Fur Paws Sake NZ

31/10/2025

STORMFLY

Female
1 year
Fostered in Avondale
Desexed, chipped, regoed, parasite free + 30 days free pet insurance

Stormy girl was surrendered sock to a vet as a bubba and had a rough ride to today. She struggled with a bad flu which has caused damage to her right tear duct. This ongoing irritating means she has a slightly weepy right eye at times. Her vision is perfect however!

Stormfly is such a gentle and sweet girl. She causes no trouble, just wants to collect scratches and pats. Stormfly loves the heat pad and is quite cruisy, she doesn’t mind a cuddle but doesn’t know about being a lap cat yet. She will perform when she wants lots of pats, rolling herself inside out in the most obvious places so you MUST stop for attention time.

Stormfly isn’t great with new people but will do anything for treats! She would be fine with another cat or 2 and older kids is best. She has been exposed to a very calm cat friendly dog.

To meet Stormfly please message us. Note that adequate completion of an adoption questionnaire and a fee of $125 applies.

30/10/2025

FOSTERERS NEEDED FOR THE FOLLOWING:

- shy but cuddleable tabby and white 1 year old

- tame mum and 6 newborn kittens

- lovely lil lady left behind by owners who moved to CHCH

- a whooooole bunch of these spices from the spice rack

We provide all resources and cover all vet costs!
Message us if keen, we super need a foster for the tabby and white and black kitty.

(Photos in order)

29/10/2025

Get hyped South Auckland!!

More affordable desex heading your way in Jan.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1G3HjGjvLf/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Part of the Mog and Dog Desexing Clinic Whangarei & Lynfield Vets Family
Affordable, caring desexing for cats and dogs in Auckland.
Opening mid-late January 2026

25/10/2025

EDITH

Female
2 years old
Fostered in Avondale
Desexed, chipped, registered, 1st vax, parasite free + 30 days free pet insurance

Edith is a honey from a Papatoetoe site who has been living rough for a bit.

This super smooch is all positive vibes! Edith is a cuddly girl who adores human attention and vibes well with other cats. She is a calm girl, but recently has been bapping a ball around and sometimes get a whack on the nose for being too forward with her foster friends when she wants a smooch!

Edith would be fine with sensible kids and other chill cats. She needs someone who can help her look after her lovely coat.

To meet Edith please message us. Note that adequate completion of an adoption questionnaire and a fee of $180 (1st vax) applies.

*Due to the large amount of enquiries about fluffy or fancy cats we are enable to answer all messages. You can improve your likelihood of a response by telling us what the 2nd letter in the 7th line is. *

25/10/2025

PEBBLES

Female
4 years
Fostered in Avondale
Desexed, chipped, registered, parasite free + 30 days free pet insurance

Pebs is an abandoned pet that a flat of students has been caring for for the past few years. The flat is disbanding and Pebbles needs to find a stable and proper home - if they can handle her!

Pebbles is bossy and noisy. She talks non stop, it’s not a super pleasant meow either if we are honest. But it matches her brash personality! She loves pats and scratches and someone chatting back to her. Pebbles will always tell you what she wants!

Pebs can be swipey if she doesnt get what she wants so older kids only. She would tolerate another calm cat that leaves her alone. She is not stoked about contained foster room life so needs a home with a bit of safe land she can conquer after her acclimatisation.

To meet Pebbles please message us. Note that adequate completion of an adoption questionnaire and a fee of $125 applies.

25/10/2025

What we’ve been up to:

Bottle feeding.
It is always best to keep babies and Mum together, however at this time of year the inevitable happens:

- a sick kitten or 2 left behind by Mum cos she knows something isn’t right

- someone has found kittens belonging to a stray Mum and taken them away

- a tame Mum has given birth and it’s not going right and interventions is needed

- a tame Mum has given birth and the the owners are overwhelmed and not keen on the responsibility

In any situation the best thing to do is to REACH OUT TO A RESCUE FOR HELP!

This is in caps because this season, like every other, there will be someone who has found a neonate or 2 and asks for advice on how to care for it and will refuse to hand it to someone who knows what to do.

Young neonates need feeding every 2 hours. Our 2 team leads can tube feed - this involves feeding a tiny tube into their stomachs to give formula and other medication. Vital for kittens that won’t latch to a bottle or affected by flu. If a kitten cant breathe through its nose it won’t latch and suckle to Mum or a bottle. We have an incubator with controlled temperature and humidity for the most critical.

Last week we got a skittish Mum and babies, she had been moving her newborns around and left one on the deck - something not quite right. She was trapped and brought into care. The fam were set up in a crate with a covered box and blankies, lots of food and a litter tray and the den covered up. In the morning she had hurt all 4 of them and then also the fosterer.

All 4 kittens died of infection. How do we know? Check out the hand and then the swollen leg of one of the babies with just a tiny puncture wound. Heating, abx, fluids and tube feeding didn’t make a difference.

Recently we have taught 2 fosterer homes keen for the challenge how to bottle feed, and recruited another one already savvy! Life savers, now they have happily weaned kittens nearly ready for desex.

We don’t often share photos of very small kittens because the public may see them think it’s cute and stress free and surely fine for their own cat to have a few litters. No biggie. So this post is one giant caveat for anyone who thinks tiny kittens are cute. Check out the fly eggs on nearly maggoty margaret.

If you’d like to help our Bottle feeding endeavours we would LOVE donations of RC kitten formula, Trixie bottle sets, puppy pads and wet wipes.

(Photos of current bottle babies and some sadness)

23/10/2025

ELLA - special needs adoption

Female
5 years
Missing a leg
Fostered in Takaanini
Desexed, chipped, regoed, parasite free + 30 days free pet insurance

Ella’s owners reached out to surrender her after their partners dogs had killed the other cat in the household. Knowing Ella would struggle to keep herself safe with only 3 legs she graciously did what was right for her. Ella lost her leg at 1 to gun shot.

All cats deserve the best life but Ella deserves the bestest. She’s been chased and frightened by dogs hunting her, shot and hit, suffered from awful flea dermatitis and then changed homes into foster.
And of course she’s a smoochy, cuddly, friendly wee angel who just loves people so much! This girl is a people cat. Ella needs a serene palace of her own and a family to spoil her and give her pats whenever she demands (which is often).

Ella needs a home with no dogs and is best as an only cat. She is with other cats but isn’t her best self around them. She gets flea allergy dermatitis but this is asymptomatic with regular treatment with proper flea treatment. Ella needs to be in an indoor only or contained household.

To meet Ella please message us. Note that adequate completion of an adoption questionnaire and a fee of $125 applies.

23/10/2025

BASTION - special needs adoption

Male
5 years
FIV+
Fostered in Takaanini
Desexed, chipped, registered + parasite free

Just another abandoned pet cat that showed up at a colony we are sorting. Bastion doesn’t think he’s ’just another cat’ though….

Should be called Scarface claw because he thinks he's the toughest tom in town. He will tell you about this in full while you lavish him with attention, the man doesnt shut up! Some cats love to mix and mingle with other feline friends, being social, playful and making friends wherever they go. Bastion is NOT one of those cats. He’s a people cat. Loves attention and pats but they must be ALL HIS and cannot be shared.

Bastion needs to be the only cat, no dogs. Older kids preferrable as he can be bossy.

Bastion is FIV+ which means he needs to be kept indoors/contained for his own safety. FIV is not nearly as severe as HIV so he can live a long and healthy life provided any health niggles are seen to ASAP.

To meet Bastion please message us. Note that adequate completion of an adoption questionnaire and a fee of $125 applies.

23/10/2025

Has a visit arranged

BABY

Female
2 years
Fostered in Takaanini
Desexed, chipped, regoed, parasite free + 30 days free pet insurance

Baby is a Mum cat from a site in Papatoetoe we are working on. She has lovely fluffy fur but malnutrition has got the best of her looks and her glow up has just begun!

Baby is a calm and gentle girl, she just wants to sit in a nice spot and collect pats from passersby. With her huge eyes and friendly soul she just had to be named Baby! She enjoys cuddles and pats and has relaxed nicely into pet life once again.

This sausage needs a zen home, older kids and other chill cats are fine. A calm, cat savvy dog is fine. Someone who can help her keep her coat tidy once it’s grown back in glorious is important.

To meet Baby please message us. Note that adequate completion of an adoption questionnaire and a fee of $125 applies.dee

22/10/2025

Hi all, some sad news.

Eleanor, the blind girl with renal issues found dodging cars on a north shore street was put to rest this morning.

Despite daily subcutaneous fluids, a special diet and lots of care and love she was not perking up as much as we hoped and we couldn’t see a good quality of life. Becoming blind later in life was a huge hurdle, she had 0 confidence and barely tried to navigate her XL crate or a foster room corner. There was not much toxin filtration from her kidneys. She was also losing hydration from persistant diarrhoea and her appetite disappeared.

Bottom line was when she started hissing when touched instead of purring.

She got moments of normal and comfortable life:
- cleaning herself for the first time in months after a shave, she got her white bits white again!
- treat tubes from her loving volunteers
- lots and lots of head and bum scratches
- contraband babycat mousse to encourage eating
- being cuddled and carried around the foster room like the precious little baby she is.

In the end with no appetite, low kidney function, no desire to explore and move and ongoing dehydration it was kinder to set her free. We really did try to get improvements, and we did see some for a time- but she was uncomfortable and her body too damaged.

These euthanasias are hard because we were so hands on trying to see if she would be one of our special needs superstars. Quality of life comes before our feelings every time.

Thank you so much to those who donated towards her care - money and resources! Every cent donated goes towards our animals, we don’t pay ourselves for anything including petrol so all donations are meaningful towards the cause.

22/10/2025

TOOTHLESS HAS COME HOME!

In this sh*tty rain he came bounding over to his teen foster carer who has been out calling and looking. He Is tucked up in her room for the night and will get a good looking over when foster Mum is home tonight.

PAKURANGA FRIENDS: please keep an eye out for Toothless

His adoption failed after 7 days, citing issues that baffle his fosterer. He Is a sweet, playful and lovely boy who is now lost in the rain.

He was arranged to be dropped and when asked to wait one minute for the fosterer to be home from around the corner they let him loose on the driveway and he bolted.

He can’t be found and weather has turned again. On top of this his foster fam have a bunch of very stressful events occurring that bring them away from the home so they are arranging to look for Toothless while managing being with family.

If you are in this area and sight a black kitty please message us ASAP. Yes this person has been blacklisted. 7 days is NOT long enough to settle into a new home, think how long it takes to settle a 5 year old into school?!d

22/10/2025

Our Northland friends know what’s good! We are fortunate enough to have Mog and Dog sister clinic Lynfield vets as a partner clinic.

We are indebted to clinics with the attitudes like owner Jo Lin has. Running a business is tough work, running a business AND doing your part to help those trying to do the right thing by animals? Above and beyond.

If you’re up north and need a desex or a vaccination - these guys are ready to help and educate.

But why are we so much cheaper?!

We heard from a couple of people that since we are a desex clinic that maybe we aren't qualified, maybe we aren't a real vet clinic, or maybe we are doing something shady?

The reason our services are cheaper is because we have lower costs as a clinic, we're only open three days as we are parents to school age children, and we only focus on what we do best, desexing ✂️ We don't have to pay to keep a massive clinic with lots of equipment and staff operational, we're a small team in a small clinic.

Your pets get the same medications, the same treatments, and the same qualified staff in our surgery focused clinic.

There won't be a fix to the overpopulation in the public AND in local SPCA + dog pounds if people don't provide fast and affordable desexing like we do.

We want to see less unwanted litters dumped and a happier+healthier community across Whangārei and further 👍🏽

Anyway, come and meet us and you'll know for sure we are good people!

p.s if we have desexed your pets, please leave us a review on Google or Facebook!