Spunky N' Squeaks Cat Rescue

31/07/2022

The battle with wet FIP continues. We are now on day 40.

17/07/2022

The face of rescue. 23 adults and 7 kittens. All sick. I realize I’m in a war against nature, and nature mostly wins, but not this time little guys. Kitten season has been brutal. These little ones were trapped off of king William by the wonderful ladies with Indian Rivers. The other kittens we found covered in fire ants but are mostly recovered by their wonderful foster mamas!

Please stay tuned for our fundraiser. We are gathering heads to do a massive fundraiser for several rescues because as you can see, this work costs massive amounts of time, money, not to mention blood, sweat, tears and energy. Silent auction and guest speakers. Details soon to follow.

09/07/2022

We got them! Babies living in the gas station parking lot under a light in a meridian. One baby is struggling to breathe. We chose to move them before we got mom because it was a very bad area, fire ants were near them and big giant ants were crawling on them, babies have sores all over their bodies, we have traps set up for mother and we knew it was the right thing to do, one of the babies is on a nebulizer so he can breathe tonight. Send good thoughts and prayers and wishes our way, we will get mom soon, she’s a Friendly Kitty but she got really spooked with our traps. She will be back and if we have to, we will use her babies as bait

01/07/2022

21/06/2022

Stella’s waiting on getting her groove back. No dates for her for awhile. She just gave birth two days ago to six beautiful kittens, five orange and one beautiful tabby, we are actively looking for a loving foster home to help supplement feed them, as 6 babies are a lot for her to keep up proper production of milk. Once they’re weaned, they will come back to the rescue we’ve set them up with; she was a stray kitty, her last litter of kittens were killed and strewn about the yard by a dog, so we trapped her and her sister and the male cat immediately, but we had no clue she was pregnant. On the day we were getting her fixed, she showed signs of a significant upper respiratory cold, so we could not fix her, then she started to show a baby bump and well, we got babies! Please consider adopting, fostering, opening up your home to a furry pet. Please also consider adopting an adult, the adults are overlooked so often

05/05/2022

We have many beautiful babies; it’s been a heart wrenching past couple of weeks as one 2 week old litter caught pneumonia and we lost all but one baby, rescue is painful work, but so worth it. I know I can’t save them all, but I look at these babies here and I know they were born/rescues and brought to a safe home, as opposed to outdoors. And we will do all we can to ensure they’re loved, healthy and in a safe home.

11/04/2022

Welcome to the world little ones! Eyes are officially open, they are 10 days old! Mama Cora is having breakfast so I’m being nosey

11/04/2022

Meet the coparenting twin sisters. Between the two of them, they were rescued and gave birth the same week, birthed a few hours apart from each other. Now, they are inseparable. Their story is incredible. They are caring for their babies together; each queen had 3 babies. Their babies will be weaned and vetted and we will find homes for all of them, but the miracle twin sisters must stay together.

16/03/2022

Can you believe this feisty little fella?

09/03/2022

Introducing the beautiful Olivia family. A bunch of orange toe beans!!

09/03/2022

Got this cutie today; sweet guy was in the rain for a bit, but a kind gentleman Alerted us to his whereabouts. He is safe, warm and fed now. He will be going to a wonderful foster soon

27/01/2022

Bang on your cars before starting in this cold if you have outside cats!!! This sweet one got lucky. She got caught on the fan belt when the car started, she was just trying to stay warm in this cold. She is with a loving foster and will be put up for adoption once healed

19/01/2022

“There there Lil sis, don’t be scared; it’s ok now, the nice humans have us and are taking us to the land of food and warmth and something called nose boops.”

Meet our 3 newest rescues. Two months old! They will be vetted and put up for adoption at https://kittykingdomcatcafe.wpcomstaging.com. Please follow their journey!

14/01/2022

Look at my black beauties!!! Every one is rescued and half of them are related from the same colony, but what I love the most is that they were all feral when I got them, scared, always in attack mode, I couldn’t touch them, I couldn’t even think of adopting them out...but we didn’t give up on them...and after months of love and work and dedication, these beauties are ready for adoption!!!! I am so happy! Help me share so we can find these beautiful kitties loving homes!

08/12/2021

Update: our sweet Snuffles has tested positive for felv. We are looking for a special home just for him. Please share so we can find him his people.

Meet Snuffles, a 2 month old cutie pie who was born in this cold. He has a yucky cold, so we are treating him. He loves to snuggle. And he has never been held in his life; he will make a wonderful pet.
Nancy Moats he came from the apt complex! I have been trying to get him and Deborah caught him! We are so grateful to the cat food you send to keep these kitties alive. I estimate about 25 more to TNR

29/11/2021

Went to the store, came back with 4 kitties that need to be fixed, need shots and homes. Yes I did my homework, no they don’t belong to anyone, yes they are strays, and the adults are semi feral, the kittens will be placed in homes, just need good adopters.

23/11/2021

Cleaning up the Walmart parking lot, we think there is one kitten left, going back to get the little one. Got this duo last night, pretty little kittens, a little scared but they don’t realize just how much better their life is going to be

07/11/2021

In case they didn’t download from my earlier posts, here are some great tips

07/11/2021

Time to make winter shelters! Fill a plastic tub that has a lid with straw, insulate it and gorilla tape it and voila, you have something better than nothing. You can see the black and yellow tub, there is insulation inside and i fill it with straw. We also winterize our sheds with insulation and install heaters.

06/11/2021

Pray for us, we have had loss and pain lately. We offer up our animals in prayer to God, we do what we can, but sometimes it just isn’t enough. All of our animals are rescues; they have been through only God knows what, so they are sick, they are weak, and we have faith to save them, but we can’t save them all, and God takes them home before I want to let them Go. Please send us prayers.

28/10/2021

We take pride in how fat our ferals are; this is Tomasina and Rudolph, both males we thought, until they got spayed. I just booped Tommy’s nose today for the first time! Last physical interaction we had was when she was being crated before her surgery and she went for my jugular...12 months and lots of free food later...we had our first boop!

27/10/2021

I would have loved to have gotten a photo of these kittens When they face planted into their food, all paws and face, I mean these two meant business with dinner time. I almost lost a finger...but It was so sweet; they are too precious, very hungry, safe and sweet babies who will be ready for their homes soon.

Darling smoky boy hasn’t figured out there’s food on his face yet...


26/10/2021

I can’t make this up... we rescued two beauties today, an all gray male with a red point Siamese looking female, she had a litter and one survived, but the baby was deformed and died,... they are both absolute love dolls, they are going to get vetted and healthy and will be up for adoption at Kitty Kingdom in Norfolk when ready. Please follow their recovery from rags to riches 

24/10/2021

For all of you who think I only rescue cats...we rescued this yorkie mama who was used as a breeder only, and we got her into a wonderful yorkie rescue. I was working construction and saw her running around for days, no one claimed her...when we got her, poor baby was so hungry and scared. She is now living a beautiful life, baby free! We love babies, don’t get me wrong, but this sweet girl didn’t choose to live a sad life as a breeder dog, uncared for and neglected, but now she is safe. Think before you buy from breeders, and make sure they are licensed and reputable and take care of their animals.

05/10/2021

Please pray, think, send good vibes...however you do it, to help this woman and her staff and her animals. I believe in prayer to God and hard work. When I worked in Uganda and was helping an injured cat, a local Ugandan stopped me and to make a long story short he said, “I know you would help me because you would stop to help this little cat;” I was so glad that somebody finally got it...just because we help animals doesn’t mean we don’t help people, or love people, and this woman won’t leave her animals or her staff, it’s such a helpless feeling for those of us back here watching this...

I keep hearing rumors that I’m dead, and that the Taliban have taken over the KSAR page, for unarticulated reasons and despite what must be a substantial amount of labor turning multiple factions of a guerrilla insurgency force into a nominally unified civilian infrastructure management group that is ostensibly attempting to avoid a looming humanitarian crisis. Somehow, faking an animal rescue page takes precedence. That’s the rumor that almost makes me laugh. Almost. There’s not a lot of laughter left in me. Then there are the million and one ways that I am somehow a scammer. Those affect not just me, but the people I work with who put their hearts into all of this. I have avoided the frequent videos of myself or live videos because I am the only American in this rescue. This is an Afghan organization, and proudly so. It’s a misrepresentation to call it mine. It is ours, and it’s almost all Afghan. But when it comes to the buck stopping and ultimate responsibility, yep that’s me. So this is a message just from me.
In a life full of mistakes and un-mendable wrong turns, the attempted evacuation of KSAR in August is far and away the Titanic of my failures, the worst of my life without question. Yes, we had partners and money, great organizations working on planes for us and they failed for reasons that maybe we could have changed if done differently and maybe not. And yes, instead of requesting to move the dogs back to the clinic early in the day on August 29, I believed the repeated promises of people I trust who said ‘don’t lose faith, the plane is in the air.’ And so when that turned out to be false, it was too late. The military decided that there were too many barricades for me to move the animals from the American line of razor wire up to the Taliban held city streets where our trucks could get. I asked to carry them out one by one, but was told it was too much of a security risk. I was told I could take what I could carry and so I chose Bea and will always cry for every single one I didn’t pick up that is now dead.

When we got in to the airport again after many days of seeking permission from the Taliban, I saw decomposing bodies of dogs I have known since their birth, puppies I loved from the first moment, beloved animals. Our staff saw these. Our hearts are broken and remain so, even as everyone is also worried for the lives of themselves and their families. Even if we recover every animal left at the airport, the losses we’ve already sustained are unforgivable and wear away at the tissues that make hearts strong. And we won’t recover them all.

I’m not in Jordan. A dear friend who is tech savvy is, and she runs Instagram. I haven’t left Afghanistan, which has been my only home for a long time. My parents are probably unhappy about that. I’m sure the Taliban officials I annoy on a daily basis are unhappy about that. Have I raised over a million dollars and only managed to rescue a tortoise and taken all the cash and run away to an island to drink pina coladas? Nope. Doesn’t even sound nice. I subsist on ci******es and coffee and 4 hours of sleep a day and am fueled by the completely unstoppable purpose to do my best to right the wrongs of my own terrible mistakes and poor judgment. And while doing so, and looking at the astounding generosity that is in our organization’s bank account, when we see animals in need, we don’t hesitate to help. Yes, two tortoises. This has become a joke to some. They are lives and just as worthy of living them as any other soul.

I’ve heard I need to get off my ass and do something. Instead, I’m finally sitting down and writing a response to the false and distasteful accusations lodged at me and KSAR as our board has been pushing me to for weeks.

Will I put our plans for evacuation on Facebook and put maps and names and details and strategies on social media? Nope. But I can say that this is not solvable with a clandestine mission. We are waiting for our limited license for an OFAC exemption to come through so that we can legally pay the customs fees that will go to a terrorist organization and so that I can walk into the offices of people on US and UN sanctions lists, now-government officials that are on lists of top ten most wanted terrorists in the world, and put my soul into negotiating permission to move the animals I love so much. To do this without a license would be a violation of the Patriot Act. For those that don’t recognize the complexity of the situation and think I’m a bit of a naive girl who doesn’t understand the context, I’d suggest you hop on a plane and come try to quickly retrieve valuable dogs from facilities in the control of the sons-now-leaders of the Taliban and the Haqqani Network. Then add ISIS/IS-K. And take away cash. And raise the price of food. And watch everyone around you worry for their lives. The dog retrievals and animal rescues that our team has managed are a courageous feat and those fat puppies are fu***ng victories. So get on a plane and help if you think you can. I’d say it takes balls, but as it turns out, I wasn’t born with any.

There is a special place in a hell I don’t believe in for people who take the most well intended effort of someone’s life that turns into the most painful failure of that life, and one they are ceaselessly working to remedy, and have the audacity to safely sit at a computer and spew hatred that does nothing more than bruise an already broken heart and tarnish the reputation of an organization full of people with more courage and perseverance than their narrow minds could imagine.

Consider this your mothrfu***ng proof of life. Now I’ll get off my ass.

03/10/2021

Got them!! Thanks to a wonderful lady named Donna and her husband, we got them!! The kittens at the dump behind Walmart!! Jane Sanders we got these ones to include the injured kitten!

22/09/2021

Say what hooman? I don’t need a bath tonight, just a brushing??? Well, I’ll be!!...as she timidly peeks out of her little hidey hole

For anyone wondering, her mother is in the crate with her and she is quite feral. Mother allows me to care for her baby, but we have a tacit agreement that I may reach into her den and care for her baby as long as I return her baby to her, and all will be well, or else she attacks me. She eyes me when I have her kid and I regularly show her what I’m doing and talk to her, and I’m gaining feral mama’s trust; we are working hard with mama to get baby healthy, and mama will not be forgotten, I will make sure she has a safe place to go

21/09/2021

Hi! I had my 2nd bath tonight by this mean Hooman...someone adopt me soon so I don’t have to go thru this torture anymore!! Apparently, I’m something Cuter than a Button dropped from Heaven... this hooman is crazy...I was rescued with lots of miniature monsters called Fuhleas...and Wormies...

20/09/2021

Ebony, Tally and Jakey are celebrating, they are negative for distemper! Kitty Kingdom here we come!!! Come meet our rescued adoptable‘s at the Kitty Kingdom!  https://kittykingdomcatcafe.wpcomstaging.com

20/09/2021

Bath time!! Too young to get flea meds, we need to bathe her to kill the miniature monsters following our recent rescue with her and her brother; they were covered in fleas and had worms. She has been dewormed, but the fleas are a battle. Baby Ewok doesn’t like it, but she loves the warm snuggles following...any other name suggestions are welcome

19/09/2021

Successful TNR day! These 5, plus 2 others not pictured, will be getting fixed tomorrow and then released at their respective colonies, one is a very old injured man who will stay in my care, I call him Old Man Owen, more on him later

15/09/2021

Our newest little bed-head babies with their pretty mama, not in picture. Mama thinks she’s feral, but she accepts head rubs, so lots of hope for her. These two gorgeous nuggets are going strong! Need help naming them!

When strong and healthy, they will be ready for adoption at the Kitty Kingdom in Norfolk, Va.

https://kittykingdomcatcafe.wpcomstaging.com/

15/09/2021

“Parting is such sweet sorrow...” said no feral cat...ever. Lol. These guys have been returned to the apt complex where we have been working hard to TNR all ferals, and rehome babies and friendlies

13/09/2021

Hey guys, please pray for us, we are having some difficulty. These cats in this video are safe, they will get fixed and cared for, but we have some in a bad situation we arw working and praying to get. Thank you.

31/08/2021

Kitten exfil operation. Five little nuggets living under a porch, got three, two more to go, plus mama. It’s amazing how I can turn my mind off toward spiders and other creepy Crawly things when a kitten’s life is on the line.

31/08/2021

Anyone remember these babies when they were four weeks old and barely 3 ounces? Look how big and beautiful they are now, they were with their foster for so long they forgot me. We are bonding again...

28/08/2021

As an animal rescue myself, and as a US Marine, this is an ice stab directly to my heart. I served in Herat Province, Afghanistan and personally fought hard to bring a beloved rescue dog and kitten back from Afghanistan into the USA. Our dog Bella made it through Kabul and home to the USA, but our kitten Kismet was killed in the process.

I have been watching all this news unfold with a lump in my throat and makes me hold my animals and loved ones closer.

This woman who runs this animal rescue in Kabul is heroic; she is an American woman refusing to leave her staff and her animals...if I was in the same nearly impossible position, I can only hope I would have the guts to do what she’s doing. Please consider supporting, praying, and spreading the word to help this lovely rescue and these precious people and animals whose lives are in dire danger.

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/25/1030227075/afghanistan-airlift-evacuation-animal-rescue

Kabul Small Animal Rescue's American director is raising money to airlift more than 200 dogs and cats, the group's staff and their families before foreign troops leave at the end of the month.

24/08/2021

We have been alerted to four little kittens living in a dump in a public location in town, one of the kittens is injured, looks like something took chunks out of his skin. I was walking by and checked it out and there he was; unfortunately, I didn’t have my trapping tools, so going back and we’re gonna try to get this little guy, to include the others, send us well wishes!!

Sorry about the backwards video

24/08/2021

Share your homemade cat and dog food recipes! Facing food shortages on several levels, to include cat food, may indicate it’s a good idea to start learning how to make our own!  And to start saving and helping our neighbors, local rescues and shelters!https://www.petfoodprocessing.net/articles/14862-crumbling-infrastructure-and-other-supply-chain-issues-affecting-us-pet-food-manufacturers

https://www.google.com/amp/s/feeds.aarp.org/home-family/friends-family/info-2021/cat-food-shortage.html%3f_amp=true

Popular brands like Fancy Feast, Friskies are facing a nationwide cat-food shortage amid the pandemic due to trouble with manufacturing.

23/08/2021

 Always bittersweet to release Kitties, but these ones were feral and they’ve gone back to their colony following their spay and neuter, where they have a lovely caretaker. Notice how they take a long time to say goodbye to me. They clearly did not want to leave my side...😸.

This is at the apartment complex where we’ve already trapped well over 25 cats and had them fixed, and we rehome the friendly ones, and I found barn homes for some other feral ones. This colony is like drinking from a fire hose, but each life equates to thousands of lives and stops the cycle of unwanted and homeless Kittens being brought into this world.