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sophielovestuna on instagram has put out a foster home plea for this beautiful kitty. It would be wonderful if someone could help her and her family! Even if you can’t, could you please signal boost? Thank you!

Help Hadley Breathe! Southern California Siamese Rescue rescued Hadley from a high kill shelter in in December, 2017. She had been adopted and returned to the shelter for being sick with a URI (upper respiratory infection).

Once in foster care at SoCSR, Hadley seemed to recover from her URI, but then it came back. At one point foster mom had to syringe feed her because she was not eating. When cats and kittens can’t smell, they don’t want to eat.

Hadley’s breathing continued to be restricted and foster mom noticed her making ‘snorkeling’ sounds in her attempts to breathe. It was time for a vet visit. The vet suggested a CT image be done so we could actually see what was going on in her nasal passage. The CT was done in the beginning of January. Hadley was a trooper and breezed through the procedure. The CT showed an obstruction in what should be an open space past the end of her nasal passage. It was suggested that Hadley be given time to grow a little bit so it would be easier to do the procedure to remove the polyp.

Hadley has seen a specialist again and it appears that the polyp has grown since the CT image was done. Her breathing is getting more difficult for her, she mostly breathes with her mouth open, and she can’t shake the URI which is likely due to the polyp. Surgery has been scheduled for Monday, February 26. Without the surgery, her chances of survival are not good. At only five months old, Hadley deserves a chance to live a full life.

The surgery is a bit complicated. The surgeon will go in through the inside of the roof of her mouth. Hadley will be hospitalized for two to three days after the surgery so she can be monitored. Since there will be stitches in the roof of her mouth, she will need a temporary feeding tube.

Most of us take breathing for granted - it is something a healthy body does automatically, without thought. Please keep Hadley in your thoughts and prayers for a successful surgery so she too can breathe without effort.

We are hoping you will consider donating to help us with the cost of the surgery. The low end estimate we received is $3,548.67 and the high end $4,379.41.

No donation is too small! Donations are tax deductible.

Thank you.

If you live in the Odenton/Gambrills area in MD. Please visit Pet Valu to adopt Jessie. She’s a loving cat and needs a home.

Please help us pay for Garfield’s surgery & stay at the hospital!

My mom found a stray cat laying on her backyard, dying. According to the vet, he had been poisoned, on top of that, he was dehydrated, starving, infested with fleas and ticks, and had skin abrasions all over his body.

He had to be hospitalized, the vets took care of the parasytes & poisoning, and he has been on IV fluids as well. They also found that he has a very serious bladder blockage, probably due to stress and lack of a healthy diet. He had surgery yesterday to clear the obstruction, so far he has been able to urinate with a catheter in him, and at this point we need to wait for him to get better.

Up to this point (3 days after he was hospitalized) we owe the hospital about ~900 USD: ~70 USD per night he spends at the hospital and 700 USD from his surgery. We were able to make a 200 USD partial payment but we need help to pay for the rest of it, we don’t know how much longer he will need to stay at the hospital but if we don’t pay for the surgery he won’t have the special care he needs to recover from this.

We’ve been told by many people that since this cat wasn’t ours we shouldn’t have taken him to the hospital. He was dying. It doesn’t matter if he didn’t belong with us, he does now. He still deserves the opportunity to have a good life.

Please Help Save Norman

St. Francis Society needs help raising money to help save Norman’s life! He has gone through so much in the past few weeks and a couple times they thought he was a goner. But Norman is a FIGHTER. Every little bit helps SO much!

https://www.youcaring.com/stfrancissocietyanimalrescue-1085140

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Let me tell you about Balto. There was a lady in my town who owned a Siberian Husky named Balto that she would let him roam town and people either had to take him into their homes each night or call animal control. 

Eventually all you’d have to say to them was “Balto’s loose again” and you wouldn’t even have to fill out anything. He was digging up gardens, shitting on people’s driveways, nearly run over 3 times (one of which caused a guy to swerve and hit a mailbox), he jumped someone’s fence and impregnated their Lab, he was forcefully removed from property by people who didn’t like dogs, had BB guns shot at him by kids, chased cats into trees and was eventually attacked by an aggressive dog. After a $500 vet bill, she let her dog back outside again! Her excuse was that she “couldn’t keep him in the yard”, which was just because he was a high energy breed and she worked 10 hrs a day, do she didn’t have the time to exercise him. So why pay $1100 for a high energy breed when you know you can’t handle one? Novelty. He was eventually picked up and sold online because he was a purebred, found him 8 hours away, after the person who bought him saw her post on facebook. 

**hug received**