Standby Fitness Rescue

12/13/2024

This little guy is going to need a forever home !!

12/13/2024

❤️❤️❤️. Our rescues know nothing but love and it shows.

12/13/2024

Imagine a love so great, it inspires you to change the world. ❤️❤️❤️. Always my forever
We give back to the Buffalo community and ask nothing in return to honor the love and legacy of STANDBY

12/12/2024

Winter day so we watch RED ONE Addie is not impressed 😂😂😂. But loves the warm blanket

12/12/2024

12/11/2024

Going out to feed my feral colonies in my new hat 🤣🤣❤️❤️

12/10/2024

First shipment of our cyber Monday purchase. Time to update our rescue wall. Have to redo the upper portion of the wall to be able to include more rescues and to install our new logo sign.

12/10/2024

Little bean discovered the motorized toys. ❤️❤️❤️

12/10/2024

Blackie Chan loves to catch and chase balls. ❤️❤️

12/09/2024

This is why we can’t have nice things 🤣🤣🤣

12/09/2024

We love our rescues ❤️❤️❤️

12/09/2024

Woke up a little late today so the game was rushed but still fun. Even the little guy came out to play. Blackie Chan loves to play ball and Addie loves to catch.

12/08/2024

Omg these two. So cute. ❤️❤️❤️. Little guy loves Addie. After a round of antibiotics and washing out his eyes and nose he is feeling better and wants to play.

12/08/2024

Our little baby has a crusty eye now 😭

12/08/2024

Our little bean is sick. He has congestion and crusty burgers. 😭😭. I spend the night holding him in a warm blanket and wiping his nose. I am a mom above all else. It’s 24 hour care here and when they are sick everything else doesn’t matter. We canceled our race this morning because he needs antibiotics and care. This is rescue.

12/08/2024

Where are all the big donations for this type of situation? These cats are left behind because the big shelters do NOT do street work They do NOT help feral cats So 20 to 30 strays that are in bad shape go without help because people believe the big shelters do this work but they DO NOT. This is a project that has to be taken on by a trapper or street rescue.

It involves a lot of effort because it’s time consuming- waiting on cats to going traps -transporting them. Holding them while they wait to get in appointments at low cost clinics. Medical care which could involve higher costs with dental work , injuries , illness etc. we do NOT get any medical care for free even if it’s a street cat. Then each cat is accessed to see if they can be worked with or have to be returned. We have to hold them , feed them and recover them from their medical issues. In our houses with our cars etc. no shelter help with any of that.

Many people DO NOT want that cat back in their neighborhood or it is dangerous to put them back because people have purposely hurt them. So placement becomes hard We have to put them back to a spot where they have shelters and a feeder so at least they have some sort of care.
But what I think is completely insane and an abuse of the system is when a shelter charges a trapper a “surrender fee” to take an adoptable cat from us. Some of the cats are friendly and can be adopted. Once trapped and accessed it’s hard for us to adopt them out while continuing to get more But the shelters who have more access to the public with adoption events and storefronts demand money before they will take a cat from a trapper even if we already paid to have it go for it’s medical. You see it all the time on Facebook-people asking for someone to “sponser a cat” to go into a shelter. Why charge us a fee usually 100 dollars to take a cat from a trapper. A street cat.

Not bashing these shelters just trying to bring awareness of how rescues really work. The division that exists and ALOT of insane things that happen that people who donate don’t realize where their money actually goes or doesn’t go.

Check when helping what you are actually saving. Just a public awareness announcement. Our rescue asks nothing from Buffalo to help these situations but we can only do so much because we are small