House of the Happy Cat

05/08/2025

When the weather cools off we will be doing our Repurpose Project events and we also have an event date at Petsense in High Springs in OCtober.

We do not have enough volunteers to help set up and do the events so looking for people to commit to helping

We also need a few more people to help with cats in the cubicles at Petco in Gainesville usually Thursday through Saturday.

Please mark your calendars to see if you can help with any of these dates
normally we need you to show up early to help set up - we often set up day before at Repurpose and then need help during the event and then the biggest is during break down at the end as we have to move fast to get everything loaded so cats arent in carriers for a long time

Please message me with serious inquiries
Kids can get community credit time for helping with any of it

Repurpose is Saturdays
October 11th
November 8th
December 13th
December 20th

Petsense October 18th

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03/08/2025

Friday we had to take baby Jane to the vet. just out of nowhere. she started acting wonky and realized she was in accute liver failure. probably from not eating which it's hard to know if a cat is eating or not and they wait until they're critical before you see any signs
thankfully though I know it's fatty liver because she lost too much weight and that's something I can pull them out of at home with critical care

Pita and Leo, two of the cats from the home that was destroyed and we had to take four cats out. had to go in for blood work. Pita is most likely in renal failure which we already knew from her blood work last year, but it's advancing and Leo has been struggling with thyroids so we're trying to see if we need to adjust his medicine.
my kitten siren had to go for an exam because she has a sore on her belly. we don't know what it is. three kitties came in for blood pool for combo tasks

$700 that bill

that's why when I get money I don't want people to get too excited because it goes out almost as fast as it comes in because we have to take care of these animals. and we took on too many medically needy cats last year and it's hurting us.

thankfully baby Jane is doing better today and he's starting to take her food better

03/08/2025

My Sunday morning

7 am give fluids and medicine to baby Jane, Make food for the three babies
make coffee
wake partner up so we can hurry up and have some fun for a little while
8 am syringe feed baby Jane (She has a cute liver failure from not eating in fatty liver so we're pulling her through that)
8 -10 sit and play a game on the computer with my partner
10 am give medicine to the two ringworm babies, mop up an accident
give fluids to Pita who is in renal failure
move the two mamas and their babies out to a bigger habitat
11 heading out to eat lunch and see a movie which we never do

having fun instead of cleaning the 10 kennels that need to be cleaned. this is my Sunday

30/07/2025

Meet Pasha, Raven, Bentley, Sinclair and Franklin
Newest kittens
very sweet
combo tested neg/neg
Getting fixed this Friday and ready to go
will need to come back in about 4 weeks for booster shots

29/07/2025

18 years ago one of our kitties Ben had a freak accident and ended up breaking his jaw which had to be wired shut so he was not allowed out but he was such an outside kitty. I felt bad so we literally built a walkway and a 20x20 chain link pen for him. It was our first outside sanctuary. And he absolutely loved it. We lost him 2 years ago to renal failure when he was 16 years old.
Later we removed the chain link and built in a massive Sanctuary when I started my rescue 10 years ago.
Further on we cut that part in half and had a smaller Sanctuary which has been here all that time.

a year ago somebody working came through with a van and knocked out my walkway and we decided to rebuild it but we couldn't finish it at the time

today we're tearing down the sanctuary and we're actually going to rebuild it with a 20x20 chain link pen and attach the new walkway to it. So the cats in the house have their own area that they can come out to

27/07/2025

Looking for a foster for Mimi
she is tiny maybe 4 weeks old but eating on her own

she has to be protected as too young for shots and not old enough to test

we can loan you a playpen but she cannot be with other cats right now

25/07/2025

Y'all made us feel really loved today

25/07/2025

Petco Adoption Event
Sunday 7/27 noon to 2:30

we're bringing squish and lycan two of the hound puppies

25/07/2025

we're placing four kittens at Petco this evening. they'll be there all day tomorrow so you can meet Frankie and Penelope
and Judy and Jade and then Sunday we will be there with other kittens from noon to about 2:33 and if I have the energy I might bring the last two of the hound puppies
when I'm not being lazy, I'll post pictures of everybody in a little bit

25/07/2025

when I first started this in 2015 or 2016 I asked Google how many cats are being born in the United States and it said 45 million which I thought was insane
I know how hard I've worked and how hard every organization I know and individuals everybody's working hard to fix cats and get on top of the overpopulation problem.
I googled again in 2024 and it said 180 million which means it's quadrupled
I don't know how to figure out the math of how many more new cats are being born every year, no matter how many we fix
one female cat can repopulate an entire colony in a year
I know many of you are against abortion, but I can tell you that most of these kittens are being born only to die

in almost every nature situation where animals are populating to the point that they are sick and starving to death and dying, a nature conservatory would go in and do something to correct the situation

this typically would mean killing the animals and doing things to stop too many being born and overeating their food supply

now we have this animal called a cat who can survive for quite a bit in the wild, but they just don't do really well.
People say they kill all the wildlife but honestly cats are really kind of s*** predators, especially domestic cats. they just don't do that well and they often become the prey to more skilled predators.
As the population grows, they get diseased and they spread disease amongst each other so that they get all kinds of viral loads so that the animals are less healthy each generation. There are many viruses that cats get and I'm not talking about the big ones like feline AIDS or feline leukemia. I'm talking about coronavirus and calici virus and rhinovirus

we've already been seeing this in the last 10 years that I've been doing this. The kittens seem to be getting smaller and they come in sicker and more of them are dying younger. this is normal in overpopulation situations

that being said, even though I know many of you are against abortion, I feel like at some point we need to start fixing these cats even if they are pregnant. The reality is the kittens are not going to be viable until late in the term. At the point that the mother is spayed, the mother and the babies are all under anesthesia so there would be no suffering or pain.

and the situation where people want to allow cats to have babies, then they need to have the ability to keep those babies and the cat for their life. because at this point collecting pregnant cats letting them have their babies and then immediately trying to dump them into a system that's already overwhelmed is kind of horrifying

please stop being silly and ignorant about how bad the situation is out here and quit expecting a small handful of people to handle this horrible financial and emotional and physical burden.

Even the bigger organizations are struggling. Even if they've get millions of dollars, they still have to contend with you know the phone calls and the irresponsibility and everybody dumping their animals cuz they're moving and I let this cat have their babies and the kittens are all sick and dying and I don't want them anymore

we have to start becoming a little more practical and realistic about what needs to happen out here

knowing about hundreds and hundreds of baby kittens dying breaks my heart every night before I go to bed knowing that I can't save them all

and the one way to save them from dying and suffering is to not not let them be born

24/07/2025

Hi everyone, I don't know what's going on. I have made the rescue list twice and it keeps getting deleted. I don't really have time to keep doing this

wellness kitten food dry
any kind of Pate
nulo Cat and kitten
any kind of clumping unscented litter?
House of the Happy Cats and dogs
10791 Northeast 116th Street
Archer, Florida 32618 thank you

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24/07/2025

Hi we need help with stuff for kittens
wet food /dry food/ litter
here is all the ways to donate including our address and the amazon wish list
thank you in advance
we love wellness kitten, Nulo cat and kitten is also great for tiny babies just learning. Any kind of pate works - the kitten wetfood seems easier on their stomachs and we prefer unscented litter
ty so much
venmo and cash app are the favored ways to donate money
Ways to donate
Venmo
Paypal (only donations over $5 due to how much they take out) [email protected]
cashapp $HappyCatRescue
during events I can accept
Cash
credit card
checks
checks can also be mailed
made out to House of the Happy Cats and Dogs
mailed to
10791 NE 116th St
Archer, FL 32618
here is the link to the amazon wish list