Foxy's Cradle

09/08/2024

Andy here! I saw my brother, Randy, getting all kinds of attention on his post and I wanted in too! I'm also available for adoption so maybe you can adopt both of us?!
Meet & greet on Sunday from 11-1pm at Laurys Station Fire Co.
Come out and meet the adoptables!
Applications available on site or you can apply at www.foxyscradle.com/adopt/
Please text Cheryl at 610-606-1442 with any questions.

*all cats and kittens are spayed/neutered prior to adoption and receive all age appropriate vaccines*

09/08/2024

Randy is a playful boy who is looking for his forever home!
Meet and greet this Sunday 11-1 at Laurys Station Fire Company.
No application or appointment necessary to come meet the adoptables!
Applications are available on site or online at www.foxyscradle.com/adopt/
Text Cheryl at 610-606-1442 with any questions about adopting

*all cats and kittens are spayed/neutered and have all age appropriate vaccines prior to adoption*

09/08/2024

Thank you to Lower Macungie Fire Dept for all you do and for taking special care and time to save the families cats!

08/08/2024

Our Pampered Chef fundraiser is off to an AMAZING start!! If you'd like to help support the fundraiser in a different way than placing an actual order, our host, Donna, has generously donated this brand new Pampered Chef Air Fryer, valued at $299! She is selling entries into the raffle for $5 each ticket! Comment below if you are interested in joining in on the raffle, and we will get you in contact with Donna! The winner will be chosen on August 30!

08/08/2024

Our little ones are celebrating their day today, are yours!? Share your pics below!

08/08/2024

A day revolving around kids who happen to love kittens (and their parents)! Our mobile unit will be visiting Nine Lives Thrift Store in Coopersburg with a team of our volunteers experienced in hosting our youth events! At the top of every hour, our volunteers will hold mini educational lesson teaching our kids about compassion towards animals, and the kids will be able to explore our mobile unit (under the supervision of their parent/guardian), hold, play, and interact with our crew of adoptable kittens! Lots of goodies, freebies, toys, and fun cat themed things for the kids to take home, while Nine Lives Thrift Store has lots of goodies for parents to explore! An incubator will be on site to show and demonstrate bottle feeding and newborn kitten care, and each bottle feeding session a well behaved child (or small group) will be chosen to feed a kitten while guided by Kandice.

This is a rain or shine event being held outside under the covered patio.

08/08/2024

Today a foster and transport volunteer, Julie, gave a critical Freedom Ride to this crew of nursing moms, orphans, and one sweet orange female who gives high fives amd needs a safe place to heal from a severe wound to her neck. Thank you for all you do Julie!

(She had a little excitement on her journey when a kitten chewed through her cardboard carrier. Luckily she was super sweet, though covered in poo! Julie was quite a good sport by completing the drive, then making a stop to clean herself and her car up before heading back to Philly! 😬)

Please join me in giving her a huge thank you today!! It wasn’t an easy trip!! Never a dull moment when dealing with these guys. Because of her, this crew is safe and our friends at ACCT have a few open kennels. Thank you Julie!!

07/08/2024

Little baby toe beans aren’t supposed to look like this. These 3 joined us as a transfer in from a rescue partner. They do not do bottle babies, they primarily do dogs, but when they received this litter, they recognized their urgent condition, and took them in to keep them safe.

They arrived to us with their feet so packed with filth, maggots had began eating between their toes. Many of their toes are swollen to exponential sizes from infection. Open wounds cover their tails. We are slowly soaking them (as much as they’ll tolerate), in efforts to clean them thoroughly. The pictures below are after initial soaking rounds. Still a ways to go.

They’re on the road to recovery, but where is the mom? We’ll never know. Sadly whoever kept these kittens kept them in horrific conditions and I can only imagine the mom remains in that situation, or she passed away. These babies are well fed, wherever mama is, she did a wonderful job nursing them. Their coats are clean, she was up against disgusting living conditions which is why these babies have horrible, cruel, wounds to their feet and tail. If you know where these kittens came from, or where the mom is, I’ll welcome the mom to safety. Mom doesn’t deserve to be left in this condition.

Such a sad and horrible start for these little ones, but I’m glad they’re safe now.

Welcome little ones.

07/08/2024

Can’t wait!! Looks like the rain will be gone for Saturday too!!

07/08/2024

Looking for something to do this weekend? Come on out Saturday night to the drive-in! Bring your family, enjoy Twister and Deadpool, and hang out at the mobile unit full of kittens while we host a donation drive before the movies! We currently have 130+ kittens under the age of 3 months in our foster homes. 80 of them are under the age of 3 weeks and are in incubators. In the next few weeks, those incubator babies will graduate and will need even more supplies. Please help us care for the little ones in our care who have faught so hard to make it this far! Help them down the home stretch towards adoption! We are in urgent need of Purina Kitten Chow (yellow bag) or Purina One Kitten (teal bag), any type of wetfood, laundry detergent, paper food trays, and paper/pine/pellet litter. Thank you for your support!!

07/08/2024

The yoga event is officially at max capacity! Thank you all SO much for your support!

The Mobile Unit will be at the Fitness Plaza full of adoptable kittens (or if they will be running the yoga event, the pre-adoptables will be hanging out in the RV). Come on out and stop by!

06/08/2024

Kind of like Where’s Waldo, you just never know where the mobile unit will pop up! Lots going on this week despite the rainy forecast! Our team and kittens can’t wait to see you!!

THURSDAY: 5-7 pm, Laurys Station Fire Comp., adoption event! Adoption apps available online prior, or available day of, no appointment necessary, you must be an approved adopter to bring one home. Applications available at www.foxyscradle.com

SATURDAY: 12:00 pm, Fitness Plaza, Kitten Yoga! Visit the event page for details! Kitten Yoga

SATURDAY: 6:30 pm, Donation Drive at the Drive In, Shankweilers Drive In! Donation Drive at the Drive In! Donation Drive at the Drive In!

SUNDAY: 11 am-1 pm, adoption event! Laurys Station Fire comp! Adoption apps available online prior, or available day of, no appointment is necessary, you must be an approved adopter to bring one home. Applications online at www.foxyscradle.com

06/08/2024

Meet & Greets with our available kittens and cats will be held this Thursday evening from 5-7pm at Laurys Station Fire Department in our mobile unit.
Come by and meet the kittens! Applications available on site or you can fill out an application online at www.foxyscradle.com/adopt/
Stormy and McKenna would love to meet you!
Text Cheryl at 610-606-1442 with any questions or to schedule a meet and greet!

06/08/2024

Many of you have been noticing a trend the last few weeks… it’s not a good trend either. Maggots.

Every. Day. For. 3. Weeks. Straight…

We had maggot babies brought to us for help.

Sadly this is the summertime reality and the cause for SO much suffering. Maggots will eat kittens alive and their toxins they release make trying to save the kittens 10x harder than just wound care. We try to save the ones caught before extreme damage has resulted, we have a strong and effective treatment in place that proves excellent results, and the babies who weren’t found in time, several wonderful vets help us give those babies the gift of peace and an end to their extreme suffering.

One of the products we use in our treatment is feline capstar. Yes, it is a flea product. It also is a critical life saving piece to the maggot puzzle. Off label, when used and dosed correctly, kills maggots. It’s available without a prescription on chewy, Amazon, pet stores, etc. We need to split the pills and crush it in some cases, which is what you see on the plate. What you see on the plate is all we have left in our nursery program. If anybody has it in their hearts to send a box or 2 our way, the little ones trying to fight through this horrific maggot battle would be SO thankful.

These 3 arrived in the middle of the night last night from Larksville. Fly eggs covered them and JUST started to turn to maggots. 2 had maggots on their backend, the third had them in his eyes. Very minimal so we feel we can save the babies, unsure if we can save the eyes on the one or not yet.

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Thank you so, so much. Also, these babies arrived without an accompanying donation, but due to maggots we couldn’t turn them away and let them suffer. If you’d like to help towards their care, it would be a huge help. Thank you!

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06/08/2024

Our Annual Pampered Chef fundraiser is in full swing! Donna, our host, is absolutely fabulous and will be sharing videos, recipes, product highlights, playing fun games, all kinds of fun things! Scan the QR code and hop on into the facebook group to participate in this fundraising event! Orders will be accepted now through the end of August!

Don't want to join the group? The QR code below is the direct shopping link to benefit our nursery efforts. Thank you for your support!

06/08/2024

Thank you Cindy for following through and trapping the mom to the single newborn abandoned a few days ago! No more babies for her!

05/08/2024

What could be better than adopting 1 of our bottle baby graduates? Adopting 2!! The joys of adopting littermates or a bonded pair of kittens is so heartwarming, not to mention beneficial to the kittens. The laughs they will bring to you, the smiles on your families face, it is SO worth it! If you have a place in your heart and home to welcome 2 wonderful little ones, please complete an adoption application online at www.foxyscradle.com. A member of our adoption team will reach out to you to invite you in for a meet n greet! All adoptable kittens are spayed/neutered, fully vaccinated (3 distempers and 1 rabies shot), combo tested, microchipped, dewormed, flea treated, and have received any additional vet care/tests/surgeries needed to receive an adoption clearance from a partner vet. How much love are you looking for? Twice as much??? 2 kittens will be purr-fect for you!

05/08/2024

Sunny is still waiting for his forever family to choose him! His brother got adopted this past weekend and he is hoping his time is coming soon. Meet & greets will be held this weekend.
Please text Cheryl at 610-606-1442 with any questions .

Applications are available online at www.foxyscradle.com/adopt/ or you can fill out an application on site at the meet and greet event.

05/08/2024

The last few days have been very challenging. I’m going to focus this post on the wonderful people involved with this latest batch of intakes. Introducing our latest crew!

1. A singleton was left behind at a PennDOT yard in Nescopek. The mom was known to the employees with her litter. One day everybody was gone except for this one. They left him there for a full day. The next morning when employees arrived to work and found the baby still there, they called for rescue.

2. 2 little guys were found in Lehighton, 1 had holes in his neck. These are a little older than what we accept. An exception was made due to the neck injuries and the fact that it was a middle of the night call and they needed urgent help.

3. 3 babies were found in Hallstead, just by the NY border, behind some old tires. When the cries were followed, a dead kitten was found with 3 survivors. The finders fed them through the night and made the 2 hour drive each way to bring them to rescue.

4. A man from Allentown had a mom give birth to a single little one at his feeding station and wanted nothing to do with it. This little guy is underweight, but otherwise doing great. The always reliable Cindy M. has promised to ensure mom will be trapped, spayed, and returned. Thank you Cindy!

5. A woman walking her dog found a very sick single kitten in Bethlehem. This kittens backend had a high number of maggots, the baby was grimly sick with an upper respiratory infection that caused severely infected eyes, he had white gums and very low body temperature. He was brought to Dr Urban at Rush Urgent Vet where he was humanely euthanized. This kitten was suffering immensely and we are grateful to the finder who tried so hard to help him, and to Rush for bringing him peace.

6. A litter of 5 kittens, approx 2 weeks old, were found in the landscaping at the Promenade shops tonight by an employee of a business there. 3 were already deceased upon finding them. 2 hung on to life for 3 hours longer until they also passed away. Sadly it is believed they had a mom, the mom is believed to have been the mom that was taken deliberately by somebody who refused to release her so she could return to her kittens. This case is still ongoing, several rescues are working together on this, and more will be posted once more is known.

I’ll focus on the wonderful finders, the people who went above and beyond, out of their way, drove 180 miles round trip, called 20 rescues determined to find one to help, put their job on the line to get the babies to rescue, the team at Rush, Cindy for trapping efforts, there’s SO many good people behind these babies arriving to rescue. Thank you all.

I wish peace for the 7 babies lost. Run free little ones. No more suffering. 🧡

04/08/2024

Many people do not realize this, but it is factual and seen in rescue on a very regular basis. Please spay/neuter to prevent the suffering of premature and underdeveloped kittens.

03/08/2024

Meet Simba! Simba came to join us last week from our friends at ACCT Philly. He has a nasty Staph infection which is causing abscesses to form on his limbs. As soon as one limbs swelling decreases, the next limb massively swells. We finally have seen significant improvements in him after a change in treatment occurred on Tuesday. We are being advised his one front limb may likely not be saved, we are fighting like hell alongside of him to prevent others from following the same path. Simba is a super sweet boy, about 2 months old, who through no fault of his own has already experienced significant physical pain, dangerously high fevers, and now he’s living what should be his most playful kitten days, he’s living those days in a kennel on bed rest. But!!! He escaped his timestamp and he’s in safe hands at one of our medical fosters. He’s stolen the heart of his foster mom and although he is still day by day, and fighting the fight no kitten should need to take on, he’s in great spirits. Today was the first day his foster reported significant improvements, so we feel confident to share our boy Simba with you.

Please join me in welcoming our sweet Simba!

If you’d like to contribute towards his care, we all would be extremely grateful! We are unsure what his care will entail each week, but for now it is physical therapy, several antibiotics, and pain medication. He likely will have an amputation in his future for his front right leg, and we are trying our hardest to save the back left. Any funds raised on this post will be allocated towards Simbas care. Thank you!!

If you’d like send Simba a care package, he looooooves Tiki Cat baby thrive, Sheba turkey pate, and fancy feast gravy lovers.

03/08/2024

Not every kitten needs rescuing! How do you know if a kitten needs rescuing or if that kitten needs to be left alone?

Kittens show up at random places, at random times, this is normal! Mom cats relocate litters all the time. It is normal for mom to drop one and return for it eventually. Just because a kitten is found alone, doesn’t mean they need to be assisted.

1. Assess the scenario. Is the kitten in a safe location? Is it in the middle of the road or is it on your porch or under a bush? Are there dogs wanting to snack on it, or is it lying peacefully away from predators? Is it directly exposed to the elements or is it under a roof or other form of protection from weather? If kitten is protected in a quiet or safe area, it doesn’t need help. If kitten is exposed to the elements or is in a dangerous location, it needs help. Pictures are important.

2. Assess kittens condition. If the kitten is clean, has a plump belly, is quiet, it doesn’t need help. If the kitten has flies, maggots, bugs, wounds, injuries, looks sick, very skinny, sunken face, wrinkly skin on inner thigh, feels cold to touch, pale gums, it needs help. Pictures or video clips are very helpful.

3. DO NOT DISTURB kittens until you speak to a rescue or vet. Especially if you are unsure whether or not kittens need help. Leave them be, monitor from afar. A rescue or vet can guide you to your next step.

4. As long as the kittens aren’t in imminent danger, you likely will be instructed to give mom an opportunity to return. Mom cats need to eat to stay nourished so they CAN feed their kittens. Some moms leave for hours at a time, some moms rarely leave their litter, this is nature. A kitten can’t be declared orphaned unless it’s abandoned for at least 6-8 hours. (Some rescues will say 24 hours. I’ve seen far too many abandoned kittens perish from waiting this long, but this is why pictures are so critical and will guide rescues towards giving the appropriate wait time based on kittens condition and age). Some mom cats won’t return to the kitten if there’s any human movement in the area, so while you are waiting, please avoid the area. Monitor from inside or a far enough distance so your presence doesn’t scare mom into staying away longer.

***Kittens need their moms. They are born with an incredibly weak immune system, they rely on the ability to nurse to build their own immune system off their moms. As soon as a kitten no longer has access to nursing, their survival drops below 30%!***

5. 90% of the time if instructions are followed, mom will return to bring her kitten to where the rest of her nest is. This is the best possible outcome.

6. If all instructions are followed and mom still doesn’t return or kittens begin to show distress, arrange for rescue intake.

Newborn kittens have a hard enough time trying to survive even when with their mom. Please do not take mom away from them.

When kittens are taken from their moms, mom will fill with milk and have no kittens to nurse which will bring on infections, pain, lots of discomfort. Mom will frantically search for their kitten for a few days, then a new heat cycle will be triggered and the reproductive cycle will repeat even sooner than normal (with the overpopulation crisis this is the last thing we need). Removal of a kitten from the litter could bring on a stress response in mom, she could feel threatened, which could result in her harming, brutally eating her litter alive, or abandoning the remaining kittens.

When kittens are taken from their moms, kittens will cry nonstop a very distinct cry. This is them searching for their mom. It’s heartbreaking to hear. (This is the cry you want when using the kittens as bait to trap the mom). Kittens will refuse the bottle, they are used to nursing off their mom, they want their mom, not a bottle. We call this ni**le confusion. It takes sometimes 24-48 hours until the kitten accepts that mom isn’t returning and it gets hungry enough to stop fighting the bottle and the feeder trying to help it. Kittens can hold onto mom’s antibodies for 2 weeks maximum after their last nursing opportunity. This means a kitten apparently healthy upon intake has about a 12-14 period of seemingly healthy days only to face a devastating and quick decline right around the 2 week marker post intake. There are protocols in place at our rescue to minimize this crash, but it’s supplements and medications that otherwise would be unnecessary for that kitten if able to be with mom as long as they need to be.

People have good intentions when they prematurely take kittens, but it’s my hope with this post that it spreads awareness, education, to decrease the extreme number of kitten calls daily for snatched up kittens.

We have been made aware of several instances over the past few weeks of people claiming to be bottle feeders or affiliated with rescues—when they weren’t—just to gain access to newborn kittens. People use young kittens as reptile food, bait, and a plethora of other horrible things. Please don’t hand any young kitten, or any animal, to random people over the internet or social media. That polite, well dressed, single mom with young child looking for their families best friend, could hand that kitten over to a friend with a 10’ snake who needs a free dinner. People affiliated with rescues will be able to prove their rescue affiliation. Verify this. As soon as you take responsibility for helping that animal, please go the extra step to ensure it lands in the hands of a rescue.

The pictures shown below are of an intake. Although the finder had good intentions, our instructions were not followed. The mom was only given not even 2 hours to return before this kitten was removed permanently. This baby has been crying and searching for mom since arriving to foster, he’s refusing the bottle. If you look at his pictures, his backend is clean, he has no bugs, not even a flea. He has a plump round belly, no sign of dehydration, he was nursing very recently. Mom was likely relocating the litter and would have returned for him had she been given the chance to do so.

Not many rescues are able to provide care to babies. We ask lots of questions, try to see pictures, to best assess the situation and triage intakes based on urgency. It is difficult to keep bottle feeding fosters due to the high death rate and intensity of work expected of them. It is a 24/7 commitment that lasts for many weeks on end. Truly orphaned newborns are extremely difficult to raise. If a rescue or vet offers advice or instructions, there’s a reason they’re doing so. Please trust their instructions. You may not understand, but if they’re offering guidance, it’s likely because they have experience and knowledge and are trying to do what’s in the best interest of the entire kitten family.

Trust the process.

There are enough legitimately orphaned kittens. Please don’t make more.

Education is everything.

02/08/2024

OktoPURRfest is coming to Weyerbacher Emmaus Tap Room October 6! Save the date!

Save the date!
OktoPURRfest is coming!
Sunday, October 6- noon til 3pm, Weyerbacher Emmaus Tap Room. An adoption and fundraising event with Foxy's Cradle, Aunt Helen's Cats In Need and more!
Details and event page to come!

02/08/2024

Many of you have requested we host a Kitten Yoga, and thank you to the Fitness Plaza, we finally are! Hope to see you then! Registration is required.

02/08/2024

Lehighvalleynews.com also featured our sweet boy Colton as an adoptable kitten of the month! Colton will be at the meet & greet tonight at 5-7pm at Laury's Station Volunteer Fire Company!

Our first adoptable cat featured in quite some time, Colton is a sweet and playful black kitten looking for his forever home. He is from the Foxy's Cradle kitten rescue in Whitehall.

01/08/2024

Thank you to Lehighvalleynews.com for sharing our adoptable kitten, Bonnie!
Interested in meeting our adoptables? Come out to Laury's Station Volunteer Fire Company tomorrow from 5-7pm and meet them in our mobile unit

Rosie is a beautiful 5-month-old black cat, available for adoption through Foxy's Cradle Kitten Rescue in North Whitehall.

01/08/2024

Deal on Chewy right now! Spend $100 and get a free $30 e-gift card!
If you are stocking up on your pets supplies anyway, we would be so grateful if you donated the $30 gift card to us for supplies for our fosters! 🐈‍⬛🙂
Our email is [email protected]

01/08/2024

Looking for the purr-fect addition to your home? Our adoptables are ready to meet you! Adoption applications are found online at www.foxyscradle.com!

01/08/2024

Our day of intakes. Here are their stories…

A singleton was found in Pittston. The finder did her best to help the kittens eyes, but reached out when she felt the kitten needed more care than she was able to provide.

The LV Humane Society reached out with 3 newborns brought in. We are still awaiting details on their scenario, but we’re happy to help get these little ones to safety.

A worker found a litter of kittens at a job site in Leesport. The mom had passed away, as well as 1 kitten. The others were brought to a foster tonight and are doing well.

A litter was found at Deka by an employee. 1 had a laceration to its shoulder, 1 had a wound on its abdomen that had maggots actively destroying him, and the other 2 were apparently fine. The baby with maggots was humanely euthanized to prevent further suffering, too much damage was done to his abdomen. The baby with the shoulder wound has been cleaned up and is on the road to recovery.

Not pictured below is a litter of babies fighting for their lives after suspected poisoning. I didn’t share their picture and won’t share details for fear of giving the wrong person the wrong idea, but these babies are too small to willingly eat anything on their own, so the fact that this substance was found down their throats makes it apparent these babies were force fed this substance. The mother was found with the same substance from her mouth, 3 kittens have passed already, 3 remain fighting for their lives tonight. It takes an especially cruel hearted soul to force feed a helpless newborn kitten like this. While these 3 babies fight for their lives, I can only hope Karma will give this person responsible everything they deserve. The elderly woman who stumbled across this horrifically sad discovery when she went to feed her neighborhood cat colony this morning is understandably distraught tonight. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers. UPDATE: all little ones from this litter passed overnight.

Thank you to everyone who went the extra mile to look out for the little ones on our recent intakes. Each of their hardest days are behind them. Our fosters are already showering them with love and care, and their best days are yet to come. We mourn the little ones lost, and are grateful for the survivors. Welcome little ones.