Kitten Rescue 101

11/16/2024

Come meet our Thanksgiving litter of kittens! Today at PetSmart Fremont from 12-3pm! See you there! 🍗🍞🍂🌽🥧

11/14/2024

🎬✨ Get ready for a night of laughter, nostalgia, and feline fun Nov 22! ✨🐾 We are hosting our 3rd fundraiser for the year!

Calling all cat lovers, comedy enthusiasts, and anyone looking for a purr-fect evening out! Join us for a unique experience filled with classic cat themed silent film and live improv comedy that’ll have you laughing.

Bring your friends, bring your family—this event has something for everyone! Not only will you have a great time, but you’ll also be supporting an amazing cause for our furry friends in need. 🐱💖

Can't make it? You can also just donate to help support us and all the little kittens that need rescue. ❤️ Every dollar counts.

11/09/2024

🎬✨ Get ready for a night of laughter, nostalgia, and feline fun! ✨🐾 We are hosting our 3rd fundraiser for the year!

Calling all cat lovers, comedy enthusiasts, and anyone looking for a purr-fect evening out! Join us for a unique experience filled with classic silent films and live improv comedy that’ll have you laughing from start to finish.

Bring your friends, bring your family—this event has something for everyone! Not only will you have a great time, but you’ll also be supporting an amazing cause for our furry friends in need. 🐱💖

Comedy and Classics for Kitten Rescue

10/23/2024

So many kittens available for adoption during National Adoption Week at PetSmart Fremont this week! This weekend will be very busy!! Fill out an application today and find your purrfect kitty! 😻

10/20/2024

We are gearing up for with Oct 21-27th and boy do we have a lot of kitties! We are gonna feature and post a few each day so they each get all the air time, likes 👍 and hearts ❤️ they deserve! Today we are featuring Yayoi, Kusama, and Hershey! Come to our open meet and greet this weekend at PetSmart Fremont from 12-3 and find your purrfect kitten!

10/06/2024

Our Halloween Kitties are here and now available for adoption!! They will be featured at PetSmart in Fremont today (10/6) for adoptions and meet & greets between 12-3! Come by and say hi to these sweeties!! 🍫🍬🍭🎃

09/28/2024

These cuties are tomorrow (Sunday 9/29) to PetSmart Fremont! 12-3 open meet and greet for our collection of Fall theme kitties! Orange, creams, black and white! Just in time for Halloween 🎃

08/13/2024

Hello Kitty lovers, we are looking for your support on a recent project that has come to us. We were recently contacted in regards to a situation where many cats of all ages and health stages are reproducing at a staggering rate, with no help in sight. Situations like this cause much unnecessary suffering and death of innocent, defenseless cats. When population of cats go unchecked so does scarcity of resources, disease and death. We are working hard to fix and help all of these kitties, who just upon a cursory assessment number in the high 20's. We have already been able to successfully catch and fix 6 of them. We will continue working with neighbors and local clinics to help us catch these guys and get them in for appointments. We need your help to continue with this mission. Your donations, big and small, will help us with the costs that keep accumulating for our small rescue, and will make all the difference in the lives of these poor, forgotten cats.

Urgent Help Needed for a Growing Cat Colony Dear Cat Lovers, We nee… Stefanie Smith needs your support for Urgent Help Needed for a Growing Cat Colony

07/19/2024

Half alien half kitten! 👽/😺

It's bath time for these little ones! Since they are still learning how to eat properly, then just dive head first into their wet food and smear it all over their faces!

Kittens are very cute but do you know how much work they really are? When adopting a kitten/kittens make sure you know what you're signing up for! They are rambunctious, require food, litter, socialization, and your love! Adopting is a commitment. They become your family, and will be with you through thick and thin. If you're not sure you can make such a commitment, fostering is a great alternative! Reach out to shelters and rescues and volunteer to foster. You'll be help saving lives and be with cute little kittens! Win win for everyone!

07/18/2024

It's NATIONAL ADOPTION WEEK at PetSmart and we have a ton of kitties available for adoption! Our big adoption day is Saturday July 20 from 11-2pm! Come by in Fremont to meet some of these cutie pies! All of our kitties are fixed, vaccinated, dewormed, flea treated and microchipped prior to adoption.

07/11/2024

Go go Power Rangers! These little guys were found outside by an elderly couple who couldn't keep up with the round the clock feeding they needed to survive. stepped up and took them in temporarily until we could make space for them! We love rescue collaborations because we can help each other out! There are 2 different litters with the smallest one weighing in at only 6 ounces!

Presenting to you the fierce, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers litter!! Jason, Billy, Zack, Trini, and Kimberly! Welcome to rescue little ones!

04/03/2024

If you can open your home to temporarily foster please help 🙏

03/25/2024

I've been doing cat rescue for over 10 years. Rescue work is HARD and I don't say that lightly. Despite the social media posts and reels of happy adoptions and cute kittens, rescue behind the scenes is a very different story. This is just a glimpse of things YOU will probably never see or experience:

- You will never experience the moment a kitten is gasping for their last breaths while you’re scrambling to pull Euthasol to help end their suffering. You don't have time to cry, get frantic, or lose your sh*t.

- You will never know what it's like to be at the emergency vet all night only to have your kitten die, wake up 3 hours later and be forced to function because there are many other lives counting on you. There's no time to cry or grieve properly.

- You will never have to make difficult decisions whether to spend thousands of dollars on one cat for a complicated surgery or to opt for euthanasia. Question “do I try to socialize these semi feral kittens to give them a chance at an adoptable indoor life or save the space for future 5-10 friendlies? Or do I take in this medical kitten who will be euthanized at the shelter?” You have to make these hard decisions every day.

- You will never have to wake up every 2 hours to bottle feed newborn kittens because someone decided to “rescue” them and brought them to you while mama cat was out trying to get food. Basically kidnapping them…But hey, they feel good because they “rescued them” and left you to do all the hard work, pay their medical bills, and spend every weekend at adoption events making sure they go to good homes.

- You will never see the cruel side of humanity where you witness animal abuse, kittens being thrown out of cars, cats taped up in boxes and dumped in the garbage, find half dead kittens in a shoe box left on the conveyor belt at your adoption pet store….and you are still expected to be a kind, polite, and a happy, normal human being.

- You will probably never have to give up your high paying corporate job because working a normal 8+ hour day and then coming home to do rescue “work” for another 8-10 hours is just not sustainable or healthy for anybody.

- You will never know what it's like to give up every weekend to “work” adoption fairs, miss family events, miss out on friendships and relationships, or have a social life. You'll never know what it feels like to sacrifice so much, give SO much, and feel SO underappreciated.

But I know all these things because this is what it's like to run a rescue.

People will say “why don't you have more cats for adoption?” or give an attitude because they weren't the selected adopter for the kitten of their choosing. People demand that I help them because “you're a rescue” and that I “should come to their house and remove these cats” or ask “why can't you help me with these kittens?” because I'm tired. I have limits. I am one person. That's what the Tri city shelter is for - but they will turn you away because even with staff and resources, they can't do it all.

If you are adopting from a rescue, if you're asking for rescue help, just read some of these things and please be kind. We are really doing our best. If you know a person in rescue, buy them a coffee, a snack, a drink- they most likely haven't eaten anything all day. Appreciate them in a way that will make their day a little bit easier. Everyday is a difficult day for us in rescue but kindness goes a long way. Like I said…rescue work is hard. Most people don't know or understand - but now you know… even if it's just a glimpse.

Written by Yurika Vu, Director Kitten Rescue 101

(Picture of my foster kitten in the oxygen chamber 3am last night at MedVet Emergency). Juvenile Lymphoma...she died.

03/22/2024

That can't be the same cat... Believe it or not- it is! Before and after. Tommy has transformed with lots of love, high quality food, and pets from his amazing foster From to , the transformation is undeniable. His coat is shiny and healthier, his eyes bright and curious, he is fixed and vaccinated! He looks like a brand new younger kitten doesn't he?! Reverse aging! I need some of that! 😂

Tommy was trapped and fixed as a TNR (trap/spay/neuter/release) and was slated to be released back outdoors where he came from. But he was young enough, we thought he could come around! And yes he did. 😸 Tommy and his brother Oliver will be featured at PetSmart Fremont on Saturday for National Adoption Week!

02/09/2024

❤️ Find your purrrfect match at our next adoption event! ❤️ Saturday Feb 10 at PetSmart in Fremont! Appointments are from 11-1 and open meet and greet from 1-3! 😻

01/29/2024

It's been a 4 month journey since we started Project P (60+ cat hoarding situation) but we are surely making progress. This is the story of S'mores. When we first saw her, she was very thin, tiny for her age, had an upper respiratory infection, eye infections, and giardia. Frankly, she was in quite terrible condition (as were all the cats in the house). We took her out and placed her into foster care to get the medication she needed, treated her diarrhea, vaccinated her, and got her spayed. She nearly doubled her weight at her one month re-check!

Once her medical needs were addressed, it was time to work on socialization and behavior! S'mores and 2 others we pulled spent 4 months with our awesome foster Karen and have thrived given a proper environment. A home in which she felt safe, loved, given proper nutrition and lots of play time. S'mores was finally cleared for adoption and landed an awesome home with another kitty friend!

It has been a long journey with many vet visits, diagnostic tests, care, effort, time and love but we are so happy for S'mores ❤️. We are on a mission to save one kitty at a time.

We are still working on this Project P as there are just a few more left to get spay/neutered. We have already taken out all the friendly and under 1 year old kittens out and placed them into foster care. We will then slowly but surely work on getting the adult kitties out of there and into loving homes.

Congrats to S'mores and finding her furrever home!

10/07/2023

Coming tomorrow! These Japanese cuties are now available for adoption. Come by to PetSmart in Fremont from 11-2 to meet these little kitties 😻 Application is required.

08/23/2023