Lucky Clover Rescue

15/07/2025

🐴💚🐱 Rescue Helping Rescue! 🐱💚🐴

Hey Lucky Clover family — we know you’re here for the horses, but today we’re hoping you can open your hearts just a little wider. 💖

A wonderful local cat rescue we work with is in urgent need of help finding safe, loving homes for several sweet kitties who’ve found themselves in desperate circumstances. These cats are out of time and options- but together, we can change their story.

If you have room in your your lap, or your heart for a new feline friend, please consider adopting or fostering. If you can’t bring one home, sharing this post or donating supplies makes a huge difference too.

Rescue isn’t just what we do- it’s who we are, and when rescues help rescues, lives are saved. Let’s show these kitties the same love and second chance we promise our horses every day. 🐾❤️

Thank you for being part of our compassionate community! Milwaukee Pets Alive

AN UNBELIEVABLE 96 DAYS OF PLEADING FOR A FOSTER HOME FOR THIS BLIND KITTY IN DESPERATE NEED - AND NOTHING. PLEASE READ HOW WE ARE ASKING FOR YOUR HELP.

Sundays are my day off, and it gives me time to reflect when my busy mind the other 6 days of the week cannot. Yesterday I was thinking about an amazing experience I had on a clinical rotation in Kansas City, MO. The hospital I was at for just 4 weeks had an amazing approach which everyone working there had to adopt - from the janitors to the neurosurgeons. If someone asks you for help, and you can't/don't have the answer, you had to physically walk that person over to the person that could help them - and if that person couldn't help, they would have to walk that person over to someone that could help - until they landed with the person that could. Because no one should have to fumble around looking for help - in any scenario - someone can help - its just a matter of getting that person to the right person. It was incredible to watch this in play and I not only practiced it while there, I also use it in my everyday life - to this day.

And that's what we're asking all of you to do as a means to something very important - getting 3 cats out of a horrible situation and into foster homes. This need is not reaching enough people - point blank. We can see how many views our posts get. We get about 2 dozen shares a plea and its not enough to reach more people. Which is why we switched gears to ask people to tag at least one person to help us get this need out (people have hundreds of FB friends - everyone can tag one person). We don't know if people aren't doing it because they don't understand? If so, let me explain. Yesterday, I reached out directly to 4 people I know via email, text, and FB message asking if they knew anyone who could help us market this need wider, or tag some people they knew that could. Today, I am going to tag 2 of our foster-to-adopters who are nurses. They are not a fit for what Sweetie Pie (or Brady & Minka) need in a foster home, but they work in a caring profession along side other nurses and healthcare providers who are caring and if they tell those contacts they have about this need, one of them might be a fit, or THEY might know someone that is. Do you see where we're going with this? So please - tag one person. You don't know who all the people you know, know. And they just might be the foster one of these cats need.

Sweetie Pie is the blind kitty living in a hoarder house being foreclosed on who is waiting for someone in this community who has what she needs to succeed to stand up and say, "I have what she needs! I'm just learning about this, but why has no one helped this kitty in 96 days?!?!" and take the steps necessary to apply to be her foster hero.

Sweetie Pie needs an calm, stable adult-only foster home with quiet, gentle people. There can be no dogs in her foster home. She can be the only animal in the home, or we will consider placing her with one resident male cat (age 5 to senior) as long as that cat is super-friendly and mellow so Sweetie Pie is safe as a blind cat.

All of Milwaukee Pets Alive's foster homes must be located in the 5 county area of Waukesha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, and Kenosha. As a special needs and considerations rescue, all of our foster placements are longer term and our foster parents must be able to commit to their foster animal for as long as they need them.

If this message finally reached you and you have what Sweetie Pie needs, you must fill out a foster application to be considered as a foster through our organization found at www.milwaukeepetsalive.org/foster

If you have questions prior to filling out that app, please direct them to [email protected]

Tag someone you know and ask them to spread the word. We are running out of time on this.

10/07/2025

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02/07/2025

Huckleberry has only been here a short time, but after some much needed farrier work, deworming, dental work and supplemental nutrition, he's really improved so much already. Proud of you Huck!

30/06/2025

Fred suckling on the gate, the little bubble 🤣

25/06/2025

✨ From fly-swatting problem to fashion show moment…

When Murphy arrived, his tail was too short to keep the flies away- totally unacceptable for a horse of his stature. So we got creative… and maybe a little carried away. 😆

Before the extensions went on Murphy’s tail, we had to make sure they were fabulous enough. Enter: Fiona-donkey, diva, and apparently the lead singer of a '90s glam rock band. 🎤💃

She said, “Hold my halter, I’ve got this.” And honestly? She did.

Check out the final result - Murphy now has the swishiest tail on the block, and Fiona might have a future in hair commercials. 💁‍♀️

20/06/2025

📣 Belated Welcome Alert! Meet Murphy & Huckleberry (aka Huck) 💚🐴

We’re a little late sharing their story, but these two boys have already galloped their way into our hearts!

Murphy is a gentle giant-a stunning Belgian draft horse with a heart as big as his hooves. And Huck? He’s our adorable, curly-coated small Quarter Horse with a wild mane and even wilder charm.

Both were rescued from the slaughter pipeline on April 1st, and sadly, that was no April Fool’s joke. They arrived underweight, neglected, with overgrown hooves and a heartbreaking lack of care or kindness.

Since then, they’ve received:
✔️ Expert farrier work
✔️ Dental and medical attention
✔️ And most importantly—all the hay, feed, and love they could ever want.

Now thriving, these sweet souls are blossoming before our eyes, and we’re beyond excited to watch them continue to grow, heal, and shine.

Help us give Murphy and Huck the warm welcome they deserve! 💕

P.S.: Murphy already has a sponsor, but Huck would love a sponsor to call his own! Message or call for more details about sponsorship, it allows us to continue this important mission 🍀

19/06/2025

If only these horses had a cozy, dry place to escape the wind and rain...
Oh wait- they do! 😄💁‍♀️

12/06/2025

When the squad hears the treat bag crinkle... 🍎🐴🐓

08/06/2025

Long ear love with Willow 🫏

06/06/2025

We wish we had a better update:

We named him Patrick, and we wish we could have gotten to him sooner.

We picked Patrick up as soon as we were allowed and immediately gave him pain meds. He was sweet and gentle and scared.

He was in extremely poor shape and nearly collapsed in the trailer as soon as he got in, so of course we made the immediate decision to drive him directly to UW-Madison VeterinaryHospital. They took him back and examined him, and unfortunately there was nothing they could do. They said the injury was far older than a week, the bone was exposed and the limb had started to die. He was necrotic.

He was sweet. He was gentle. He had more life to live.

He didn’t deserve the hand he was dealt.

We named him Patrick, and then we let him go.

Rest in peace, Patty. You will forever be in our hearts.

05/06/2025

*Update*

We wish we had a better update:

We named him Patrick, and we wish we could have gotten to him sooner.

We picked Patrick up as soon as we were allowed and immediately gave him pain meds. He was sweet and gentle and scared.

He was in extremely poor shape and nearly collapsed in the trailer as soon as he got in, so of course we made the immediate decision to drive him directly to UW-Madison VeterinaryHospital. They took him back and examined him, and unfortunately there was nothing they could do. They said the injury was far older than a week, the bone was exposed and the limb had started to die. He was necrotic.

He was sweet. He was gentle. He had more life to live.

He didn’t deserve the hand he was dealt.

We named him Patrick, and then we let him go.

Rest in peace, Patty. You will forever be in our hearts.

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Can you help us help this boy?

Yesterday, June 4th, our rescue was alerted to an urgent situation.

There was a saddlebred gelding at a kill lot, with a crippling injury to his right hind leg. This injury was thought to be “about a week old”, he had no treatment other than getting “hosed off”, no pain meds were given, it was very obviously infected, and he can’t bear weight on that leg. To make the situation worse, they listed him as “loose haul” and didn’t get a halter on him, but the body language and wild pain in his eyes make us question his true personality and training level.

Many kind hearted rescue followers pitched in and covered his “bail”, and then contacted Lucky Clover to ask if we would please try to help him.

We are having an on-call vet see him immediately this evening, and he may have to go directly to UW-Madison Veterinary Hospital. We will do what we can to help him. He will quarantine with a wonderful soul, at a fantastic barn, who is a multiple time Lucky Clover Equine Adopter, and she, along with Collette, with ensure if he is able to be healed, that he gets absolutely everything he needs. If the worst situation presents itself, we will offer him the last act of kindness.

The vet bills are expected to be large on this one, and we are right around the corner of our first hay crop getting bailed… farmer also has to be paid.

If you can help us help this boy, it would be sincerely appreciated.