Tiny Paws RVA, Rescue

12/15/2025

Tinsel is unsafe for animals, and ornaments are SO 2024. 😉 Instead, decorate your tree with a kitty! 🐱 We have plenty in stock to match any color palette you're going for.

12/09/2025

🐾 Available for Adoption 🐾
Richmond, VA

🐱We have 6 of the most perfect little kittens that are up for adoption! These kittens are a perfect mix of sweet and sassy, playful and snuggly, and basically just what you need in your life.

🐱Funnel Cake, Kettle Corn, Jane Goodall, Little Bear, Dorothy, & Rose have all been added to our adoption page, joining our kittens that are already waiting on their forever homes.

I don't have enough space here to tell you about each kitten but that just means you'll have to hop on over to the website to check them out.

🐾All Tiny Paws RVA kittens are treated for fleas and parasites, tested for FIV/FELV, receive age appropriate vaccines, and are fixed before going home.

Kittens must be indoor only, keep their claws, and single kittens must be adopted to a home that already has another active cat OR in pairs. Priority is given to adopters looking to adopt 2 kittens.

🐾You can find more info and apply on our website!

Please share to help these babies find their perfect forever families! 💗

12/08/2025

Last week, I had so many exciting and fun posts ready to go. I really meant it.

And then everything went sideways and I had no energy to post.

On Tuesday evening, right after I had posted about Blanche and her slow but incrementally forward improvements, she started to crash again.

I came home from a friend's to find her severely worse than I had left her.

For hours, I stayed up with her. I administered fluids, I had her on extra heat, and every 4 minutes I rubbed sugar water on her gums and gave her drops of formula. A few times she perked up for a moment, but just as quickly she'd lay back down.

And finally, somewhere around 2am, she made it clear it was time. I made sure she was warm and cozy, and I told her it was okay to go. She could be with her sister again.

Loss is a part of rescue. You can't do what we do without it. I've lost many kittens before and I know I'll lose more in the future.

But this one has hit me so hard. It could be that I haven't lost a kitten personally in awhile, it could be the time of year, or just how long and hard we fought for this one. Maybe it doesn't matter why. This particular loss hurts even worse, and that's just what it is.

There is never any regret in taking these kittens, or doing everything that I could to try to save them. It's simply grief that they had to go through it at all.

I'm hoping to actual have some fun posts later this week, like I promised last week. But I'm taking the necessary time to grieve and giving myself a little extra, so please be patient with me.

And please, please, please... Spay and neuter. For Blanche, for her sister, and for every animal that doesn't deserve this outcome. 🩵

12/02/2025

A little over 2 weeks ago, we pulled 2 little kittens that were facing euthanasia from an overcrowded shelter.

By that evening, one had started having some stomach problems. We started meds and extra care, and she started to improve.

By the end of the next week, they were both worse. They were losing weight, everything was going through them, and they were not the happy active kittens they should be. It was the week before Thanksgiving, which is never an easy time for this stuff to happen (but really, is it ever?) We moved them to a temporary foster with more medical experience to get additional care. Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, sweet baby Sophia passed away.

Blanche remained in poor condition. Her amazing temporary foster worked incredibly hard to keep her stable. She went to the vet again, we ran tests, we started additional meds. All tests came back negative, and our best guess is that she has some nameless, nasty virus circulating her system. And when you weigh less than 4 sticks of butter, it's hard to fight these things.

That doesn't stop us from doing everything we can.

Blanche is currently with me at Tiny Paws HQ, tucked into a nice cozy incubator. She's just barely over a pound, her fur is greasy because she doesn't have the energy to groom herself, and she's tired. She doesn't want to play like a kitten her age normally would.

And yet she continues to fight.

Every few hours I make a new dish of food and pull medications. I open the incubator enough to pet her and talk to her while she eats, but not enough to let her little residence cool down.

The other night, she stuck her head out and meowed at me. It was faint. You could hear that she was tired.

But I stuck my head closer to hear her little rumbling purr. She took the opportunity to give me a head bump, and I turned me into a puddle. She's still fighting.

Every day Tiny Paws RVA works hard to save the tiniest babies with the tiniest paws. They might be small but they matter. And they have the biggest will to live.

And today, on Giving Tuesday, we'd love your help to continue the work we do. If you consider us worth your donation, please know how thankful we are. 💜

11/30/2025

Popping out after a bit of an unintentional holiday break to say hello and wish everyone a belated Happy Thanksgiving. 🦃❤️

We have quite a bit to share this week, so keep an eye out!
We're talking dramatic stories, a potential event, and some new kittens for adoption... 👀

Stay tuned!

11/24/2025

SPARROW is ready to fly into your heart!

🐦This handsome gray guy is charming and funny. He's curious and confident, boldly leading the other kittens into unexplored lands (usually the bathroom and laundry room, among other places).

He'll chatter and chirp away at you as you get food ready or tell him not to mess with something. When you pick him up he's almost always already purring.

He's going to be someone's best friend, and you'd be silly not to make him yours!

🐾 Sparrow has been treated for fleas and parasites, tested negative for FIV/FELV, received age appropriate vaccines, and is neutered.

🐈‍⬛ Sparrow is ready to go home as soon as we get an approved application, so hurry up and apply!
Can't adopt right now? Please share to help him find his forever home! 💚

P.S. before anyone asks, he's not a Russian blue, and neither are the dozen other solid gray kitties in other rescues. 😉 He's just a plain old, solid gray, domestic short hair trash cat and we love him just the same.

11/22/2025

Sweet as honey and ready to stick by your side during these cold months, Manuka & Tupelo are ready to come buzzing into your life! 🍯

We can't BEElieve they are still here, it has us all abuzz. Maybe you can change that and add them to your hive? They'll let you stay queen 🐝 of the house! 😉

These bonded brothers (yes, they're a set and no you can't split them up!) are fully vetted including neuter, and ready to go home with an approved application!

💛 Apply at TinyPawsRVA.org/available to bring these sweet boys into your life!
Can't adopt right now? Share to help them find their forever home! 💛

11/21/2025

There's a lot of tiny paws rva merch in my house...
Shirts, beanies, mugs, stickers, plus ceramic pet bowls and ornaments made by my mom.

If I could finagle a little pop up shop for a few hours one weekend afternoon, would people be interested in coming to shop and support the rescue?

Not sure on the exact location. Would it be weird to have a little tent set up somewhere? 😂

Give me your thoughts (and suggestions of a place that might let me host such a thing!) in the comments! ❤️💚

11/20/2025

BUSTER is going to have his heart busted if he doesn't get adopted soon. 😭

🐈‍⬛This sweet, sleek tabby boy is so handsome. He's playful and goofy, and loves other cats. He's always snuggling with the cats in his foster home and does well taking corrections when he gets a little full of himself. His foster home even has a bird and he does well with him!

🐈‍⬛Buster has been treated for fleas and parasites, tested negative for FIV/FELV, vaccinated, and neutered.

🐾Interested? Apply to adopt at TinyPawsRVA.org/available. If you can't adopt, please share to help him find his forever home (for the holidays!? 🤞🏼)

11/17/2025

Hi everyone!
I feel like a broken record here but we really needs fosters for the following:
🐱 3 six-week-old kittens
🐱 4 seven-week-old kittens

All are social.
All basic supplies provided, medical care covered, and adoption process handled by me.
You just need to share your bathroom or guest room with some cute kittens for a bit. 🩷

🐾 More info on fostering and the foster application can be found at TinyPawsRVA.org/foster

Feel free to ask questions or share your experience about fostering in the comments! ❤️

Fostering is a lot of work, but so rewarding! We can't rescue kittens without fosters. Read on for more about what fostering entails! 

11/16/2025

We have the BEST fosters.

Blanche & Rose are still not doing great. Their tummies cannot be controlled, and thus they've been sequestered to a smaller space to contain the mess while the meds kick in. 🤮 But don't worry, they aren't bored.

Their foster Angela texted me this video. Her husband Nelson put a video on his tablet to keep them entertained. 😂Talk about love!

🐾 P.S. Want to foster? We're currently looking for a foster for a litter of 3 kittens a foster for a litter of 4! We'd also like to add some puppy Fosters to the foster roster in the new year. 👀

TinyPawsRVA.org/foster for more details.

Now get better soon, little girls! 🩷

11/14/2025

🎶 Thank you for being a friend 🎶

Ever since we pulled these 4 from the shelter on Wednesday, I've been humming this song. It might be because our foster Angela is AMAZING and didn't take just 2 kittens, but 4! Or it might be because her family named them after the Golden Girls! 💛

Even though they aren't related, that's okay! They're all together and have some fitting names!

🐱🐱We have Sophia and Blanche, two tiny gray tabby/torbie sisters who are about 6 weeks old.

🐱🐱And we have Rose (orange tabby) and Dorothy (long hair tabby!), about 4 month old sisters.

One of our shelter partners down in Southwest Virginia was going to have to euthanize a few animals to make space if they didn't clear some cages by Friday. This was not something they wanted to do, but it's the reality of a tiny shelter with limited resources and funding.

By taking 4 kittens, and other shelters and rescues pulling more as well, we were able to help them avoid this! 🥳

Rose and Dorothy will be available pretty soon, so stay tuned! 👀

Blanche and Sophia are much too little, and unfortunately Sophia isn't doing great. She has a lot of tummy troubles happening. We've run a f***l (all negative) and she's getting all the supportive care we can give her so we're hoping she pulls through.

If you're able to send some well wishes her way, or even donate towards her care, we always appreciate it.

Welcome to the good life, little ladies! We're glad you're here! 💛