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02/16/2025

Our second birthday today is Little Momma ❤️❤️

Little Momma is celebrating her 4th birthday (at least 4 😊). Little Momma came in with her kitten Unique in August 2022. She is our resident momma bear watching over the other kitties that come in frightened and calming them with her quiet, peaceful demeanor. She is respected by all of them as the matriarch and spends her afternoons basking in the sun taking cat naps 😻

The first picture is outside before she was trapped, then a picture a couple months later, and now laying on her furry blanket 😊

Happy Birthday Little Momma 🎂🐾❤️🎉

02/16/2025

We have two birthday kitties today 😻😻🎂🎂🎉🎉🎁🎁

Mouse is celebrating his 7th birthday with his bestie, Tom, and his loving foster family ❤️❤️ The first picture is February 10, 2024 when we were coordinating to get him inside, the second picture is him 9 days later right after being trapped and headed to the vet, and the last picture is him today 🐾🎉 His foster mom got him some new birthday toys but he’s more interested in taking a nap in his FAVORITE chair!!😂😂

Happy Birthday handsome❤️❤️

02/15/2025

Some days everything you see on social media seems like the world is going south…but this was a sweet reminder of the blessing of the simple things in life and the power of animals to bring joy even during these uncertain times 🐾❤️

Our Co-Founder, Chris, and his therapy dog, Sawyer, look forward to spending time each week with their friends and residents in this community. Here is a sweet reminder that showing up matters ❤️

“Hi Chris!
I wanted to share these pictures with you. I love them! They show how much the residents enjoy their pet visits with you and Sawyer. Jewell’s face says it all. Thanks for everything you do for our residents.”

Therapy animals are proof of the power of unconditional acceptance and that, even in the toughest of times, a paw in your hand changes everything 🐾.

Animals don’t make judgments about physical appearance or abilities, and they don’t care how big your house is or what you do for a living. They care about the quality of your character and your capacity to love.” (Elizabeth Eiler)….We humans have a lot to learn from them 🥰❤️

Pet Therapy Days are the best with Chris and Sawyer.

02/14/2025

Happy 6th Birthday to one of our favorite Valentines - Mr Thomas, aka Tom 😻😻🎁 🎂🎈

Sweet Mr T has been living the good life with his bonus mom and dad, his bestie from the street, Mouse (who also has a birthday coming up 😊), and his other kitty and canine siblings 🏖️ 🍹😎

This new chapter in Tom’s life is brought to you courtesy of a wonderful foster family who have eagerly and graciously stepped into the lives of Tom and Mouse to give them hope and the opportunity for many more birthdays like this ❤️❤️

Thank you to all those that step in to be the calm in the storm and smooth sailing for these precious souls 🥰🐾

What a difference a year makes! Tom has come a long way in the last year - from not being able to eat any hard kibble because his teeth were so bad, living on the street, and not fond of humans - to now when he has his own inside home, loves to be brushed and get lots of love, and can eat to his heart’s desire…and as you can see he naturally feels it is mandatory to guard his food supply from hoodlums and sneak attacks 😻😻

Happy Birthday Tom 🎉 and many more 🐾🎈😻

02/13/2025

Most cats found outside are NOT feral, they are afraid. It takes patience and time for them to trust, but the shelters are not safe for them. Please either let them be or contact a rescue that can help.

Your intentions are good.. You bring the cat to a shelter so it can be adopted.. But you tell the shelter that it's a feral cat.. This is usually the difference between life and death for that cat! They will often take the time to re-socialize a scared stray, but they will not "waste time and space" on a feral cat, because it's alot more time consuming and alot more work to socialize a feral cat, with no guarantee of success..

Most community cats are strays that are just scared because they are lost or have been abandoned.. Ferals are much more rare.. But they deserve the right to live too!

Please learn the difference! Don't give the strays a death sentence because you don't know the difference.. and don't turn in the ferals to be killed for just trying to live their lives..
❤️🐈‍⬛🐾

Thank you Second Chance for Strays

02/08/2025

Check your pets microchip!

This is also a reminder to make sure your contact information is correct and updated for your pet(s) microchip.

If your pets microchip is with Save This Life, they will no longer be able to assist bringing your pets home if they’re lost or stolen!

Please use the link below to update your microchips for free or contact one of the companies listed in the photo!!

https://www.freepetchipregistry.com/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1-nqNw5aEceAPX1dT5L-OCmZI8fgkgFvY18l4zk0hbHsKD7iy0X4eb2yQ_aem_OzrvDHoPSUkrXva4vZKW4A

02/07/2025

…and Winston has started eating again!!!…after not eating for one week because of acute pancreatitis…he’s coming back ❤️❤️ 🥳👏😻😻😻😻

02/07/2025

February 6, 2024 - one year ago yesterday - we pulled Camelia (aka Miss Camie Jo) from the shelter. She had come in as a stray. A super senior (they estimated 14-15 years old), with mammary tumors, and was considered a hospice case with an estimated 3 months to live, and not adoptable. We are so thankful they reached out to us ❤️

Through the life saving gift from Live Like Roo Foundation, Camie had a radical mastectomy shortly after coming to our rescue. She recovered very well and has been on oral chemo since that time. She has no side effects from the chemo meds and has continued to thrive. She has a small growth that came back but thanks to the quick intervention of her oncologist it has not grown, in fact it has shrunk!!

One year later she is a spunky, beautiful senior girl who loves laying in her favorite spots in the sun, loves Churu bites, hangs with her kitty friends, and continues to amaze all of us with her perseverance, tenacity and zeal for life ❤️❤️

Live like Camie 😻 Keep going. Someday is not a day of the week. Do it today. Find joy in the present. Life is a gift. Open it 🎁 😻🐾❤️

Here is Camie’s first picture as a stray post at the shelter and one this morning - just over one year later😻😻 no longer a hospice kitty, just a sweet senior lady livin’ the life ❤️🐾

02/07/2025

Please welcome our newest kitty, Freddy 😻

Freddy is quite a sick kitty 😟 His story starts January 22 when an alert Good Samaritan (Lauren Elizabeth Smith) spotted Freddy outside in the cold when she got to work that day. She posted on Lost and Found Pets in Prince William asking for help for him. From that night on, several people tried to get Freddy to safety. I met Lauren and her husband and Molly and Joe the first night as we tried to get Freddy trapped with no luck. Brenda, Amy and Mary also tried to get him trapped. Molly and Joe were there almost every day trying to get him and finally their persistence paid off and 6 days later they were able to trap him (January 28th) ❤️ Everyone who saw Freddy knew he was very sick- he was thin, his eyes and nose were crusted over and he was obviously in distress physically.

He was dropped off at the vet the next morning after being trapped. Unfortunately the vet did not take note of his deteriorating health condition and proceeded to sedate, neuter and vaccinate him, and did not treat his sickness. He was also found to be FIV+. Thankfully, Molly knew he was very sick and was very worried that he had not received antibiotics and the treatment he needed, and the rescue she was working with very graciously agreed to transfer him to us on January 31.

Freddy was seen by our vet. He had so many things going against him - first and foremost he was very sick, then coupled with a compromised immune system, he had undergone sedation, surgery and vaccines, he is a senior cat (estimated to be at least 10, but likely older based on his teeth), he weighed only 6.8 pounds (his normal is probably nearly twice that), he has missing and broken teeth, was very weak, and a very severe upper respiratory infection - and these were just the things that we could see 😭😭

He was lethargic, heavily congested, and not eating or drinking. He was given two different antibiotic shots, B12 and fluids every other day and supportive care and finally on February 5th he started eating again ❤️❤️❤️ The vet considered him in critical condition up until that time and was here constantly checking on him as we had concern that he may not be able to overcome the attack on his system. He slept almost non-stop. He was definitely in the “red” zone. Lots and lots of prayers were being said and answered 🥰

He is in the “yellow” zone right now - not critical, but definitely a ways from healthy. He is still fighting infection, you can see around his eyes is still swollen, a vaporizer is running in his room constantly and he still is pretty congested. Since he is now eating, we can start doxycycline also. We have pulled blood and his organ function is all normal which is great! CBC results should be back tomorrow. His system has been depleted so this is a slow road but we are very thankful that he has overcome one major hurdle by eating and drinking again.

The Freddy in these pictures will look like a new kitty once he recovers and we are all excited to see that day 😊

Just for reference I’ve added a couple pictures of our Lt Dan (another of our permanent residents who is also FiV+). The day of his amputation surgery, his leg was so infected and the infection was clearly running through his body - look at the size of his face! You would never know the next picture is him now - that swollen head was infection. I believe Freddy has some of the same issue with swelling because of infection and he may look like a different cat soon 🙏

It takes a village, and Freddy had a whole community rallying behind him ❤️

Please keep prayers coming for him 🙏 he needs them 🥰❤️🐾@

02/06/2025

Happy 7th birthday Reggie 🎂 😻🐾 🎈

Reggie is one of our permanent residents and is a handsome, sweet, reserved ginger boy with a fun personality ❤️

Reggie and Emmie were trapped January 20, 2021 and their little girl Emmie trapped just days later - here’s a little walk down memory lane with this handsome guy…from then to now. The last picture is him proving to me he’s not a scaredy cat like everybody else and is excited to go into a cat carrier 😁 in fact he kinda thinks that would be a great new hiding spot for him 🤔😻

Keep shining your light 💡 sweet boy - you are loved ❤️ Happy Happy Happy Birthday Reggie 🎉 🥳🐾

02/06/2025

A little update on Hoku and Poki - the two boys that were trapped in December at a compromised colony site.

Here is a quick note from their foster-

🐾🐾Some big steps with Poki have been had lately! My husband has been going in and feeding Hoku and Poki at least once a day and they're totally fine with him. Poki comes out and starts meowing when he knows it's food time and he'll even come close to the door and meow!
If we take too long to put the food down he softly smacks at our hands as if to tell us to hurry up 😂 both boys let both of us pet them and come up to them now! My cats haven't come around yet but Hoku is so dang friendly he'll actively show them his belly! ❤️❤️

Both boys are socializing very well and loving their inside life 😻😻

02/04/2025

Please keep our handsome super senior Winston in your prayers. He started not wanting to eat this weekend and yesterday was seen by the vet. He has pancreatitis which is painful and causing him to feel pretty sick 😩 He received fluids, injections for pain, antibiotic, anti-nausea , an appetite stimulant and had bloodwork. He ate a TINY (very tiny) bit overnight, and will be on pain meds and nausea meds until he improves…which is hopefully quickly. He looks so sad and it’s killing me 😭

We have a few kitties fighting big battles right now, including some big hurdles to overcome for some of our fosters personal kitties, and we all sure do appreciate your prayers for healing for all the kitties we care for 🙏🥰🐾

02/02/2025

In case you could use something to make you laugh…

A few days ago I found this energetic boy blocking the Roomba from vacuuming ☹️ he had it cornered in the kitchen and was laying in front of it so it couldn’t get around him 😩 I picked him up and took him to another room but he ran right back…so I picked him up again…and again…and he was quite upset with me 😡

I went back to my office for a while and when I came upstairs later I found him sound asleep with these three rocks that he took from around a fake plant and placed in a triangle in front of him…looks like maybe some type of cat ritual to keep mean humans out? 😂

02/02/2025

Sweet Ollie Bollie ❤️🐾❤️

Oliver…the first picture is 15 months ago. The second picture is now ❤️

Abandoned by his owner.

Attacked outside resulting in FIV infection.

Seen and adored by women who fed and cared for him and wanted a better life for him.

Trapped, fostered, and adopted to a loving forever home where he is safely inside.

Now living his best life ever with his very own little boy to love ❤️❤️❤️.

FIV+ is not a death sentence and infected cats can live normal, long healthy lives. They are all worthy of a beautiful life like this 🥰😻🐾

01/31/2025

In late November, we received a call from a friend who cares for community cats in our area. A tiny kitten had been found and needed help. One of our amazing fosters without hesitation said “I’ll go!” ❤️ She got this tiny girl, Layla (only about 3 weeks old), and brought her in. Through her foster contacts she was quickly able to transfer the young kitten to another rescue who had an orphan kitten that needed a friend.

Then…several days later we got another call…one more kitten was found. Again, the foster jumped in and picked up this tiny girl, Neve, right away ❤️ She was sick, had been out in the freezing weather, and needed lots of TLC. As fate would have it, a friend of the foster had just suffered a great loss and this little kitten was just what she needed 🥰 Neve (which means bright or radiant) will be spayed at 4 months old, chipped and finish her vaccinations and then officially adopted into her new home with her new mom and a feline friend 🏡 🐾😻

So many times in rescue, as in life, the answer to a request for help is just “yes!” and we will figure out the rest later - so thankful to be in the presence of an amazing group of fosters who love beyond the fears of what about…or what’s next?❤️🐾❤️

The first two pictures are Layla (then, and a recent picture from her foster at Tails High where she will be available for adoption), and the rest of the pictures are sweet little Neve…from then to now😻

01/30/2025

This morning as you hold those you love closely, we have so many prayers needed in our nation today.

The tragic plane crash last night leaving so many families devastated and changed forever. Many of the passengers and the crew from the military helicopter were from our local area. Our hearts are so very heavy 🥹

Those in our communities, your neighbors, are fearful of the future and anxiety fills their days.

This moment is all you are promised - be kind, share what you have with others, protect the oppressed, unseen and discarded (human and animal). Someone today is looking for a small glimmer of hope - a light in the darkness - be the smile, the hand on their shoulder, the ear to listen, be their friend.

01/28/2025

Please say some prayers for our little tortie, Lena. She has a nasty upper respiratory infection and got some antibiotics on board this evening. She is coughing but her lungs are clear so hoping she’s feeling better quickly 🙏🙏🙏

This is not a “today” picture - she has been hunkered down in a cat cubby this weekend resting and hoping to beat the cough with some doxy and lysine but it wasn’t helping so she got a couple shots this evening and some B12 to help get her back on track.

Praying for a cough-free kitty in the next 24 hours 🙏