Rescued Cats

Just curious how many of us on the website have rescued cats and how many rescues have happened. Please add your number to mine and keep a running total.

Also where did you rescue them? We have rescued Mr. Nippers (Germany), Bella Roma (Italy) and Furr (Italy). Not sure of counts but Bella was pregnant when we rescued her. We kept the babies as the needed more milk than she could produce (the vet estimated that she was between 4 and 6 months when she gave birth and could produce enough milk-even though she tried)

Also photos if you have them?

So the first number is 3 or maybe 7???





Tank (tabby), Elbe (the black one), Calvin (the white and grey tabby), Freedom (the yellow one)


Bella Roma


Nippers


Furr

what a cute kitties!!!!
Hey nice labour of you!

I guess Chloe is #4.

Chloe was a feral rescue. Her mom, 2 brothers, and her were rescued by a woman that works with a local no-kill organization. We found the group through www.petfinder.com.

I don't know if you would class Sophie as a rescue or not?!.

My friend who is a vet nurse had a pregnant cat called Jasmin taken to her surgery because the owners thought she was having problems giving birth, but when Jasmin had the kittens, naturally there was a bill to pay at Emmas surgery for the time and care the vet and the nurses gave Jasmin while she was there, but the owners didn't have the cash so asked Emmas surgery if they would take the kittens as well as Jasmin!

Luckily they did and found them good homes to go to, along with poor Jasmin who they eventually spayed, and thats how i got Sophie!

Heres Jasmin and her babies, with Sophie at the bottom a few weeks before she came home.

6 of my 7 babies are rescued. Gordo, Paco and Peluchita were giving to me by my mother's friend. I got them when they were 3 days old, a day after their mother was run over by a car. I'm sorry to say this but the owner was not a good person. She had the kitty living on the streets, and didn't let her inside the house. My three boys are premature babies, and thank god that she had them early or else they would have died with her. She was very beautiful, she looked like peluchita, but Gordo has her attitude. (from the stories that I've heard from her first owners) Since they are premature babies, their eyes didn't fully developed.
Here is Paco, he has the worst eyes out of the three of them. He's already blind, he looks just like Gordo.


Here is Peluchita, btw I call him girly names becuase when I took him to get neuter the vet thought he was a female and shaved his belly. He's also blind.


Here is Gordo, my big boy. He is recovering from ear surgery. He has the best eyes out of the three of them.


Patches, is a kitty I took in. Her owners were a bunch of drunks who gave her beer to drink. When they moved away, they left her behind. I kept feeding her until one day she brought her two daughters (now living with my sister) to my house. A few months later she got pregnant and had four kitties. I kept Princess and Pitufo my two little devils.

Here is Patches & Pitufo. They both love each other.


Here is Princess & Pitufo again. She doesn't like her brother.

Here is my boy Oscar My hubby rescued him from where he works. Oscar was about 4 weeks old and almost dead when Ken brought him home. He had run into something at the plant and injured his eye really bad, he was so skinny and weak that we didn't think he would live through the first night so I could take him to the vet in the morning. But he did survive and thrive to be the handsome boy here.

This is Wawa. He crawled/limped to my house.He was badly hurt from a catfight.


This is Skinny. She was dumped by her unknown owner because she was pregnant. When I found her she was skinny (thus her name). The kitten died shortly after birth.


Joji - well, she was in the house when I moved in. So I'm not sure if she is a rescue. She sure rescued me from loneliness.


Finally, QT. She was rescued by my sister. Sis had to emigrate and left her with me.

Awwww these rescue stories have brought tears to my eyes along with tears of relief that they've been rescued

Maverick. got her from a friend at 6weeks who hadnt heard of spaying. all the females had litter after litter with only a handful of kittens surviving.

the girl we got her from is a lovely person but had let the situation get out of control. about a month after we got Maverick she gave all but two cats away to an animal shelter in return for her remaining two getting neutered.




she's my baby and i love her more than my non-cat owning friends could ever imagine. feel really bad about her having the kitten because i hadnt wanted her to have babies like her mama

All three of mine you could consider rescues........first there was Trixie in Sept 2001. This is our first baby. She is now almost 4. We adopted her from an ASPCA adoption foster home. Her mother had her and her litter siblings in someones garage and were brought to this foster home to find good homes. Jerry and I saw an ad in the newspaper in September of 2001, and went to look. We fell in love with the 6 week bundle of brown and black fur. We decided on her, brought her home, and the rest has been history. What a wonderful kitty she's been for us. She's very loved, not to mention spoiled.


Then our Petals came along. She's our second to the youngest sweetie. She is now almost 3. Jerry rescued her from a ditch out in the middle of nowhere in August 2002. No one knows for sure how the 4 week, 15 oz kitty got out there. She was pretty sick, and Jerry brought her home to our little family. We, along with our vet, nursed her back to health, and she truly has been a joy in our lives. Trixie learned to love her "little sister" very quickly and even took over the job of bathing her regularly. There were a few hisses at first, but after a few days of Petals being in a cage where Trixie could see and sniff her, they were best pals.


Last but not least, Tiggy! He will turn 2 shortly . He was found almost the same way as Petals by my husband Jerry. He found him and his sister out in the woods. They were approx 4 months old at the time. He brought them home, and since we already had Trixie and Petals, we asked a girlfriend if she would like a kitten. She took Ebony, his sister, and we took Tiggy. He is the most loving little guy you ever want to meet. His "sisters" weren't too sure about him at first. After all, it was an all female house up until this point. But we put a large cage in the middle of the livingroom, and Tiggy stayed there for a couple of days. This gave them all a chance to get used to eachother and sniff thier hearts out. The girls growled and hissed at first, but it only took about a week, if that, till we were on big happy family.

Cosmo was rescued from the shelter. He had lived there about two weeks when I came across his listing on Petfinder.com that had been posted by a rescue organization. The only reason he hadn't been "put down" was because he was lucky enough to find himself in a shelter that was not to capacity and because he was so "adoptable".

I called the rescue organization that had posted his listing... they pulled him out of the shelter the next day, had him neutered and checked over by the vet, check for FelV and FIV (negative on both counts) and the next day we met him (in his 1-day foster home) and fell it love! We brought him home the same day (March 19th, 2005)!

Here's a photo that same night...

Here's 2 sweeties my nephew found abandoned in back of the good will store on his way home from school last year, they are both dong well in new homes!

On the day they were found:

Aww, what lucky and beautiful rescued kitties!!

Miss Kitty was resuced...my BF and his ex got her when she was about 5-6 months old, and she had been found on the side of the interstate, then spent a few months in a basement hiding from the mean dogs she had to share it with...my BF says she was really skinny and scared of everyone. She's spoiled rotten and fat, and LOVES people now.


Zoe wasn't a rescue so I won't put her pic in this thread, but her mother was a stray who was lucky enough to find her way to a couple my BF and I know...they are HUGE animal lovers, and were more than willing to add a pregnant stray to their household of 4 kitties and 3 dogs. They even kept Zoe's brothers because they couldn't bear to part with them.

Aw what heart warming stories and pictures!

awww

3 more to add to the tally here. 3 of our 4 girls are rescues.

First there's Tippy - she's 9 and came from the RSPCA


Felicity will soon be 4. Two photos - one at 12 weeks when she first came home from the RSPCA and had an upset tummy and a more recent one


and last, but not least, Adelaide who came into our garden last November as a feral/stray

Beth, you know how much I love looking at pictures of your cats - That picture of Felicity as a baby made me all gooey! She's GORGEOUS!

Aww thanks Sam. When I saw her in the shelter I refused to leave her side in case somebody took her. As soon as I walked her she stretched her paw to me through the glass at the side of the cage and touched my hand my heart melted.

She did look a sad little thing when we got her home though. She had some kind of infection and was always on the potty (ok TMI ).

On January 5, I heard loud meowing outside my door. I opened the door to see this poor kitty standing in the freezing rain with an infected eye. I let him in and decided to adopt him. He didn't enjoy his visits to the vet but we cleared up his eye, got his shots, and treated him for fleas. He shows signs of prior abuse from whoever abandoned him. I give him lots and lots of love to help him feel more relaxed and confortable. Here are some pics of Angel.

All of our 5 cats were rescues.