This season Paws of Love Animal Rescue has saved almost 250 cats and kittens. Sadly, this has left us with veterinary bills over $10,000, and increasing every day. A huge number of these rescues are orphaned kittens, pregnant Queens about to give birth, or with a litter of newborns. We have recently had a number come into care with TWO litters of kittens in tow - older kittens AND newborns, or nursing mothers with one litter who are already pregnant and give birth to another litter. We take on a huge number of newborn orphans who have to be hand raised around the clock - an exhausting task. Often the mama cats we take in are just kittens themselves, as young as six months when giving birth to their first litter. They are undernourished, tiny and underdeveloped for their age, struggling to grow themselves and nourish their kittens.



We try to play a part in breaking this cycle by ensuring all these cats and kittens get the best veterinary care, and socialisation love in foster care, and are responsibly rehomed after being desexed and microchipped, but all this comes at a great cost. While we recoup some costs through small adoption fees, the cost of saving these lives is enormous.



So many of these kittens are on the verge of death, starving, dehydrated or critically ill. We have had whole families admitted to emergency care (costing thousands of dollars) when Mama Cat and her kittens have such severe cat flu that they can't breathe or feed. Despite emergency visits and nursing around the clock, we have lost too many precious angels to a brutal strain of Calici virus, the symptoms of which were too dreadful to describe here.



We have had kittens like Timmy who broke his leg, mama cats like poor Phoebe who's second pregnancy was difficult and required her to be rushed to emergency care, or poor Mama Tink who was nursing her first litter when she gave birth to a second litter prematurely - a situation what was traumatic for everyone involved.



So many of our rescues come to us direct from Pound Kill Lists, and are frequently terribly ill when they arrive. We are currently battling outbreaks of cat flu and ringworm, and we are being asked to take more cats and kittens every single day. JUST TODAY we have been asked to take three mama cats with kittens, two litters of juvenile kittens, and three adult surrenders. It breaks our hearts but we have had to say NO - NO MORE intakes until we have paid our vet bills. We must remain solvent and are limited in how many we can save by the funds we can raise. We are entirely volunteer run and receive NO funding so rely on donations to enable us to keep saving lives.



PLEASE donate if you can, and SHARE this campaign. Every donation makes a difference, no matter how small, and we appreciate every contribution to our work. We hate having to ask to for help, but we hate having to say no to animals in need even more...so we are asking for your help. Help us so that we can save more lives this kitten season. THANK YOU.

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