Place For Cats

06/23/2024

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We cannot believe we are having to post this but the foster we had lined up who emphatically assured us she would foster CHARLOTTE starting in June failed to send back the fostering agreement and is otherwise now ghosting us. When our director, Mia, reached out to collect the signed foster agreement and firm up delivery details for CHARLOTTE who will be picked up from the airport Monday, June 24th, the woman failed to respond to phone calls, emails and texts.

Beautiful CHARLOTTE has been through so much and will be on a flight from Cairo Sunday night, June 23rd. We have ONE DAY to find an alternative foster home for this beauty.

PLEASE SHARE & PLEASE REACH OUT IF YOU LIVE IN NYC AND CAN FOSTER LOVELY CHARLOTTE.

06/21/2024

💙💙💙💙💙Hard to believe but this wonderfully handsome tuxedo is still looking for his furrever home! Wouldn't you love to have a 💚💚JOEY💚💚 in your life????💙💙💙💙💙

1/11/24 (Date of DCIN’s first post)
Joey is a jewel!

Joey ( #184257) is a handsome senior who came into Place For Cats' (New York, New York) care in October 2023 from NYC ACC's At Risk list. He is being fostered on Staten Island, NY. He is diabetic and requires an injection of insulin every day. NYC ACC also had him listed as being extremely scared though part of that likely was due to the noisy, strange environment.

Joey is really a friendly guy! His foster mom wrote that it didn't take long at all for Joey to acclimate to the household and form a routine. He's a friendly guy and gets along with the foster's own kitty.

Giving the daily insulin injection is not hard at all to do. In most cases it's much easier than giving a pill; the needle is teeny and most animals don't feel it.
Joey is otherwise healthy, FeLV/FIV tested negative, current in vaccinations and microchipped.

Place For Cats' adoption application (needed before scheduling a meet and greet with the foster home) can be downloaded here:https://placeforcats.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/PFC-Adoption-Application.pdf
Please print, complete, sign, scan and return application to [email protected]

FYI from Place for Cats: Additionally, along with your completed application, please write a few sentences telling us about yourself and why you believe Joey will be a good match for you and your household.
PLEASE NOTE THAT JOEY IS BEING FOSTERED ON STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK, NOT IN MANHATTAN WHERE OUR GROUP'S MAIN OFFICE IS LOCATED. Please be prepared to travel to Staten Island to meet Joey.
Adopters agree to an adoption fee and a home visit.
Place For Cats

05/23/2024

We are sooooooooo excited!!!!!

Beautiful 🌹🌹🌹🌹SAMMIE🌹🌹🌹🌹 was rescued from the streets of Egypt with a massive human-inflicted injury to her throat. Rescuer, Samar Zein, took the kitty to her vet where SAMMIE has received extraordinary care, and is now ready for a permanent home in the U.S.

SAMMIE will arrive in an international flight in about 10 days. While we have a loving foster home lined up, we are now accepting adoption applications for this stunning girl.

First picture: Sammie today.
Second photo: Sammie upon rescue.
Link to original post prior to rescue is in comments.

Please reach out to us here on FB or email [email protected] if you or someone you know is interested in giving SAMMIE a safe and loving purrrrmanent home in the NYC area.

05/11/2024

💖💖UPDATE!!!!!💖💖
We have a foster for Charlotte starting June 2nd. Her flight was delayed from May 15th but she will arrive soon. We are now seeking a permanent adopter for this beauty!

‼️‼️IMPORTANT‼️‼️

Once again, we seek a foster for lovely 🎀CHARLOTTE🎀, the kitty who had acid thrown in her face who is now beautifully recovered.

Charlotte is about 1 - 2 years old, is friendly, current in vaccinations, healthy and has healed wonderfully from her tortuous ordeal 6 months ago. Charlotte gets along with other kitties.

Ideally, we seek a home with 0 - 3 other kitties because we want Charlotte finally to enjoy a real home where she can be a Top Cat.

Please comment below or email [email protected] if you can foster Charlotte. If you cannot foster, please SHARE.

🌹🌹🌹A link to our first post on Charlotte is in the comments. 🌹🌹🌹

05/10/2024

‼️‼️‼️FRIENDS!‼️‼️‼️

Beautiful ❤❤❤❤CHARLOTTE❤❤❤❤ arrives May 15th from Cairo and we still do not have a confirmed foster home for her!!!

WHERE is everyone who offered to help?

CHARLOTTE is recovered from the horrendous torture of having had acid poured in her face. Miraculously, thanks to the extraordinary care of DrVicki Michelle Brown at American Cairo Animal Rescue Foundation - ACARF Charlotte's beauty and eyesight have been restored. Now all she needs is a loving, furrrever home.

Please reach out to us here or email [email protected] if you are in the NYC area and are able to foster beautiful ❤❤❤❤❤❤CHARLOTTE❤❤❤❤❤❤!

04/22/2024

UPDATE on dear 💙💙💙ORIO💙💙💙!

Handsome Orio finally had his dentistry courtesy To The Rescue. He had his teeth cleaned and 6 extractions on the side of his partially missing cheek, this to remove an abscessed molar and to help overall healing of the left cheek tissue - or what was left of it after the ordeal he suffered in Egypt last year. (See our post of March 21st for the full account of Orio's rescue in Cairo and painstaking story of his journey to NYC two months ago.)

This really is a success story - overcoming many odds, this wonderful, friendly, forever-purring kitty - is being adopted by his foster mom and day, Margaret & Richard, who have loved him from the moment they saw him. And his kitty-mate, Beautiful Black Bonnie, the very spoiled and discerning resident kitty of Margaret & Richard, has accepted him, too. Here is the pair - celebrating Orio post-surgery in the permanent embrace of his loving New York City home!

Heartfelt thanks to the wonderful ❤Dr. Django Martel❤ and The Schwarzman Animal Medical Center for the generous grant that covered Orio's dentistry.

We wish Orio, Margaret, Richard & kitty-mate Bonnie a wonderful, healthy long life together.

04/04/2024

💙💙💙💙💙💙JOEY💙💙💙💙💙💙 is a dream tuxie who is diabetic. He's been on our roster for a number of months already but no applicants! How is this even possible? He is sooooooo handsome and doesn't blink when he's given his daily injection. PLEASE consider bringing this kitty into your family.
And PLEASE SHARE!!!

1/11/24 (Date of DCIN’s first post)
Joey is a jewel!

Joey ( #184257) is a handsome senior who came into Place For Cats' (New York, New York) care in October 2023 from NYC ACC's At Risk list. He is being fostered on Staten Island, NY. He is diabetic and requires an injection of insulin every day. NYC ACC also had him listed as being extremely scared though part of that likely was due to the noisy, strange environment.

Joey is really a friendly guy! His foster mom wrote that it didn't take long at all for Joey to acclimate to the household and form a routine. He's a friendly guy and gets along with the foster's own kitty.

Giving the daily insulin injection is not hard at all to do. In most cases it's much easier than giving a pill; the needle is teeny and most animals don't feel it.
Joey is otherwise healthy, FeLV/FIV tested negative, current in vaccinations and microchipped.

Place For Cats' adoption application (needed before scheduling a meet and greet with the foster home) can be downloaded here:https://placeforcats.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/PFC-Adoption-Application.pdf
Please print, complete, sign, scan and return application to [email protected]

FYI from Place for Cats: Additionally, along with your completed application, please write a few sentences telling us about yourself and why you believe Joey will be a good match for you and your household.
PLEASE NOTE THAT JOEY IS BEING FOSTERED ON STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK, NOT IN MANHATTAN WHERE OUR GROUP'S MAIN OFFICE IS LOCATED. Please be prepared to travel to Staten Island to meet Joey.
Adopters agree to an adoption fee and a home visit.
Place For Cats

03/31/2024

03/21/2024

💙💙💙❤💙❤💙💙💙ORIO💙💙💙❤💙❤💙💙💙

We mentioned in an earlier post that last week we had a marathon day of getting kitties to their new homes (entirely thanks to Plutonium Cooper who is a tireless driver and a major help to our organization otherwise!) We were all over Manhattan from the very lower East Side to Midtown to Washington Heights and then some!

In addition to the delivery of kittens to new open arms, beloved 💙💙💙ORIO💙💙💙 was delivered to his new foster-to-adopters mom & pop, Margaret & Richard. This kitty's story is wild, horrible, wonderful and all true.

ORIO was found with half his face missing on the streets of Cairo by a rescuer, Abdelrhman. Sayeda is passionate about her life-saving efforts on behalf of hundreds of animals she has saved. Orio received weeks of treatment in a veterinary clinic there. Meanwhile, our director responded to Sayeda's FB posts, and offered to take Orio to The Schwarzman Animal Medical Center to see about restorative construction of his missing cheek, if Orio could be made ready for transport to the U.S. from Egypt.

It took about two months; we tried to find a travel buddy to bring Orio on a flight in cabin but we couldn't find anyone traveling who was willing to take responsibility for him. Finally, Orio was made ready and received his travel papers to join a kitty cargo transport.

Orio would join 19 other felines - including an extremely handsome Himilayan, Venya, also rescued in Cairo and brought to NYC by Place For Cats. (Extraordinary Venya will have his own post, to follow!)

All the kitties in cargo left on a flight from Cairo on February 23rd and arrived at JFK on February 24th. Everyone was so very excited. Orio's rescuer, , bought the sweetest iridescent green and pink jacket for him which became the talk of the town! Sayeda said a tearful good-bye, and all waited with bated breath to learn of the safe landing the next morning, New York time.

Our wonderful volunteer driver, , and our director, Mia Lancaster, made their way to JFK airport February 24th to greet the kitties whose 9 a.m. arrival was on time. Well, it was one heck of a wait - along with other members from other adoption groups eager to see their felines. Finally, five (5) hours after the plane landed, Customs cleared the travelers, all of whom survived the 30 hours in the care of the airlines.

ORIO went first to director Mia's digs so she could observe first hand the degree of residual damage to kitty's cheek. The first appointment turned out to be with Dr. Justin Lamb at City Veterinary Care because Orio had some congestion. Mia thought the extended time in cargo, possibly in too cold temperatures, could have given him an upper respiratory infection. Orio had no temperature and no URI but when Dr. Lamb looked at the chest x-ray he discovered that Orio has a hernia. His liver partially displaces his heart, and kitty also has an abscessed molar. Dr. Lamb said he could not do dentistry until the issue of Orio's hernia was resolved and he reinforced director Mia's plan to get Orio seen at the Animal Medical Center.

Orio, director Mia and Orio's foster mom and pop waited not so patiently for the appointment at AMC. Due to the tremendous backlog, it is a weeks-long wait to see a specialist at the hospital. Finally, on March 8th, Orio got in to AMC to see the doctor who is a specialist in reconstructive surgery, the wonderful Dr. Daniel Spector.

Lo and behold, the evaluation ended with the most unlikely result! Dr. Spector said that reconstruction is not possible on Orio due to there being no underlying tissue to work from/on. The gaping hole left in his cheek from the infected ulcer actually is the best possibly outcome that could have been obtained, given the degree of damage in the beginning. The only tissue under the eye is all muscle scarring, so again, nothing viable to work with. It was a huge surprise, but a reassuring one that the Egyptian vet had done a good job, the best job possible, again, given the state of Orio's cheek, or more accurately, the lack thereof, at the outset in early November. Sayeda, who found Orio and loved him first, was deeply pleased to hear this unexpected praise to be passed on to the Egyptian vet.

As for the hernia, Dr. Spector said that as of now, no surgery to correct it. He said it is at a state where surgery could bring unexpected issues, that many hernias in animals are found when x-rays are taken to determine the extent of other issues, and that in this case at this time, the cure likely would produce more problems than the condition. Orio does, however, have to have that abscessed molar and possible other teeth removed and all of them cleaned. This is being scheduled at AMC. Orio made such a positive impression on everyone! That is obvious by the ear-to-ear smiles on the faces of Dr. Spector and his two assistants as they hold Orio!

Orio is the very most chill cat we ever met. Even after 30 hours of being in a carrier and then being taken to our director's apartment where there is a multitude of cats, Orio did not once hiss, complain or strike out. In fact, all he did upon arrival, and all he does now is purr. He purrs when he wakes up. He purrs all day long. He purrs as he goes to sleep. He is a purr machine.

It was after his appointment at Animal Medical Center that Place For Cats had our marathon day of delivering kitties. Orio is now with Margaret & Richard who dote on him.

So this wonderful, wonderful orange longhair who traveled 6,000 miles to have his face reconstructed in fact won't have that but instead, he has found many here who love him dearly. Orio will never be in want of a home.

Please enjoy Orio's story in these photos.

03/15/2024

♦️📣📣More excellent news!!!!📣📣♦️

❤FERRARI ❤ & ❤OPAL❤ found a Foster-to-Adopt home!

It's about time! This exquisite pair hung with their foster mom, Ana S., for months without interest in them as a pair. (Inexplicable, from our view.) Finally, last week, within 48 hours of each other, two viable applicants surfaced for the kittens as a pair, as we'd hoped. We'd already started with the first applicant, Laura S-T., when the second prospective adopter applied. The kittens were delivered Wednesday to their new home. Many thanks to Plutonium Cooper for the volunteer driving. It was a marathon day of delivering kitties to new homes as a further post will reveal!

Here are a couple pics of the kids in their new home soon after delivery. Opal is still hiding most of the time, but purring!

03/09/2024

EXCELLENT NEWS!!!!

GUESS who found a furrrever home???

❤❤❤SOPHIA❤❤❤!!!

Yup, that lovely terrified tabby who used up everyone's creative juices coming up with suggestions for foster mommy, Soraya, to implement to pull Sophia out of her shell, has found a very beautiful, loving home!

These two pictures say it all:
- the first, if our followers please will recall, there was SOPHIA hiding inside a cabinet for weeks, coming out only in secret at night to eat;
- and second, finally, here was SOPHIA interacting with Soraya shortly before being delivered to her new digs in Brooklyn last Saturday!

Godspeed, 💖💖💖SOPHIA💖💖💖! We wish you and your new mom the most wonderful, loving life together.

Place For Cats is soooooooo grateful to foster mom, Soraya, who did such an excellent job bringing kitty around!

02/23/2024

Hey All!

‼️‼️Place For Cats needs fosters!! ‼️‼️

🙏🙏🙏Please; it is near to being an emergency!!!!!!!!

1. We have a foster who has a family emergency and needs to relocate handsome FERRARI & stunning OPAL as soon as possible.

2. We have kitties on the NYC ACC's Cats on NYC's DEATH ROW CATS that we want to pull since no one else has but as of this moment, we have nowhere to put them. One cat is Walton ACC #194104 who is a sweet and friendly adolescent but who has severe injuries that require immediate surgery and an amputation which ACC cannot perform. Unless a group steps up, Walton will be euthanized.

3. We are in the process of getting back a cat with a foster who turned out to have lied to us, who won't make the kitty available for meets-and-greets with prospective adopters or medical follow-up while at the same time saying she wants to adopt but refuses to hand over the adoption contract. It has been 2 full months trying to resolve the matter. We now have involved police and will need a foster lined up to receive the cat upon his return.

Like other groups, Place For Cats has lost fosters due to the fosters having adopted their wards. We are over-the-moon for those kitties and those adopters but that means we are out possible homes for more strays or for emergencies such as those described.

PLEASE SHARE THIS PLEA FOR NEW FOSTERS.

Contact us here on FB or email [email protected].

Thank you in advance for your help.

02/17/2024

URGENT: PLEASE SHARE!!!!

💙💙💙FERRARI💙💙💙&❤❤❤OPAL❤❤❤ are still looking for their furrrever home!!!

Meanwhile, the kittens are losing their foster home!!!

The pair MUST be relocated soon as their current foster mom has a family emergency to which she has to attend.

PLEASE share for a new FOSTER HOME for the darling pair AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

Please reach out to us here on FB or email us at [email protected]

Thank you kindly.

02/02/2024

Whether chilling while conversing with foster mom Soraya, or carefully practicing her yoga poses, ❤💖💖❤SOPHIA❤💖❤❤ has blossomed into the wonderful companion every household needs. She is young, healthy, spayed, FeLV/FIV tested negative, current in vaccinations and microchipped - ready for her next adventure - it is her turn for a furrrever home.

PLEASE SHARE for a permanent home for 💖💖SOPHIA.💖💖.

Thank you kindly!!

02/02/2024

THE HAZARDS OF HAND WARMERS -
an article from the The Schwarzman Animal Medical Center.

01/23/2024

1/11/24 (Date of DCIN’s first post)
Joey is a jewel!

Joey ( #184257) is a handsome senior who came into Place For Cats' (New York, New York) care in October 2023 from NYC ACC's At Risk list. He is being fostered on Staten Island, NY. He is diabetic and requires an injection of insulin every day. NYC ACC also had him listed as being extremely scared though part of that likely was due to the noisy, strange environment.

Joey is really a friendly guy! His foster mom wrote that it didn't take long at all for Joey to acclimate to the household and form a routine. He's a friendly guy and gets along with the foster's own kitty.

Giving the daily insulin injection is not hard at all to do. In most cases it's much easier than giving a pill; the needle is teeny and most animals don't feel it.
Joey is otherwise healthy, FeLV/FIV tested negative, current in vaccinations and microchipped.

Place For Cats' adoption application (needed before scheduling a meet and greet with the foster home) can be downloaded here:https://placeforcats.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/PFC-Adoption-Application.pdf
Please print, complete, sign, scan and return application to [email protected]

FYI from Place for Cats: Additionally, along with your completed application, please write a few sentences telling us about yourself and why you believe Joey will be a good match for you and your household.
PLEASE NOTE THAT JOEY IS BEING FOSTERED ON STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK, NOT IN MANHATTAN WHERE OUR GROUP'S MAIN OFFICE IS LOCATED. Please be prepared to travel to Staten Island to meet Joey.
Adopters agree to an adoption fee and a home visit.
Place For Cats

01/16/2024

WHAT'S NEW IN 2024??
We guess not much. 😢

Stunning 💖💖OPAL💖💖 and Handsome 💙🩵FERRARI🩵💙 are still looking for their furrrever home.

The kids are a bit down in the dumps - perfectly captured by loving foster mom, Ana S., in this photo.

PLEASE SHARE TO FIND A FABULOUS HOME FOR THESE FABULOUS KITTENS.

01/13/2024

Is anyone finished with the December 2023 issue of New Yorker that has the article about TNR of stray cats??

We could use a few copies and right now we have none.

Thanks in advance!

01/12/2024

UPDATE!

Lovely ❤❤❤SOPHIA❤❤❤ is out of her shell, friendly, playful, lively and eager to meet folks who are available for her to adopt as a purrrrmanent mom and/or dad. Sophia says it's no big whoop to meet her - just the completion of a little old application - and then the introduction and greeting may commence. (Sophia is quite insistent about the application, however. After all, she wouldn't want just anybody applying for her paw!)

Foster mom, Soraya, has done such a splendid job bringing ❤Lady Sophia❤ around to the land of the living. Remember those pitiful pictures in October when all Sophia did was hide out inside a box 24/7?

Please enjoy these wonderful current pictures of the remarkable, renewed, re-imagined and restored SOPHIA!!

🌹🌹Soraya, we cannot thank you enough for all the time, love and energy you put into helping this lovely kitty enjoy life again!🌹🌹

PLEASE SHARE FOR A FURREVER HOME FOR SOPHIA!

01/04/2024

New York City.

Stunning ❤❤❤OPAL❤❤❤ & Oh-so-handsome 💙💙💙FERRARI💙💙💙 are asking "WHAT ARE WE DOING WRONG???"

This spectacular pair still seeks a Furrrever Home! Please share for them, for their future.

There's no rhyme or reason now for the duo to be languishing in foster care. It's past the time that they should have found a loving purrrmanent home.

Ferrari and Opal are really, really good kids!
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
PLEASE help us find a fabulous home for these fabulous kittens!
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

12/31/2023

Wishing all our Supporters, Donors, Adopters, Fosters, Volunteers and their Furry Families Health, Happiness and a Wonderful 2024!

12/28/2023

UPDATE!
💖MONKEY💖 (ACC #182089) & 💖SHY SHY💖 (ACC #180177) have come out of their shells under the loving care of foster mom, Tess Faulkner. Tess says Shy Shy really isn't shy at all and Monkey is the shy one 🐈‍⬛but super sweet. These beautiful girls are ready for adoption.

Shy Shy is about one year of age; Monkey is close to one year. Both are spayed, FeLV/FIV tested negative, current in vaccinations and microchipped.

Please enjoy these pics of the girls! Please share for a permanent home for each. 🙏🙏🙏

12/28/2023

Remember MONKEY (ACC #182089) & SHY SHY (ACC #180177), pulled from NYC ACC back on November 2nd? These girls were on the At Risk list due to behavior. Well, foster mom, Tess Faulkner, has worked wonders with them. The kitties are out and about. Here's a shot of the pretty girls dining together! Still a little jumpy, but hey, we're getting there!
The kitties are for adoption, singly or together. They are spayed, FeLV/FIV tested negative, vaccinated and microchipped. A quieter home would suit each best!

Please share!

12/27/2023

NEW YORK CITY

The Schwarzman Animal Medical Center seeks feline patients for their prospective new treatment for kidney disease.

If your kitty, or the kitty of someone you know, fits the criteria stated below, please reach out directly to AMC.

12/24/2023

🎁🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 It's that time of year!! 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎁

We offer our most Heartfelt Thanks to all our Donors, Fosters, Adopters and Volunteers!

Look for updates this week on our recent pulls from NYC ACC including MISO, JOEY, BUBBLEGUM, SOPHIA, MONKEY, SHY SHY, EVIE, LAVENDER, HONEY, MAPLE, FERRARI, OPAL and NUGGET.

As previously posted, HERCULES was adopted by his loving foster mom! Yay!!!

And CALVIN is being adopted by his loving foster mom!!!! Yay!!!!!

Stay tuned for detailed updates on all!

❤ And Have Yourselves a MERRY, MERRY CHRISTMAS! ❤

💖💖Love from all of us at Place For Cats. 💖💖

12/20/2023

More news!

Stunning ❤❤❤OPAL❤❤❤ & Oh-so-handsome 💙💙💙FERRARI💙💙💙 still seek their Furrrever Home!

We thought we had an adopter for this duo upstate but she decided to adopt locally near her. We've had offers for one kitten only but Place For Cats' policy since our inception in 1990 has been that kittens must go in pairs unless there already is another kitten or cat in the home. The myth that cats are solitary animals applies to cats in the wild who rely on themselves to catch their meals. Cats who have been hand-raised among many kitten playmates do not fit into the myth of the single cat mindset. One of the saddest sights is to see a playful kitten lose his/her playmate, be sent off to become a lonely, bored kitty, growing old and fat all by its lonesome in a home with no feline companion. FERRARI & OPAL have been raised in households with a multitude of other felines.

PLEASE HELP US FIND THE PURRRFECT FURRREVER home for this exquisite pair of young adolescents.

And please enjoy these recent pics of the furry charmers sent by the kitties' foster mom, Ana!

12/20/2023

❤️❤️❤️SOPHIA❤️❤️❤️

Update!

MANY thanks again to all who responded to our plea a month ago to the issue of Sophia continuing to hide and being totally shut down. Soraya, Sophia’s foster mom, took all your suggestions to heart, put most to use and devised some of her own.

The GOOD NEWS is that lovely Sophia has come out of her shell insofar as -finally - venturing out of her hideaway, gingerly seeking affection and participating in play with interactive toys. Progress has been no small thing and Soraya’s diligence is paying off.

Please enjoy these pics of a much, much more relaxed Sophia. ❤️❤️❤️

12/08/2023

So many folks have donated supplies during the past year: carriers, food, containers, brushes, more food, and toys! Our own Marjorie Dawson, our web mistress, won a writers contest. The prizes were a fancy self-cleaning litterbox and a bevy of battery-operated interactive toys. We will be sharing all these items with our foster moms. Please note that Kittens Maple & Nugget have inspected the items and have given their Paws Of Approval!

Thank you, Marjorie!! And congratulations on your win! May you have many more! ❤

12/05/2023

❤💙FERRARI & OPAL💙❤

Ferrari & Opal FINALLY are together again in care of foster mom, Ana S. It has been quite a few months for this pair but they finally are ready for adoption!! PLEASE SHARE FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL PAIR.

Here's what happened:
Ferrari & Opal were pulled as the result of ACC's Special Appeals e-alerts in August. All should have proceeded apace in their first foster home with the kittens being made ready for adoption by late September, but one issue after another prolonged their readiness. Opal's upper respiratory infection recurred several times requiring long medication periods, then there were one-month waits in scheduling the kittens' neuter & spay. Then, after Opal finally at long last was spayed in October, she came back from the operation with a condition called "aspirate pneumonia" requiring hospitalization and then 3 weeks of a grueling medical regimen; i.e., 3 antibiotics administered throughout the day, daily nebulization (placed in a carrier in the bathroom while a very hot shower ran for 15 minutes so she could breathe the steam) as well as daily gentle tapping on her chest to help loosen the phlegm. The original foster mom was not equipped to devote the time necessary so Opal was separated from Ferrari during her medical ordeal into the home of our director, Mia, who administered all the necessary steps of Opal's get-well-regimen.

Finally, at long last, just a week ago, Opal, now fully recovered, and Ferrari, her former BFF, were reunited in the home of foster mom, Ana. But now, of course, the kittens are 6 months old. They need exposure so they still can find the best possible furrrrever home while they still are kittens!

Please help us - please share the news that this beautiful duo is ready for a purrrrmanent family!

11/29/2023

UPDATE on heavenly ❤️❤️❤️Miss NUGGET❤️❤️❤.

Lovely Nugget was seen at City Veterinary Care today by Dr. Anne Cloudman, Dr. Amelia Khan and Dr. Andy Kaplan. The week was spent with great anticipation that we would be told there is a specific surgery that can resolve Nugget's congenital condition. We thought that because that's what the ACC vet notes implied before Nugget was pulled.

However, the bad news is that there is no such surgery that can cure Nugget's deformity. There's a procedure that involves inserting a teeny balloon into the rectum/intestinal tract that supposedly will stretch it so that f***s can more easily pass through. However, the doctors were not sure this would help since the opening already is abnormally large and does not close. Elasticity that should be available from sphincter muscles is missing. Nugget has tone in that area in that she definitely feels what is going on but lacks muscle control.

Nevertheless, Dr. Kaplan said he would try the procedure once little Nugget puts on some weight. There's also an outside hope/prayer that when she gets a little stronger she might gain at least some a**l muscle control.

Meanwhile, Dr. Cloudman is reaching out on a veterinary exchange site, much like Facebook only for the passing and receiving of medical information, to see if anyone has an idea of, or experience with, a more substantial repair of the deformity and what can be done to help Nugget.

Nugget is just the sweetest kitten anyone ever would want to meet. Asking for prayers for the baby. We will be in constant contact with Nugget's vets for updates and for a recheck in a couple weeks.

Please enjoy this freedom pic of sweet, sweet Miss Nugget.