Emergency Kitten Rescue in Sarasota Area

2024 Kitten Emergency Rescue

Please help us save more kittens in our 3-county area: Sarasota/Venice area; Charlotte/North Port/Port Charlotte; and Desoto counties. The pandemic and hurricane combined damage to the cat rescue world in our area has not ended yet! You probably know about the spay-neuter and veterinarian shortages impacting all the kitten rescuers' programs this summer, the result of several years of inadequate spay-neuter at affordable prices for the last four years. Now the shelters are euthanizing baby kittens unless a rescue pulls them.

It has really come home to roost this summer, with literally thousands of small kittens being born around here, and few options on how to help them stay alive! The shelters are overloaded with kittens and lovely adult cats. The Venice Cat Coalition is very small, but we are focused on helping as many kittens and mother cats as we can. We’ve taken in dozens, plus fixed the mother cats, and the calls are constant, begging for more help.

Two examples in the last 2 months involved one residence with 30-plus cats in the woods behind the caretakers’ house. VCC pulled 10 kittens (beautiful but with ringworm and underweight) and arranged for another 14 adults to get fixed and vaccinated. We are currently working another site where a young man somehow took in 11 unfixed adult cats, and the females birthed numerous litters in a very short time. He had 24 kittens that he does not want, and we have worked that down to about 11 in his custody. So far, we have arranged for all but one of the adults to be fixed and vaccinated. None of these cats had ever received medical care, basic or otherwise. Since he could not afford kitten food, VCC sent $150 of emergency kitten dry and wet food to help the babies survive, as we search for places to rehome them. Just two examples of the big projects we have taken on.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Kitten rescue is very expensive now, costing between $100 and $250 per kitten depending on the conditions. Last year (2023), we spent about $20,000 on kitten emergency work, and now we are facing similar bills. Please consider a nice donation, large or small, to help these innocent babies get through a difficult time. We appreciate all who donated and supported our kitten emergency drive last summer, and we need your help again.

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Contact us at our website at www.venicecatcoalition.com or find us on Facebook. Many thanks for your consideration.