06/20/2026
CALLING ALL NURSES AND HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS? SWEETIE PIE HAS BEEN WAITING TOO LONG FOR A FOSTER HOME OF HER OWN THAT MATCHES HER NEEDS - MAYBE ITS WITH YOU? OR MAYBE YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS HER MATCH! SHARE AND FIND OUT!
We don't get it. Sweetie Pie has been waiting for a regular foster mom and/or dad since April 9th - 2025! Is our community in general afraid of animals with special needs and/or considerations? Its a fact, people are afraid of things, and other beings, they don't understand. Which maybe explains why over the past 14 years, a large proportion of our fosters (and so many of our fosters adopt, so the same can be said for our adopter percentage) have worked in healthcare fields - tons of nurses, speech therapists, those that work in the dental field, etc - because they devote their life to running towards those beings who have differeces. It's the reason I created a special needs and considerations rescue - because my background is in human medicine and to those of us that have worked in healthcare, we see everyday that its our differences that make us beautiful, unique, interesting, and inspiring! Everyone that is the same are kind of boring! But the difference between the plight of people and animals who are shy, scared, ill, aged, differently-abled, have extra medical needs, or need extra resources is that people with these things, especially in this day and age, are uplifted and celebrated and given all the time in the world to heal and reach their potential. But animals with these things, they continue to be killed in the greatest numbers in many rescues and all the kill shelters. Not here - that's why we ARE here - to embrace and adore these animals for exactly who they are and give them the right to life that they deserve. They give us so much more than we could ever give them.
So our healthcare heroes, they get the animals we serve. They are typically not on social media (they're not the drama type and social media is full of that) but find us sometimes through our flyers, or through friends that are on social media that tell them about our animals in need. Or sometimes just organically coming across our website and seeing we are a special needs and considerations rescue and those are the animals we help and they want to, too (you know you're a healthcare worker if when looking at animals you specifically are searching for some sort of special need or consideration in their bio - shy, scared, older, 3 legs, half an ear, or blind - and you keep swiping until you find one and THOSE are the bios you read)!
We need your help reaching our community medical providers! Maybe they don't have what Sweetie Pie needs themselves, but all their coworkers typically have the same big hearts they do, and maybe one of them does have what she's been searching so long for! If you are, or know a healthcare worker, please tell them about Sweetie Pie and her plight that we will detail below. We also have a flyer we prepared for Sweetie Pie (and another for Meg) that we can send them the file to to print and put in their clinic or unit break room - we have a foster/adopter who is a nurse who put our Sweetie Pie/Meg flyers in the breakrooms of all 3 ICU units she works on, and another that put them in her GI clinic breakroom. But there are SO MANY MORE healthcare offices than what our 2 MPA family members just mentioned reached. There's some sort of clinic on every street in this community. So who do you know that is a nurse, or a physical therapist, or even...an optician or opthalmologist (or works in such an office) - Sweetie Pie is blind, so no one would get her better than one of those professionals! Help us network this sweet baby - she deserves the best human ever, and so many of our caring professionals fit that description (no, her person doesn't have to work in healthcare - but so many of our tribe do - and because she has waited so long, lets tap into the population of people who love the type of animals we serve). If you'd like a Sweetie Pie's flyer file to show your co-workers, please email [email protected] and we'll send it to you!
A little about Sweetie Pie she is about 8.5 years old and completely blind. She does not have eyes at all - she was born this way and has never known anything different (so don't cry for her, Argentina! Help her find the person who loves that about her and is so in awe of how amazing she is!). Her name is incredibly apropos - we named her before we even met her - and there is really no sweeter kitty than she is! Her favorite thing in the world is just being with her person - and cuddling with them! She loves to be held, sit on your lap, sleep with you, and just spend time with you! She will follow you around (yes, even though she is blind. She uses all her other senses to do the same things a sighted cat does)! Because she loves attention, she loves when you play with her toys with her, rolling her ball and spring toys to her, but she will also play with them and chase them by herself when you're not around (we have her on camera doing it!). She also loves to sit in a sunny window and listen to the birds and crickets chirping and smell the fresh breeze coming through the screen - those sounds and smells are how she sees the world! Sweetie Pie is a long-haired cat but loves to be brushed with her glove brush - she must know it helps her look extra gorgeous.
Sweetie Pie has been in a temporary foster home for so long after the foster we lined up for her to rescue her backed out on her hours before we needed to get her. She is not a fit for the whole home she is temp-fostered in and really needs a home that does match her wants and needs so she can have full access to the whole home, and her person all the time they are home. Because she lives for affection, we really need to get her the right foster home for her (and again, most of our fosters adopt! We always give adoption priority to the people who step up for our animals during their time of need for a foster). Even though her temp foster mom tries to spend as much time as she can with Sweetie Pie each day, its hard when she's in a room by herself. So please, help us find her person, or maybe we hit the jackpot and her person is reading this right now!
Sweetie Pie is in need of a tranquil, quiet, and calm adult-only foster home with an individual or couple who describe themselves as the same and are also established in their life and residence to give Sweetie Pie the consistency and predictability a blind cat needs to thrive. Sweetie Pie is sensitive to sound (she relies so heavily on her hearing!) and she deserves to have all the sounds that bring her fulfillment and joy and none that overwhelm or irritate her, so we're looking for a home for her in a quiet residential area so she can enjoy her daily birds and the peace that comes with such a neighborhood. A home in a busy downtown area or busy street would not be right nor would any type of complex-residence-living where people live densely on top of each other and there is a lot of unpredictablility of noise. There should be no dogs in her home, and ideally, no other animals at all. She really has one focus - her human(s) - and her being the only means she gets all the attention for herself (and she so deserves it). But we will consider a home with an "old-man-cat" - mid-to-late teens who is disinterested, keeps to himself, or at most, would want to cuddle and nap with our Sweetie Pie - we just need to ensure her safety and that if there is a cat in the home, that they would for certain be gentle, or indifferent with/to her. And like all of our foster homes, Sweetie Pie's must be located in Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha, Ozaukee, or Waukesha counties.
Help us reach our healthcare angels who know a phenomenal being when they see them, and appreciate their differences (and cherish them)! Maybe, this has reached you and it IS you! If so, and you have what Sweetie Pie needs, go to www.milwaukeepetsalive.org/foster and apply to foster her before your other healthcare colleagues learn about her and you miss your chance (we KNOW whoever FINALLY fosters her is going to fall in love with her forever and adopt her. So don't sleep on the opportunity to foster. Good things come to those who help).
If you have any questions, please email our Foster Team at [email protected]