Dos Rios Resque

07/10/2025

* I WON'T CRUMBLE, I WILL SURVIVE*

At first I was afraid, I was petrified. Then this nice couple found me and took me inside.

I know I'll stay alive. I've got all my life to live, all my love to give!! I will survivor.

I know you didn't try to hurt me with goodbye and left me to lay down and die. It's taking all my strength not to fall apart, what i need is for people to donate money from their heart!

This baby boy was found on the side of the road with his sibling. The family has worked hard but the sibling passed last night. We need to get him to the vet ASAP. Who has love to give.

07/08/2025

📊 BY THE NUMBERS - JUNE📈

We had really hoped to have the June update out earlier but with a flurry of adoptions at Boops & Beans Cat Cafe, we were busy most evenings after finishing up our paycheck jobs during the day. What a great problem to have though! But here comes the good stuff.

🐾 Celebrated 9 adoptions. Two of which were transfers to our wonderful friends at The Stray Connection / Knoxville Tn. If you haven't already, please consider giving them a like and a follow.
🐾 In continued partnership with B&B, we celebrated 4 of our 9 June adoptions at the Cafe. In less than 3 months this marks our NINTH B&B adoption!
🐾 Welcomed 6 new cats in need into foster (it always helps me to stay out of trouble with the big boss when the adoption number is bigger than the intake number)

Thanks to beautiful partnerships with WCJC Animal Shelter - Judy and Doug Lowrie Spay Neuter Clinic and Operation: Johnson Kitty we:
😮 Helped 13 cats to happier, healthier lives with speuter surgery
😮 2 males that can father an unlimited number of kittens in a year are no longer sauntering around spreading their seed
😮 11 females that won't produce an average of 170 - 260 kittens in the next year

🖤🍞 We did pull a friendly boy, Samuel L. Jackson AKA Motherfunkel from VoidToast in June. He has acclimated well to indoor life and we think it's a beautiful way to honor Chicken's memory.

🔢 Currently:
🫟 60 cats in our foster program with 5 of those cats pre-adopted (realistically we'd like to see that around 40)
🫟 Average number of days in foster 146 days (down 2 days from last month)
🫟 Four active foster families (we had a new addition!)

📸 We had a lot of painful no's on intake requests in June but due to foster availability and funding we were only able to take the most dire requests. The 6 we were able to say yes to, either the finder fostered or financially sponsored and even in one case the family did both! So we ended up with 4 unhoused cats and two owner surrenders entering our program. Here's that Sweet Six:

07/01/2025

Our newest new kid. Thankful to find a foster & financial sponsors for this cutie!

06/30/2025

Happy Monday from MK!

06/29/2025

Gabby Thomas cannot be bothered by the fact the weekend is coming to an end. Mostly because every day is the weekend for her!

06/28/2025

As if you needed a reason to go lounge with cats but if you did, I can't think of a better reason than Buddy. Or Havyn. Or Maya. Or Tiernan. Or Bambi. Or....I think you get the idea. BOOK now! https://tinyurl.com/BookNowWithBandB

As if you needed another reason to come visit us, guess who’s back? That’s right, it’s Buddy! Unfortunately, sometimes families discover allergies in a heartbreaking way, and they were incredibly sad to have to lose this family member that they loved so much after just a short period. But we know Buddy won’t last long here and will find his forever home soon. Come welcome him back today!! 😻😻😻

06/28/2025

Lucy and Janice have arrived at their foster home to decompress and get updated on their vet care.

06/27/2025

Coming soon, this stunning duo Lucy and Janice!

06/27/2025

Thank you!! From me as well as the kitties!! 🥰🐾💖

It takes a village… I am honored by your support. 😎💕

06/26/2025

📬HE REFUSED TO CHANGE HIS ZIP CODE!😻

Tweetsie was in the first group of DRR cats to join our foster friends at Boops & Beans Cat Cafe. So he moved from Jonesborough to Kingsport and got a new zip code. But today is adoption day for Tweetsie and not only is he NOT leaving Kingsport, he is NOT changing his address at all!

Is that a head scratcher or what?! Well these days Tweetsie is going by the name Hank and he is moving into one of the private residences ABOVE the Cafe with his new Cat Daddy! He'll have a wonderful mama as well as cat siblings Kenneth and Cheese! Thank you Bryan Brown for opening up your heart & home to this sweet Tabby Train fella! We are so grateful for you and Shae!

06/25/2025

It was a good week for shutting down some baby factories! Thanks to our friends at the WCJC Animal Shelter - Judy and Doug Lowrie Spay Neuter Clinic, the Z Pack, Zayla & Zara went for spay on Monday. We also got some help from our friends at Operation: Johnson Kitty for a neuter slot for Redmond yesterday and today Jack (the last of the Three's Company trio). Not only was this made possible by these wonderful animal welfare partners, it was also made possible by YOU, our amazing donors and supporters.

Jack is a community cat and will be rejoining his ladies after surgery today but the other 3 are now O-fficially adoption ready! Can't wait to see who they pick for a family.

06/24/2025

Kitten caregivers come in all shapes and sizes. This shout out goes to one of our favorite foster families. Sully is the best manny ever!

📸 cred: Denis-Monique LeSage