DoRe Ranch and Rescue

02/04/2025

We were contacted by another rescue in regard to helping her find homes for a bunch of her sanctuary animals.

Debi at Second Chance Rescue has an awesome place and set up. All of her animals are happy and healthy!

I was talking with Debi and asked if it were ok if she would mind if I asked around. I spoke with Liz and Clarissa at Kershaw County Humane Society and they had room for the 20+ cats and kittens. All of the cats, with a few, have been fully vetted!

We set up a time to head over to Abbeville and Christian and I met Debi and started loading the kitties up.

I was also able to tour her sanctuary and we will be helping out a little more…more on that later.

I completely goofed and forgot to get pictures of the 3 moos she has.

02/03/2025

First week of February is off to a great TNR start.

I was setting up the traps, I heard the clink from the trap, bam, 2 kittens, 1 trap.

Was prepping my last 2 traps, I planned on setting up 10 traps in total, clink, cat number 3.

Finished setting all the traps, now I wait.

02/01/2025

We are working on trust with the moos 😊. We know it will take awhile and that’s 100% ok.

The moos all love Knicker Makers, it’s a snack sold at Tractor Supply for horses.

Francine, with the white eyebrows, loves her snacks. Moopaul will do anything Francine does.

Off camera is Regina, she’s the boss of the moos.

01/31/2025

I don't have many pictures, however, our collaboration with Kershaw County Humane Society is off to a good start!

We've now TNRd several colonies worth of cats in Elgin, Camden and Cassatt.

We are chipping away at our TNR requests as we get them in.

One of the properties we are TNRing at is on a dirt road, with 2 abandoned properties near it, and a landfill at the end of the dirt road, we will be going back out over the next few weeks.

If you've submitted your TNR request form, please be patient with us :-). We are handling them as we move through them. Our current TNR forms have me busy up through the middle to end of February.

The kitty in the picture is from the above mentioned property. This kitty is a beast! He weighed anywhere from 15-20lbs. He was also a very spicy nugget.

01/28/2025

We love getting updates on cats we’ve adopted thru our rescue.

We received this pic today of Jack enjoying his best life with his feline friends. Jack is the tabby in the middle of the cat tree.

Jack was one of three cats that we pulled from a shelter as a sibling group. All 3 of the cats from this group were super friendly and were adopted quickly!

📸 used with permission from Jack’s adopter.

01/27/2025

Hey

I was recently contacted by another rescue who needs to find placement for the animals in her care.

I asked if she would mind if I shared to y'all and if any of my farm rescue friends may be able to help or can help with any leads to help her out.

I'm copying/pasting the message she sent me, with her permission :-)

"Do you have space at all? After 40+ years of Rescue/Sanctuary I have serious health issues and my Drs/Surgeon say I can't continue. I'm reaching out to every Rescue/Sanctuary I can find and having little to no luck. I'm terrified as to what will happen to my animals. Below is the list of who needs safe refuge:
56 Pot Belly pigs (all 10+ yes and fixed)
3 Farm Pigs (all 9+ years old and fixed)
2 Holstein Cows (1 hefer and 1 steer, both 4 yrs)
1 Guernsey Steer (4 yes old)
17 young cats (all fully vetted and 4mo to 2 yrs)
3 Miniature horses (3 gelding, 17 yr, 21 yr and 25 yr)
5 Roosters (about 1 yr old and all get along)"

Please post here if you can help or message us directly.

Frog Song Farm Sanctuary
Cotton Branch Farm Sanctuary
Crooked Creek Farm

Any leads, help, insight you can offer would be greatly appreciated :-)

The rescue and person asking for help is in Abbeville, SC. Transportation may be arranged.
I will edit to answer the more commonly asked questions :-)

01/25/2025

We got a few of these for the kittercats here. So far, they are all exploring 😊

01/24/2025

These two don’t cuddle often, this weather is definitely making strange bed fellows. Lol

Van is our stomatitis cat and Nugget is a glutton, I mean svelte, I mean rubenesque, I mean voluptuous…he’s fat. 😂

01/22/2025

We brought Turd’s littermates in the house last night. Typically they hunker down in one of the shelters, however, they were petrified of the snow.

So Fluff and Scar are in the house now.

Up until last night we couldn’t handle Fluff, she was having none of it, no pets, no handling of any kind…Scar we could pet, we couldn’t pick her up, at all.

The snow made them very friendly, very quickly. Lol

They are both in a 7500, they were fed, have a litter box, toys, and a kitty hide away.

01/21/2025

We just officially turned 2 as a 501(c)(3)!

We've done a lot and we've learned even more in the past year.

The end of 2024 marked us as having adopted out over 150 cats and kittens.

We have really focused on TNR in Kershaw County, SC...especially with our partnership with Kershaw County Humane Society.

From an intake perspective, we are full on all of our farm animals here at the Ranch. The farm animals we have are in sanctuary status here.

We've been busy over the last year. Below are just a few highlights.

We helped our buddies Cotton Branch Farm Sanctuary and Frog Song Farm Sanctuary take in piggies from 2 separate hoarding cases. CBFS handled a large hoarding case of pot belly pigs and we took on 8 of the piglets, all of whom have been spayed or neutered. We took in Momma Morton from FSFS, Momma Morton is sister (?) to their Molly.

We also worked with a private company and took in a small herd of moos. The cows comprise of 4 adult females and 2 calves. The calves are a steer (neutered bull) and a cow.

We also took in several goats and had 2 kids born here.

We worked with our local Animal Control/Code Enforcement and took in 3 pigs and 1 goat.

We also worked with several rescue friends and added to our barn cat colony.

We adopted out most of our cats through our partnership with a pet store, at two separate locations. The one location, in Columbia, closed, and we had to adjust accordingly. We are still at the Lancaster location and our adoptions have been steady!

We couldn't do a fraction of what we do without your continued support!

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01/21/2025

Turdie Birdie got a new toy.

He’s loving it.

He’s going to be in a 7500 for a little bit longer. We want him to reach around 5 lbs so he can have a chance with our bruisers. lol

01/19/2025

https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/hcp/clinical-overview/index.html

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/rabies/symptoms-causes/syc-20351821

https://healthy.arkansas.gov/programs-services/diseases-conditions/diseases-from-animals-insects/rabies/rabies-faqs/

https://www.rabieswatch.com/en/hcp/how-is-rabies-transmitted

Here's some information to be shared.

There's a known case, confirmed by testing, of a kitten that was brought to a local vet (in Camden) and that kitten was sent to be tested and was tested positive for rabies.

Why am I sharing this?

I'm actively TNRing in the town that the kitten was found in.

Why am I sharing the information with anyone/everyone?

People are out trapping within a +/- 2 mile radius of where the infected kitten was found. The kitten was part of a 20 +/- colony.

Why should or shouldn't anyone be trapping cats in this area?

Exposure. It's really that simple. If you are in the area, or near the area where this colony is, and where this kitten that was a confirmed positive, please DO NOT trap cats in the area. Please let DHEC or AC/CE trap the cats in the area. If anyone is trapping in the area, please be super and extra careful. You may be inadvertently bringing a vector onto your property (car, bed of truck, lawn, etc) and you may also be inadvertently turning your trap into a fomite.

Snapple fact: A vector is typically a living organism that transmits a bacteria or virus (think tick/Lyme's disease, mosquito/heartworm disease). A fomite is typically an inanimate object that can passively carry bacteria or virus (doorknob, countertop, toilet, etc)

Please do not trap cats near the area where this kitten was found, especially if it's within a 5 mile radius!

How the rabies virus can be transmitted to humans from animal bites and scratches

01/13/2025

This is our pittie puppy, Tacoma, aka Tacky, aka Knucklehead. He loves the moos. We can't tell you how often the moos will be sleeping near this corner, and he's out there right next to them. No barking, no nothing, just tail going 240 :-). The moos don't mind him one bit.

Tacoma came to us via We Are Zeus. We believe he still has a few siblings that are still available for adoption. He's a great pup, a very arduous chewer, he listens well, he's easily trainable, and he loves his snacks :-).

01/12/2025

Turdie Birdie weighs 3lbs 3 ounces! We couldn’t be happier. Now that his back end has fully healed (no more swelling, redness, eczema, kitty diaper rash) he’s definitely a he 😊

01/10/2025

We received a donation from our Chewy wish list today. Chewy donations are anonymous, so we just want to publicly say “Thank You!” for the donation.

01/09/2025

Momma Morton non-update update 😏

Is she fakin or is she makin?

01/08/2025

Sharing this from our rescue buddy at VioletsHouse.

I'm taking this a step further, this is why every cat or kitten, will NOT leave here without being spayed or neutered. Does this mean we won't adopt out 8 week old kittens, 100%! Does this mean virtually every kitten we have for adoption is at least 4 months old (old enough for their rabies vaccine), 100%.

In case you need more proof to get your kitties fixed early…
Or in case you have someone telling you to wait until 6 months…
Just don’t.
👉🏼 Don’t risk contributing to the overpopulation crisis.
I guess no one told this little one it’s the middle of winter either.
DON’T WAIT‼️

01/06/2025

We feed approximately 32 cans a night, for the cats that eat on the front porch. We feed about 12 cans a night to the barn cats.

We feed, roughly, 20-25 lbs of cat kibble every other day.