09/29/2026
UPDATE: mama moved them but they came right back. The meds were started and they LOOK AMAZING. They are yes still with mama not inside yet but are being cared for.
We are still looking for a foster home…. If you can give a small room/bathroom and help us say, yes. Please put an application in for fostering!
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💔Today ,We had to say no.
And it hurts.
️ ⚠️GRAPHIC PHOTO WARNING ⚠️
Today turned into one of those days every rescuer dreads. 💔
The kind of day when your phone rings, someone desperately needs help, and you know you simply cannot provide what they need right at that moment.
This family had already called multiple rescues, several places, and somehow kept ending up in the same heartbreaking position: no one had room to help.
They have multiple adult cats, two of whom appear to be pregnant, along with several kittens, some of whom are visibly sick and in desperate need of care. Roughly 6 kittens, all but two with URI and 3 females, along 2-3 males.
When I tell you these babies needed help, I mean they REALLY needed help.
Regrettably, I knew we didn’t have the space to take them in today. But knowing that and actually walking away are two very different things.
So I went to the house. I met the kittens, including one significantly smaller than the others, although thankfully still eating. Their eyes were swollen and completely crusted shut. I couldn’t just look at them and leave without doing something.
🐾 I cleaned their eyes, treated them as I would my own fosters, medicated them, and weighed them so the family could at least get them started on the medications and eye ointment or drops they desperately need.
Was it everything they needed? Absolutely not. But it was something. And today, something was better than nothing.❤️🩹
Here’s the reality of rescue right now. We have limited space, limited funding, and limited resources. We can’t keep saying yes to every call, no matter how badly we want to. And that’s a pretty awful feeling when you know there are animals out there who genuinely need you.
💔This is the part of rescue I absolutely hate. The part where we have to say no, even when every part of us wants to say yes.💔
Rescue fatigue is REAL. It’s emotionally draining to know there are animals suffering and that sometimes, despite every effort, you simply cannot do enough. It’s especially difficult when families have exhausted every option and you’re their next call.
I wish we could take them all. I wish we had the space, the funding, the supplies, and the resources to say yes every single time. But the reality is that we can’t do it alone.
We need your help to keep saying yes. Every donation, every foster, every bag of food, every bit of support helps us make room for the next animal who desperately needs us.
As of now, these babies are still waiting for the help they deserve. All we can do is continue to help however we can, one step at a time, until we’re in a position to do more.
Some days, rescue feels incredibly rewarding. Other days, it breaks your heart. Today was one of those days. 💔🐾
WE CAN’T open INTAKE to help save precious lives like this. If you can help in anyway please, now us the tine.
🐾KittyMamas.org/donate
🐾 https://www.venmo.com/u/KittyMamas
🐾 https://www.paypal.me/1moresaved
