I am getting sloppy with writing my blog posts. I started this end of last year, so its old news, and I did not collect the pictures I wanted to include. But I need to unload this now, so that I can start fresh.
By the way, today is January 24, 2024, and so far, we have rescued 2 cats so far (Kristin correct me if I am wrong?) with another three soon-to-be. All we needed was another foster, and a few adoptions in between to free up current fosters! :)
I promise to get working on getting us all up to date on this blog.
Here is from long ago... (so it seems).
Its been so long I forget what has happened the past few
months! So many rescues and so much
money… so many wonderful fosters, and so
many kittens still.
I have a long list of fosters I want to thank:
Tamera - she still has
a couple of adults – Lola, Louie, Smokey, and another, and she has Blake and
Scooter still
Lonnie – she has Coco Chanel, Pebbles, Bandit, and Smokey –
they are older kittens, but gorgeous grays and blacks
Kim – she has an ideal setup in her horse barn – two
separate cozy rooms that cats have room to wander in – she recently had a cat
that she was going to foster, well turns out the cat was pregnant and gave
birth to four kittens to her surprise!
Those four kittens were scooped up right away by some friends of hers,
so they will be going to good new homes (adopted in pairs!) next week. She is also fostering an adult named Leo who
is super sweet, and will have two more adults whose owner passed away.
Sheryl has been fostering Poppy and Lily, who by now are
young adults.
Michelle – she is fostering Aiden, a beautiful white and
orange boy
Val – fostering Bea and Beau who were bottle babies until
Val weaned them at 4 weeks or so.
Blanca and Susheel – thank you for caring for our latest
kittens, Tango, Mango, and Cali!
I am fostering Butter, who is by himself because his two
siblings were adopted together, Peanut and Nina. He is absolutely adorable but lonely, and
becoming aggressive because he has no one to play with. Butter was just adopted on Saturday! I brought him to his new home and he has a
new friend! A nine-year-old pit bull
big brother. They are very smitten with
each other.
Without these fosters, can you imagine, the number of cats
that would be on the street if we didn’t rescue these guys? If the females all got pregnant? You know the numbers, it is staggering.
I know this is hard to keep track of, and you should see me
trying to figure out who is who.
I've had some bad breaks financially. About a month ago, poor little Scooter was
very lethargic after spending the night at my house away from the foster, along
with Jackson and Blake. I had to work
that weekend, and all the vets were closed so I managed to find someone to
drive him to Buffalo at the emergency vet there. After two nights spent there – Friday and
Saturday – and $2800 – they still didn’t have a clue and I have to say it was
highway robbery. Come to find out, after
bringing him there, I still had to bring him to my normal vet at Pittsford,
where they determined he had a hernia near his hind end, which made his tail
seem sideways and was pushing into his intestines. We brought him home thinking we would be
giving him palliative care, and then a miracle happened. The lump went away, and he is perfectly
normal. We are keeping an eye on him,
but we are so in love with Scooter. Now
to get him adopted again.
Another financial setback was Val’s two fosters, Bea and
Beau. Bea was not able to make it to the
litter box on time due to stomach issues, and was going all over the place on
top of being very lethargic. Poor Val had
to give her a gazillion baths. We took
him to Pittsford where after test after test, very high temperature, he was
tested positive for panleukopenia. A
very deadly and contagious disease. It's
like parvo in dogs. Poor baby. We brought him home, had to separate him from
his brother, and had to keep his brother in a separate room so he wouldn’t pass
it on to Val’s other cats. Well lo and
behold, today (and this was just last Friday), she is back to her old self and
feels fine! Running around like crazy.
Back to today, Kristin just called after going to check on a
situation that I was notified about and asked for her help. She will go assess the situation and let me
know the scoop before she does anything.
Well, we now have two adorable buff-colored kittens about 7 weeks
old. It just never ends.
I started the above weeks ago, my apologies. Life gets in the way these days.
Updates:
Lola was adopted out
Coco Chanel and Pebbles were adopted out
Aiden was a foster fail
Tango, Mango and Cali have been adopted.
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