Kitties In The City Rescue

Nacho is a special kitten. He was rescued at Serrias Mexican restaurant in Arab. He was dumped at the dumpsters and left around trash & old cooking oil. The smell was horrendous! He was left with no family, no siblings, no mom, or caretakers. A customer Mandy reached out and notified me he was there. I responded immediately. I had to trap him to get him, you can find that video on pur FB rescue page. He was hissing at first but by the time he got his bath he realized I was there to help him and began to cuddle and love on me. We were hoping to get him strength up. His foster mom Leah is so in love with him. He often napped on her chest. She can tell you how special he is. He has touched all our hearts. He was still very weak. Even after a week of being in rescue he is still pooping dead worms. He was being eaten by parasites inside and out.

Thinking he was getting better, his appetite had increased, no more fleas, or alive worms, we thought he was on the road to recovery until Leah came home to find his lifeless body under the bed. He had pooped all over himself, his gums were white as snow, his pupils were dilated, and he had zero response.

I gave a couple of cc's of fluids and took off to the ER vet in Huntsville at 1:30am thinking they were going to tell me he is too far gone. He was going into cardiac arrest, gasping for air, clutching, and twitching.

I told them if he had a chance to please please save him. He deserves to know what a good loving happy life is. All he's ever known is misery and suffering. Much to my surprise they thought there was a chance so the next chapter begins.

His body temp was so low at first it didn't even read. When it finally did give a reading it was 92, by 5am it was up to 101.

His heart rate was 60, later that morning it was 120. They started a 26 gauge catherter in his chest of dextrose and fluids to get his glucose up and hydration. I thought if he makes it, this is nothing shy of a miracle. Many on my Facebook joined with our rescue in prayer for little Nacho!

I just got an update, he is actually sitting up and eating on his own. The power of prayer is at work here! We are not completely out of the woods. They are taking him off the dextrose fluids to see if his body can regulate his glucose on his own. I feel he is going to make it and I've made arrangements with my vet to have him transported to my local vet in Arab. Dr. Lauren at Westside is amazing and has given me the green light if he needs further treatment. The cost of the ER vet is astronomical and we need help saving him please! I promise he is so sweet and truly deserve the love he's never had.

For one night his bill will run between $830 to $1350 is what I'm expected to pay just there and that's if he leaves in the morning. We are a small tiny rescue and while some tell me I should have him euthanized and move on, I feel these tiny lives who've been abandoned, discarded like trash, and left alone deserve to know what love is. As it turns out via employee he had been out there for a month, in front of a parking lot. People saw him and walked by as if they didn't care until Mandy spotted him. He's come this far. Please consider any amount big or small to save his precious life. You can follow his story for updates on our Facebook page. Please please remember to share. The more you share, the better chance we have. Idk for sure the outcome yet or of he will need another night but I'm hopeful enough people see this and care to help even just a little!

We are a registered nonprofit and solely ran by volunteers only! We work so hard and do all we can to make a difference. We need your help

Please help support an amazing animal rescue and save 6 kittens from the street! 80% of kittens born outside don't make it and these sweet babies need our help!

This week I found 6 kittens that are living outside, plus one needs eye surgery immediately! I didn’t know what to do so I reached out to a local cat rescue, Kitties in the City Rescue, and she responded to my message immediately, ready to take action and help! They are solely funded by donations and my goal is to raise enough money to cover all 6 kittens' spay/neuters, medication, and eye surgery for the one.

Kitties In The City Rescue is making a huge difference in the lives of abandoned, abused, and homeless cats and kittens every day in Alabama! They rescue any and all cats and have saved over 177 in less than a year - kittens with eye surgeries, two with broken femurs (one thrown out of a car, one hit by a car), they have rescued in storm drains, up trees, and the list goes on! I’ve attached the link for their website below.

Rescue Website

I would love to raise enough money to save these 6 kittens and bless this amazing charity!!

Thank you so much!

Victoria

My name is Marandah, founder of Kitties In The City Rescue in Guntersville AL. We are a small foster based nonprofit rescue.

We've taking on some challenging cases this year & were facing another one. We are maxed out spilling over with kittens to the point we couldn't take anymore but after seeing this litter of kittens and the filthy environment of where they were forced to live broke my heart into a million pieces All three were in horrible shape and dying a slow miserable painful death until intervention. The runt is a precious female tortie who has suffered tremendously. She needs eye surgery. She's already lost tye eye as it's rotten and dead. All their eyes were bad but hers was not savlageable. Her brother's Chucky was swollen, huge, oozing green, and red! I immediately rushed all three to the vet where I received the news that the baby needs eye surgery. Thanks to my amazing friends and followers on Facebook we've been able to raise $220. That's a fabulous start but we need a little more. Just the eye surgery alone will cost $500. If we are blessed to reach that or go over her eye surgery, anything over will be used for their spays, neuter, vaccines, microchips, dewormer, ponazuril, medicines, food, litter, and care that they need while in our foster home. We are desperately focused and driven on providing her with a quality of life. She's suffered so much in this heat surrounded by bugs, flies, fleas, horrendous smells, and disgusting overgrown yard junk. Please help us by donating to give her and this family a better life! Any amount is appreciated. Please share their story with your Facebook friends. We are so grateful for your support and helping us save these venerable sick kittens. God Bless!

Brother's eyes! So swollen and painful looking

Moment of rescue

Rushing to the vet/received antibiotic and steroid shots

Moment of rescue

Where they came from

Momma kitty

Update: if you're new & don't know Gracie's story please read and come back up to the top here.

Gracie went through her first sugery Friday, she had to spend the night so Saturday morning her foster mom & I were there first thing to take her back to her loving foster home. Dr. Wilks explained everything in great detail. As we were about to leave i asked Dr. Wilks to hold her so I could get a good pic of her surgical site to share with her supporters. Upon doing so he noticed another hernia. She actually was suffering from TWO hernias. The first was her intestines. The injuries were old and constant with what they see when one has been hit by a car. She had several old abrasions on the inside. She has suffered a great deal by her abusers! It was an old chronic hernia that developed lots and lots of scar tissue which is extremely hard for doctors to repair. The other hernia is on the opposite side, her bladder is hanging out of her abdominal cavity. Since she was late term pregnant, had she'd gone in labor the kittens would've died, her uterus would've popped out, cut off bloodsupply to her kittens, and she would've turned septic which is a brutal, harsh, painful death. She was rescued just in time!

Btw GoFundMe took down the orginal pic of her injury (arm) bc it was too graphic. You can see those pics on our fb page if you'd like

She will be staying at the vet a few more days. We are unsure if she will have her bladder hernia repair surgery tomorrow or Monday. It will be another month to six weeks before she can have her "backyard amputation" fixed properly. She has endured some hard blows. Her body has taken some serious beatings. I'm so amazed at her strength and beautiful spirit to keep the fight. She was so excited and happy to see us. She was her loving self, head butting everybody. Gracie is a special kitty who's been the victim of sheer evil humans. The torture she has experienced sickens us all to no end.

Below is her orginal story. I will continue to share updates with YOU, her biggest family of supporters. Her life was literally saved because of people like you giving. Any amount is so desperately needed and appreciated!

***** orginal post *****

Gracie our newest rescue kitty had her arm & paws just weeks ago, she was normal with 4 paws. Not now. It sends chills beyond words to tell you that this was not the work of a vet. As my vet explained, a vet would amputate at the shoulder bc they will use the partial arm. As a result it stays infected and is constantly enduring trauma as they try to walk on it. It's not designed to carry weight. As you can see it's horribly infected and she desperately needs a proper amputation. The way this bone is cut, the bone seem like a solid cut. It doesn't appear torn. It was suggested someone could've taken an ax and chopped off her arm. The torture she must of endured is beyond words. Her constant agonizing pain doesn't end there though. This poor baby has a large hernia the size of a baseball in her lower abdominal area plus she's pregnant. This means bc of the hernia if she gives birth it will likely kill her. Her best chance of surviving is urgent, spay/abortion/hernia surgery. Even if she tried, we don't know that the kittens would make it but almost certain momma will not. While doing the spay they would attempt to fix the baseball size hernia which is a very tedious invasive surgery itself. She needs two major surgeries. They can't be done at the same time, i asked. To have any quality of life without being in constant pain she needs her arm properly amputated. This is going run $1400 for both surgeries..

Her life is worth fighting for. She is so young. About a year old and it appears as if this would of been her first litter of kittens. We need everyone who can to please send her some love! Any amount big or small. We have a large goal but I have faith God will help us find a way for her. Time is of the essence of her first surgery! Please donate, please share! Sharing helps us reach more people and with our goal of saving her life Gracie needs all the love and support she can get!