Sweetwhisker Rescue

Sweetwhisker Rescue A 501c3 non profit organization dedicated to helping the cats and kittens of rural East Tennessee

❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹GRANDPA❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹My heart aches so deeply. But I do take comfort in knowing Grandpa was WARM, SAFE, LOVED ...
12/23/2025

❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹GRANDPA❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

My heart aches so deeply. But I do take comfort in knowing Grandpa was WARM, SAFE, LOVED AND FED during his last days. Grandpa had a heated bed inside, a low entry senior box, a raised bowl, and specialty food. He was LOVED. He was treated how he should have been all along.

I took Grandpa back to the vet today because he was still doing crummy despite all of the supportive care. The mass in his abdomen was HUGE. Most likely cancer of the spleen. And if you know anything about that, it’s a horrific cancer that was likely all over his elderly little body. Not if, but when it would have ruptured, it would have caused him to bleed out internally. He would have died alone in the cold, in immense pain. And he deserved so much better than that. So my husband, my vet, and vet techs helped him to the other side. We all cried. We all pet him and told him how very loved he was.

Though our time with him was short, I thank everyone who loved him alongside me. From his finder who saw a frail sick cat, to the supporters to who sent food, and to the kind veterinary staff who gently helped him cross the rainbow bridge.

He came to Sweetwhisker Rescue just in time ❤️‍🩹

Thank you all so much for being there for him & Sweetwhisker.

🚨🚨🚨Okay friends. Do we have any fosters available for 4 pups? We don’t want them in a pound over the holidays. If you’re...
12/23/2025

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Okay friends. Do we have any fosters available for 4 pups?

We don’t want them in a pound over the holidays. If you’re interested please message me!

🎄❤️ Our sweet little whiskers 🎁
12/23/2025

🎄❤️ Our sweet little whiskers 🎁

Every donation is so so so special and important to me. But this note truly brings tears to my eyes and my heart feel s...
12/22/2025

Every donation is so so so special and important to me. But this note truly brings tears to my eyes and my heart feel so full ❤️

****NOT ACCEPTING INQUIRIES AT THIS TIME - please refer to last picture on this post regarding the adoption policy*****📚...
12/21/2025

****NOT ACCEPTING INQUIRIES AT THIS TIME - please refer to last picture on this post regarding the adoption policy*****

📚The Literary Litter received their 2nd round of vaccines today! I am currently setting up the meet & greet room for them little by little. We are waiting on a few more things to arrive and they’ll be pretty close to coming over! 🥹 Time is absolutely flying with this bunch, and they’re just getting cuter by the name. Hazy is the best mama and soooo sweet!

Can you believe not a single kitten has tried to climb a tree this year? 😮 Last year we had a very cute bunch who loved ...
12/21/2025

Can you believe not a single kitten has tried to climb a tree this year? 😮

Last year we had a very cute bunch who loved to climb inside the trees!

🩶GRANDPA update🩶I was a tad worried yesterday when he went 24 hours without poopin’. But he gave me two fantastic poops ...
12/20/2025

🩶GRANDPA update🩶

I was a tad worried yesterday when he went 24 hours without poopin’. But he gave me two fantastic poops late last night / this morning 🥹

He is eating great, and I ordered him an elevated bowl so his old bones don’t need to bend over as far to eat. Grandpa is seriously precious. My heart truly can not even handle it.

Thank you to everyone who has donated senior food to Grandpa.

🌊OCEAN UPDATE🌊Oceans mouth is FINALLY healing and looking good! And I tried AGAIN to leave his cone off for a day since ...
12/20/2025

🌊OCEAN UPDATE🌊

Oceans mouth is FINALLY healing and looking good! And I tried AGAIN to leave his cone off for a day since his neck is healed. Andddd wouldn’t you know it, he scratched it open again. Sigh.

We know he has some angry ears, so I’m leaning towards making him yet another appointment after the new year. We had a cat before (Waffles) who needed an ear polyp removed so *maybe* now that his ears aren’t as inflamed they’ll be able to see deeper into his ears and what they need? I hate for him to be uncomfortable, and I hate for him to still be in a cone… so our New Year’s resolution will be to get Ocean healed and ready for adoption. We’ll need to raise funds his his appointment, but i know we can make it happen.

I just *so* badly want Ocean to be in a home after 9 months of this nonsense.

Sweet Skippy was back at the vet today ❤️‍🩹 She was barfy yesterday. She got an ultrasound & X-rays today. There’s poo a...
12/19/2025

Sweet Skippy was back at the vet today ❤️‍🩹 She was barfy yesterday. She got an ultrasound & X-rays today. There’s poo and lots of gas. Her GI tract is being sluggish. So she got some pain medicine to hopefully relax her body enough to be able to rid the gas & poo. She also is on mirataz for the throwing up.

And this afternoon Graham (her brother) started puking as well 🫠 soooo there’s that. SOS, yall. SOS.

We also got the diarrhea PCR result back. They have Tritrichomonas which is an intestinal parasite. So that’s a new one for us 😭 Infection is most common in shelters/catteries in younger cats / kittens. Awesome news is, it doesn’t survive for long outside of the host. We are waiting on a call back from the vet to figure out the route to go with medication. As poopy as this is (pun intended), we have dealt with MUCH worse.

I also wanted to thank everyone for showing up for Grandpa. His little toothless self will be SO happy with his wet food. 🩶 He is still dehydrated and receiving fluids, but he is warm and safe 😌

Grandpa did alright thru the night. He got a b12 injection and some sub q fluids before bed. Grandpa did barf a little &...
12/18/2025

Grandpa did alright thru the night. He got a b12 injection and some sub q fluids before bed.

Grandpa did barf a little & went poo outside of the box a little bit… but you know what, the perks of being extremely old is you can do these things and it’s perfectly acceptable. Grandpa has a heating pad in his bed to keep those rickety old bones warm.

Now where I get emotional… I just truly can not imagine this skinny, hard of hearing, old man being outside in this cold. I really don’t know how much longer he would have lasted. He has a large frame and huge paws… but is just over 6 pounds. He has nothing to keep him warm out there. And the energy it takes to stay warm just must have been exhausting. But never ever again. Ever. EVERRRRR. He deserves nothing more than to live the rest of his time on earth warm, fed, and as comfy as possible. 🩶

Please consider donating some wet senior cat food to Grandpa. He really, really deserves it.

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🩶Grandpa🩶This old geezer wandered to the right porch on Thanksgiving. His finder tried to find who he belonged to & too...
12/17/2025

🩶Grandpa🩶

This old geezer wandered to the right porch on Thanksgiving. His finder tried to find who he belonged to & took him to get scanned for a chip. Andddd nothing came of it 😥

So here he is. The grandest of them all - Grandpa. He is estimated 15+ years old and has 3 teeth to his mouth. And it’s only 3 tiny ones in the front. He’s 1/2 the weight he should be, quite scraggly, and wins the prize for Worlds Sweetest Grandpa.

I’m pretty sure you know by now, that old cats have a grip on my heart. Grandpa is no exception.

He got a chem 17, a CBC, FIV/felv test, f***l, and ultrasound today.

His blood work isn’t too shabby for being a “super senior”. He does have some funky business going on in his intestines so we will be back soon for a recheck once he has some probiotics and good food on board.

For now, he could really benefit from some wet senior food. Because he is literally working with 3 little tiny teeth. We struggle with keeping wet food in stock as it is… but age specific would be *really* helpful right now.

We are a 501c3 nonprofit who receives ZERO government funding or tax dollars. We are able to help cats like Grandpa because of YOUR donations ❤️ please consider donating to Grandpa’s follow up appointment in 2 weeks.

🏥Monroe County Animal Hospital , Sweetwhisker account : 423-337-7432

🩵 Venmo : https://venmo.com/u/SweetwhiskerRescue

💙 PayPal (has fees): https://www.paypal.me/SweetwhiskerRescue?locale.x=en_US

💚 CashApp: https://cash.app/$SweetwhiskerRescue

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🥳🥳🥳🥳 NACHO !!!!! This sweet boy has found his forever home 🥹🥰 I am so proud of how far he has came…. from the skinny lit...
12/17/2025

🥳🥳🥳🥳 NACHO !!!!! This sweet boy has found his forever home 🥹🥰 I am so proud of how far he has came…. from the skinny little kitty from the Red Stag parking lot, to this beautiful sweet guy! Thank you for adopting a rescue kitten 🧡

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