11/25/2025
🍁🧡 THANKS-GIVING TREE FUNDRAISER 🧡🍁
Help us raise $2,000 to save Elf!
As we enter Thanksgiving week, a time for gratitude, giving, and coming together, we’re asking our community to help us wrap our arms around one tiny kitten who desperately needs us.
🌱 Meet Elf.
We took in his momma from the DiNardo Manor hoarding case back in June, and Elf and his siblings were born shortly after. He has always been sweet, playful, alert, and so full of life — a little spirit determined to stay here with us.
But Elf is facing heartbreaking challenges.
At 14 weeks old, he’s only the size of a 6-week-old kitten. He is failing to thrive and is battling multiple serious conditions:
• a severely dilated esophagus and stomach
• pneumonia in his left lung
• fluid in his abdomen
• pain when eating or drinking
His radiographs are being sent to a radiologist this week to determine what’s causing this and whether there’s a path forward. His case may be fatal, and he may be too small for surgery — but we refuse to give up on him. It is likely that he may have a rare condition called Megaesophagus, which is very rare in cats and unfortunately not curable. This would be a first for us at KCCR.
His current vet bill is already over $900, and that doesn’t include the medications and care he will need next.
🍂 This Thanksgiving, we’re creating a Giving Tree of Hope for Elf.
Every donation adds a “leaf” to our tree and gives Elf another chance — a chance at comfort, healing, and a future where he knows nothing but love.
✨ Our Goal: $2,000
Reaching this goal will help us continue his diagnostics and treatment so we can give him every possible chance at survival.
💛 We need our community now more than ever.
If you’re able, please consider donating this Thanksgiving week. Your kindness means more than you know — especially to a little kitten who’s fighting so hard to stay here.
How to Help Elf:
📱 Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/kittycocatrescue
💛 PayPal: https://cash.app/$kittycocatrescue
🏦 Zelle: Kitty Co. Cat Rescue Inc.
💸 CashApp: https://cash.app/$kittycocatrescue
Thank you for helping us grow our Thanks-Giving Tree and for standing beside us, always.
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