New Hope Cat Rescue

New Hope Cat Rescue 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that focuses on feral/community cats in Charleston Arkansas. Our mission is mostly TNR.

A huge thank-you to everyone who donated to help us get cat litter and food delivered! 🥹🐱 These are everyday necessities...
10/17/2026

A huge thank-you to everyone who donated to help us get cat litter and food delivered! 🥹🐱 These are everyday necessities for the many little lives in our care, and every single donation makes a difference.

Because of you, little paws have clean litter boxes and full bellies! 🐾❤️ We appreciate you more than you know! 🫶🏻

Thank you for being part of our rescue family! 🐈💕

🖤🐾 $5 FRIDAY WITH ANN! 🐾🖤“Okay, fine. Maybe this lady isn’t so bad after all.” 😂Meet Ann, one of our feral kittens! This...
10/16/2026

🖤🐾 $5 FRIDAY WITH ANN! 🐾🖤

“Okay, fine. Maybe this lady isn’t so bad after all.” 😂

Meet Ann, one of our feral kittens! This little girl is socializing quicker than her sibilings, and lately, she’s been allowed to come inside and cuddle up with us. 🥹 She lays on us, gets all comfy, and just purrs away like she’s finally decided she might actually like this crazy cat lady. ❤️

But I think Ann is starting to figure out something important… loving her means keeping her little belly full of wet food, making sure she has clean litter, and giving her all the attention, snuggles, and love her little heart can handle. And she’s definitely not going to turn any of that down! 😂🐈‍⬛

So, for $5 Friday, would you consider sending just $5 to help us keep Ann and all her kitten friends fed, clean, healthy, and loved? Every dollar helps us keep showing up for these babies. 🐾

Because apparently, I’m growing on Ann… and she’s making sure I know that her new love language includes wet food. 🤣❤️

💵 Just $5 can make a difference!
🐾 Please donate, share, and help us care for our kittens!

Cashapp: $newhopecatrescue
Venmo:

🐾 NEW HOPE CAT RESCUE IS TEMPORARILY CLOSED FOR INTAKE 🐾This isn’t an easy decision, but Barbara and I have reached a po...
10/15/2026

🐾 NEW HOPE CAT RESCUE IS TEMPORARILY CLOSED FOR INTAKE 🐾

This isn’t an easy decision, but Barbara and I have reached a point where we need to take a step back and breathe. ❤️

This year has been overwhelming. We’ve cared for bottle babies around the clock, battled sickness and endless ringworm, experienced loss, and poured countless hours, dollars, and so much emotional energy into these cats. We’ve had to turn cats away because of finances and space, and those decisions never get easier.

With the holidays approaching, we need to make time for our own families, our own animals, and ourselves. Rescue has consumed so much of our time, money, and mental energy, and we simply cannot pour from an empty cup.

We know the need never stops, and that’s the hardest part. But we have to recognize our limits, too. We will be closed to new intakes until further notice, and we ask that you please respect this decision.

❤️ BUT PLEASE UNDERSTAND—CLOSED FOR INTAKE DOES NOT MEAN CLOSED FOR CARE! ❤️

We still have 16 kittens depending on us for food, litter, medical care, and everything they need to grow healthy and find their forever homes. Our expenses don’t stop just because we aren’t taking in more cats. We will still need supplies, donations, and your continued support to care for the babies already counting on us. 🐱

If you’ve been thinking about donating food, litter, or even a few dollars toward their care, please know that it still makes a difference. Every bit helps!

Thank you for understanding that we’re human, too. We love these cats, but we have to take care of ourselves and our families so we can continue caring for the ones who already need us. ❤️🐾

🚨😳 WISH LIST WEDNESDAY… AND APPARENTLY WE HAVE A CRISIS. 😳🚨Y’all. The audacity of this woman. We just overheard the craz...
10/14/2026

🚨😳 WISH LIST WEDNESDAY… AND APPARENTLY WE HAVE A CRISIS. 😳🚨

Y’all. The audacity of this woman.

We just overheard the crazy lady who feeds us every day saying we’re almost out of litter AND wet food. EXCUSE ME?! 😳👀

So let me get this straight… This lady expects US to live here, look cute, tolerate her nonsense, and somehow she’s running out of the TWO THINGS WE ACTUALLY NEED?! 😾

I mean, we don’t even like her that much yet. She’s still kinda suspicious. But we do like eating, and we’d prefer not to use the floor as a bathroom. Just saying. 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

So now we’re sitting here with our eyes bugged out, wondering if we need to call a lawyer, a therapist, or a FOOD BANK. 👀🤣

PLEASE HELP. THIS WOMAN IS CLEARLY NOT TAKING OUR NEEDS SERIOUSLY. 😂😂

💕 It’s Wish List Wednesday at New Hope Cat Rescue, and our kitties could really use some help restocking their wet food and litter. You can drop off needed supplies at our cat house pm for location. Or donate so I can buy the supplies.

Venmo:
Cashapp: $newhopecatrescue

This morning, my 6-year-old helped me a little in the cat house while I cleaned and fed everyone. I made sure he stayed ...
10/12/2026

This morning, my 6-year-old helped me a little in the cat house while I cleaned and fed everyone. I made sure he stayed on the healthy side while I tended to the quarantine kittens, and while I was on the other side, I could hear him rocking in the chair, giggling because the kittens were coming to him, singing over and over, “I love all the kitty cats, I just love them.” 🥹🤎🐾

It reminds me of the time we took a kitten to the clinic, and he wanted the carrier sitting right beside him so he could keep an eye on it. The kitten was crying and crying, and he kept sticking his little fingers in the carrier, saying, “It’s okay, baby. You don’t have to cry. It’s okay.” 😭❤️

My heart could absolutely burst. I don’t know if his love for animals is something I’ve instilled in him or if it’s just something that comes naturally, but I hope with everything in me that he never loses that sweet, gentle heart.

I hope he always sees the beauty in the ones who are overlooked, the ones who are scared, and the ones who need a little extra love. I hope he always has compassion for the ones who can’t speak for themselves.

And more than anything, I hope one day he looks back and sees the good I’ve tried to do and understands why I do it. I hope he knows that every kitten, every rescue, every little life we’ve tried to help has been about so much more than just saving animals. It’s about kindness, compassion, and showing up for those who need us.

If I can raise a little boy who grows into a man with a heart like that, I think I’ll have done something right. 🤎🐱

🐾❤️ $5 FRIDAY & LITTLE VICTORIES! ❤️🐾Y’all, we’re making progress with the kittens I trapped a couple of Sundays ago! 🥹 ...
10/09/2026

🐾❤️ $5 FRIDAY & LITTLE VICTORIES! ❤️🐾

Y’all, we’re making progress with the kittens I trapped a couple of Sundays ago! 🥹 When I first got these babies, I was honestly terrified of them, and that’s not something I’ve ever said about kittens before! I even had to order special gloves to keep their sharp teeth and claws out my hands and arms.

By the looks of Wilson’s photo you can def see he is more terrified of me then I am of him now!! 🤣

Now I can handle them without gloves, I have figured out their sexes, and they finally have names: Ann, Wilson, and Nala! ❤️

Ann is already waiting for me every morning and evening by the cage door. She still gives me a little hiss when I scoop her up, but once I hold her close to my chest, she relaxes and starts PURRING. 😭❤️ These little moments are why I do what I do. A little patience, a lot of love, and we’ll get there!

Now, today is $5 Friday, and our rescue has gone three weeks with only $10 in donations. We desperately need some help covering the care of these babies and all the other cats counting on us.

If everyone who follows us could spare just $5, it would make a difference! Every single dollar helps us keep going. Please donate, share, and help us give these babies the care they deserve. 🐾❤️

Donate if you can. Share if you can’t. Every bit of support matters! 🙏

Cashapp: $newhopecatrescue
Venmo:

10/08/2026

🐾 A QUICK REMINDER FROM NEW HOPE CAT RESCUE 🐾

I want to clarify a few things so there’s no confusion about what I’m able to do.

❤️ Our TNR assistance is for Charleston, Arkansas ONLY. I cannot travel to other towns to trap, transport, or pay for cats to be fixed.

I am a full-time mom, work full-time, have a family, extracurricular activities, animals of my own, and a rescue full of cats that I personally care for twice a day. I simply cannot take on everything, and our rescue cannot financially fix every cat that needs help.

If you’re outside Charleston, I’m happy to share low-cost spay/neuter resources when I can, but transportation and the cost will need to be handled by YOU.

🕰️ I will only respond to messages during what most would call “normal business hours” Monday-Friday. some evenings my phone consumes me at home while I am with my family. And the weekends need to be for myself and my family as well. Some may say rescue work never sleeps but for my mental health I must do this.

🐱 Interested in adopting one of our kittens? We will send you an adoption application along with which kitten you’re interested in. If you have questions after that, we can set up a meet & greet! This helps me avoid spending hours answering individual messages about every kitten when my time is already stretched very thin.

I truly appreciate everyone who understands, respects these boundaries, and continues to support our rescue. ❤️

I can’t help everyone, but I will continue helping as many Charleston cats as I possibly can. 🐾

Just a few of the kittens we have in our care.Although they are not available for adoption at this time applications/ser...
10/05/2026

Just a few of the kittens we have in our care.
Although they are not available for adoption at this time applications/serious inquiries can be made about these babies still
I currently have 16 in my care. I would love to see these babies in a home. Our space works for our current numbers but I would much rather see them on a big comfy couch, your bed, your lap or anywhere they are safe and loved. 😻

🐾 I MISSED MY OWN 2-YEAR ANNIVERSARY. 🐾Somehow, in the middle of everything going on, I completely missed the fact that ...
10/02/2026

🐾 I MISSED MY OWN 2-YEAR ANNIVERSARY. 🐾

Somehow, in the middle of everything going on, I completely missed the fact that New Hope Cat Rescue just reached TWO YEARS. ❤️

Two years ago, I started this rescue with a heart to help the cats in our community. I had no idea just how much this little rescue would grow — or how much it would consume my heart, my time, my energy, and honestly, sometimes every ounce of me.

Over these two years, we have helped hundreds of cats.

We have trapped.
We have TNR’d.
We have spayed and neutered.
We have bottle-fed babies around the clock.
We have cared for sick kittens.
We have taken in cats that needed somewhere safe.
We have helped cats who otherwise may never have gotten a chance.

And I have absolutely overwhelmed myself more times than I can count trying to do everything I possibly can. 😂❤️

This rescue has never been about making money. It has always been about helping the cats in our Charleston community and doing what we can with what we have.

But the truth is… we need help to keep going.

Today is $5 Friday, and the last TWO Fridays combined, New Hope received only $10 total. That is just $5 each Friday.

Our vet bills, medications, food, litter, supplies, TNR, and everything else don’t stop just because donations slow down.

If New Hope has ever helped you, helped a cat you know, made you smile, or if you simply believe in what we’re doing, please consider donating $5. ❤️

Five dollars may not feel like much, but when several people give $5, it adds up and helps us continue saying YES when a cat needs us.

🎉 Two years. Hundreds of cats. Countless hours. A whole lot of love.

I may have missed celebrating our anniversary, but I don’t want to miss the opportunity to say THANK YOU to everyone who has supported New Hope Cat Rescue along the way.

Here’s to another year of saving little lives. 🐾❤️

Today is $5 Friday!
If you can spare $5, please consider helping us keep going. Every dollar truly matters.

Venmo:
Cash App: $newhopecatrescue

There are no breaks in rescue. ❤️🐾I spent my morning caring for all of our current intakes — And then, because apparentl...
09/28/2026

There are no breaks in rescue. ❤️🐾

I spent my morning caring for all of our current intakes — And then, because apparently my day wasn’t full enough, I spent another two hours trapping 3 spicy little kittens.

Earlier this week, I was asked to come get their mama. We were able to trap her and get her spayed, and she was so young to already have kittens of her own. My original plan was to come back later, trap the kittens, and get them fixed through TNR.

But… my heart just couldn’t leave them. 🥺

So today, I went back for them.

Anyone who has ever tried to trap scared, spicy kittens knows it is NOT always easy — especially when you’re trying to manage a drop trap by yourself. These three definitely made me work for it!

There is actually one kitten still out there. The homeowner and I talked about it, and she is willing to keep that baby around. We’ll catch it in a couple of months, get it fixed, and make sure it’s taken care of. ❤️

And honestly, I have to give her some credit today, too. I was struggling with that drop trap by myself, and she helped by calling the kittens and doing her normal routine to get them to come out. Sometimes the person who called for help ends up helping more than they realize. 🥹

This is what rescue looks like.

It’s early mornings. Long days. Dirty hands. Frustration. Patience. Trying again when the first plan doesn’t work. Catching one more kitten when you really should probably be going home. 😂

And sometimes it’s simply being unable to walk away because your heart says, “I can’t leave them.”

Three more babies are safe tonight. Their mama is spayed. One more will be cared for until we can get it fixed.

Now the fun begins taming these hissy, spitty spicy babies.

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