Save A Kitty, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) public charity dedicated to relieving the suffering of homeless, abandoned and feral cats and kittens living on the streets of Los Angeles. Please help us continue our work by making a tax deductible donation via our Paypal account.
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” --Gandhi
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Save A Kitty
Sanctuary Update
2022
As of July 2nd the Sanctuary Building is up!. The building has been wired and Edison has approved all the electrical work...which has been an enormous job! We still have loads of work to do for the interior!..including Epoxy flooring which will go over the concrete. The huge new water tank needs to come in and all the work and trenching associated with that. BUT!!!... we are getting closer and hopefully by the end of October we will have a ribbon cutting ceremony!
We desperately need your support to help us finish the Sanctuary! The expenses associated with the Fire Dept stipulations were huge and unexpected--our contractors were also very surprised at all the additional requirements and costs! But here we are and onward we march.
The Save A Kitty Sanctuary will be one of only a handful of cat Sanctuaries in Los Angeles! While we will always rescue kittens...and kittens will always be adopted...unfortunately, there are so many senior cats living on our streets, many were abandoned and are friendly, and they are struggling to survive. We have already taken in a number of these poor kitties. One of our goals is to be able to help even more of these senior street kitties. These elderly kitties struggle to survive and are often sick. A perfect example of this is Berry. Berry was abandoned by his family. Kind neighbors fed him for two years but reached out to rescues when they saw he was sick and needed medical attention. Save A Kitty was the only rescue to step-up for Berry. After a few days in the hospital, a dental, and a shave down, he was placed in one of our hospice volunteer homes. He is so grateful to be safe and loved. Our vet estimated his age to be 18. There are not many adopters who are willing to take in kitties of Berry's age. Building our sanctuary will allow us to save more kitties like Berry.
We desperately need your support to help us finish the Sanctuary! The expenses associated with the Fire Dept stipulations were huge and unexpected--our contractors were also very surprised at all the additional requirements and costs! But here we are and onward we march.
The Save A Kitty Sanctuary will be one of only a handful of cat Sanctuaries in Los Angeles! While we will always rescue kittens...and kittens will always be adopted...unfortunately, there are so many senior cats living on our streets, many were abandoned and are friendly, and they are struggling to survive. We have already taken in a number of these poor kitties. One of our goals is to be able to help even more of these senior street kitties. These elderly kitties struggle to survive and are often sick. A perfect example of this is Berry. Berry was abandoned by his family. Kind neighbors fed him for two years but reached out to rescues when they saw he was sick and needed medical attention. Save A Kitty was the only rescue to step-up for Berry. After a few days in the hospital, a dental, and a shave down, he was placed in one of our hospice volunteer homes. He is so grateful to be safe and loved. Our vet estimated his age to be 18. There are not many adopters who are willing to take in kitties of Berry's age. Building our sanctuary will allow us to save more kitties like Berry.
Barry - Before and After
We have created a GoFundMe Campaign. We asking for you to please help us by making a tax-deductible donation and please share our GoFundMe link with all of your friends and family, as well as on all of your social media platforms.
We are constantly consumed with requests for help!...not just to take in kittens, but also with requests for TNR. Many shelters were either closed or working at limited capacity and spay/neuter clinics were also at limited capacity! The requests for help was relentless! Many feral kitties were fixed at our own vet! Thankfully, they give us a great break on the cost of a feral sterilization.
I am so proud of our volunteers and our amazing fosters who always go above and beyond, and so very grateful to our supporters, as without your support we would not be able to accomplish what we accomplish. Every time we step up to take in another litter or an abandoned adult with medical issues, we have to know we have the resources to care for them…and care for them we do! The newborns, the pregnant moms, the little families, the old, the injured and sick, the deaf and the blind…We take them under our wing because with your support we have the resources to care for them.
I am so proud of our volunteers and our amazing fosters who always go above and beyond, and so very grateful to our supporters, as without your support we would not be able to accomplish what we accomplish. Every time we step up to take in another litter or an abandoned adult with medical issues, we have to know we have the resources to care for them…and care for them we do! The newborns, the pregnant moms, the little families, the old, the injured and sick, the deaf and the blind…We take them under our wing because with your support we have the resources to care for them.
As our rescue grows and the volume of requests for help increases, the importance of being financially stable becomes imperative: being secure in the knowledge that we CAN take on that extra litter without worrying how we are going to provide for them; being able to provide the best care available when faced with an emergency; knowing that we are NOT going to run out of food or litter (and boy do we have a lot of mouths to feed!); and knowing that when we take in a litter, they will want for nothing! We have always strived to be the best we can and we will continue in our mission to do so.
Litters, litters here and there…litters, litters everywhere. We are grateful we were able to help every single one of these and even more!
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With your support we were able to save so many lives in 2020 and it was such a blessing! Adoptions were through the roof with amazing homes and new found friendships with adopters!
Just a few photos of the many lives we saved in 2020 year.
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We are delighted to announce that Mia and Anya were adopted and went to their forever home this last week (1/15/21)
Poor Tarzan was an abandoned kitty, chased up a tree by three large dogs. Thankfully, we were able to rescue him and he is now safe and in our care.
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P3 was a community colony cat. We were asked to care for him and it was determined that he was FIV-positive and could not be returned to his colony. It turns out, he is an absolute sweetheart.
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This poor kitty was close to death's door. We responded to pleas for help and immediately took her into our vet where she spent 3 days in intensive care. She was terribly emaciated and dehydrated. Unfortunately, she has severe kidney disease and this poor baby is also deaf.
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Ryder was found in a car engine in South Central LA. He was malnourished and filthy.
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With your continued support,next year will be filled with stories of hope, happiness, and the sanctuary! Please consider a years' end tax-deductible donation to Save A Kitty! As you know, we have no paid staff and 100% of your donations go directly towards the care of our kitties. If you would like to allocate your donation directly towards the sanctuary, please specify.
Ways you can donate:
Via Mail:
Save A Kitty, Inc
16654 Soledad Cyn Rd #342
Canyon Country, CA 91387
If you would prefer to donate food and supplies via our Amazon Wish List, below is a link to do so:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3KJTU770RTVGJ?ref_=wl_share
The kitties and all of us (the 2, 3, and 4-legged critters) at Save A Kitty wish you a wonderful, safe, and happy holiday season.
SEE ABOVE FOR UPDATED NEWS OF THE SANCTUARY
Below are some examples of our vision of how our sanctuary will look.
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Above are a couple of examples of the type of building we will be constructing and below are samples of the possibilities for our interior.
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Our sanctuary will always be cage-free. The kitties will have a blast with tons of cat trees, toys, window perches, and custom-designed areas for kitty shenanigans. We will have a designated quarantine area for our new arrivals and for any kitties who may need to be monitored medically.
As can be expected, funding for a non-profit is crucial. This endeavor is no different. We will continue to need your support and, in fact, more so, as we will be caring for even more kitties. Our project is on track but funding is always needed. Please click below to make a donation either for our project or for the ongoing care of our kitties.
As can be expected, funding for a non-profit is crucial. This endeavor is no different. We will continue to need your support and, in fact, more so, as we will be caring for even more kitties. Our project is on track but funding is always needed. Please click below to make a donation either for our project or for the ongoing care of our kitties.
Introducing our Latest & Greatest
Just some of our beautiful kitties, all either up for adoption now or will be up for adoption very soon.
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8/24/19 - UPDATED ADDENDUM TO LIONHEART'S STORY
Lionheart - Just a couple of weeks after Save A Kitty rescued him from the streets.
Hey it's me...Lionheart!... figured you may wanna hear how I'm doing. Well it's been a while since I was captured and encaserated, a lot has happened!. The crazy couple Alice and the Mad Hatter kept me in my 2-story cell for a while, I figured they weren't gonna hurt me cause they would always talk to me in a namby pamby way!..but I didn't fall for that crap I just kept hissing back at them with all my might!..one day I figured I might as well not waste my breath seeing as it didn't do any good!..they just kept sticking their faces up to mine doing what humans call smiling!...its kinda stupid smiling at a cat and showing your teeth cause we think your growling at us! I used to growl back in the beginning...but humans!..go figure.
I was taking it easy, the food was good, my bed was clean and soft, and I had somewhat of a view.... I didn't know where the hell I was, but hey the 2 stooges seemed to like me even though I was being a jerk! Mostly I was ok but the call of the wild lingered in my soul and I yearned to be free!!!!...free to mosey around the ally and scrounge around for food, the dude who arranged my capture used to call me "Scroungie".. I found myself wondering what was better, being dirty and sick in an ally, getting into fights, always hungry and struggling to get a bite to eat!... but free!..or being a well-fed prisoner in a cell!.. a cell with a view of not much! sand..sand and more sand!... and two hoomans who seemed not quite right in the head!!!.
I was taking it easy, the food was good, my bed was clean and soft, and I had somewhat of a view.... I didn't know where the hell I was, but hey the 2 stooges seemed to like me even though I was being a jerk! Mostly I was ok but the call of the wild lingered in my soul and I yearned to be free!!!!...free to mosey around the ally and scrounge around for food, the dude who arranged my capture used to call me "Scroungie".. I found myself wondering what was better, being dirty and sick in an ally, getting into fights, always hungry and struggling to get a bite to eat!... but free!..or being a well-fed prisoner in a cell!.. a cell with a view of not much! sand..sand and more sand!... and two hoomans who seemed not quite right in the head!!!.
Here's a video of Me being a jerk to Alice (AKA Debbie)!
One day I overheard the nut jobs discussing my release!! I was to be set free, finally! I was excited but at the same time, I surprised myself by being scared!..me!!!!!scared!..no way!!! bring it on, lets go...but I didn't really want to go! I realized that after a life of hardship I was now safe, my life on the street sucked, I had never really even slept properly..street cats have to be ready to face danger ..we never really rest!..I didn't want to be hungry again and either too hot or too cold!...I didn't want to sleep on the ground! I didn't want to be dirty and matted and have sore skin. How could I tell them that I didn't want to go back!..but it was over! I was being tossed out like the garbage!. I was pretty pissed actually!!..who does that? gets you all fixed up and comfy and then just throws you back out! But who was I to think that it could be forever!..I was just a beat up old guy who hissed a lot with a sucky virus! Who was I to think that this new life could be mine..why that was just pie in the sky. So life in lala land was coming to an end. No one else to blame except myself!.. I kept hissing at them!.. oh heck why did I keep doing that!!!...although I hadn't done it in a while!.. I wondered what I had done recently that was so bad that warranted them booting me out. The morning of my release came and I was dreading it....I hissed and swatted a lot, good behavior wasn't going to help me now. .They came to open my cell but I didn't see the plastic box they call a carrier, all I saw was big dudes hands wearing a pair of heavy duty gloves! coming in to get me!..what the heck is this I thought..are they just gonna dump me outside to fend for myself in this god forsaken place!.. gonna be released in the desert!...Oh hell no!...I resisted, I hissed big time but the mad hatter is strong and he got me!...he got me good! I was a goner! I closed my eyes fearing the worst and expecting to feel the scorched sand under my feet!..yeah yeah!. I know I can be dramatic at times!..in an instant I was down!..my eyes sealed shut, I was afraid to open them, but I did, he had set me free! not free in the wilderness but free in a large area with strange objects called "cat trees"...and big windows "..you see I do know what I'm talking about...curiouser and curiouser!..what is this I says to myself as the big dude (aka Mad Hatter) set me down, I was still hissing and probably scared some of the other inmates..nevertheless one came over to check me out!..but never fear Lionheart the brave was ready I hadn't forgotten my old skills ..I know how to defend myself I braced myself ready for a fight to the death!...well dawg gone it...that dude gave me a quick sniff and walked off! So my life took another turn and I have to admit I felt truly happy. I was now what they call.."A special needs cat"...yup I even got to own a title!!..Lionheart the Special Needs cat!...Occasionally the dude and his wife take me for a ride in their car to the vet...this damn virus thing FIV makes me cough sometimes and I need medicine. Plus I have been having some issues with my eyesight...they tell me it's glaucoma and I have to have drops in my eyes. But all in all life is good and I have made friends!.. I never had friends on the streets it's tough to survive out there you gotta show the others they can't mess with you!...but it's different here no one's gotta fight over food or a place to sleep, I found myself wanting to say thank you to Alice and the Hatter...Debbie and Randy are their names!.
Lionheart...Knowing he is finally safe, he is able to sleep like a baby, free from predators.
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Lionheart...Sharing is caring and not so bad because there's always more food where that came from.
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So one day I walked up to Randy and rubbed up against his legs...boy he was so happy! I allow myself to be pet these days and you know what!!...I like it. I couldn't believe my luck!..why me I said to myself!. I thought about the guy who used to feed me in the ally, his name is Ross. and he has come to visit me a couple of times. Boy was it my lucky day when he decided to get me some help. So that's about it folks!. Stay tuned cause you never know when I might write again about life on the farm!.
Yours meooowly
Sir Lionheart the sanctuary cat!
Yours meooowly
Sir Lionheart the sanctuary cat!
LIONHEART'S STORY (IN HIS OWN WORDS)
My name is LionHeart. A week ago, I had no name. Boy, a lot happens in a week! I really can't remember much about my past. What I do know is that I ended up hanging around a bunch of homeless cats in an alley (talk about the stereotypical 'alley cat'). The life of an alley cat is hard, always fighting over food and women, and that's how I ended up with a virus. I didn't know it was a virus but I began to feel really bad: my mouth hurt a lot and then my darn teeth began to fell out. Well, bad enough I'm feeling weak and tired, now I'm having trouble eating. I guess I began to look like crap as the guy who had been feeding us decided that I needed help.
Well, the night the trap clanged shut and I was trapped, I thought I was a goner. That was only just over a week ago and it seems like it was eons ago. So the "hoomans" have me now. I ended up in a small prison cell to begin with, but now they have given me better accommodations and I have a 2-story cell/condo with a view of absolutely nothing...sand, sand, and more sand. A crazy couple seem to fuss over me a lot. I hiss at them periodically just to let them know who is boss. That's when they noticed I had no teeth...they made a point of discussing that. The food is pretty good in this joint...in fact, it's downright delicious, and plenty of it. They took me out a couple of times to see a person they called "The Vet". The first vet decided she couldn't handle me. Well, I was being kind of obnoxious, but I felt like crap and she was trying to poke and prod at me. So, FORGET THAT!!! They did, however, stick a needle in me and, guess what, that sucky virus that was making me feel so ill is called FIV. The crazy couple thought I might have that but they don't think it's going to be a big deal now that I am their captive. I also got another needle stuck in me...they said it was going to make me feel better, it's called an antibiotic. Whatever, I guess it works because I am feeling better.
All in all, it's been a very interesting week. I don't know where the hell I am. It's pretty quiet around here. A couple of dogs came into my cell block to visit me, but they don't bother me, they just come in and check me out. I overheard them saying "The crazy couple have saved another one".
Well now that I'm feeling better, I'll keep you updated on my crazy new life.
ADDENDUM
Just after finishing this blog, the 'crazy man' told me he was going to bathe me. I can't imagine what that is...I'll update later.
LATER...Good lord!!! You have no idea what just happened. They had the audacity to plunk me in a vat of warm soapy water (to tell you the truth, it felt pretty good). I tried to be good and not struggle for fear of drowning, but the 'crazy' dude had a pretty good grip on me. Oh well, this just keeps on getting curiouser and curiouser. I think from now on I'm going to call The Crazy Couple "The Mad Hatter and Alice". Stay tuned.
Yours truly,
LionHeart
My name is LionHeart. A week ago, I had no name. Boy, a lot happens in a week! I really can't remember much about my past. What I do know is that I ended up hanging around a bunch of homeless cats in an alley (talk about the stereotypical 'alley cat'). The life of an alley cat is hard, always fighting over food and women, and that's how I ended up with a virus. I didn't know it was a virus but I began to feel really bad: my mouth hurt a lot and then my darn teeth began to fell out. Well, bad enough I'm feeling weak and tired, now I'm having trouble eating. I guess I began to look like crap as the guy who had been feeding us decided that I needed help.
Well, the night the trap clanged shut and I was trapped, I thought I was a goner. That was only just over a week ago and it seems like it was eons ago. So the "hoomans" have me now. I ended up in a small prison cell to begin with, but now they have given me better accommodations and I have a 2-story cell/condo with a view of absolutely nothing...sand, sand, and more sand. A crazy couple seem to fuss over me a lot. I hiss at them periodically just to let them know who is boss. That's when they noticed I had no teeth...they made a point of discussing that. The food is pretty good in this joint...in fact, it's downright delicious, and plenty of it. They took me out a couple of times to see a person they called "The Vet". The first vet decided she couldn't handle me. Well, I was being kind of obnoxious, but I felt like crap and she was trying to poke and prod at me. So, FORGET THAT!!! They did, however, stick a needle in me and, guess what, that sucky virus that was making me feel so ill is called FIV. The crazy couple thought I might have that but they don't think it's going to be a big deal now that I am their captive. I also got another needle stuck in me...they said it was going to make me feel better, it's called an antibiotic. Whatever, I guess it works because I am feeling better.
All in all, it's been a very interesting week. I don't know where the hell I am. It's pretty quiet around here. A couple of dogs came into my cell block to visit me, but they don't bother me, they just come in and check me out. I overheard them saying "The crazy couple have saved another one".
Well now that I'm feeling better, I'll keep you updated on my crazy new life.
ADDENDUM
Just after finishing this blog, the 'crazy man' told me he was going to bathe me. I can't imagine what that is...I'll update later.
LATER...Good lord!!! You have no idea what just happened. They had the audacity to plunk me in a vat of warm soapy water (to tell you the truth, it felt pretty good). I tried to be good and not struggle for fear of drowning, but the 'crazy' dude had a pretty good grip on me. Oh well, this just keeps on getting curiouser and curiouser. I think from now on I'm going to call The Crazy Couple "The Mad Hatter and Alice". Stay tuned.
Yours truly,
LionHeart
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Save A Kitty, Inc.
16654 Soledad Cyn Rd #342
Canyon Country, CA 91387
Save A Kitty, Inc.
16654 Soledad Cyn Rd #342
Canyon Country, CA 91387
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