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
