So many more needing to come in then are going out.
It was a slow week for any exiting our rescue. We had 2 foster to adopt kitties go together and we had 2 sisters get adopted in New York together thanks to Fots and Ashley Payton helping arrange transport. Spot and her sister Speckles are transitioning well. Look at these adorable babies that will be ready to foster to adopt to highly qualified applicants soon. At this tiny age, they need to go in pairs or with another furrbaby. #spayandneuteryourpets #spayandneuter #stopthecycle
Please share this special boy. The odds are stacked against him. He smacks dogs hard, and he's not the best cat for a younger child.
Finally Friday
This has been a stressful week for sure. Turning down cats and kittens is never easy, but nothing is moving. We have no openings. Sadly little Riva passed on us. We took in one single orphan that came from a tnr from last week that just breaks your heart. We had no idea she had a litter that was left behind. On top of this, this was our last KKC Wednesday clinic. Sadly more no shows left us short a few spots that could have been easily filled, but overall, in 2024, we have been responsible for 42 canine spay and neuters and 1,645 feline spay and neuters and counting as all the data hasn’t been entered from the last clinic, our local vet, and other clinics we have went to. S/N is our only hope!
Bagheera is eagerly awaiting his forever family to find him!
Bagheera is eagerly awaiting his forever family to come for him.
Think of Bagheera as a sweet faithful dog stuck in a huge black cat body. Sadly black cats are some of the last to be adopted, coming in right there with Torties and tabbies. This boy actually will put a dog in its place if it gets in his bubble, but other than that, he’s desperately seeking his own family. He was done being a stray. Done with being homeless and hungry. He was grateful for our help, but now he is done with the cottage that has a too high cat to human ratio. He is done with nursing and caring for kittens that aren’t his. He’s just done. Please help him find an inside home
Odin Jr has a very important PSA! Please read. This is real reel explaining a problem that is fluent in our state
From Odin Jr, all our furbabies, and volunteers, we just want everyone to know about all the evil out there. We have good reasons to suspect a big dog fight is coming up, and everyone needs to take this serious. Please don’t let your dogs out unsupervised even for a minute. People are lurking watching to take them. Please stop giving your animals to strangers. If someone claiming to be a rescue or animal shelter employee approaches you wanting to help you rehome animals, don’t believe it without checking their credentials. No shelter ever is going to come to your home without cause, just to offer you help “rehoming” animals. That’s not even a term a shelter ever uses. If it is a rescue, contact them directly. If you can safely get pics of the humans or their vehicles do so. Send this to every public service police you can get to take it. Find someone to listen to you. These animals die a horrific death, and if you aren’t preventing it, well we just have to believe one day you will answer to that turning a blind eye to some degree. This kind of evil exists because humans let it. Even if you aren’t an animal advocate, drugs and sex crimes go on at these fights. It’s an all time low for humanity. It’s only getting worse with the struggling economy. Be a savior. Watch, listen, report. With all the new technology these days, we could stop this from going on, if we all worked together.
I know everyone is packed, but can someone please at least foster this mom and 2 babies? One baby has hurt his hip and doesn't need to be outside. He can't have pain meds outside, which would make him less than alert. His momma is already spayed.
This is one happy girl to have found help off the streets!
Please excuse the silly voices, but I just wanted everyone to see how far Reggie has come. The FIV babies have always been our passion. You can just literally see their lives return to them day by day if they are removed from the outside elements and given medical care. So many times we get them too late and can only love them a short time and make sure they are comfortable till they pass. We are super optimistic that Reggie is healing and can enjoy many great days at the cottage.
Did you know… Each day in the United States, 10,000 humans are born and 70,000 puppies and kittens are born! As long as these birth rates exist, there will never be enough homes for all the animals. It is so much easier and cheaper to sterilize cats and dogs than it is humans, yet for some reason, the humans aren’t smart enough to accomplish this task. 🤦🏻♀️ please help us get as many male cats into clinic in July. We are backed up on females, but we can definitely knock some of these males out of commission.
Meet Reggie. The hurt ones are coming in so quickly that we can’t even tell you about them. Reggie came to us from Muhlenberg County. He’s scared, but he is not feral. It is obvious he once had a family he trusted. He’s FIV positive, severely dehydrated, has ear damage from ear mites, was covered in fleas, and has injuries to his tail (but the tail is the least of his worries right now). He’s super sad, and super broken. We can’t shout it loud enough. Cats have no business being left outdoors without care takers. Even out ferals have to have a caretaker to be released once they enter our program. It honestly pains us to have to TNR a cat anywhere without someone to care for them. However, true ferals often build immunities to things like ring worm, ear mites, and fleas. It’s true. We get many truly healthy ferals in. But a cat that was once a pet DOES NOT have those natural fit of the fittest traits. They end up like poor Reggie.
Happy Caturday! You guys rock. Thank you for all the new follows. We actually met all our fb goals this week! Hopefully fb will float our post around some and help us get these babies seen and into purrfect homes. We have some that have been waiting years now for the right family. Our count is the highest it has ever been.
It was a very expensive month here at KKC. We only had 2 clinics, but we definitely still made a dent on the overpopulation. 166 cats and dogs will never litter! At clinic, 70 females and 68 male cats plus one female shelter dog were all fixed. Outside of that, 14 male cats and 11 female cats were altered along with 3 more dogs. We just can’t shout it loud enough that good inside homes for kittens, is a thing of the past. This sweet boy is Peso. He was a 2023 baby that was passed by over and over. He’s one of the best boys we have ever had, but here he sits basically because he isn’t anything special to look at, and he is older than 8 weeks. 😭 We have 5 clinics in July and desperately need funds to sponsor or partially sponsor a cat!
Everything has bottle necked everywhere. And kittens are dying outside in this heat. This litter was dumped down around Fox Trot without as much as a drop of water on the hot pavement. Luckily a rescue had pulled and left us one spot to help. We are looking for long term fosters or fosters to adopt for pairs of tiny kittens. Meet Putty, Topaz, Gem, Battiscopia, and Herringbone. They are just full of love and healthy at this point. The longer they stay in a community cattery, the more likely they are to lose that A+ health rating. Please help get these babies an option other than growing old with us.
Our kitties can have fun anywhere. And before any one is worried he’s going to get too hot, the cottage has a mini split Mr. Cool keeping it a nice 74 degrees. #sillycat #rescuelife #kittykitty #kittylove #inabubble #MrCool #kentuckykittycats
We desperately need to find new ways to generate funds, which means we desperately need new motivated, energetic people to get involved. We could definitely use a wise eBay or online seller to help us in that direction. Fun fundraisers or cookouts would be great. We don’t want people to have to give from already tight budgets. Kroger rewards is a great way to help us, but so far we have pleaded 66 to sign up. It’s tricky because they have to be a resident in the Louisville area stores, but that does include Muhlenberg and Owensboro. Walmart round up is a great tool too. You would never be giving us more than 99 cents. And we really thought my giving circle voting for free would help but we barely get 1000 votes a month when each person can vote with each email every week. It’s just not something that’s working unless we can get people on TikTok to join in, but we just can’t compete with the big rescues to win any money there without filtering lots of dollars through there and they take at 8% of of every dollar. That’s not a very smart way for us because cash app and PayPal giving fund do not charge any fees. Rescue is asked more and more and more and more to help animals that shelters will not take and they don’t come cheap. We lost our sweet Polly the one that had a fungus face before we got a chance to ask anybody to donate a dollar. It’s just a lot of cost, and we hate to say no, but we can’t go in the hole anymore than we are in. We haven’t had a food bank in a long while and it’s to the point where we’re probably going to have to buy more wet food unless food comes up soon. There’s just a lot of financial stress involved and no hours left to work on it. So if any of you young folk, want to have a car wash or help us with a cookout or something that is fair price to the community, please hit us up. We need you!
