Helen Sanders CatPAWS

11/12/2024

Join the fun with mobile bidding at CatPAWS online auction at Le Chic Chat Soiree Nov. 23. Even if you can't attend the event, you can bid online starting Friday, November 15 through Saturday, November 23, 7 p.m. Click here to register to bid, or just to preview auction items.
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11/12/2024

Just rescued! Out of the shelter and off to foster care!

11/11/2024

11/08/2024

“If you wanted some you should have ordered your own!”

If you’re interested in adopting any of these cuties, please see short online form:

https://helensanderscatpaws.com/adopt/

SoCal area

11/07/2024

Another early morning and 24 more community cats who won’t be making more homeless litters!

Thank you to the dedicated community trappers and to Friends of Long Beach Animals and City of Long Beach Animal Care Services for supporting these efforts!

11/06/2024

Happy Went Home Wednesday!

Please welcome these new furry family members.

And remember - before these happy going home photos can happen there is whole team working to transport cats to safety, loving foster homes, volunteers keeping cats healthy and happy in the adoption center and the adoption team making matches!

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11/06/2024

We wanted to introduce you to beautiful Helena.

This petite Siamese gal was sick and declining, and her life was about to end in a public shelter. She was clearly someone’s cat once, friendly and loving as she is.

We get emails from shelters sent to us every day full of photos of cats and kittens, sick, injured, needing to be rescued or their lives will be ended. Frankly, it’s hard to look at those photos every day, knowing the need for help far exceeds our capacity to provide it.

There was something about the photo of this sad, sweet senior gal, slated for euthanasia, that we kept coming back to. We wanted to at least give her one last home to spend whatever time she had left. We found a willing foster (thank you, Anna! Otherwise we could not have taken her) who helped stabilize her through vet visits and medication. Once Helena put on some weight and was stronger, we moved her to our foster Katherine.

It turns out that although Helena has some age related health issues, some early stage kidney disease and symptoms of inflammatory bowel, she has a lot of life left in her! She is so friendly, loves to be petted, purrs.

With various exams, tests including ultrasound and more, we’ve spent over $1700 on this dear girl. But she’s enjoying her life and we think she’s worth it

If you can help with some of Helena’s medical expenses we - and she! - would appreciate it.

We will be sure to let her know how many people care about her and want to help her.

Here’s a link to our special needs medical fund - and thank you!

https://catpaws.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/catpaws/donation.jsp?campaign=6&

11/06/2024

Come celebrate with us! Enjoy food, hosted cocktails, great auction items and an inspirational evening with special guest speaker Hannah Shaw aka Kitten Lady. https://helensanderscatpaws.com/news-event/le-chic-chat-soiree/

11/04/2024

An update on precious little Finn. This little guy is another example of those cats who need to be rescued, ones too sick and frail to be cared for in a public shelter. Finn here has had a rough road but his loving foster caregivers have been fighting alongside him all the way. Please keep those good vibes coming his way! If you can, please help us be there for more cats like Finn with a donation to our special needs fund. https://catpaws.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/catpaws/donation.jsp?campaign=6&

11/04/2024

A memory popped up in our notifications when someone just recently reacted to this post from 8 years ago. This made us sad and grateful at the same time.

The kitten we wrote about that day, Bart, did go on to die from feline infectious peritonitis - FIP.

This post reminded us of that dear boy, and so many others we lost over the years to that hideous disease before there was treatment available.

It was the worst thing to watch helplessly as happy, playful kittens became listless and dying within days from FIP, with nothing we could do about it but provide comfort before eventually having to end their suffering.

We have saved so many cats now with FIP treatment and have had good success when we catch it early enough. We are thankful for that even as we remember those who were lost.

The good part is now FIP medication is now available through veterinarians. If you suspect your cat may have FIP, there is no time to lose, this monster moves fast. Ask your veterinarian for treatment.

We wanted to update you on Bart, the kitten who recently had surgery to remove objects he’d ingested from his stomach and intestines. This isn’t the update we wanted to write.

After initially doing well, Bart started to fade, with a fever and abdominal swelling. Fluid aspirated from his abdomen indicated the presence of a viral infection which, though rare, is fatal.

For now, Bart has gone home with his foster, Caitlyn, who was planning to adopt him once we got on the other side of all the medical issues with which this little one has been plagued in his 5 months of life. She has been lovingly caring for him and will continue to do so for whatever time he has left.

We can rail against a cold and cruel universe, we can condemn the unfairness that doomed this little kitten to just a few short, sick months on Earth. We can cry, and we have. But in the midst of it all we have to believe - we have to because otherwise nothing makes sense and we cannot continue - that he and his brothers and sisters and mom were brought into our lives so that they could all know some love and that we were meant to be the ones to give it to them. He was scheduled to die the day he was born, unknown, unnamed and unloved, just another number at an overcrowded public shelter. Instead he will be cherished to the last day of his life.

It is no easy thing to care for a sick and dying kitten; it is an act of selfless love and remarkable courage. Our thoughts and prayers are with Caitlyn and Bart as they travel this road together.

We wanted to share this picture of mom and the whole litter of seven the day we got them out of the shelter. They weren’t supposed to be alive by that point, any of them. We didn't know then what was ahead; that they would sicken, one would die, they would suffer raging eye infections which would claim the eye of another. But for that moment in time at least they were all together and safe.

It was a good day.

11/03/2024

CatPAWS Spokescat Chico is here to remind us to turn our clocks back AND that even though the time changed and it’s an hour earlier, it’s still breakfast time!

11/02/2024

Waldo’s Journey

Some weeks back we introduced you to Waldo, a very sick kitten we got out of a public shelter. Frail and near death, requiring 24 hour care beyond the capacity of a shelter to provide, Waldo is an example of the cats who need to be rescued. We didn’t know if he would make it, but his will to live was strong, he didn’t give up and his foster caregivers wouldn’t give up either!

11/01/2024

Happy Friday!

Try to relax, Chico!

Chico is getting started on the weekend.

Don’t forget to fall back Sunday!

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/usa

11/01/2024

Mine! Foster kitten fun!

11/01/2024

Fun stuff! And a portion of proceeds goes to us to make the holidays brighter for our rescued kitties!

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Our annual Xmas Collection is here & it's our biggest one yet. As with everything we do, 20% of the profits in every purchase will benefit the rescues tagged below. https://catrescuecoffeecompany.com/collections/all-holiday-items

, One Love Animal Rescue, Cat People of Oahu, Safe Haven for Animals, Purrfect Endings Feline Rescue, Whiskers N Wishes Sanctuary, Grateful Hearts Animal Rescue, Lanai Cat Sanctuary, Golden Belt Humane Society - Great Bend, Ks, The Cat House On The Kings.com, Spay the Strays Cat Rescue, Helen Sanders CatPAWS, Stray Cat Alliance, Big Cat Rescue