A Place Fur Rescue

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Adopters get mad when we won’t adopt out a single kitten and this is why. Please don’t bash rescues who follow the practice of adopting out pairs or a kitten to a home with another cat we have our reasons!

ADOPTED!!

Oh my little Artichoke…this baby’s adoption this week was extra special because he was adopted by one of the kindest Vets I know, and have had the pleasure of working with!🥰

Back story-I’ve personally fostered Little Arti since he was a 1.5 weeks old, before he was even old enough to have opened his eyes! I was bringing him to work with me for weeks while working as a RVT at the vet clinic I work at.

He has spent several weeks in our hospital growing up, getting socialized, and being loved on day in and day out by the most caring people I’ve ever known. I don’t know how I got so lucky to work with such amazing people who also support our cause, and that is why I also get so excited when someone in our very own vet community wants to adopt from us too💕he is going to have an amazing life and we can’t wait to hear how this little wild boy is doing in his new home!!🥹 Congrats Little Artichoke!

No Lilies!

Please keep lilies out of your home! As beautiful as the Lily is they're deadly to our feline friends. 🐈

Attention all Sacramento cat lovers!

We are very desperate for more volunteers at our Kitty adoption center located in the Petco on Folsom Blvd!

TONIGHT we will be hosting a little orientation meeting at 6:30pm, on how to help give them food & water, and how to help keep them nice and clean!

📍Our address is 5610 Folsom Blvd, Sacramento

Please join us!
Everyone is welcome, and we can’t wait to see you there!

(Also-If you can’t make this one, we will have future other ones too! And you are welcome to
Email us about volunteering to [email protected])

Everyone is talking Super Bowl, but here’s some even more exciting news….The cat adoptions we adopted out today at the Cat Extravaganza show!!

Here are some like Tulip and Rascal!

We can’t wait to hear how they are in their new amazing homes!!

The saying is true when it rains it pours…and sometimes there is even wind involved:(

On Sunday a rather unfortunate event happened to the “rescue mobile”. We had the rear door open as we were loading up the tables and crates from the Home & Garden show at Cal Expo, just trying to pack up from the event.

That night, the winds in Sacramento were blowing at 60 mpg, so while my rear hatch door was open, wind got under the open rear door, and ripped the rear window completely from its frame!

It completely broke the window out, then sent the rear window flying in the air over the roof of the car!
All the attached gear to the rear window also landed about 5 feet in front of the Expedition.
Glass was shattered everywhere!
So we were so very lucky no one was standing nearby when it happened.
Several people witnessed this catastrophe in the Cal Expo parking lot too.

While this incident is covered by comprehensive insurance as an act of God, it is still going to cost me $500 in a deductible costs, plus rental car fees, for who knows how long….Today i paid $144 to get a rental car until Monday next week.

The car is the autobody shop now, and they are going to order all major parts this week. So far the rear door shocks, rear window, rear window hinges, rear window wiper, front right mirror, front windshield, and the roof top of the car were all affected by this. It was such a freak incident and I really can’t believe this happened from wind.

Unfortunately I have already learned the hard lesson of how impossible it is to try to do rescue work without a car.
As many of you know, I did not have a car for over two months this past year, when my last car’s engine took a dump back in September.
I was riding my bike to work in the rain for weeks. I’ve only had this car for about 2 months now.

Every adoption event I do, I take work off, when I already make a poverty living wage as a Registered Vet Tech (RVT). This last event was three days long, and we had a total of 3 adoptions, which is not very many at all. It cost us more to do events, then we actually see returned to us, but obviously that part doesn’t matter because it’s all about getting these animals forever homes at the end of the day.

I place a very high value in the people we meet, the education we spread on spaying & neutering/TNR resources, and the connections we make at these events.
We are always so grateful to be invited to community events like these, and that is what makes these things completely worth it.

Now we are really going to need help for THIS upcoming weekend, in order to attend the Cat Show in Sacramento. We need major help trying to transport cats to this upcoming adoption event. Or even just help transporting crates and tables.

We have have many cats who we want to get as much exposure as we can there, but we NEED help! Anyone able to help transport materials or animals please reach out to me!!

Financially I can’t afford to do this any more alone, and it has largely been mainly me funding this rescue since Day one. Some days this really just feels very defeating, depressing, and exhausting. Last year there were many times I wanted to completely just give up. I really want to believe it won’t always be this hard, but I don’t know anymore.

Seeing people adopt their new best friend gives me a small sliver of hope that this still is worth fighting for. I am hanging on tight to that, and trying to stay positive things will eventually turn around. But it has been an extremely hard last year though😔

Any donations would be HUGE! Recently we also had a couple cats with some serious eye medical issues costing us a lot in vet care.

I absolutely hate asking for help, but our rescue needs it so badly right now to survive. Please help if you can, or please share our story to those who maybe can.

I will post our PayPal link in the comments too.

Thank you♥️

Adopt Kiko!!!

He was placed in Petco on Folsom Blvd tonight:)

Adopt Kiko on Petfinder Kiko is an adoptable Cat - Domestic Short Hair searching for a forever family near Sacramento, CA. Use Petfinder to find adoptable pets in your area.

TJ was adopted!

This past weekend at the Home & Garden show this lucky little lady finally scored her new forever home!

TJ had been in our rescue for some time now, and when one caring person passing by heard her story, he sponsored her entire adoption fee!

We never let costs keep an animal out of the best possible home, but we do require adoption fees to pay for their spay/neutering, microchipping, vaccines, and to allow us to keep doing this work!

We are so happy for TJ and can’t wait to see how she is doing in her next forever home! Thank you for choosing adoption and helping us save more lives!!

Check us out on KCRA tonight!

We are out here at the Cal Expo The Home & Garden show trying to adopt out some of our longest residents!

Where our FOSTER people at?!

Can anyone help us foster any of these babies?

All are already fixed and vaccinated, just are waiting in cue for their time to shine in our pet store adoption centers.

We NEED fosters!!!
Or better yet…adopt!!

Must be local to the Sacramento area.

Please message us for more information.

Please share! Thank you!

❤️♥️❤️We are always stronger in Teams! ❤️♥️❤️

Thanks for the shoutout Front Street Animal Shelter - City of Sacramento!

We wanted to take a moment to thank the amazing partners who helped us in 2023! For dog transfers and rescues, we’d like to give a special thanks to the Sacramento SPCA, Muttville Senior Dog Rescue, Martina Animal Rescue and Howard's Hound Haven . For cats, we’d like to acknowledge A Place Fur Rescue, Rio Linda Feral Help Group, and FieldHaven Feline Center. Our incredible spay neuter partners included the Sacramento SPCA, Community Spay Neuter Clinic, Animal Spay and Neuter - Auburn , Animal Outreach of the Mother Lode, and Badger Creek Veterinary Clinic. And a big thanks to the UC Davis Fracture Program for Rescue Animals program for helping many animals with complex procedures. These are just a few of the most involved organizations, but there are many others who had a tremendous impact, and we’re grateful to you all! It takes village to help animals in need, and we couldn’t do it alone.

Adopt Twokey!

This little girl deserves to finally have a permanent loving home!

Here is her bio posted online:)

Adopt Twokey on Petfinder Twokey is an adoptable Cat - Domestic Short Hair searching for a forever family near Sacramento, CA. Use Petfinder to find adoptable pets in your area.

Meet TJ!

TJ has been in our rescue for some time now, and we are really scratching our heads as to why, she’s basically the best cat! She told us she wanted a home by Christmas, then New Year’s. We are hoping we can have her be someone’s Valentine’s Day date now, she’s really quite the catch! 💕

She is incredibly friendly, tolerates dogs, and loves affection. Come by Petco on Folsom Blvd to see this little lady in person, and apply online to APlaceFurRescue.org to potentially meet and adopt her!

Sun Gazing

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Female cats are “seasonally polyestrous”, meaning they have multiple estrus cycles during the breeding season. As the amount of daylight begins to increase at the winter solstice, the reproductive cycle of intact females kicks into gear, and most will go into heat by late January. A female cat will keep coming back into heat every 1 to 2 weeks until she gets pregnant, or the amount of daylight decreases (October). The feline gestation period is 63 days (give or take), so the first kittens of the season can start arriving as early as February.

NOW is the ideal time time to neuter community cats to get ahead of kitten season and end the breeding cycle before it starts.

Thank you so much Norbert!

📣📣Come on down people!📣📣

Find your new best friend today! 🐾
Some of our kitties have been patiently waiting for a place to call home for far too long! 🐾
Head to Delta Shores Petsmart today and adopt!!!🐾

😆♥️We’ve got a couple like this now😽

What I need to be this year…

Thoughts?

If anyone can donate any extra litter we would SO appreciate it!
Our rescue could really use some donation help right now 😰We have a lot of kitties with foster parents who are struggling as well. Please please if you can! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

We are going to need some MAJOR HELP with volunteers to help clean our cat centers now.

My vehicle’s engine died, and as a Vet tech I really can’t afford the 11k for a new engine,
So I no longer have a car for now.

So if you can commit to a set day to help clean that would be very appreciated at either petco or petsmart🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
please let me know so I can write your name
Up on the calendars.

We also have several kittens scheduled for spay/neuter surgeries soon, and I can no longer take them to Auburn or SPCA.
So if you can help transport some that would be awesome too🙏🏼

Sorry if I’ve been quiet on here, it’s just been ALOT, and as some of you know, the rain has been pouring for a while over the last two month here.😔

Thank you for all of those who continue to help, some of you have been my last single thread at times. I appreciate it, and think our animals in the rescue do too💝

Can anyone foster a pitty puppy this weekend?

(Food, toys and crate provided)

😂🤭

Can’t wait to celebrate the news!?!

Shout out to all those surviving as well in the rescue and shelter world right now.

Normally by this time of the year things would actually be slowing down for us.

So it’s sad there seems to be no light at end of the tunnel yet, but hopefully many more found homes this weekend during National Clear the shelters adoption events.

Spay and neuter your pets people!

And if you can…go adopt!!!

Americans can’t afford their pets. It’s pushing animal shelters to the brink. How animal shelters are coping with a crisis of abandoned cats and dogs.

We see so much more than just cats and dogs at our shelter! We took this orphaned baby squirrel to our friends at Wildlife Care Association last week, where they are now in the very best hands. ❤️
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Remember, wild animals should never be kept as pets, no matter how cute they are!
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What should YOU do if you find orphaned, sick, or injured wildlife? Here are some tips!
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⭐️ Do not handle wildlife without thick gloves. Do not feed the animal, give the animal fluids, bathe the animal, or unnecessarily disturb the animal. ⁠
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⭐️ Keep the animal in a warm and draft-free place, ideally in a well-ventilated container (such as a shoe box with holes in the top). If the animal is very young (i.e. is incompletely feathered or hairless, or has its eyes still closed), place a heating pad set to low underneath the container. If the animal is older, place only half of the container on the heating pad: this will allow the animal to choose its ideal temperature.⁠ Do not place animals directly onto heating pads.
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⭐️ Take the animal to a qualified rehabilitator as quickly as possible. Rehabilitators are specially trained to care for sick, injured, and orphaned wildlife, and the animal’s best chance of success is with a rehabilitator. Please NEVER keep the animal or try to treat the animal yourself. ⁠
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Local wildlife resources: ⁠
🐾 fws.gov/office/sacramento-fish-and-wildlife⁠
🐾 wildlifecareassociation.com
🐾 goldcountrywildliferescue.org
🐾 norcalbats.org

ADOPTED!

Just a boy and his pup🥰
Bullseye got adopted first thing this morning at the Petco on Folsom blvd!

Today we had our National Clear the shelter’s adoption event at Petco💜
His new loving dad and son drove 3 HOURs to meet our boy today too! We are so glad we were able to make this happen! There was nothing better than seeing your boy’s smile, as Bullseye tackled him with kisses! 🥹We can’t wait to hear how his new life is with your family! 💙

Back story: Bullseye was 1 of 6 pitty pups pulled out of Bradshaw Shelter that we have been very committed to placing in a loving forever home. Huge shout out to his foster momma Shannon too! For the last three weeks his foster momma has done a fabulous job keeping him safe with his two other brothers (Sparerib and Filet Mignon) and showing him so much love, we are sure he will continue giving his new forever family. We are SO grateful for amazing foster parents like you too!