called owners allowed this girl to get in this horrendous state.

The owners of Maggie actually came forward 2 days after she came to me. They got aggressive with the lady who found Maggie who came to us for help, wrote a facebook status accusing me of stealing their ‘healthy’ cat, making threats of police action and then when I went to them directly with all these issues she has and the current vet bill, they blocked me. I’m at a point now where I don’t care to share that and I will openly say that should they want her back they will need to take me to court because no way am I allowing her to return to someone who left her like this.

We need your help to keep helping animals like Maggie, but Maggie in particular will need constant funding if she recovers. So please, even £1 helps. Thank you so much to our loyal supporters for making this possible. My heart is broken for this old lady but we are fighting so hard to get her right. She is currently loving life, cuddles up in her radiator bed with lots of yummy food and love. Her face might look grumpy but she’s the happiest little cat ever ❤️

PayPal: [email protected]
Bank transfer: Chirpys Allies
Sort code: 30-99-50
Account number: 59913363

31/10/2024

It’s been a busy day for the cats in our care!! And an expensive one! 😅

First off, little Lennie (who came in at the same time as Bear, yes we’ve kept him quiet because of his breed) had his fiv / felv test and microchip today. He had it super rough when he first came into rescue with a really bad worm burden. He’s now fit and well and tested negative for fiv and FeLV! Great news… his foster mum and dad might be keeping him, but if he does go up for rehoming we’ll post him soon… 💛

Next up the 2 newbies that I stayed up until 5am trapping went to get some strong worm and flea treatment. They’ve got a bad case of worms and fleas, so we wanted the strong stuff from the vets and a good check over… They behaved really well and hopefully will be feeling better soon. Once they’re fit and well we’ll be back for neutering, chip and fiv/FeLV test 🖤

Last but certainly not least was Maggie Moo, more bloods today to check for hyperthyroidism - she’s improved a fair bit in her condition but she’s continuing to lose weight and is being sick every now and then. If the vet is right in her suspicions about hyperthyroidism, poor Maggie will need treatment for the rest of her life. I’m hoping it’s something we can at least treat, and not something more sinister but we’ll know more tomorrow / Monday 💔 I love her so much, the neglect she’s suffered makes me so angry. I’m still completely disgusted.

In total today’s vet bill was £324… all made possible with your support. Thank you!

Please consider donating to us to keep us going ❤️ we genuinely rely on it so much.

PayPal: [email protected]
Bank transfer: Chirpys Allies
Sort code: 30-99-50
Account number: 59913363

30/10/2024

People often ask us, do you still do birds? And the answer is yes!! Of course!! We do all sorts of animals but birds and cats have become the main things we do (hilarious we know) 🤣

Pigeons in particular are genuinely one of my favourite animals. Not only do we have an aviary for disabled and wilding up birds, but we also have a hospital shed with 8 isolation units for birds receiving treatment / recovering from injury.

At the moment we have 12 pigeons on medication / recovering in our hospital and have about 20 pigeons in the aviary. We have some ready for release this weekend (I’ll try to remember to film it, because I always forget 🤣)!

We also have our beautiful Hen sanctuary for sick, abandoned and unwanted hens. They live their life out there and receive the very best care from Becca and Fonz.

So yes, we do still do birds - they’re where this all started and will always be the heart of Chirpy’s 🕊️

30/10/2024

‼️Closed to new animals until further notice‼️

Unfortunately the issue I had with my car this week when taking Maggie to the vets is going to cost me £1500 minimum, and that’s if it’s fixable. If it’s not fixable once the car has been stripped down further it will need a new engine at approx £3500 which is money I just don’t have. Beyond stressed! 💔

Unfortunately both myself and Fonz/Becca are having car issues at present, so getting about is a real issue at the moment.

Of course we still have lots of animals in our care so your ongoing support is appreciated but we can’t add to our work load any further for now.

Thank you for your understanding X

30/10/2024

How can we we have had no interest in this gorgeous pair…

Tiger and Rocky are such beautiful little boys! They’re super affectionate and love to play… they just need a home to call their own. They’re lucky to be alive after almost being drowned… so we need to find them an extra special home 💔

📍Doncaster
✅ Microchipped
✅ Fiv / Felv negative
✅ Neutered

Preferably they need an indoor home, even better if it’s got a cat proof garden / cattio.

Get in touch to enquire! ❤️

29/10/2024

🙏🏼 We urgently need foster homes for some of the cats in our care… could you help? All costs covered by rescue…

You just need a secure room away from other pets and ideally be able to drive in case of emergency vets.

Please contact us if you can help 🙏🏼❤️

28/10/2024

Well, today has been eventful, long, awful and sad. All mixed in equal measure. Sorry to be all doom and gloom! But I’ll share the bad days as well as the good.

Maggie was due back at the vets for a follow up but we broke down on the A1 and ended up sat on the hard shoulder (which was an incredibly small hard shoulder) for 3 hours… my car is currently beyond dead and in the garage. I’m praying it’s going to be an easy, cheap and quick fix 😢

Maggie’s appointment has been moved to later in the week when I’m hopefully back up and running. She’s doing okay at the moment so they’re not concerned about the delay in seeing her.

Once I got home, I took an Uber to grab our other car to take 2 birds down to our bird vet in Newark. Thank you Tom and my Mum for letting me massively inconvenience you both today, and for helping me get about without my car…

Sadly today we had to end the suffering of 2 birds 💔

The first was Tony the baby feral pigeon who was saved from a derelict building in Retford. He’s been under the incredible care of Steph at Pigeon are friends. This loss has hit Steph hard. She worked so hard to get this baby well 💔 thank you Steph for all you do, you’re such a beautiful human.

The second bird we had to say goodbye to was Phoenix, one of our sanctuary hens. Phoenix came from the most awful farm, with no love, care or basic welfare needs met. She lived in a dark, dirty, disgusting barn until she was saved with several others by my partners in rescue Fonz and Becca...

Phoenix lived at our hen sanctuary for the past few years and has had the most incredible life with Fonz and Becca - I’m thinking of them both tonight as I know this loss will hit them hard. Thank you both for all you do to help give hens a second chance. Chickens and cockerels are by far one of the most neglected and abused animals in our country. So many people see them as disposable creatures but they are so clever and have the most incredibly personalities.

Rest in peace Tony and Phoenix… thank you for showing us this beautiful rainbow only moments after you passed. Forever in our hearts, to us you meant the world 🌈🌈😢

28/10/2024

‼️EMERGENCY FOSTER APPEAL‼️

Bit of a rescue mission last night that lasted up to 4:30am … one we weren’t meant to be involved in. Famous last words…

2 kittens on an industrial estate, mother believed to be dead. The first was caught on Friday by someone else and 1 left behind - obviously I needed to go and try and catch this remaining kitten now living under an office by itself. Only, the kitten I was told about didn’t go in… an all black one went in… so… back I went to try and catch a black and white kitten and luckily by 4:30 this morning it was in the trap.

But I now urgently need foster space for them, they’re approx 9 weeks old, not feral at all but very scared. They’ve not hissed once and let me pick them up out of the cage. All funds paid for by rescue.

Please share and please contact us if you can help!

• Must have a space for them that is secure and away from other resident animals.
• Ideally able to drive although not essential

‼️ Thank you ‼️

26/10/2024

Do what makes you happy in life, believe in yourself and make it happen. Even if it’s hard work and feels impossible… I would never have thought sharing about little Chirpy over 2.5 years ago would have led to something as great as Chirpy’s Allies…

I think about where we’d like to be as a rescue, and how it feels like a million miles away - but we’re a million miles from where we started… so we’ll keep going, we’ll keep pushing forward, and with your help we’ll continue to help animals and grow as a rescue.

If you want to get involved in anyway, helping us run fundraising, the page, fostering, transport… just get in touch… your help means the world to us.

❤️🦆🕊️🐭🐹🪶🐦🐱🐾🦢🐰🐥🐦‍⬛🐶❤️

25/10/2024

❤️Maggie Update❤️

It’s been 1 week since Maggie came into our care and what a week it’s been. Along side our usual outgoings for the animals, Maggie’s vets fees are now just short of £500… 💔😿

To remind you of the issues old lady Maggie is facing, on arrival and after a vet visit, Maggie was confirmed to be suffering with the following:

• Flea infestation
• Lice
• Worm infestation / burden
• Flea allergy dermatitis which was infected in areas
• An extremely infected tail which the vet believes may have been bitten off
• Emaciated and overall poor body condition

Maggie has been back to the vets today as she’s continued to show signs of poor health.

Her tail is looking slightly better after a week of antibiotics but she’s got a long road ahead. It’s too short to correct with surgery but there are things we can do to keep it clean and promote healing. The infection has calmed somewhat which is a huge thing, but to fully heal will take weeks / months due to how it’s been left to get so badly infected.

Maggie has been suffering with D&V since having her wormer (the worms coming out of her have been horrendous). This could also indicate something more serious along side her overall poor health, so Maggie has had a full geriatric blood test and Fiv / FeLV bloods sent to the lab rather than a standard snap test. This is to definitively rule out FeLV which the vet recommended due to some of her symptoms.

We’ll know more once the results are back. She’s been prescribed some probiotics and gabapentin from the vets today too.

Maggie’s skin is feeling a little better in areas, where the skin is more exposed we’re applying a gentle cream to help promote healing. Like everything else, her skin will take weeks / months to fully recover.

She’s eating well, cooked chicken being her favourite… she is thoroughly enjoying the comfort of a loving home, which is quite obviously not something shes experienced in a long time ❤️

We hate to ask, but we are always in need of funds, and when cases like Maggie’s arise it uses our funds sometimes quicker than they come in 💔

Please consider donating, no donation is too small… it all adds up. You literally keep us going ❤️

PayPal: [email protected]
Bank transfer: Chirpys Allies
Sort code: 30-99-50
Account number: 59913363

Thank you so much x

24/10/2024

Please consider supporting this brilliant little rescue, Steph works so hard along side being a full time mummy to her toddler… ❤️

24/10/2024

Not a single application for this gorgeous boy… 😿

Monty is approximately 10 months old, and he is such an affectionate boy!

✅ Neutered
✅ Fiv / FeLV negative
✅ microchipped

🏡 indoor home / home with cattio preferred.

Message to enquire 😻

24/10/2024

💸HOW TO DONATE AND SUPPORT US💸

We recently moved vets so had to delete the old version of this.

Due to the different animals in our care we use more than one vet - as they all bring our animals brilliant care in different ways and with different areas of expertise. You can donate directly to our vets by ringing them and asking to pay credit onto the Chirpy’s Allies rescue account.

Thank you so much for the ongoing support everyone! ❤️

23/10/2024

Amazing support from this fantastic organisation… thank you so much ❤️ some much needed funds directly to our vets! ❤️

What a fantastic way to start the week!!!!!
We’ve just donated our bank balance. Our total now tops £42,000.00 👏👏👏👏

This is where your money has gone on this occasion:
❤️ Jane B Trap, Neuter Release (Rotherham area)
❤️ Noah’s Ark Pet Rescue (Doncaster)
❤️ Watermeadows Hedgehogs (Sheffield)
❤️ Chirpys Nest (Doncaster)
❤️ 4 The Love of Cats (Rotherham)
❤️ TAK Pony Rescue (Kiveton)
❤️ Radar Rescue (Barnsley)
❤️ Royston Animal Rescue (Barnsley)
❤️ Save A Stray (Rotherham area)
❤️ Oakvalley Hedgehogs (Sheffield)
❤️ Cavy Corner Guinea Pig Rescue (Doncaster)
❤️ Andrea’s Bunny’s (Sheffield)
❤️ Adoptapaws (Rotherham area)
❤️ Rachel’s S35 Cats (Sheffield)
❤️ Rain Rescue (Rotherham)
❤️ Buttons Cat Rescue (Barnsley)

This is a fabulous a achievement, one that couldn’t ever happen without your help too 👏👏👏

A few years ago, our aim was to help a few of the smaller animal charities, helping them to make life a little easier for the fur babies in their care. 🐕🦔🐎🐢🫏🦡🐈🐶
Now, several years later we are certainly doing this. We never underestimate the help from our supporters.
Our unseen army of donators of fruit and veg, the people that leave sugar, jars, fruit on our doorstep. Our very loyal followers, some that come to most of our events to continually buy our products. In fact, everyone that has ever helped in any way…we salute every single one of you. We truly do.

We will continue to make and sell until the end of November, then we will be taking the whole of December off. We need a little breather and a little “us” time before picking up the jam pan again in January 2025.
So, if you are wanting any supplies for Christmas 🤶, make sure to get them early.

Our next outing is on Sunday at Banner Cross, Sheffield.

23/10/2024

I wanted to pop a quick post up regarding the funds for Matilda. We have so many animals in our care, so would like to repurpose the funds in Matilda’s memory to help our other animals. Of course if you would like your donation returning we can look at sorting this so please do get in touch - if not we thank you for your support and assure you that any funds will go directly towards the others in our care 💔

23/10/2024

We are desperate for fosters 🙏🏼😞

23/10/2024

🖤🤎🧡 Some great news for Amber! 🧡🤎🖤

Amber has gone to her new home, and what a lovely home it is!! 🥰

She’s gone to live as an only cat with her new owner Nigel… she’s settled in right away and is loving life exploring her new home and getting all of the love!!

I’ll miss this girl loads, she is genuinely the sweetest little cat ever! But I know she has the purrrrfect forever home now!! Have the best life Ambs 🧡🤎🖤

21/10/2024

Two weeks ago today Becca and Wes from our Maltby sanctuary went on a road trip to Penrith from Rotherham with 9 boys in tow to meet the wonderful Alexis from The Maggie Fleming Animal Hospice and The Karass Sanctuary which is now their forever home 🏡🐔❤️

This rescue mission started by taking in 17 abadoned chickens which included 5 boys at the end of September that weren’t in the best condition. Please see photos to see the severity of Sylvester’s scaly leg mite infestation 😢

Unfortunately we don’t have the facilities to keep boys at present (something we are hoping will change in the future) so we reached out to the amazing Amanda from FPC Poultry Rescue UK who helped us find them a loving forever home.
Amanda also appealed for help with transport for the boys and by doing so we were lucky enough to meet a lovely lady called who went out of her way driving for hours not only once but twice to help these boys- such a special lady❤️

Amanda works non stop scooping up these poor innocent unloved boys that have been dumped and by the time we were ready to make the journey to Penrith we had 9 boys that had been rescued from death and were on the way to a much brighter future 🥰

We couldn’t have done this without everyone playing their part in this rescue mission. Thank you to Alexis and the team, Amanda fpc poultry rescue and Julie coope you are all amazing 👏🏻🌟

21/10/2024

🎃 Halloween draw!! 🎃

Our winner for Hamper 1 is my brilliant rescue buddy Emma Quinn who runs Windy Ridge Bird Rescue!! Amazing 🖤

I’ll get this over to you asap my love congratulations and enjoy the spooky hamper!! 👻

20/10/2024

💫💛✨AMAZON WISH LIST✨ 💛💫

We’ve been asked so many times about an Amazon wish list for the rescue and we’ve finally managed to start to put one together 😊

We would be so grateful if anyone feels they are able to make a purchase from our list to help the animals currently in our care and the ones we are yet to rescue ❤️🤞🏻

Every purchase would help us so much as any funds donated to us could then go towards paying our ever growing vets billls 💸

Thank you for continuing to support the animals
🐦‍⬛🦆🐱🐰🐔🐦🦔

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19/10/2024

✨Grumpy face Maggie Update ✨

Although her face is grumpy, she is so happy and appreciative of the care she is receiving…

This poor girl is in such a bad condition, it’s unreal. This is a genuine welfare case, so if you do know the owner please get in touch as I will be pushing things further on welfare grounds. This cat has been left to suffer for YEARS.

• Maggie is around 11 years old
• She is infested with worms and fleas.
• She has has a terrible skin infection from the flea allergy which covers her entire body.
• Her fur is falling out from the condition of her skin.
• Her tail is badly infected and may need further treatment once she’s had 2 weeks on antibiotics.
• She’s emaciated which is hard to see as she’s got very fuzzy long fur, but under that fuzzy fur is the smallest, weakest frame.

She’s had an antibiotic injection, pain relief, flea and worm spot on and is under strict rest and feeding advice from the vets. She’s being seen again in 2 weeks to reassess things and possibly do a blood test if she’s not put the expected amount of weight on due to a concern of hyperthyroidism, the vet has said he wants to see if she puts some weight on first though.

This poor girl is in such a bad condition, I am APPALLED that someone has left their animal to suffer like this.

Thank you so much for the support from everyone. You make helping animals like Maggie possible.

PayPal: [email protected]
Bank transfer: Chirpys Allies
Sort code: 30-99-50
Account number: 59913363

❤️

18/10/2024

💔😭 We need you help 😭💔

This case is heart breaking… we do not know where this beautiful little girl has come from, posts have been shared in the local area (Doncaster) but there has been no response from a potential owner. She is also not chipped. This girl is in such a bad state I doubt any potential owner will get in touch, through the shame of her condition.

This poor girl was found earlier today wandering around on her own, her tail is in an horrendous condition, she is skin and bone, her fur is thin, her skin is scabbed up and dirty. It’s a heart breaking sight, we couldn’t say no although funds are so tight 😢

She had been bathed in gentle flea shampoo, has had some food, is cuddled up in a nice warm blanket and comfy bed.

She is going to the vets in the morning after speaking to several cat experts and rescues who have all said she won’t need to see a vet this evening, if anything changes we will of course take her to be seen.

Please if you can spare even £1 consider us for a donation. We couldn’t say no to helping this girl, the circumstances were desperate and unfortunately other rescues are full to bursting too 😢

PayPal: [email protected]
Bank transfer: Chirpys Allies
Sort code: 30-99-50
Account number: 59913363

I will post an update in the morning… please keep this poorly girl in your thoughts.

Thank you… 💔😢

18/10/2024

Please share… one last push as we will draw tomorrow… ###x