Hope on the Hill

08/03/2025

08/03/2025

From a post response about a very pregnant community cat. The finder didn't want the expectant Mama spayed. This was my response.-

They will do a spay abort. It is standard practice with community cats.

Just that one clinic spays around 100 females a week. A week. Now, if all of the pregnant cats were allowed to have their litters, just THOSE females would easily deliver 400 kittens on average. Do you know fosters or rescues that could take in 400 kittens every single week?

Community cats can also have problems delivering due to the conditions, disease, parasites and predators. About 80% of kittens born outside will die from those issues. Mothers often die from infection, stuck kittens and malnutrition.

The kindest thing that you can do for a pregnant community cat is to spay it. The litters we get in for foster ALWAYS, and I mean ALWAYS, end up sick.

That means vet bills, treating kittens for weeks, watching the ones you can't save die and spending thousands on vet bills, medications, litter, wet food, OTC meds and supplies like kitten formula. Local rescues can barely keep up with the kittens already born and in need.

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The finder wasn't aware of the scope of the issue. They agreed to contact the spay/neuter clinic the next day

08/03/2025

Please help us welcome VERY young Mama BEETLEJUICE and her litter of 5 absolutely adorable tabby nuggets to Hope on the Hill

This sweet, sweet Mama cat has been failed by people, starting with the "owners" who left her behind when moving, AND tossed her outside unspayed.

Her last litter all died, outside and unhelped. She was too wily to be trapped with the last litter. Not this time!

Thanks to some amazing folks, she will have a chance for all of her babies to live. She will be spayed. All of the babies will be spayed and neutered before adoption. All will find wonderful homes, where they will be loved and cherished.

This is why we do what we do

07/31/2025

If anyone needs allergen/dander control cat food, the Walmart Neighborhood Market in Farmington has this food on clearance. It is in the right side 1st end cap near the feminine products section (west side of the building). It's a great deal!

07/31/2025

Sweet, sweet Poppy (now named Hazel) is being returned to Hope On The Hill by her adopters. They are facing a housing crisis and are putting her needs first and bringing her back to us.

She is only about 1 1/2 years old, LOVES people and attention, and is a gorgeous girl. Let's find her a home ASAP, so she can start to settle in at her new home, not the adoption center.

Please go by Petsense by Tractor Supply and then reach out to Laura Undem at 479-856-2696 for pre-screening.

07/31/2025

Act accordingly. 💘

07/22/2025

Notice-price change on adoption fees for vetted kittens.

For 2 years we have adopted out unvetted (not yet spayed or neutered) kittens for $50, on a VERY binding spay/neuter contract.

Since these kittens are very young, usually only 8-10 weeks, there is not a lot of holding time for illness/additional vet costs. Adult adoption fees (ALWAYS fully vetted) have been $70 and will remain at that for now.

We are now moving towards our long term goal of offering ONLY fully vetted kittens and cats. That means that kittens are now with us for 1-5 MONTHS.

That is months more of food, litter, dewormer, monthly flea medications and any vet bills along the way. Most kittens have a total investment of $150 on average by the time they are old enough to alter, a few less and many much, much more.

In that time, latent illness often surfaces, or more usually is brought in by new kittens. That means much, much higher vet bills, but NO kittens slip through the cracks without being spayed or neutered. That is the ultimate goal.

In reality, this is still a cost saving measure for adopters. A $50 adoption fee, then an additional $40-$60 (at the very lowest cost) for spay/neuter, rabies and FVRCP vaccines and deworming. That comes out to $90-$110 at the very least.

Not only are the adopters saving a little money, there is no stress, time and expense of taking the kitten to be vetted and dealing with recovery.

We think that this is a great move forward for our little family based rescue. Remember that we use no outside fosters. The cats and kittens are either here in our home/rescue, or they are in the adoption center at our amazing adoption partner Petsense by Tractor Supply.

07/22/2025

Case in point. Daisy, Eren's service dog, was a free side of the road puppy. Within weeks we had an emergency vet trip when we almost lost her. Yes, she was free. FREE cost us several hundred in urgent vet costs.

07/22/2025

We now have kittens available at Petsense, 3 solid black boys from the MASH Litter-Trapper John, Hawkeye and Colonel Potter. Then 3 of the 4 from the FLOWER Litter-Indigo (male, dilute grey tabby), Ren (male, classic tabby) and Juniper (female, gorgeous dark calico).

Indigo is supposed to be moving to Wild Bird's Unlimited in Fayetteville tomorrow evening. They have a very lonely 4ish month old kitten that needs a buddy.

All of the kittens above are spayed/neutered, rabies vaccinated, dewormed and have had their first FVRCP vaccine. The next group coming to the store in about 3 weeks are 3 super dark female tortishells (Klinger, Hotlips and Lt. Kelley), and the last, smaller black male Radar O'Reilly.

The vetted kittens' adoption fee is $85 each.

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07/20/2025

These two kids are something special