All "Four" Them

07/16/2024

Reminder: if you can't foster or rescue you can still help by donating to the cause. We continue to care for many fosters and an outdoor colony. We maintain a permanent feeding station 24/7 to enable us to monitor them, get them TNRd (trap neuter released) and rehome any that are friendly. Anything helps.

All cats, are on a primarily wet diet made by me. We supplement with dry food as well. Please consider donating a bag, or some of the supplies needed to care for them.

Wishlist https://a.co/0mCxbnU

Blessed Be ✌🏽💜🍣

06/13/2024

Our rescue efforts largely depend on donations to make sure the indoor as well as the outdoor colony stays well fed, gets medical care, and allows us to work towards our dream of buying land and building a sanctuary. Every little bit is very helpful and massively appreciated.

Here's a few ways you can help.

First and foremost we have an Amazon wish list for supplies. List is updated as needed. If the items are shown, we need them.

https://a.co/0mCxbnU

Secondly you can donate to our Cashapp or Venmo.This helps us buy the items we can't put on the wishlist, like fresh chicken and salmon, eggs, goats milk and pumpkin, which are the staple ingredients in our homemade wet cat food, supplies to improve our outdoor habitat for the colony, as well as help ensure the cats all get any medical care needed.

Cashapp $StormySkys78
Venmo

Lastly, if you are local and want to drop supplies off, please DM for that contact information.

I cannot stress enough how much this takes a village. We team up with other rescuers, rescues, and TNR groups to share resources and generally help each other as much as possibly able. We are by no means out here alone, but the sad part is, there's just such an over population, due to many factors, rescue is truly a team sport. But at the end of the day, there's just far more cats than homes..We save who we can, make a difference to those we're able, and we just do the best we can for any we meet.

Blessed Be, ✌🏽💜🍣😻

Images: meet the team and just a few of our babies.

04/26/2024

For those new here I wanted to share with you what we have going on here currently.

We are a mother and two teens ages 17.&.19. I am disabled due to injuries and strokes so I'm in a wheelchair. My teens are both ADHD and on the autism spectrum.

I have always rescued stray cats and dogs since I was 11. My mother never allowed our pets to see vets, get shots, spayed/neutered, be indoor only, etc. So I learned young how to triage the wounds and rehome them to people that would be better than us.

Once I got married and had kids, I took a break rescuing as my kids are all on the spectrum and my hands were over full. They are all now 24, 22, 19, & 17 and only the youngest two are still home.

We got back into rescue when my son asked for an ESA (emotional support animal), he wanted it to be a black cat and he wanted to name hwr Toast.

I found a black kitten that was 2 weeks old who's mother had disappeared, and her litter had been placed with a nursing mom with an older litter. This baby was the runt of her litter, so being with a litter a month older, she just wasn't able to nurse enough. We took her in and two weeks later we took the last unhomed kitten form the older litter. Toast Tada and Gremlin were out only kitty's for a couple years.

Long story short we lost our house in the pandemic and stayed in a motel for almost a year. Had also become disabled just before the pandemic hit so my options to work, disappeared all at once. In that time we found so many cats that were abandoned, dumped etc. we helped the ones we could, find fosters, we had funerals for the ones we couldn't help. We did find some great cat groups and started developing our cat rescue network.

It was during this really hard time of being rock bottom myself, having lost all my dreams for my career and a better life for my kids, that I realized I hadn't lost them all. I remembered a story my mom loved to tell about what I said I wanted to be when I grew up when I was 2/3 yrs old. I had said I wanted a big farm, with lots of animals and children. Where we would grow our own food and help people. I remembered having that dream, but life got busy and it nev t occured to me it was pososble seeing how I was so focused on thrnkids and my career up to this point. But now, now the kids are big, and take more.carebofe than I do them. Now, my career is gone. I am.not able to do what I did before. However, I can work towards doing what I always wanted to do, but didn't think was possible. But it is, and it's going to on happen..

Currently we have 6 cats that are here full time. We had some foster fails (cats you either become attached to, or aren't re-homeable for some reason.) We have two foster, one long term senior, and a feral 6 mo old who we are giving a shot after TNR. Then we have colony outdoors that started showing up to our house. It started with two females trying to get me to let them inside to get away from an aggressive tom cat trying to get to them. So we started feeding them outside our front window so we could start trapping for TNR. After TNR and any medical issues are resolved, friendlies are fostered until adopted out, the truly feral are released, and spicy kittens or seniors are fostered for socialization.

In the future we have goals to buy land and have a sanctuary. Where the ones that can't be rehomed, will have a.safe place to live out their days, with access to both indoor and outdoors, but protected from predators,.disease, and people that are.mean to animals. We also hope to build some tiny houses with catios to take in homeless LGBTQIA young adults and families down on their luck to willing to rehab/socialize cats and help with the sanctuary.caremand grounds maintenance. Building a little tiny community where like minded individuals can rescue cats, and each other

To do any of this we need donations. We have the time, we have the love, we don't have the space or the supplies without help. We are building the connections with rescues.and other fosters as we plan to non-work directly with the public, but with trusted rescues where we will take referrals for cats they think will be best suited to our sanctuary. We will also continue to foster with our rescue partners.

So now you've got a little snap shot of who we are and what we are doing and are working to do. Please, feel free to ask questions. I hope to get better about updates and videos soon. Injury and strokes have had me weak and unmotivated as of late. But I know we can't ask y'all to donate without providing content to show what we are doing so you know it's worth it. Please be patient as I figure out my new norm of being disabled and having to ask for help.

Here are ways you can help today.

We have an Amazon wish list. If you prefer to order elsewhere for better prices, or personally deliver items please, DM for that info. I also have cash app and Venmo if you prefer to send cash. Please enter comments to say it's for cat rescue.

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3EDB7ZOPPQDN8?ref_=wl_share

04/09/2024

The rescue is in need of supplies. We feed around 15 cats total between indoor and the community cats outside. It's kitten season so all the rescues are all full and stepped for funds. We cannot feed, care for, vet, TNR without donations. Anything is helpful.

The items we need most are:

1. Purina one salmon and or purina naturals salmon. We have a few picky ones/sensitive tummies, so we need this specific brand.

2. Wet food fancy feast, anything fishy, no pate.

3. Churu (very helpful in socialization process and bribing clingy cats to not be mad you were gone too long) also cat nip.and treats.

4. Puppy pads. We have an OG we've had since 3 weeks and she is 4 now, that will not use a litter box no matter what.

5. Any type of scratching box style scrstcher.

6. Disposable latex free gloves.

7. Paper towels and baby wipes. No perfumes etc.

8. Pine pellets, cheapest from tractor supply or other similar feed stores.

9. Crystal litter for the two picky princesses that will protest profusely if give the wrong litter.

Most of these items are on the Amazon wish list, but almost always they are cheaper off Chewy or Walmart. If you would rather buy outside the wishlist, please DM for mailing address..I can provide cash app, Venmo, varo, or zelle info if you'd rather just send a cash donation. PLEASE, include the comment "rescue donation" so those funds are earmarked correctly.

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3EDB7ZOPPQDN8?ref_=wl_share

02/24/2024

Please consider donating food, litter and supplies to aid our rescue efforts.

We are currently housing 6 cats full time, four were a litter of four that foster failed due to two being too spicy (still house feral at 10 mos) and being too bonded to the other two, for us to split up the band.

We also have two fosters. A 7 yr old that needs a very extended fostering to help her stabilize, and learn to live with other cats. Then we have a 6 mo old that likes other cats, but is super shy and doesn't understand humans yet. Both are coming around slowly and will be here a while.

Our rescue efforts have not gone unnoticed by the local community cats and a colony has formed outside our door. To keep peace with the indoor cats, we started feeding the outside cats, which led to us monitoring them for health issues, and the need for TNR (trap, neuter, release) to manage the population. The ferals do get released back into the colony, but the sick and friendly get fostered and rehomed.

I'm not all together sure how many cats we feed, as many wait until we go back inside, to come feed. But I know we feed at least 15 cats. We do keep a continuous supply of dry food out for them to free feed, and offer wet food as a reward for coming out when we are out, this lets us actually monitor them.

We are in most need for cat food. We feed Purina One to the indoor cats, and prefer Purina Naturals for the outdoor cats. Both dry foods are due to picky eaters, and digestive issues both the inside and outside cats have shown to other brands. Wet food only the seniors and kittens get the Purina One, the others gets whatever we end up with and are fine with it. Fancy Feast is popular. Shreds and chunks seem to be the overall preference of all the cats. Pates tend to get ignored or eaten slowly by the indoor cats.

We are only able to do what we do thanks to the donations that roll in. Me being disabled and both kids are neurodivergant, we don't have the income to do this on our own. We have the time, love, and patience to rescue, we just need the community to pitch in what they can for supplies.

One day we'll build the sanctuary and all the cats, inside and outside will have more space, and greater safety. For now, we do what we can, with what we have.

We are very gretaful to those that are able to help us, help the cats.

Thank you all.

Blessed Be ✌🏼💜🐈

02/24/2024

Below we have Smoky, my 10 mo old Siamese Lynx Pt. He's part of a litter of four we foster failed due to his little sister remaining house feral and the four being too bonded to split up.

Also, we have Sally, a 7 yr old Calico foster kitty. She is very loving and trusting with humans. Sally comes with a past that has her not trusting other cats. Which makes it hard to either get her adopted, or keep her. She's amazing with humans. She would make the ideal cat if an only pet. Problem is, it's rare to find someone with the experience needed for her, to not already have pets.

We are working on desensitizing her to other cats. We have two almost 4 yr olds, and a litter of four 10 month olds. Only three of my cats are submissive/passive enough to be part of the welcome wagon. Toast Tada (almost 4 yrs old) , Smokey (20 mos) , and Pinky The Brain (10 mos). So one at a time, they are hanging with me and Sally for whatever time she can tolerate. The welcome wagon is also working to acclimate a spicy 6 mos old Manx in my son's room named Sadie.

Below images are of Smokey allowing Sally to yell at him about getting off her lawn. Later he did enter the bathroom and made his best efforts to carefully and slowly ask for permission to be in her space. You can see part of her wants to, but really has a lot to overcome. We'll keep working on it.

02/05/2024

Please excuse the typo, I was tired. But meet our newest foster. Lucas decided to call her Sadie. She's 6 mos old, healthy, and just needs to decompress and socialize some before adoption.

01/14/2024

Donations needed please.

01/14/2024

Right now we are feeding 7 indoor cats and a colony outside. We're on our last bag of food and could really use some donations.

Anything helps.

01/01/2024

1st feral of 2024 trapped and TNR arranged. Friendly tuxedo kitty. We think he'll be re-homable. Will assess after his TNR.

Pics later.

01/01/2024

12/14/2023

Hello, last month Toast, was sick, fever with undetermined infection, and a rescue contact got her into her vet and Toast is now fine.

I am reaching out for assistance in paying this bill. We were able to get their rescue discount, but it's still beyond my.means as a disabled single mom of two special needs teens, and still waiting for social security disability to kick in.

Donations can be made directly to the vet, or to Alejandra Paz since this is on their account.

$AlejandraPazCats



Invoice and pic of Toast are attached.

Blessed Be ✌🏽💜✊🏿🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

12/14/2023

If you truly love your cat, please keep them either indoors only, or outside with proper supervision and protection, such as a catio, or leash you have a hold of yourself.

It only takes one second for a predator to swoop in and sn**ch them, a car to come outta nowhere too fast, a mean person to attack them or poison them, not to mention the plethora of accidents they can get into by mistake.

When I was a kid my mom thought letting our cats out was fine, one never came back, the other was attacked by a dog and I don't know how he survived. My parents didn't believe in vets and all he had was me, a 16 yr old to treat him with what I found in our medicine cabinet. I rehomed him after he recovered even though he was my kitty and bestie, because my mom was an irresponsible pet owner and I was only a child.

As new mom, my ex left the door open and our cat got out and somehow impaled himself on a rake. We didn't even own one. That was a $4000 vet bill for a young couple with a new baby and mortgage. And he didn't make it after all.

Last year my 15 yr old found a black cat in the road outside our place. She looked healthy other than being flattened by a car. She had a collar on. It was a clean newish collar. She died about 15 minutes after this pic, in my 15 yr olds hands, while a friend was in route to take her to the vet. They named her rainbow after she passed. She was someones kitty, she shouldn't have been outside.

Maybe she had responsible owners that made a mistake and she just got out one time. Maybe she was allowed out regularly, by irresponsible owners. Either way she's gone and being owned didn't save her.

We can't prevent accidents, but we can choose to keep them inside and not let them out on purpose.

If you want your cat to have fresh air and sunshine there are a lot of great options like catios, window seats, some will walk on a leash. Pet slings and backpacks allow them to be on you, but protected.

The point is, don't let your pet meet Rainbows end. She didn't die in vein. Let her serve as a reminder that we don't just open the door and let our beloved pets roam free.

12/10/2023

Please comment, like and share to follow our fosters progress and see what's happening with our rescue efforts.

We can always appreciate donations to help us keep fostering for adoption and feeding the outdoor colonies nearby. We have an Amazon wish list or you can donate to our Cash app or Venmo.

We hope to one day have land for a sanctuary and continue to work with local rescues to foster and have a better, safer environment for those that aren't adoptable.

Anything helps us keep doing what we do.
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3EDB7ZOPPQDN8?ref_=wl_share

Or you can donate to:

Cash App $StormySkys78

Venmo

Thank you,

Stormy, Dakota & Lucas



Photo of Smokey, an 8 month old Lynx Siamese foster fail in a blanket fort he somehow created on his own.. He's also polydactyl and so are three of his siblings. My cats have thumbs, I believe they will take over the word one day. We ended up keeping all four kittens, they each claimed their favorite human in my home and bonded to our two adult cats. Smokey is now my ESA.He wants all the pets, is a food thief, and climbs walls, literally. He and his brother Pinky The Brain (flame point Siamese) are definitely plotting something and using their charm to make us think they are sweet little baby luv bugs.

12/09/2023

Sally, Queen of the Satin Pillow. Day 1

Sally is very vocal and fully expects you to reply, and have full conversations. She loves to be pet, especially along her back and tail. She stands on her tip toes and arches her back into your hand. She is a high maintenance love bug. She doesn't seem able to get enough pets and conversation. She likes to play with air, and frolics like a kitten right before she finally goes to sleep the day away under my dresser. Look at those pretty markings. Dakota says her name should be Pumpkin Spice.

12/09/2023

New foster, 7 yr old female calico. Sweet as pie. Only hisses if you put her down. LMBO she's a cuddle bug. Need to let her decompress a couple weeks before a true assessment of personality can be given, so stay tuned. She's going to be adoptable in no time. Pics later. She's currently sulking under my dresser cuz I had to put her down to wash my hair.

12/06/2023

If you want to donate to help with supplies and vetting please see our Amazon List here https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3EDB7ZOPPQDN8?ref_=wl_share

Or you can donate to our Cash App $StormySkys78 or Venmo

My children Dakota 16 and Lucas 19 have been probably rescuing since 2020. It started with one little 3 week old kitten born in a friend's back yard and abandoned by her feral mother. My son named her Toast. A week later we took in a 6 week old from the same friend's house born in the front yard. Both mothers were later trapped and TNRd.

Two years later we found a friendly stray while staying at a hotel. Kids named him Sir Billium. We could not foster him ourselves from a hotel, but found him a foster and he was later adopted into a great home with another kitty he bonded with in his foster home. We were going to adopt him once we moved but the other home was ready first and we wanted the best for him.

We later found a cat hit by a car in a hotel parking lot, she didn't make it long enough to get her to the vet, she passed in my bathtub held by my neighbor and Dakota being comforted and told she mattered. She had a collar but no tags or chip. So Dakota named her Rainbow.

We moved into out current house and soon after a friend had four very spicy kittens surrendered that they didn't have the space or time to socialize. They were 8 weeks old. We felt ready to accept the challenge. The two male Siamese, Pinky The Brain and Lil Smokey, were not too hard to make friends with, but the two torties, Mocha Latte and Smore Mello were slower to warm up. Smoky quickly became attached to me, Pinky and Mello became attached to Dakota and Mocha stayed Spicy. We didn't want to break up the band until Mocha was ready for adoption, by the time she was, we were attached to. So all four were foster fails. Lol

Not long after came a foster who we called Boomer as he was 7 yrs old, didn't like children, and really just wanted to sit in the window and be left alone. The house he grew up in was just too chaotic for him and he shut down and lashed out at all that came near there. We housed him in my son's room as it was the calmest room. My son being autistic, he was able to empathize with Boomers need for space and calm. Boomer came out of his shell, he was more affectionate than Lucas was ready for. His appetite increased, he was playful and even had lil old man zoomies. Boomer was adopted by a lovely couple with no children and wife works from home, so Boomer is now king of his own house and has attention and cuddles any time he wants.

In the middle of Boomers stay we took in a medical Kiri and housed him in my room. Due to poor care by his owner he was allowed to have an easily treatable eye infection turn into a need for an enucleation (eye removal) I was fostering until the owner could get moved and take him back, but it turned into there being many animals in his care that needed similar surgeries and none had ever been fixed or other vet care. So once he was mostly recovered from his surgery he moved to the foster who has his other animals to keep them together.

Since then we've been letting our 6 permanent residents decompress from having two fosters at once that had to be isolated in bedrooms cutting them off from their favorite humans. Mocha in this time chose Lucas as her person. So we've been focusing on the stray feral colony around my apartment complex. We are working on assessing who needs TNR, who needs medical care, and who may be adoptable.

I'm disabled and unable to work and both my teens are on the Spectrum/Neurodivergant. So we are on a fixed income. Any and all donations to help us keep feeding and helping the tremendous over population of cats in our community that are not spayed and neutered, would be greatly appreciated. We may not be able to take in and rehome them all, but we can at least slow the growth of the population, and get them vetted, and food.

Our long term goal is to buy land and build a tiny community and animal Sanctuary to move the colony to, where they would have indoor access and safe protected outdoor access at their choice. Until then, we will do what we can here.

Thank you,

Stormy, Dakota & Lucas