Kitten Nugget Rescue

05/01/2025

Siam and The Cloud Crew are currently battling a gut bacteria overgrowth illness, so we had to delay some adoptions while we get everyone in tip top shape.
Due to paranoia, I’ve tested them multiple times for panleuk and all have come back negative (thank goodness!!!).
Everyone’s appetites are getting back to normal thanks to antibiotics and some additional tummy medications.
I felt horrible delaying adoptions, but their health is my #1 priority.

In the meantime - we have applications for the entire Cloud Crew, but Stratus will need to see a cardiologist to know her exact cardiac health before possibly placing her into a home.
Shock is also due for her 1 year follow up with the cardiologist.
We’ve started a Go Fund Me to help raise money for each of their cardiology appointments.

Please consider donating and sharing! Any donation amount helps us tremendously! 💗

Stratus was diagnosed with a grade 2-3 heart murmur at her 8-week-old checkup.… Jessica Asche needs your support for Help Stratus and Shock See a Cardiologist

03/01/2025

Cheese 🧀 and Burger 🍔 are going for a home trial/foster in hopes to adopt placement today!
I’m so excited for these boys to possibly find a family to call their very own and together!
They have been amazing kitties who love my big do**us hound and are great with the kittens.
I know they’ll need some time to adjust - I just hope that they show their true personalities which are so so sweet and loving.
I’m going to miss Burger’s headbutts and sneaking onto my lap, and Cheese throwing himself onto me to snuggle and his asking for forehead kisses.
Fingers crossed these boys win some hearts!

30/12/2024

Look who’s here at my work getting his final boosters! 😻
Oswald!!! 🖤🤍 (formerly Jean-Clawed)

29/12/2024

Introducing the Cloud Crew! 🤍🩶☁️🌫️
These little fluffers will be ready for homes soon!

Our vet’s office surgery schedule is quite full so hoping to find a few slots to get these babies spayed and neutered so we can get them into furever homes.
Cumulus already has an adopter lined up, but his sisters Stratus, Nimbus and Cirrus are available.

Stratus had a heart murmur at her first exam appointment, but reassessing tomorrow to see if we need to make an appointment with the cardiologist. So far she doesn’t show any clinical symptoms of having any difficulty being a kitten doing kitten things. 🤞🏼

***Update : Cumulus and Cirrus have approved adoption applications.
Nimbus is starting to receive interest for applications.
Stratus still has a heart murmur so will remain in our care while we raise money for her to see a cardiologist.

29/12/2024

Inigo 🖤 has a meet and greet this week!
Fezzik 🤎 and Westley 🧡 are still searching for families of their very own. Please share this post to help us spread the word!

25/12/2024

Meowy Christmas!
Doug has settled in well and is enjoying his first Christmas with his new family. 💚❤️🎄

22/12/2024

Aunt Ashley took Siam to see Santa!!! 🤍🩶❤️💚🎅🏼🎄

Thank you to Barnes & Noble for having a pet friendly Santa meet!

20/12/2024

Update on the tiny Siamese kitten who we swooped up to try to recover from coming down with Panleukopenia.

He got named Siam 🩶

And after weeks of intensive treatment, 1 close call where I thought I was losing him, 2 additional weeks of quarantine after retesting NEGATIVE 🥳 - he is fat and happy and the SWEETEST little boy!
He’s just a smol little guy weighing in at 1.5lbs at 10 weeks old (kittens generally weigh 0.25lb/week). This is likely from the havoc that the panleuk did on his GI system. But he eats like a little piggy 🐷 and is LOVING being out in the main area with all his new toys!!!

Everyone who has gotten to meet him is just absolutely in love. He makes it impossible not to. He is SO cute and SO sweet. Such a ham!

Just one day being at the clinic for his vaccine appointment - someone spotted him and immediately requested an adoption application.
So … ADOPTION APPLICATION PENDING!!! 😻💗
We will notify post if for some reason he becomes available before he’s ready for adoption.

BUT … we may also have a group of grey and whites who will be posted very soon … so stay tuned. 😉☁️🤍

19/12/2024

Pumpkin was adopted today! 🧡
This laid back snuggle boy was adopted by Nemo’s (formerly Stumpy) mom’s roommate so once adjustment period is done - he’ll be reunited with his litter mate brother!
Pumpkin won over his new mom’s heart in an instant when she met him. He snuggled right into her lap and was as happy as can be. He’s impossible not to fall in love with!
And a huge shoutout to Jayme, his foster mama, for doing such an amazing job raising him. I know from experience that her and her family is missing him dearly. Thank you to her family for pouring so much love into this little guy so he can pour all that love and then some into his new mama. 💗

14/12/2024

Tomorrow is double adoption day! 💗💗

Dougie will be venturing to his new home, and so will Jean-Clawed!

Doug is going into a home where I know they will become completely obsessed with his constant affection and love for snuggles. He’ll have a doggie sister to win over, but I’m sure once she realizes he’s a friend - they’ll be best buddies. Doug LOVES dog friends! I’m also so happy there are kids in the home because he had kids in his previous home who he loved like crazy - so his new kids are gonna be so special to him!

And Jean-Clawed (soon to be re-named Oswald 😻) is … staying in the family! My sister and brother-in-law agreed to let my oldest nephew, Zeke, adopt him! I am so incredibly excited that I’ll be able to still see him often and share this crazy ball of love with my nephew. 🖤🤍

06/12/2024

“As yooou wiiiiiiish!”
The Princess Bride trio had their 2nd round of vaccinations today and will be ready to go into forever homes once neutered.
Westley (orange tabby), Inigo (black) and Fezzik (brown tabby) are 12 week old males.
They are being fostered by one of my coworkers who was having empty nest syndrome since not having any current kittens to care for.
They are what their foster mom Cora calls them “perfect kittens”. They’re sweet and snuggly but also playful and adventurous.
Fezzik has an interested adopter - but we are accepting applications for the boys!

25/11/2024

Mr. Doug had a meet and greet tonight with potential adopters! I think he won them all over, especially the dad. 🥹
I raised Doug from when he was just a tiny 2 week old orphan, kittensat him when he was with his first family, and took him back when they decided to rehome him at no fault of his own. He’s been with me since but I’ve been waiting for a perfect match. And I think I may have just found it!
I’m am beyond excited for him to have a family again! He’s always loved kids - and this home has two little boys! He also was raised with dogs, and this family has a doggie friend for him, too!
The family is going to talk everything over, but it sure sounds like they want to make Dougie a member of their family already. 💗

20/11/2024

We thought Jean-Clawed Van Damme had a home lined up before he was even officially available - but doesn’t sound like it may follow through. 😔
With that being said - he’ll be getting onto the surgery schedule for his neuter soon and we will start accepting adoption applications at the beginning of next week!
Anyone interested, please send us a message and provide your email address!
Jean-Clawed is silly, brave, playful, sweet, snuggly, has a V8 motor and is absolutely adorable. He has been home raised with other cats and a large dog.
He’s very special to me, as he is our miracle kitten who survived panleukopenia at only 5 DAYS old. So I will be very thorough with potential adopters to ensure he goes to the best home possible.

12/11/2024

Oreo has been adopted!
He’s being an amazing companion for his new human - and is just enjoying and soaking up ALL the love. 💗

09/11/2024

Well, here we are again.
One of the 6 kittens of the lady that I got the last litter from is now showing symptoms of illness. Thin and having soft stools and not as active as his littermates and self isolating away from the others. But she did the right thing - she got ahold of me.
He’s not in too rough of shape - slightly dehydrated and a bit thin. I swooped him up to start medications and supplements and supportive care and hope to the high heavens that I can save him. All I can do is do my best, give him a fighting chance and hope that getting ahead of the illness before he’s in bad shape gives him a better chance.
This is unfortunately very likely Panleukopenia that he contracted from the other litter due to how highly contagious it is, and can be spread by f***s, urine and even saliva.
The lady will keep me updated on the other kittens and vice versa. So far the others were all active, well hydrated and eating very well. Some soft stools but she also recently introduced canned and dry food.

Please send us all the positive vibes, well wishes, prayers and cross your fingers and toes for this little guy.
🤞🏼🩶

05/11/2024

Since Skit’s Kits were diagnosed on the day of planned spays for the girls, we had to postpone. Now we’re finally at 6 weeks since retesting negative, meaning they are less likely to still be shedding the virus. So the girls got the go ahead and are finally being spayed today! 🩷🧡💜

04/11/2024

This is where 4 kittens should be, warm and safe.
This is where 4 kittens were fighting for their lives.
This is where 4 kittens took their final breaths.

This is the devastation that Panleukopenia causes the victim(s) to endure, and those of us who dedicate ourselves to try to pull them through.

We had no survivors. 😭 Despite intervention and medical treatment being started and as much supportive care as possible - the virus took too strong of a hold and their little, innocent bodies were too weak.
One by one they began to fade. When the first passed (the biggest of the litter) I knew the chances were getting lower and lower for the others. We kept fighting. The second started to refuse food, so had to begin tube feeding. It passed shortly after. The two smallest were still eating well but quickly began to be more and more lethargic. They passed away within an hour of each other.

Their lives ended before they even really got to live.

All I can do is take comfort in knowing that I did everything I could - and they weren’t alone or cold or discarded. They knew love and compassion during their final moments. And that matters. 💔

02/11/2024

The Pandemic of Panleukopenia : Part what-feels-like-9,648,337. 😔

I posted in a veterinary staff group I am part of back when Skit’s Kits got sick and SO MANY people stated they have seen an ENORMOUS increase in feline panleuk and canine parvo cases this year, nationwide.

A lady took in an orphaned litter from someone, hoping her nursing mom cat would take them in. Mama didn’t accept them. Bottle feeding began. A few days later they started having diarrhea. Then blood was noticed in the stools. She reached out worried something else was wrong and asked for help.

The 4 tiny babies had the “telltale look” of panleuk (thin, dull, sunken features) and the rapid test I rushed to do confirmed it.
Now the lady, just trying to do a good deed by trying to give them a mom, has to worry about her cat’s 4 week old kittens as well as the mom.
Now SIX more kittens are at risk besides the ones I took in.
Now FOUR more kittens this year are sick and fighting a hard fight with odds stacked against them.
Now ELEVEN MORE LIVES are at stake due to a virus that is PREVENTABLE by vaccination.

The lady is devastated and worried sick for all the kittos involved. I urged her that it is NOT her fault and any “normal” person wouldn’t think of the dangers of combining kittens into one group. Any “normal” person doesn’t know how rampant the virus is right now, let alone the symptoms to watch out for.
Only the ones of us who have witnessed panleuk truly knows the extent of how horrible this virus is. Only the ones of us who have dealt with the heartache of watching a little one fade away despite every single effort made come to realization that quarantine and disinfecting is the best policy when taking in a new kitten(s).

The amount of panleuk just myself has seen this kitten season is INSANE. I may get MAYBE one a year that - now that I know way too well the “look” and symptoms - is sick like this. This year I have had OVER A DOZEN.

This is my plea, my urging, my begging, to PLEASE vaccinate your cats with the FVRCP (P is for Panleukopenia) vaccine (indoors only, outdoors only, farm/barn cats, indoor/outdoor)! Help halt this wildfire of a virus that is plaguing and taking innocent lives! 😭
Ask your vet if they provide the 3 year vaccination if you’re concerned about annual vaccinations (yes, it does exist). Also - please spay and neuter your kittos - indoor, outdoor, indoor/outdoor. This would also help decrease the spread.

New babies are in quarantine and thank goodness for the donations from Skit’s Kits battle - because I still have plenty of PPE gear on hand to be able to care for them and take all precautions.

Here’s hoping I get to post more “miracle updates” and not heartbreaking ones. 😔