Veterinary Technicians for Cleft Affected Animals

Veterinary Technicians for Cleft Affected Animals Vet Techs helping special needs neonates. ❤️ 501(c)3 nonprofit🙌🏻 Venmo@techsforclefts Rescuing and fostering is part of our organization.

We are a Nonprofit 501(c)3 that is for the education and support for cleft affected animals and other special needs such as hydrocephalus. All surrendered animals are confidential.

01/01/2025

Saying goodbye to 2024 and hello to 2025 🐾🥳

We have had an amazing year of educating and saving lives. There’s been many ups and downs and that’s just the reality of rescue. ❤️‍🩹

This has been an incredible year of meeting new people, gaining more knowledge and so many adoptions!

Kyle and myself are so grateful for our friends and family who are beyond patient with all of our rescue shenanigans 🤪

To our jobs who provide us the flexibility to do this! We know that’s not possible for many people.

Let 2025 bring more of us together to help save the perfectly imperfect 🥰

❤️💚 Happy Holidays 💚❤️To all of our followers, friends, family, adopters, and more, we send you all of the love we all d...
12/25/2024

❤️💚 Happy Holidays 💚❤️

To all of our followers, friends, family, adopters, and more, we send you all of the love we all deserve this time of year.

Enjoy this season in whatever capacity that looks like.

For us it’s tube feedings and sleepless nights 😂 and movies 🎥 with our family with dogs 🐶 and cats 🐱 on our laps 🛋️

designing our beautiful card this year. Thank you Lucy 😘

⭐️ Featuring myself and Kyle, Norm, Abby, Muenster and Blossom 🌸

It’s time to formally introduce FUDGE🧸I’m pretty sure he’s a tiny bear, or maybe an Ewok? Or some sort of  ? 🪄 We are to...
12/21/2024

It’s time to formally introduce FUDGE🧸

I’m pretty sure he’s a tiny bear, or maybe an Ewok? Or some sort of ? 🪄

We are told he’s a Frenchie, but I definitely think he’s something more amazing 🤩 😍

Baby Fudge is 5 weeks old, he has a cleft lip, palate is intact. I’m suspicious of hydro, but it’s always hard to tell on tiny brachy breed puppies. They all have giant heads at this age 😂

He’s a perky strong little guy. He loves to eat his puppy mousse, but reallly loves to have his formula 😋 so we’ve been using a miracle ni**le and doing lots of feedings to keep his blood sugar up. He’s super tiny, still under a pound, so it’s important to do consistent meals.

Fudge has already stolen my heart ❤️
Swipe 👉🏼 to see why.
(He’s the doppelgänger of a tiny Brickles)

Please send all the positive vibes our way!

If you would like to donate to the care of our fosters:
Our Wishlists are always linked in our Bio
You can donate also through our Bio or by going to Venmo or PayPal
We are under CHARITIES
All donations are Tax Deductible bc we are a registered 501c3. We are also registered with California and Massachusetts as a nonprofit 🩷

🙌🏼🙌🏼 We picked up our Giving Tuesday check today, and it’s surreal that our first time participating we did so well. Out...
12/20/2024

🙌🏼🙌🏼
We picked up our Giving Tuesday check today, and it’s surreal that our first time participating we did so well.

Out of the 100s of NonProfits that participated, we had the most text donations! Which tells me it was all of YOU that made that happen!

Fudge 🧸 was a perfect mascot for the kind of special little babies we help save. He was a natural model too 📸 looked straight at the camera 😽

Thank you everyone for helping us pay our vet bills, food bills and all the necessities we need to help these little ones. We truly can’t do it without you! ❤️

YOU GUYS HELPED US RAISE $1696.48 FOR GIVING TUESDAY 😭🙏🏼🥳Thank you everyone so so much for choosing to donate to our res...
12/14/2024

YOU GUYS HELPED US RAISE $1696.48 FOR GIVING TUESDAY 😭🙏🏼🥳

Thank you everyone so so much for choosing to donate to our rescue.
We work tirelessly around the clock caring for puppies/kittens, answering emails, DMs and group chats with people needing help, finding resources, managing vet appointments, and working full time jobs and our families🐾💚

This is huge for us and we are incredibly humbled by all of your generosity.

This week has been an absolute whirlwind and Kyle and I are tired 🙃

Kyle has a weekend long event at 🎄 and multiple new faces to introduce to you.

I also have new friends to introduce you to as well. But you’ll have to wait 😂 I am juggling work and some family stuff but we are excited to reveal them soon!

Most importantly, we wanted to make sure we thank all of you for all of your help. We can’t do this without donations and shares and the awareness all of you help bring to our organization!!💪🏼

Keep a lookout 👀 for updates to come!!

Hi there 👋We have a lot of new followers, so I thought I would introduce myself again ❤️ I’m Courtney and I’ve been a re...
12/07/2024

Hi there 👋
We have a lot of new followers, so I thought I would introduce myself again ❤️
I’m Courtney and I’ve been a registered veterinary technician since 2009 🩺 I’ve been in the veterinary profession though since 2003, when I started working as a receptionist in a small animal practice. I absolutely love my profession and love that I’ve been in this field for over 20 years now !!

🐾 my journey into Rescue goes as far back as fostering kittens as a child, but this organization is near and dear to my heart because it’s helped me learn so much more than I thought I ever would.
We are taught as veterinary professionals that neonates that are born with birth defects, such as cleft palates and hydrocephalus and spina bifida have no quality of life, and the best outcome for them is euthanasia💔
But I hope that everyone that follows this page can now understand that these neonates can have beautiful lives and bring so much joy to their people🥰

Christmas time means a lot to me and this Rescue because on Christmas Eve we celebrate five years of bringing our first cleft palate puppy home with us 🥹
Pablo (now Lucas) was born during an emergency C-section at a clinic that I worked for. I was able to educate the breeder and try to teach her how to tube feed, but she decided that she was unable to give him the care that he properly needed so I got to spend the holidays caring for this absolutely perfectly imperfect Puppy😍

When I started this social media, I just wanted to save one more Puppy, educate one more veterinary professional, so that we stop suggesting euthanasia right out of the gate. It’s worth it to try and give these puppies a chance even if we think that they may not make it 😔
As heartbreaking as this kind of Rescue can be, there are so many that we have saved that are in their forever homes where their new families are advocating and showing that these puppies deserve a chance .🐾❤️

Thank you everyone for following and I hope you learn something from our social media and everything we share 🙌🏼

(and just to show how long myself and Kyle have been friends, that’s her holding Pablo in the second photo)

12/03/2024

Every donation MAKES a difference 🐾❤️

Today is Giving Tuesday and I know your feed is FLOODED with amazing organizations asking for your support 🫶🏻 but we would be immensely grateful if you chose us as one of the organizations you support 🙏🏽❤️

This video shared just a small glimpse of the fosters who have come into our care this year 🐾 all of which would have been euthanized if they hadn’t come to us 😞

Thankfully, we were able to say “YES” to caring for them thanks to YOUR incredible generosity 🙌🏻 each and every time we have asked for the support, whether it be for supplies, vet bills, transport, etc YOU all were there ❤️

But there will always be more animals who need our help! Currently we are fundraising the remaining $2,900 towards Ernie’s MRI to evaluate his potential hydrocephalus 🧠

And today is the BIGGEST giving day of the year and we have the potential to have your donations go even further 😱

So how can you help?!

⭐️ Donate using the link ‼️THIS OPTION GOES FURTHR‼️: http://www.giveamador.org/product/techs-for-clefts
⭐️ Donate using the link on this post
⭐️ Order from our See’s Candy Fundraiser (open until Dec 5th) 🔗 link in bio!
⭐️ Order a holiday bandana using the link in our bio titled “Bandanas for Ernie”
⭐️ Donate directly using Venmo/Paypal: or Zelle: [email protected]

And lastly, we just want to thank you all SO incredibly much for all you have helped us do this year 🙌🏻❤️ it’s been an immense busy year and we hope to do even more next year thanks to all your help!

🫶🏻 GIVING TUESDAY 🐾This year we are a part of our local Giving Tuesday Celebration 🙏🏼The amazing Amador Community Founda...
12/03/2024

🫶🏻 GIVING TUESDAY 🐾

This year we are a part of our local Giving Tuesday Celebration 🙏🏼

The amazing Amador Community Foundation puts so much time and effort into this event, all to help the local nonprofits.

Please consider donating to our organization today

By texting TECHS4CLEFTS to 44321, you can easily donate

By donating via our text code OR by going online to http://www.giveamador.org/product/techs-for-clefts all donations are qualified for incentive/matching donors 😱

We would also love to see you at St Katharine Drexel Church in Jackson between 4 and 6:30 pm.

Thank you for helping us help more special furbabies!!

12/01/2024

Let’s find Leonie a home for the holidays 🏠🎄❤️

Leonie had an unfair start in life 🥺 she spent the first 6-7 years of her life locked in a basement with minimal human interaction and then left at a busy New York Shelter for a few months before finding her way to us 🏙️

She has now been with us for a little over a month, and is officially ready to find her forever family 🏠❤️

You also may have noticed that her nose is a bit unique 👀👃 Leonie has what is called a bifid nose, meaning her nose is completely split down the middle! This is purely cosmetic, causes her NO issues, and in my opinion just makes her all the more beautiful 🥰

Leonie is a special girl and while she has settled in well with us, she is going to need a family that understands sometimes she needs her space and a quiet corner to decompress!

So let’s make a Christmas miracle happen and find this sweet girl her forever home 🙏🏽🎄🏠

About Leonie 💗:

⭐️ estimated to be about 6-7yrs old
⭐️ fully vaccinated
⭐️ spayed
⭐️ sweet girl who loves scratches behind her ear
⭐️ Enjoys her personal space. While she won’t be the kind of cat to cuddle in your lap, she loves to bump up and rub on your legs for scratches
⭐️ Is NOT fond of being stroked and would prefer to only receive head scratches

Who is the perfect home for Leonie?🏠:

⭐️ NO kids - because she is VERY particular on how she likes to be pet and handled (understandable given her first few years of life) she needs to be in an adult only home
⭐️ Would prefer a home with no dogs or one who is very respectful of cats and their space
⭐️ Lived with other cats in the past and tolerates my resident cat, but she would also enjoy being the sole focus of your attention
⭐️ Needs a family willing to giver her time and space to trust them
⭐️ New Family MUST live within 3 hrs of Worcester, Massachusetts

We know this won’t be easy finding a perfect home for her, but we hope that with your help and sharing her adoption post that we will find the family who will love her for who she is ❤️🏠

If you are interested in Leonie, you can find the link to apply with the link below 🔗and if you aren’t her forever PLEASE still share this post 🙏🏽

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeKTHbjv6H59CEgoNUM_ohLalxBqVvjHgNAgQqy2fPUOfq_3A/viewform?edit_requested=true

🚨 DVMS!! Who will go join this group and advocate for these puppies???!! 🚨 I’ve left this group before because I can’t h...
12/01/2024

🚨 DVMS!! Who will go join this group and advocate for these puppies???!! 🚨

I’ve left this group before because I can’t handle not being able to say a word on there🫤
I was asked by one of our wonderful followers to see if maybe their admins would make an exception for our organization since we focus on education. I’ve sent a DM, but I truly doubt they will accept me on.

‼️ I absolutely agree that vet advice needs to be monitored. I am NOT a vet. ‼️
BUT as a profession as a whole, we do not get the proper education on neonates. We are expected to know so much about everything, it’s impossible to keep up!

So when someone has put their focus forward on trying to teach that these puppies and kittens can have a chance and there is ever evolving medical interventions for them….why can’t we have a voice to help?💔

I’m also not a huge fan of these pet advice groups bc I find it unfair to ask for medical advice when you are unable to see, touch, and listen to your patient. The groups are there though and we need to find a way to get our voices heard.

🙏🏼If you are a Veterinarian that wants to help, please please go add yourself to the group. I’m about to leave again bc this is the 3rd post today that the only recommendation has been euthanasia. 🙏🏼

(Side note: yes there are many animals that euthanasia is what is humane. Letting them suffer is never ok. Having a cleft or being hydro affected does NOT mean you are suffering though!)

🤎🐾Brickles Update 🐾🤎Wednesday we took Brick in for a consult at our surgery team that’s helped many of our special pups ...
11/30/2024

🤎🐾Brickles Update 🐾🤎

Wednesday we took Brick in for a consult at our surgery team that’s helped many of our special pups (and kitties).

It’s hard to put into words what’s going on with him because it’s a lot. And we’ve been through a lot with him since he was a tiny tot. 🥺

And this is one of those times that I don’t know what the right thing is to do and that’s why we are trying to get some answers to see if there are solutions.

Brick has always struggled with BOAS (Brachycephalic Obstruction Airway Syndrome) and it’s the reason we made him a permanent resident of our home. He had his first surgery at 11 months old in 2022. At that point he was already in stage 3 laryngeal collapse 😔 He breathed wonderfully for at the most 6 months and then it all started again. The sleeping standing up. The snoring.
And obviously it’s progressed over the two years to now he regurgitates multiple times a day.

This is the sad reality of Brachy breeds and BOAS. And it sucks.

We have an estimate for diagnostics and I’m only sharing for full transparency of what we are being given at the vet.
SVRC suggested we go to UCDavis for a consult. Jokes on us though bc we got an email that they won’t accept new patients. So we are now researching for another speciality practice that may be able to do a laryngeal stent. The stent is basically our only option or a permanent trach. A permanent trach is NOT an option for Brick. The way he drinks for one will drown him. And they are not the best bc they come with a multitude of problems (and yes I know there are accounts out there sharing stories of success, but this has been discussed at length with our vet and it’s not an option for Brick unless he tries to die during an operation)

The harsh reality of rescue is that we can’t always make them better. That we have to be the ones to make the hard choices.
But I can’t make those choices without know that I have researched his options and the laryngeal stent is one that I need to dive into.
Cont in comments ..

11/29/2024

🚨SALE🚨Help Ernie get an MRI 🧠

It’s Black Friday, and on this day full of sales and shopping, we hope you choose to shop small with our Bandanas for Ernie campaign 🐥 🧠❄️🎄

Usually our bandanas are $15 each, but today we are offering 15% off when you order TWO! So instead of 2 for $30, you will get 2 for $25 😱‼️ (Prices include shipping)

Bandanas are DOUBLE sided 😱 slide over the collar so not adding another thing tied around their neck 👏🏼 make PERFECT gifts for your pets or the pet lovers in your life 🎁 AND help support a good cause ❤️

All of our bandanas are handmade by an amazing volunteer who donates ALL of her time and fabric so that 💯% of our bandanas sales go directly back to our fosters 🙌🏻🎉

We still have about $2,900 left to raise towards Ernie’s MRI and I am REALLY hoping we can make a dent in this number today with bandana sales 🙏🏽

How to order ‼️👇🏼

⭐️ Click here : https://forms.gle/P6Vj3fT4B9nhNLFK8
⭐️ Fill out the order form
⭐️ Send payment using Venmo/PayPal: or Zelle: [email protected]

Not interested in bandanas, but want to still help Ernie? Consider shopping one of our other fundraisers 👇🏼

🎄 Wreath & More Fundraiser - add some holiday cheer to your home and order using this link and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to us! https://threeriversfundraising.com/fundraiser/vtcaa-w24/

🍫 See’s Candy - grab your holiday candy for guests or to give as gifts by ordering using the link in our bio and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to us! https://www.yumraising.com/secure/veterinarytfc_techs_for_clefts_candy_fundrais43/CouJoh5874/

🎁 Donate directly using Venmo/PayPal: and Zelle: [email protected]

And one last thing I ask, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE share this post 🙏🏽 sharing helps us reach more people who might be able to help our pups!!

🎄 Wreath Fundraiser ❤️💚We have another really beautiful way to help support our rescue and bring the festivities to your...
11/24/2024

🎄 Wreath Fundraiser ❤️💚

We have another really beautiful way to help support our rescue and bring the festivities to your home 🙌🏼

Every purchase from Three Rivers when you use our code helps us say “YES” to more critical neonates.

🐾 this year has been huge with so many puppies AND kittens that we have helped! We are very grateful for all the support 🥹

We also still have our Sees Candy Fundraiser going on until next month as well! Link is in our bio! Just click the LinkTree💪🏼

CANDY 🍫 FOR THE HOLIDAYS (And so much more!)Our Sees candy Fundraiser is going strong! Orders can be placed NOW through ...
11/21/2024

CANDY 🍫 FOR THE HOLIDAYS
(And so much more!)

Our Sees candy Fundraiser is going strong!
Orders can be placed NOW through December 6th! Shipping has been quick, but as it gets closer to the holidays and the demand higher, it’s will take more time

Every purchase, a percentage is donated to our rescue! We have spent over $3000 in just the last MONTH on vet bills, let alone supplies and the upkeep of running a nonprofit 🙏🏼

I want to thank Haley F., Alyssa W., Laura W., Stephanie D., Haleigh M., Mary Beth K., Sarah B., Christine C., Jacqlyn L., and Amanda N., who have all placed their orders! That’s $849.50 in sales with almost $200 back to us!!🐾

Our goal is to raise a total profit of $1000😳 that is a heck of a lot of product we know BUT if everyone shares our link, I think we can do it!!❤️💚

https://www.yumraising.com/secure/veterinarytfc_techs_for_clefts_candy_fundrais43/CouJoh5874/checkout

The link is also in our BIO (click the linktree) AND I’ll share this to our stories with a link for easy sharing☺️

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