Moggies - Homes for cats and kittens

27/10/2025

Eight tiny sets of toe beans joined us at Moggies HQ yesterday 🐾

Thanks to the kindness and quick action of a stranger, the cardboard box they were found in was swapped for a warm bed and the promise of a brighter future 💛

While we’re grateful they’re safe, it’s important to acknowledge how close they came to a very different outcome - every box left by the roadside has the potential to be the beginning, or the end, of a story like theirs.

If you ever see a box in a strange or unsafe place, and it’s safe for you to stop - please take a moment to check. You could save a life 🙏

And if you’ve been here before, are feeling overwhelmed with your animals, or unsure what to do with an unexpected litter - please know that Rescues are here to help where we can.

No judgment - just support to find a better way forward.

17/10/2025

Please make their last litter 📣

If you’ve found yourself with a litter of kittens and no funds to desex mum, instead of giving her kittens away please consider:

📍Asking an adoption fee to go towards mum’s desexing
📍Having a desexing contract so her kittens aren’t in the same position
📍Or contacting a local rescue

If the first two options aren’t within your means, and the full litter comes under our care, we will desex mum at NO COST - ensuring this is her last litter.

Every kitten that comes through rescue is:

✨ Desexed, vaccinated, and microchipped
✨ Socialised in foster care
✨ Matched with a responsible, loving home

Please share with whoever needs to hear this - By working together we can give mum the rest she deserves and her babies the best possible start in life 🐱

14/10/2025

Not all kittens enjoy the spotlight so before taking her adoption photos we gave Brie the chance to get used to the camera being in her space and sneaked a few videos. Her response? She’s deliciously awkward 😂 Her quirk is whenever in doubt, to literally roll with it 💕

13/10/2025

Brie is another of our Dairy Kids soon to be looking for her new home - she has a quiet kind of confidence that would blossom with her own space and some truly mesmerising mermaid eyes!

12/10/2025

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💜 Sending the biggest birthday love to our amazing Kat! 💜

Today, our team at Vada’s Angels is celebrating the incredible woman who makes it all possible — Katrina, the heart and soul behind our rescue.

While most people might spend their birthday relaxing, we all know where she’ll be — out there doing what she always does: caring, comforting, feeding, healing, and saving. Because for her, love and compassion never take a day off.

Her kindness reaches every corner — from the horses learning to trust again, to the dogs finding their forever homes, and to every one of us lucky enough to be part of her vision. She’s built something that changes lives every single day.

Today, we hope she’s reminded of just how deeply loved, appreciated, and admired she is — not only for the countless animal lives she’s transformed, but by all of us who have the privilege of walking beside her on this incredible journey.

With love,
Your rescue family & supporters 🐾🐴💜

10/10/2025

It’s high time we introduced our Dairy Kids 🐮

A case we’ve been working on that’s taught us some very important lessons!

This group is part of a local colony of between 15–20 farm cats, and had we stepped in a month later, those numbers would likely have been beyond the help we could offer.

Fortunately, ✨ teamwork makes dream work ✨ and in working together with the farmer and Te Puke vet clinic, we’ve so far desexed 9 females and 5 males through the rescue 🙌

Here’s what we’ve learned along the way 👇

📌 Size can be deceptive!
Among multiple mature litters were 8 younger kittens. As they were much smaller in size, the initial guess was that they were between 8–12 weeks. With a closer look in care - and a peek at their teeth - their adult canines told us they were actually closer to 5 months old.

📌 Without desexing, those numbers were set to triple.
Females can go into their first heat as early as 4 months, averaging a litter size of 5 kittens. Through proactively desexing, that’s a potential 45 new kittens not born into the same cycle.

📌 Sometimes the spiciest kittens can be super sweet 💕
In an ideal world, unsociable kittens come into care during their most formative weeks (4–8 weeks old). Beyond this, they’re forming complex opinions about the world - and if people aren’t a positive part of that picture, the process taming is often a long term commitment.

At 6 weeks in care, we’re thrilled that announce the 3 of our teens have decided domestic bliss really ain’t that bad will be up for adoption next week - two of these are our featured boys Colby & Butters 🐱💛

More to come!

08/10/2025

✌️Thankful Thursday✌️

This week the shout out goes out to two of our incredible suppliers - Purina and Virbac!

Both showed up big time with generous donations of short-dated food and wormers 🙌

A good portion of our funds go into quality consumables to give our rescues the best start possible - so donations in these areas mean funds can be redirected and there’s the ability to share in our community circles.

Also special thanks Mastercraft for lending a forklift, Mike behind the steering wheel, Nick for logistics, and Rachel for bottoming out her SUV to give my lil hatch a breather!

If you have short-dated food, flea/worm treatments or good condition items you’d like repurposed to support the rescue community, we’d love to hear from you!

24/09/2025

🐈‍⬛💛 Thankful Thursday 💛🐈‍⬛

Things have been quiet on the socials but busy behind the scenes with adoptions and a few special cases keeping our intake fosters on their toes (separate posts to follow).

We’d firstly like to thank everyone who’s reached out to adopt and filled out our application form - we try our best to respond to these in 48hours so if you didn’t see a reply please check your spam mail!

This weekend was a stunner with 8 of our fur kids joining our most patient pet parents 😽

Please note that there are no longer kittens younger than 3 months in care - this helps us prepare for the upcoming season and creates an opportunity for our community cats and shy teens to shine!

Our next ✨ thank you ✨ once again goes out to our friends at Tauranga and Tauriko Animates for their food bin collections!

The most recent haul is on it’s way to our cases in the community and friends at The Petfood Bank 💕

And lastly, a encore ✨ thank you ✨ to Z Energy for another year of Good in the Hood! 👏

23/09/2025

And that’s a wrap for the 2025 Good in the Hood campaign!

With the last day of voting being the 22nd, the tokens for each station will be tallied and the funds distributed among charities nation wide!

This was an incredible opportunity for small local charities like ours to be seen and promoted in the community 🌟

A massive thank you to Z Energy for the opportunity and to everyone who participated by sharing a token - you guys are amazing 🥰

21/09/2025

The Monday Mews 📰🐱

** FAQs and Answers **

Q: My mother has gone into a care facility, will you take her cats?

A: As a foster based rescue we have limited space and beyond exceptional circumstances it’s unlikely we can take over their care.

This answer is often meet with surprise - though it is not the SPCA, or any private rescue’s responsibility to rehome privately owned animals. Responsibility stays within the family.

Tip: If a family member entering care is inevitable, please don’t wait.

Organising other family to adopt, or starting the rehoming process before the move, is the best way to ensure a smooth transition into a new home.

And as these animals may too be elderly, please consider:

❤️‍🩹A health check, if not recently done
🚨Advertising for homes well in advance
⏰An adoption trial to make sure they’re the right fit in their new home.

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The Monday News is a weekly column where we use examples of FAQs with the intention of broadening the public understanding of what we do as a privately run rescue✌️

16/09/2025

On Friday afternoon the local rescue network kicked into gear when the call came through that a 9 year old cat with no previous medical history was booked in for euthanasia for urinating inside.

Having insight in this area, one of our experienced foster parents offered her space and a plan was made to investigate the cause.

By midday Saturday she had a current vax and worm/flea treatment on board, she passed a basic urinalysis (clear), a non invasive physical (no serious concerns present), and was settled into a low stress environment to help transition her from the life she knew and establish a baseline for her care moving forward.

Over the coming days we’ll be monitoring her toileting and gut health alongside her behaviour and adaption to a new environment.

Although the circumstances were nuanced, at that moment she was in the right place at the right time for one chapter to close and another to begin.

Our thoughts are that further testing and a tailored diet will give us a solid foundation from which to launch her bright new beginning 😊

Welcome to the rescue Dorothy, with a better understanding of your situation we’re hopeful that your story can be rewritten 🐾

14/09/2025

The Monday Mews 📰🐱

** FAQs and Answers **

Q: I’ve caught a feral cat, can you take it?

A: No. We do not have fosters in a position to take on the long term socialisation of mature feral or wild cats, nor do we have a space available to the rescue to offer sustainable TNR as an option.

Every rescue has a different position on the subject, and although we routinely take in adolescent cats who many consider ‘wild’, we’re not set up for the long term commitment attached to taming an unsocialised adult.

Tip: The term ‘feral’ is widely misused. True feral cats are rarely seen beyond a fleeting glimpse and more likely to be found in rural or lowly populated areas.

Most commonly ‘feral cats’ in urban environments are better known as strays - these are cats without homes who may be unsociable around humans (hence considered feral).

If you are planning to trap with the intention to pass on to a rescue, please have an option lined up first. Once trapped, there is a small window of time the cat can ethically be held and letting them go can will often lead to a ‘trap savvy’ cat with the unlikelihood they’ll be caught again.

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The Monday News is a weekly column where we use examples of FAQs with the intention of broadening the public understanding of what we do as a privately run rescue✌️