Rescuties Animal Rescue

We had arranged to rescue two special needs kitties from a Central Texas kill shelter.  One was blind, and one had a cleft palate.  The kitty with the cleft palate was turned in to the shelter by a lady who was going into a nursing home and couldn’t take the kitty with her.  (That is one of our areas of focus).

Our volunteer had $150 worth of work done on her car to make sure it was in shape to get the kitties.

Come to find out, the day we were to leave to pick up the kitties, we found they had been killed two days before.

Apparently, it was a “mistake,”  and the policy of this shelter to kill all handicapped animals.   How can a person mistakenly kill one cat - let alone two - that had somewhere safe to go?

We are so sorry this had to happen, babies.  We wish you a gentle journey across the Rainbow Bridge, and we’ll see you when we get there.  Know that you were loved and there were people who wanted to help you.

Zorro is our kitty of the month for this month. He’s been waiting very patiently for a home for over a year now. He came to us from the local high kill pound as a 4 week old feral kitten, and our wonderful volunteers socialized him in no time!

Zorro gets along wonderfully with other cats, dogs, and even kids. He’s also a good helper, as you can see in the picture - here he is helping set up an Ebay Auction!

We had an application on him, but they wanted a declawed kitty and Zorro has his claws, so that wasn’t a good match.

We’re looking for someone who will give Zorro (and his claws!) a forever home.

To apply to adopt Zorro or one of our other wonderful kitties, see http://www.rescuties.org

You can earn certificates in Basic, Intermediate or Advanced Rescue Technician.

Study, pass the online test, and a certificate will be mailed to your home.

For training click here.

Check it out, and we hope you’ll post it to your social networking sites! (Just use the “Share” button)

Bessie and her brother Georgie came to Rescuties from a local good Samaritan. We met in one of the vets offices we frequent (all too often!) and the owner explained that she had found a stray cat, who had a litter of kittens. She had already had the momcat spayed (yay!) but the kittens were in trouble. A neighborhood bully had already killed one and she was afraid more would die. We are full, always, but had to find a place for these guys. Another of our vets stepped up and offered space in his office for the kittens until they could be adopted. It took less than a week! (Actually they are on a foster to adopt placement until they are old enough to be spayed and neutered, but they are home!)

We’re always looking for great foster homes so we can save more animals. Also, if you know of a business in the Austin area who would allow us to use them as an offsite adoption location, please let us know!

You can reach us at rescuties@gmail.com

Although Georgie and Bessie are now safely in foster care, we are still accepting donations for their and the other kitties’ medical expenses.

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Hopefully we will be back to blogging soon.

Our featured kitty from last week went home with his new mom! Look for a new featured kitty this week!

We had a busy weekend, taking a neighbor’s cat in to be spayed (this is not something normally within our scope, but the neighbor is in a wheelchair and has no transportation.

Scoured Austin for more treasures to sell on Ebay, check them out.

We now accept Google checkout. Google checkout is our preferred online payment processing service, as we do not have to pay any fees through 2009! Your *entire* donation will go to helping the kitties!

Tuffy is just about done with her meds, while Toodles goes to the vet tomorrow for a suspected urinary tract infection.

We’ll keep you posted!

Michelle and I went out treasure hunting to get things to sell on Ebay. We had a great time and found some fun and unique things (like the panther earrings pictured above).

To check out our listings, click here.

We then took some pictures of some new kitties that will be up for adoption. Be looking for them here and on our regular site!

We do have some kitties who like to help with taking pictures for Ebay listings, in case anyone needs any help with that::)

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After picking up the very generous donation from Suzanne last night (Thank you so much Suzanne - it is so heartwarming when people have a kitty pass away and are so generous as to donate the kitty’s belongings).

Here is a picture of one of our rescued kitties inspecting the new cat tree!