Tlc-ND Animal Rescue

09/02/2024

TODAY IS THE DAY! North Dakota Raise for Rescues is an online giving event that raises money and awareness for 20 rescues and shelters across North Dakota. Please give what you can and know that you will be helping animals in need across our great state.

Please click below to help TLC-ND Animal Rescue and other rescues in North Dakota. We ALL need your help!

ND Raise for Rescues 2024

09/02/2024

Londyn’s last care Friday night cost $579, so our bank account took a big hit and we have a spay/neuter trip on Thursday.

If you have the means, any donations to help cover her vet care would be appreciated. No donation is too small. Every penny counts in rescue and we spend it wisely!

Donations can be made on our website site by clicking the “Donate” button.
www.tlcndanimalrescue.org

Thank you for your continued support. We couldn’t do it without you!

09/01/2024

September 1st is Ginger Cat Appreciation Day! 

Show us your gingers 💕

08/31/2024

Two deaths in 10 days. Both expensive. Both unexpected. Both heartbreaking. The reality of rescue. Discouraging. Disheartening. Debilitating. It hits you like a punch in the gut.

This time, it was our sweet Londyn. She just turned three in early June and we have raised her since she was a little kitten that ended up in the pound. She was a shy girl and only trusted certain people, but she was a beautiful girl inside and out. A few months ago she had a spurt where she just all of a sudden just looked punk and we thought we may lose her. But to our surprise, within a couple days of being on antibiotics, she was almost back to herself. And she has seemed fine since. Our volunteers are very observant of the health of our cats, so one of us surely notices when there is something is amiss. We all missed this one, and are really beating ourselves up over it. We didn’t see it coming.

Kim and I were just simply doing evening chores. I was just starting to do some sweeping when Kim said Jen, you need to come look at Londyn.
She was just lying on the floor and she didn’t even move if you touched her. I picked her up and she was like a limp noodle and she felt so cool to the touch. She jumped down from us and she was walking really wobbly, I’m assuming because she was weak.

Within a half an hour we were on our way to an emergency call at the vet in Rugby. At least 10 times on the way there was thrashing around in her carrier. We are still unsure if she was just trying to stand up and would fall over, or if she may have been having seizures. I just kept my fingers on her side through the cage door to be sure she was still breathing and cried all the way.

She was very dehydrated and her temp was too low to register on the thermometer. She obviously needed fluids, but that was on the back burner because the vet was worried that just the blood draw alone could stress her out to the point of not making it. So we started with blood work. She literally laid there without moving the entire time it was processing, except for crying out and stretching twice to roll over. It was like she was already gone. I knew she was suffering and knew the blood work wasn’t going to be good. And it wasn’t. Her ears had looked a little jaundiced, so it was no surprise when her liver values came back elevated. But even the vet was surprised at the bilirubin level…it was almost 10 times higher than it should have been. Her liver was in trouble. Her kidney levels were elevated as well. Her white blood cell count was very elevated, so one possibility was a massive infection that we could try and treat. But he really didn’t see much success in that given her kidney and liver levels. We had to let her go. I just held her paw the entire time, and I had my arm wrapped around her body to add warmth to the towel she was in so she knew she wasn’t alone. We helped her cross the rainbow bridge at 11:07 PM.

Fly high Londyn. You will be missed and we are so sorry 💔

08/31/2024

100% TRUTH!

Read it AGAIN and AGAIN until you UNDERSTAND it!!!!!

08/28/2024

It is Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day 💕

They will always remain in our hearts and live on through our memories.

Feel free to post your beloved furbabies in the comments

08/28/2024

REMINDER:

Bulk order for Devils Lake peeps going in at 5:00 pm tonight! We will receive 30% of the product price, so please consider placing an order. If Pampered Chef is not your thing and you would prefer to make a direct donation to help us out, you can do so on our website:
http://www.tlcndanimalrescue.org

Info I will need for your order:
Your name
Item Number
Description
Price
Quantity

If you plan to place an order on your own, you can do so by Friday August 30th 🙂

Thank you for your support!

08/28/2024

Less than one week away! Start spreading the word. The North Dakota Raise for Rescues is an online giving event that helps to raise money for more than 20 rescues and shelters in ND.

The need to help homeless animals is great across the state and we are all working together to raise not just money, but awareness as well. Help us by spreading the word!

08/24/2024

Does anyone need diabetic cat food?

08/23/2024

UPDATE:
We hit the threshold to earn the max of 30% of the product price for the fundraiser, so every order will really help the rescue!

If anyone in Devils Lake wants to go in on our bulk order, I will be placing it at 5:00 on Wednesday, August 28th.

I will need:
Your name
Item Number
Description
Price
Quantity

Thank you for your support!

08/22/2024

Anyone in Cando area know these dogs. Running loose on south end of town.

08/22/2024

Adoptions are down.

Donations are down.

Vet costs are up due to losing rescue rates at a vet clinic nearby because of one fiasco emergency night. We are back to traveling to Jamestown for spay and neuters where we can get discounted vet care.

There is no need for our weekly bank run because there have been no deposits to make.

Food and supplies run $150-$200 each week.

For the first time in a very long time I have to transfer from our PayPal emergency funds. We had only 1/2 of September’s rent in the bank and normally we have a couple months saved up ahead. Definitely not a good feeling.

Chance’s vet bill Tuesday was $455 and we ended up assisting him in crossing the rainbow bridge. It was worth every penny to give him love in the end and not have him die alone in that ditch. That is rescue. We do what we have to do for the animals in our care. In addition to that $455, we have spent $600 on two Jamestown trips already this month and have another trip on Sept 5th.

Please support our fundraising efforts or donate to a great cause if you have the means. Pampered Chef is going on until August 30th. Avon and Raise for Rescues will be in September. A $150 sponsor is needed for the Raise for Rescues or we will need to take it out of our share of the funds raised. Our annual matching fundraiser will probably be in October.

If you are looking for a new family member, please check out our loving cats on Petfinder or stop in during our Meet-N-Greets on Saturdays from noon to 4. https://ND43.petfinder.com

Thank you for your continued support. We couldn’t continue helping animals without you!

08/21/2024

This is not how I planned to spend my morning today. I thought I was taking a kitty to the vet for a much-needed full shave to be pain free from his mats. I thought I would be bringing home a sleepy, but happy kitty. Instead, I came home with a hefty rescue bill, a broken heart and no kitty. On the way here I was trying to figure out if I could put him in my spare room because it would be too cold for him at the rescue after he was shaved. Unfortunately that is rescue 💔

Chance’s story:
Our adopter was walking her two dogs Sunday night when they took off to a ditch. She discovered this poor kitty lying in the ditch in water up to his shoulders. She carried him all the way home. He settled in on some towels with a heating pad underneath to warm him up and to help him dry and got some food in his belly. He was friendly from the start and would come for attention whenever a person was nearby. He seemed to have an issue with his back legs, but at this point we did not know if he was injured or just cold, stiff, and weak. He moved around better the next day, so we hoped it was the latter. Once he was dry you could see the severity of the mats all over his body. Our adopter agreed to keep him temporarily so he would be more comfortable than he would be at the rescue, and we are thankful for that. I met this sweet boy last night after work. The pain he had to have been in with those mats broke my heart. We decided to name him Chance, hoping that we are his second chance.

We were already on the wait list for the local vet, but I called Rugby this morning to see if they would let us pay an emergency call and come at the end of the day to get him shaved. He was in such pain. Imagine my shock when they said we could come at 10:00 today! First up was an exam to determine whether Chance was well enough to go under anesthesia. The vet saw how thin he was and was concerned from the start. We believe he is a neutered male that has been on his own for quite some time, and he is at least 10 years old, but he could be much older. Diabetes, kidney issues, possible thyroid issues (felt a little enlarged) and arthritis were all concerns. Watching him move around the room while waiting for the blood work results, I began to worry more as well. I had only seen him move around in a small room the previous night. Moving around a larger room, his issues were much clearer. He would take 5-6 steps with his weak back legs and then lay down. But he was loving and sweet the ENTIRE time. Then I saw the sign on the wall about signs of diabetes – weakness in the back legs was one of them. That is when my heart started breaking, knowing that his back leg issue was probably not from arthritis.

Blood work came back with a glucose of 623 (normal is 77-153), definite kidney issues, and liver values increasing. The diabetes explains the neuropathy in his back legs, which would likely remain even if his diabetes was treated. Chance would need specialized care. But even with that, it was far too risky to put him under anesthesia to shave him, so we could not relieve him of those horrid mats. He would not have a great quality of life and would still be in constant pain. So, we had to make the hard decision to do what was right for Chance.

I stroked his sweet head the entire time the sedation was kicking in. I told him how he was going to pain free from those nasty mats and be able to run and play and use his back legs normally again. I told him he was very loved while in our care and that I was sorry his humans failed him. I told him he was getting his second chance…just in a completely different way than we planned.

To the humans that failed this sweet boy, all I can say is KARMA.

Fly high our sweet boy…you will never be forgotten 💕

08/19/2024

Tabby with a collar on behind gerrels in Devils lake - sounds very scared :(

08/19/2024

RIP Chance 💔. Will put an update post out in a bit.

Does anyone recognize this kitty? It is either a female or neutered male. One of our adopters found it in a ditch on the east side of town by Eventide. It is either injured in some way or was too weak to get out of the ditch on his own. Very sweet, wet and starving. Please share so we can see if someone is missing their kitty!

08/17/2024

August 17th is Black Cat Appreciation Day!

We have many loving black cats that would make wonderful family members 💕

Black cats have the best personalities and get such a bad rap…open your heart to one today!

08/15/2024

08/13/2024

Happy 20th Birthday to my Abby!!

I wish your brother would have made it to this milestone with you, but he will always be with you.

Here’s to a few more years, my baby girl 💕

08/09/2024

It’s fundraising time again!

It is double donation month in August. We will earn minimum 20% on your purchases but it can go as high as 30%!

We hope you will take a look to help us take care of the animals in the rescue 💕

Shopping Link:
https://table.pamperedchef.com/party/1300455qmj?inviteSource=direct&t=1722612490155

Some items are on their way out and are while supplies last through Aug 31st. Screen shots of these items will be posted in the comments.

I will have a couple of the pdf version of the catalog printed if someone needs to look at one.

View the catalogs online:
https://www.pamperedchef.com/pws/edegner/interactive-catalog-page

08/08/2024

It’s International Cat Day…let’s see your babies!