Right Meow Rescue

15/01/2025

‼️Hey hey hey, it's that time of year again‼️
Who's ready for the Superbowl? Who's ready to help cats?! 🐱 Let's combine them and get some Superbowl squares going!

These sell out fast so get yours before it's gone 😎 here are the rules:

🏈 Each square is $25
🏈 State below which number you would like
🏈 Pay for your square and it's yours!!
🏈 Anxiously await the Superbowl

Wondering how much you can win? We are too. Here's the payout:

1st quarter - $100😏
Half-time - $200 🤩
3rd quarter - $300 😱
Final - $400 🤯

Thank you for your donation and support! Our cats thank you for their new food, fresh litter, and catnip. (Let's be honest they think they're entitled to it 🤷‍♀️).

*The updated board will be posted every few hours during daytime hours. Any square claimed but not paid for will be opened for new players.

We accept payment through:

💜 Paypal: paypal.me/rightmeowny
💙 Venmo: -zwecker
*Updated at 8:12am Jan 25th

14/01/2025

Beck is at peace 😞

Beck continued to decline throughout the day. At that point, the level of care that he needed was greater than what a general practice could handle. The next step would have been to bring him to an emergency hospital for hospitalization and to have a bunch of tests ran. Unfortunately, emergency was not an option for us due to the financial strain it would put on us.

In a last-ditch effort, we reached out to several other rescues to see if anyone was able to take him on. Unfortunately, everyone was full or financially tapped out as well. Many groups did offer to contribute towards his care and we are so grateful for that. Unfortunately, we would not have raised enough funds. Emergency would have cost several thousand dollars. The last time we spent that amount of money was for Spirit in the summer of 2023. We are just now financially recovering from that. We couldn’t put the rescue at risk again. That is why we reached out to others. But we are in a cat crisis - the need for help in our community is so high. Rescues are drowning. We completely understand why they couldn’t help.

We struggled all day deciding what to do. We never want to euthanize unless absolutely necessary. We didn’t want to get stuck in a position where he declined even further with only the emergency hospital open. Euthanasia at an emergency costs a small fortune but we would do it if we had to. But when he struggled to walk this afternoon, we knew he couldn’t wait all night. We knew it was hospitalization or euthanasia at that point.

We wish things had ended differently. We wish money wasn’t a contributing factor. We wish that he was stable enough for the bloodwork results to come back so we could make a treatment plan. He was only 9-10 months old.

This all happened so fast. We feel like we failed him. We are so sorry Beck 😭

We miss you, buddy. We love you 💔

14/01/2025

Beck needs your thoughts and prayers. He went from completely fine to very sick in less than 36 hours.

Yesterday, Beck did not want to eat - which is unusual since he’s typically very food motivated. We chalked it up to maybe having a stomach bug. They happen and we planned on seeing how he was doing today.

This morning, his abdomen was filled with fluid. We saw him struggling to urinate so we were worried he was blocked. Upon arrival, he was dehydrated and turning yellow. The doctor isn’t sure if he has FIP, a liver shunt, or a congenital issue. Blood was drawn but we won’t have results until tomorrow. We aren’t sure if he will make it until tomorrow, though 😭

He is currently in a foster home and will be monitored for signs of discomfort. If he is suffering, we will have him humanely euthanized.

Beck is one of the kitties that belonged to the homeless lady we are helping. She is aware of what’s going on. Her heart is broken as well as ours. Please donate if you can. If he needs surgery, it could cost thousands. He’s only 9 months old 😭

💜 Paypal: paypal.me/rightmeowny
💙Venmo: -zwecker

12/01/2025

Meet some of our newly available kitties!

06/01/2025

🐈 You get a cat… and you get a cat… and you get a cat!

Congratulations to Grace, Oreo, May, Meeko, Fern, Jinx, Sabrina and Snickers (pending pickup) for finding your forever homes! Honorable mention goes to Cupcake who is in a wonderful foster to adopt home. All of these guys went home within the last week!

This influx in applications and adoptions has really helped us open up more space for new kitties. We are opening intake but we have a long waitlist. We, unfortunately, can’t help with every request. 😔

The adoptions have also helped us pay our vet bills. We are two adoptions away from paying off RCAC and being in the green for the first time in over a year!

If you’re looking for your next best friend, visit our Petfinder page to view all of our adoptable kitties!

https://www.petfinder.com/member/us/ny/penfield/right-meow-rescue-roc-ny1552/

01/01/2025

Happy New Year! 🎆🎊🎉

Thank you to everyone for the love and support this past year! In 2024, we were able to help about 120 cats! 64 of which have been adopted. Seven, we sadly lost due to health concerns or were unexpected. Two ferals found a new home in a barn with lots of land to explore. We also feed and care for a colony of about 7-10 cats at our holding space. One cat, Max, escaped our building over the summer and sadly, no one has reported him as found 😭. The rest are currently in foster care. As a recap, below are photos of those who have been adopted or those who went to the rainbow bridge.

Thank you to all of our fosters for your hard work in socializing, nursing them back to health, and for loving each and every one of our kitties.

Special shout out to the The Pawsitive Cafe- Downtown Rochester's First Cat Cafe and The Friendly Feline Cat Cafe for promoting our babies and helping us find their forever homes!

Our goals for 2025 include:
Saving 150+ cats
Having 75+ adoptions
Focusing more on adults and seniors
Possibly buy a new holding space?

If you adopted anyone below, we would love to see updates! Post pics 💜

25/12/2024

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all of us at Right Meow Rescue! Let’s see your pets enjoying Christmas in the comments below! 👇

23/12/2024

🦷 Before and after for Petunia 🦷

7 extractions with resorptive lesions 😭. She will feel so much better in the days to come. Any donations will help with her cost as well as help us provide vetting and food for the 40 other cats in our care. 🙏🏻

💜 Paypal: paypal.me/rightmeowny
💙 Venmo: -zwecker

23/12/2024

Petunia is ready for her dental! Thank you to Hilton Vet for getting her in!

Petunia has been with us since March, 2023. Not one application due to her needing a prescription diet for life 😭.

She was found by 104 in Greece with cars running over her while she was frozen in fear. She was eating well with us but losing weight, vomiting, had diarrhea. We learned she has IBD and she’s been on EN wet food ever since and is thriving!

Petunia is about 5-6 years old. She loves playing with lasers, cuddling with people, being pet on her terms.

Dislikes: cats and dogs. Petunia is in a foster home with six other cats, two dogs and two birds. She isn’t the biggest fan of other animals, but she can co-exist. She will not cause harm to others. She would rather walk away from another pet than to cause a fight.

Personality: Petunia is a lover! She has to be by her foster’s side 24/7. Her goal is to receive all the pets and to make biscuits. Petunia even loves belly rubs!

Adopt:
https://form.jotform.com/rightmeowrescue/adoption-application

Donate towards her dental 🦷
💜 Paypal: paypal.me/rightmeowny
💙 Venmo: -zwecker

22/12/2024

Despite being on intake hold, we had an emergency intake today. These two were left in a basement after a tenant moved out about a week ago and were left without food or water. Fortunately, the tenants let us know when they moved that they left them behind and we were able to get them food and water quickly.

We had a room open up in our holding space today so it was moving day. Due to their fear, we had to trap these two in order to catch them. The grey boy is friendly but the calico is very scared and angry. This is unfortunately, a typical reaction.

For a cat, being abandoned by its owner is an incredibly traumatic experience that leaves them overwhelmed with confusion, fear, and loneliness. They were once beloved companions, but now, they suddenly find themselves in an unfamiliar place, devoid of the comfort and security they once knew. This can have long-term consequences such as anxiety, depression, aggression, etc.

When you adopt a cat, it is often a 15+ year commitment. Do not get a cat if you do not plan on keeping them for their entire lives. It’s so hard on them and on rescuers to have to constantly see cats in distress after their owners leave them behind. Christmas is right around the corner so please be mindful about this commitment before you bring home a furry friend.

These two need names. Drop your name ideas in the comments below 👇

19/12/2024

Why hasn’t anyone applied for sweet May 😭

Status: Available, vetting complete

Gender: female, spayed
Approximate age: 1.5 years old

Likes: napping, hanging out around people, playing with toys

Dislikes: nothing much, she’s very tolerant. She used to not like cats being in her bubble for too long but she’s used to it now.

Personality: She used to be shy with strangers but she is much more comfortable with people now. She's a social butterfly! She is a cuddle bug and a curious cat that will get into everything. She is very cat friendly. We don't know how she will be with dogs but we think after time, she would adjust well. She also does great with children. She also loves to play!

Background: She came from a tenant who longer wanted her. They were supposed to surrender her to us last fall when she was a kitten but they decided to “keep” her. We were taking a cat from a different tenant next door when May’s owner approached us asking us to take her, too. So, we did. We didn’t even recognize her. She was very scared and they said they couldn’t really handle her as a result. Thanks to her foster and the cat cafe, she’s much more social.

Vetting done: spayed, rabies vaccine, full FVRCP series, combo test, microchip, and Rev+.

Concerns:
Medical: had exposure to a FeLV+ cat (two days) but when combo tested again 7 weeks after exposure, she tested negative again. The vet said she is truly negative as a result. This is documented in her paperwork.

Behavioral: None

Intake date: 3/25/24

Location: The Friendly Feline Cat Cafe

Adopt:

https://form.jotform.com/rightmeowrescue/adoption-application

We only have ONE week to find sweet May a home by Christmas!! It’s not looking great but I’ll keep trying for this sweet girl! 🎅🏼🎄😿

16/12/2024

Charlie finally had his dental! Thank you Irondequoit Animal Hospital! Charlie is FIV+ and it is very common to have dental issues as a result. He has severe dental disease and 13 teeth had to be taken out! Ouch!

Dentals are not cheap. We have Petunia scheduled for one next Monday. All funds raised will cover her procedure. Please donate 🙏🏻

For $1,200, we can spay/neuter and vaccinate, combo and microchip 6-7 cats. Non-routine vetting such as dentals, bloodwork, ultrasounds, etc. add up and make it so hard to continue our work. Please support cats like Charlie and Petunia 🙏🏻

💜 Paypal: paypal.me/rightmeowny

💙 Venmo: -zwecker

15/12/2024

HUGE shoutout to GRASP for helping with an urgent neglect case. We work closely with a landlord who often finds abused and abandoned animals and 99% of the time, we are able to help. Unfortunately, we are maxed out with 40 cats in the rescue. I went with the landlord to evaluate the situation and couldn’t leave them behind. I sent a desperate plea out to GRASP and they agreed to take them! THANK YOU!!! We had to move some cats around for a temporary solution but at least they are in a clean and safe holding space for now until Wednesday.

The house was filthy. The floors were sticky and there were flies everywhere. The kittens were seen fighting over an apple core and one of the kittens was very mad when I tried to take it away from them. They are remarkably healthy given the state of their living space. No signs of upper respiratory infections and no evidence of fleas or ear mites.

Please send some love towards GRASP! We can’t do this by ourselves and we are so thankful to have so many rescues in the area that will help us out when possible. 💜

We are completely closed for intake due to the number of cats we are caring for. Not necessarily due to financial constraints but adoptions have been slow. We are a very small team and managing more than 30 is hard, let alone 40. Please understand we are doing the best we can and will re-open intake once we have some adoptions.

07/12/2024

Go see Fake Max and all the other kitties at The Friendly Feline Cat Cafe!

Max is sad no one has come to see him today! We’re still open for another few hours, till 4!!!

06/12/2024

Meet five of our newly available kitties! Apply below!

🐈 https://form.jotform.com/rightmeowrescue/adoption-application

03/12/2024

Today is giving Tuesday and it’s the day to celebrate non-profit organizations. We hope you will consider supporting our mission to reduce the homeless and shelter cat population by providing loving, safe foster homes for all cats in our care while also taking care of their medical needs.

Since 2021, we have found forever homes for 200 cats! We currently have 38 in our care and a majority of them are fully vetted, waiting patiently for their forever homes.

We have 8 that still need to be spayed/neutered. The cost of basic services is not cheap. These are the prices for Rochester Community Animal Clinic:

Spay: $90
Neuter: $66
FVRCP vaccine (need 2-3): $15 each
Rabies vaccine: $15
Microchip: $12
Combo test: $45
Revolution plus: $13
Droncit: $12

Our adoption fee is $200 which doesn’t always cover routine vetting. Cat rescues lose money on every cat and heavily rely on donations to continue their life-saving work.

We plan on paying $700 to RCAC this week which will bring our bill down to $700 remaining. That is the lowest it has been in a year and a half. We do have some surgeries and vaccine appointments scheduled so our bill will go up but help us pay it off by the end of the year! Being able to pay off our bill will allow us to take more cats in and help save more lives. Every dollar helps.

Thank you 🙏🏻
💜 Paypal: paypal.me/rightmeowny
💙 Venmo: -zwecker

01/12/2024

‼️closed!‼️

Congratulations to Ellen Fridman !!!!!! 🎉🎉

Please pay $80 to https://www.paypal.me/rightmeowny and your membership info will be emailed to you!

Thank you all and have a great day!

Does anyone else feel way too full after Thanksgiving? 🫄It sure doesn't help when eating all the Halloween candy too!😵‍💫 If only there was a way to work off all those carbs...

WAIT! How about a 3 month membership to the YMCA?! Whoa! That's right, an entire THREE MONTHS of gym time. You get buff 💪 while saving cats 🐱. Best. Deal. EVER.

Great thanks to the YMCA of Greater Rochester for their generous donation!💜

This auction starts TODAY and will end on Sunday December 8th at noon.
- Starting bid is $20
- Bids must be in whole dollar amounts
- What are you waiting for? Go go go!

29/11/2024

Update, she passed 😞. Still looking for an owner to provide closure 💔

Young female kitty found on Payne Beach Rd. Very cold. Currently at Hilton Vet being warmed up and assessed. Is on stray hold. If she becomes stable, we will take her case on.

She was wearing a collar. If this is your cat, you will need to identify Amie Zweckercollar she was wearing. Please message Amie Zwecker if this is your cat!