Small n Furry Rescue

01/12/2025

We took in 10 Syrian hamsters today from an accidental breeding situation. The family purchased 2 hamsters that quickly began to multiply. They were not educated by the pet store and kept them together for too long, so they started to attack each other. They contacted our local shelter for help who then referred them to us. Even though we are pretty full right now we couldn’t say no to helping this family. They met me with the hamsters in trash bins and laundry baskets, explained that they kept escaping from these temporary enclosures. I ran into to get some carriers and I was APPALED to see that they were advertising their live animals as 50% off for Black Friday. How irresponsible and heartless can they be? These are live creatures. Not items on a shelf that can be re-stocked when people return them (Petsmart usually refuses returns of live animals to begin with). This is absolutely a horrible marketing tactic and will put these animals lives at risk. I’m sure I’ll be getting calls in a few weeks from people looking to surrender their Black Friday impulse purchase animal. Think twice before buying a pet. Do some research first.

27/11/2025

We have a lot to be thankful for this year at the rescue. We have been able to place over 100 animals into forever homes, and continue to help so many others thanks to our amazing supporters. The outpouring of donations and contributions to our mission to help exotic companion animals in our area has been such a gift.

Thanks to my friend Isabelle and her family for her generous donation, I went out and braved the crazy last minute holiday shopping and was able to get a special feast together for animals.

The rabbits we rescued from the horrible hoarding case in Edison are all settling in. They are going through anti-parasitic treatment and then a few will be ready for adoption. We will also be looking for foster homes for a few of the rabbits so they can get some extra socialization time.

We also have a large herd of guinea pigs right now - several of the babies and the moms will be available for adoption as early as next weekend. They also enjoyed a feast!

Thank you for all of your support!

26/11/2025

Bonsai just checking in to say hi!

This beautiful little Dutch rabbit is still searching for his forever home. His foster mom reports that he is perfect with his litter box habits and is an excellent house guest.

Bonsai is about 1-2 years old, neutered and ready to be adopted!

For more information please send us a message.

25/11/2025

Apple (pie) and Cinnamon are ready to celebrate the holidays with a feast!

This adorable pair of guinea pigs are currently in foster waiting for their forever home. These two were surrendered a few weeks ago because the owner’s daughter stopped caring for them. The owner was “done with them” and basically told us that if we didn’t take them, he would throw them outside. Sadly, this is an all too common occurrence.

We get surrender requests for guinea pigs almost every day. Why? Primarily I feel it is because people walk into Petsmart/Petco and are given little to no information on how much of a commitment these animals are. They have a very specialized diet, require daily maintenance of their enclosures and can certainly be little piggies and be a bit messy.

Guinea pigs can be excellent companions, and I recommend them for families with children all the time due to their gentle demeanor and fun little personalities. However they are certainly a family pet and require everyone to be on board to make sure they get the appropriate care.

If you are not sure if guinea pigs are the right fit for your family, consider fostering for us! We have **11** baby guinea pigs right now that will be ready for adoption soon, but I’d love to get them out to foster homes for a few weeks of socialization. We provide all supplies to our fosters.

If you are interested in giving this adorable duo a forever home, please send us a message!

Thank you to everyone who has sent us guinea pig supplies recently - these little ones sure do eat a lot!

23/11/2025

Special Adoption!

After 7 months in the rescue and a lot of TLC Cinderella has finally found her castle ❤️

This special angora mix rabbit was surrendered to us this past spring in quite a state - she was matted to the skin and had a bad eye infection. She was left behind by her previous owner when they moved away. Fortunately her neighbors were able to take care of her until she found us.

Cinderella spent a few months with one of our amazing fosters, and it really made so much of a difference for this special little rabbit!

Cinderellas new family saw all of our posts about the recent hoarding case, and after losing their rabbit that they had for 13 wonderful years they were ready to open their home to another furry friend. We sent them photos of Cinderella and it was love at first sight.

We are so excited for this sweet rabbit!

Pictured here is her foster mom, and her new family :)

21/11/2025

Mini panther looking for his forever home!!

Remember the kitten my landlord found by our dumpster in October? He was near death, emaciated and I wasn’t sure if he would pull through.

I’m not a cat rescue - but sometimes the cat distribution system works in mysterious ways.

I’m glad we were able to help Spooky Skeleton and get him feeling better. But I was worried he was still not quite ready to be a house cat. He was still nervous around people and would prefer to hide under his bed than come out to play.

Thanks to our amazing foster Amie, Spooky has been in foster for all of two weeks, and he is fully claimed the title of “cuddle bug”.

Now the next step - finding this adorable mini panther a forever home. (Please, because I cannot keep a 5th cat 😂). I think spooky would thrive in a home with other cats so he has friends to play with.

Spooky will be neutered prior to adoption. He is FIV/FeLV negative.

For information on adopting this special little kitten,please send us a message!

18/11/2025

Baby reveal!

The guinea pig mom has 4 adorable little “pups”!
And yes - these babies were born 2 days ago!

Guinea pigs are unique in the rodent family. Their babies come out fully furred, eyes open ears up and ready to go! They do rely on their moms for about 3 weeks to nurse, but they will quickly start eating hay at around 3 days old.

This litter will be ready for adoption in about 6 weeks or so. We have several of their cousins (and aunts!) that will also be ready for adoption in about a month.

Not ready to commit to adopting? Consider fostering for us for a few weeks! We’d love to get these babies out to foster for some extra socialization and TLC before they go to their forever homes. All supplies are provided.

18/11/2025

It brought tears to my eyes watching these rabbits experience their first taste of greens. Some were a little apprehensive at first, but then it was like a lightbulb went on in their heads. These rabbits have a long road ahead of them to try to recover from the trauma they endured from living in such poor conditions. They all have full bellies and are clean and safe now!

18/11/2025

Happy birthday babies!

Our last mom from the large surrender we took in a few weeks ago FINALLY gave birth last night. We were starting to get worried with how large she was getting. Fortunately all went smoothly and mom and babies are doing great.

Let’s play a game… how many babies do you think this sweet momma had? Hint - guinea pigs can have 1-8 babies at a time!

Momma and her babies (as well as her sisters and nieces and nephews) will be ready for adoption in a few weeks.

Thank you to everyone who donated pellets; food and bedding for this herd!

Baby reveal tomorrow!

17/11/2025

All of the Edison hoarding rabbits are officially in rescue! Shoutout to our friends Willys Wabbits 2.0 Kind Heart Rescue and Steph’s community pet center for pulling together and taking in all 34 rabbits from this awful situation. They are all now safe and receiving the care that they deserve!

We were able to make room for 4 - so all in we took in 7 from this case.

All of these rabbits are settling in and we are hoping with a lot of TLC they will be ready for adoption.

An update on the 3 that we took in earlier this week -

The angora is definitely and older gal. She is settling into her routine. Unfortunately she is absolutely petrified of us so we are going to take things slow. We have her scheduled to see our vet in a few weeks. Were calling her “Baaaa” because she reminds me of an old sheep.

The red jersey woolley has some limb deformities from her matting - we are hoping with time she is able to gain a bit more strength to hop around. Boy is she a feisty one. We’re calling her “Victoria”

Then we have the first agouti jersey Woolley. This poor girl was in full blown GI stasis when we got her. We are battling some diarrhea and now a respiratory infection, we are most worried about her.

Thank you to everyone who sent in clipper blades from our wishlist so that I was able to groom these 3 new angoras (took me about 5 hours). Fortunately the jersey Woolley appears to be the healthiest of the bunch so far.

If you’d like to help us with the Edison rabbits, we are still fundraising for their veterinary expenses and ongoing supply cost while they’ll be with us for a while.

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16/11/2025

16/11/2025

Special thanks to our AMAZING team of fosters that jumped right in when we put out the plea for help. Thanks to them all of our rabbits are safe in foster so we can work on the new rabbits from the Edison hoarding case. We also were able to send our kitten Spooky out with our foster Amie, who will be able to give him some one on one time and socialization.

TJ is still looking for a home! This beautiful Rex rabbit is the softest rabbit we’ve ever had! Living velvet. She is a very good house guest and is loving being spoiled by her foster. She has lived with dogs, cats and kids. Tj would prefer to be the only rabbit in her space.

Cinderella has been hoping to find her castle since the summer! We don’t know why this beautiful girl has not found a home yet. For those of you that reached out about the angora rabbits from the hoarding case (who will not be available for adoption for several weeks to months), maybe Cinderella is your girl! This angora mix rabbit Ioves to be pet and brushed. Her foster mom reports that she is a an excellent house guest and is very calm and a great companion. Cinderella has been around cats and dogs, and she may do well with a rabbit friend.

Bonsai is a strikingly handsome 1 year old Dutch rabbit. He was surrendered to our friends at kind heart rescue several months ago. We took him in recently so we could help kind heart rescue make room for their special needs intake. Bonsai is a very curious guy and is still learning to trust people. He went out to foster this week and has settled in quickly. We think he would really benefit from a rabbit friend.

Cabbage is a very silly and outgoing young lionhead mixed rabbit. He is very active and loves to do zoomies. He is very food motivated and will always be ready for snacks!

Spooky Skeleton is searching for his forever home too! This special mini panther was found close to death outside. Fortunately with some TLC he has made a miraculous recovery. This gentle guy is a bit nervous around people, but he just went out to foster with a kitten expert to get some TLC. Please help me find this adorable kitten a forever home!