Four Kids For Kritters

01/22/2025

Baby Ruth came to us with FIP. While her caretaker was doing great with her she asked me to take her to continue her treatments. She has thrived with Om which is an FIP inhibitor that is natural and safe. I have only ever used Om and successfully treated several cats with it. While the company is no longer in business they donated thousands of dollars of treatments to us and when they closed sent me all remaining inventory which I have used to help many other cats in our community battling this very misunderstood and horrible illness.

Baby Ruth is missing her buddies Greenbean and Casserole while they are getting spayed/neutered. She's not ready yet for spay but will be soon and then will be up for adoption. She is perfect example of tortie, sweet and a tad spicy and super playful and mischievous. She taught Green Bean and Casserole how to play with toys.

They will be going to their new home on Friday. We will put her with another playmate after so she won't be lonely.

Isn't she just lovely? FIP IS treatable!

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01/22/2025

Preparations are underway for our first 11 spays/neuters if the year!

All 11 are going to our friends over at Prairie Paws for spay/neuter. Several have homes lined up already as well so will be going to their forever homes this weekend. ❤️

Yes they get out in their carriers the night before because they have to fast and I leave by 6:30 in the morning. We check carriers for any messes before loading them up but usually there is very minor messes because of fasting.

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01/20/2025

Starting 2025 off with a bang, we have 26 cats scheduled and mostly paid for (need to pay for 8 those get paid at TOS) spay/neuter these next 2 weeks. While we will recover some of that in adoption fees they never fully cover everything.

Our costs have gone up as has everyone's over the last 2yrs. We now pay on average $85 per cat plus the costs of combo testing etc.
Of course we don't adopt out TNR (Trap, neuter, return) cats so there is no recovering that fee at all.

If you wish to help with some of these experiences please see the links below. We still have things to do to make the cat cabin ready for our animals as well so anything helps.

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01/20/2025

Could be our last TikTok.... The kittens have a plan to continue to attract attention. 🤣

01/19/2025

Got some thank you's!
Thank you to Cat mom whoever she is she sends us a lot of great things! These are reusable p*e pads we use in our cages. They are thicker and softer than the disposable ones which we still use a ton of!

Thanks to "Aunt" Andrea Bethel as well for the paper towels, food, litter and toys. I didn't get pictures of the heavy stuff because hubby tends to put those away as soon as they arrive. But thank you!!

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01/18/2025

Might be our last TikTok. We will see!

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2dRCe9h/

01/18/2025

Animal exploitation is a HUGE problem in today's society. Examples would include videos online where people show animals on the street in dire need and sometimes those animals were placed there for the video purpose. But it's not just these viral online video creators doing the exploitation. Sadly our society has many many charity organizations that also exploit the animals.

I am not saying we shouldn't share the horrible things we come across in rescue, nor am I saying we shouldn't be asking for donations because we know that any good rescue the lifeline of those rescues is donations. I also don't have a problem with paying someone a reasonable livable wage that helps the animals in addition to the volunteers.

However, it seems in recent years some individuals and organizations have realized with the right marketing and sob stories they can make a lot of money off of well meaning donors. It's not just the rescue world either. So many "charities" are facades for money laundering and scamming hard working people of their money.

I fully believe that unfortunately part of our huge animal crisis we have going on right now is the ones who exploit the animals for their personal gain, they look for the saddest most heart tugging animals to save to play on people's emotions. Even if for the sake of the animal and to prevent further suffering humane euthanasia would be best. I have said many times I think we need to focus on saving the ones on the street vs pulling and moving around from 1 shelter to another all in the name of "rescue". Obviously there will be exceptions to this. But how many animals are suffering on the street because rescues don't have room because they are busy exploiting the animals they "rescue"?

Yet often times these same rescues claiming to "help" and "love" their animals behind closed doors it's anything but....

For example.... Forcing animals to walk 20+ minutes on ice packed roads without foot protection and leading to bleeding cut and torn up feet. Even after alternate enrichment methods have been suggested.

Please please do your research on who you support. I am far from perfect myself but I try very hard to make sure we give them the very best chance, but at the same time I also know some animals deserve to be let go peacefully. I will always put their long term welfare ahead of my personal need for funding or to feel like a savior.

This week I have heard so many disturbing things of rescues "saving" at all costs...

Walking on ice...
Transferring animals in pain hours away and sometimes waiting days to get vet care...
Animals so sick they should just be euthanized instead of trapping and transporting across state lines to expose others...
Cats with f***s covered tails and red swollen butts because of severe gastrointestinal infections and illnesses....

When will we get over our personal feelings and learn to put their needs ahead of ours to be "heros". Prolonged painful recovery isn't always what's best for the animal.

We have to do better!

(Please note these images are not from all 1 place! But still all have been taken this week alone..)

And we wonder what the KS dept of Agriculture is cracking down on shelters and rescues.

Note these are not my pictures, but were shared with me and or posted online for donations.

01/17/2025

Look who I got to see while doing outreach today! You may remember sweet Artemis, I honestly don't remember what she was named here at rescue. We picked her up at this trailer park thinking she was one of the many unowned cats fed by residents after we checked with a few people and no one knew who she belonged to and she had no chip. Being concerned about kitten season around the corner we snagged her off the street. After posting her as found her owner contacted us. Her owner was super thankful we had her safe and we spayed her and got her vaccinated and chipped before returning her. She is one of those cats that hates being inside especially on nice days. That act of "stealing" (I joke playfully we stole her cat) turned into a wonderful working relationship where we were able to help a single mother get all of her car fixed, vaccinated and chipped. This wonderful family just needed a little help and not judgement. They were actually able to cover our rescue cost to get their cats fixed at our rate and we transported for her which was the thing she struggled with the most.

Arty is happy, healthy and as soon as she hears my voice came running over trilling and purring. You could tell she remembered me. We have helped several families in this trailer park and will continue to as we can.

That is only possible with donations and one of the reasons we stock up on both cat and dog items. Today we were actually providing dog food for another family in need.

Your donations matter in our LOCAL community.
Today it was in Paola. ❤️

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01/17/2025

Day 4 of reminding everyone how much I would love this building or similar for my own cat lounge to help more kitties in our community!

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01/16/2025

Day 3 of letting you all know how badly I want this (or similar building) to open my own Cat Lounge (gonna stop saying Cafe cause I don't want to serve food). Where we can have cats/kittens for adoption for people to mingle with and a little gift boutique shop to raise funds for our rescue and community service programs we have!

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01/16/2025

Always up for food and loving... Augratin would rather eat than have the zoomies. they have dry food available at all times and get canned once a day. this is their dinner. 🤣

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01/15/2025

Exciting team up coming! I can't wait to have future adoption events and work with a fabulous local company!

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01/15/2025

Hei Hei and Lenny love this giant pillow out cousin gave us. Nice cold day to just law around, but today I have errands to run so they get to stay toasty warm while I am out. 🤣

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01/15/2025

New TikTok.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT21AqD3Q/

As always I upload it here the next day.

35 likes, 5 comments. “Always up for food and loving... Augratin would rather eat than have the zoomies. they have dry food available at all times and get canned once a day. this is their dinner. 🤣 Donate to our Mission: Fourkidsforkritters.com Paypal: [email protected] Venmo: ...

01/15/2025

Sam said I should keep posting letting people know how badly we want this building for a little cat cafe of our own. So.... Day 2 of posting we would love this building and are a 501c3 can rent it to us and take the tax write off or whatever. 🤣

I have ideas flowing, the bay windows would make amazing catios for cats/kittens on display. We could sell the things I make, we could have nail trim fundraisers, we could do so many different fundraisers as well from there. Plus during events on the square it's busy we would get more exposure etc.

So, day 2 of stating how much I love and want this building. 🤣 Please share maybe we can make it happen some how.

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01/14/2025

Gizzards future is looking brighter. These super sick tiny kittens pulled from a puppy mill barn I didn't expect to survive are thriving little bundles of energy and zest and love.

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