The Kitten League

07/14/2025

If you're looking for something sweet, check out our Fruit Basket!

These kits are just such lovebugs. Most of them start purring as soon as they see you! Full of kitten energy and are now looking for their new homes!
Click on each picture to learn more about them.
If interested, please fill out our adoption application listed in their profiles.

07/11/2025

Everyday is kitten day over here so we're sharing more kittens and more stories about them. Enjoy a few candids from the last month of kittens.

Tiger and Cole are both single lost boys from small towns and ready for their new families. Unfortunately we don't know where their mother is to stop more litters.
We try very hard to spay the mother cats, even when owners only want to surrender the kittens. We don't like repeat customers! It's part of the deal, we'll assist with kits when we can but mom gets spayed. If we can't take kits, we still offer low cost alter assistance.

The orange trio are orphans. Another reason to spay farm cats unless you have time and experience raising bottle kittens.

Grace is from a stray feral mom in a local industrial park where the property owner wouldn't allow us to trap mom sadly.

The remaining kits here all have moms who are or will be spayed once weaned. Collectors items because we "broke the mold" and no more production😉

Alot of emotion, time and stress goes into these kitties. The passion we have to keep these kitties alive and healthy is relentless.

We also are so thankful for our wonderful supporters who randomly send donations to keep this mission afloat. Bless all of you who've sent notes and wish list items. Your generosity is incredible.

07/10/2025

Happy National Kitten Day!
Yesterday you saw about 1/3 of the kittens that we have in our care. So of course we have to show you more today!
Our first batch their foster calls them her fruit basket. Their mama, who we named Fig, was roaming around an apartment complex around 85th/Minn Ave. A gentleman reached out to us because she moved her newborns into their garden planter. By the time we arrived later that day, one of the kits already passed away. After getting a live trap set we were able to take her, and her 1 day old kits, into our care. They've thrived and mama has been spayed and won't be contributing to the kitten over population any longer. Also, they were a fun surprise when they're ears opened and we realized they're American Curl mixes! These guys were just spayed and neutered and will be going up on our website in the next few days and will be ready to be adopted.

Our other litter, the Empyrean litter, their mom came from a property out in the country. A well meaning cat lover, who had one female, ended up with a cat population that was starting to get out of control. We trapped several pregnant moms and one we named Lilith. Now all you book girlies will love this story. Their foster mom already had the idea to name them after this book series. Lilith ended up giving birth the morning after a thunder/lightning storm. Luckily she had a safe place for these kits because one of them who we've featured, Violet, ended up having Swimmers Syndrome. We caught in just a few days after she started walking, so we were able to tape her legs for a couple of weeks, and now she's tearing around the place with her siblings and you'd never know she could've met a much worse fate if left in the wild without the appropriate care. This litter will be available in about a month.

Please spay and neuter all of your cats. Yes, these guys are extremely cute, but the amount we've been unable to help this year, is truly heartbreaking. We only have so many fosters, and run entirely on donations, so we're limited every year in how many kittens we can take into our care.

07/09/2025

Guess What? Tomorrow is National Kitten Day and while we love 'em...we sure would like to see a reduced number needing our help.

Yesterday, we altered 14 at our amazing vet but it seems we can't get ahead of the "kitten curve".
Among yesterday's group was a stray city momma we've been trying to catch for three years! Finally caught her and will end that line of production...so we'll take that a a major win!

Here are some of our 2025 kittens that are or will be available soon. We are happy to say that every mother from this group has been spayed!
Our adoption age is a little older than some organizations as we want to insure kits have successfully weaned and tolerated vaccinations before the stress of a new environment. So please if you're looking, check with us on availability.

Enjoy these little cuties!

07/04/2025

Come on down!
Kitty cuddles until 8pm!

07/02/2025

Remember Fireworks won't just be this Friday, they'll be starting earlier and going for days afterwards.
If you haven't talked to your vet yet about meds to help calm, now's the time, or visit your local pet store to figure out other calming option.
Set up a nice, quite, dark cave like area for them to get away from the noise.
Make sure you're extra aware coming and going through outside doors.
Let's keep our pets safe during this busy and scary time!

06/25/2025

Have you ever heard of Swimmers Syndrome? 🏊🏊
The good thing about being a kitten focused rescue is we know what a 'typical kitten development' looks like so it's easier for us to spot when something just doesn't quite seem 'typical' so we can provide early intervention when the kitten is still young and growing.
Violet's foster noticed shortly after her siblings started walking she was a little behind and not moving around like they were. She instantly recognized it as Swimmers Syndrome which is a developmental condition where kitten's legs, particularly the hind legs, splay outwards, resembling a swimming motion when they try to walk or stand.
Luckily, we had the resources to get to work on this right away! The easiest way to do this is to tape their legs together into a more proper range of motion. We use paper tape so it's very gentle and doesn't pull on the fur. After just two weeks of taping, look at Violet go! She's jumping around and playing with her siblings like a normal kit!
Violet and her siblings are not available for adoption yet, but will be in the next couple of months!

06/24/2025

Thanks as always Dakota News Now for having us on!
We'll be at Pet Smart East this Saturday 12-3pm for a meet and greet!

The stars of this Meet a Rescue Monday are Geneva, Jillian, Gelato, Gerkin, Gnocci, Garnet, and Ginger from The Kitten League!

06/21/2025

🐈‍⬛ Myth Busters: Cat Rescue Edition 🐈‍⬛

With all local cat rescues feeling the immense pressure of what seems like a record number of requests for "found or abandoned" kittens, here's a misconception needing clarification.

"You can't spay a nursing mother"
Not true!
Spaying does NOT affect milk production and spayed females can continue to nurse and care for kittens of all ages. Many vets will unfortunately tell people this and it's simple not the case.

The mother cat above was trapped, unknowingly had kittens and once in TKL custody, a quick palpation revealed she was nursing. We didn't know the kitten age but decided release without spay was worse than the risk of an overnight without mom. Momma cat was spayed and returned to her feeder the next afternoon.
She then revealed her nest and was re-caught and is now in TKL care. Her 4 female kittens never missed a beat. The nursing photo was 30 hrs after her spay.
Her kittens are above average size and healthy, now 5 weeks old.
So, spay the mom if there's a chance you won't catch or see her again. Nursing cats can and will get pregnant sometimes just weeks after delivery.
Any stray or feral nursing mom should be caught and spayed regardless of kitten age. If you have the opportunity, take it!
Stop the cycle when you can, period!
So many kittens are dying from lack of available qualified care. We can't take them all.