Kitty Korner Cat Rescue and Lounge

02/10/2022

It is with an extremely heavy heart that I have to write this post, but I need to let everyone know that we have closed our doors.

This was not a decision that I made lightly; I’ve been struggling with it and fighting myself on it for awhile now. There are many factors that went into this decision, including but not limited to: having such a rough time trying to re-build from scratch after the fire that damaged everything we had at the rescue, being a single mom to three young children who need more of me than I was able to give them while also running the rescue, trouble getting a consistent group of volunteers who were willing to put in the excessive amount of work that it takes to keep a place like this clean and healthy (as a non-profit, we don’t have the funds to pay employees), not to mention all of the difficulties that came along with Covid the last couple years.

That being said, while I am incredibly sad to do this, I’m equally proud of all we have accomplished in the five years we’ve been here. We rescued and adopted out 4,162 cats, we gave people young and old the opportunity to come to a welcoming place to cuddle with kitties, we hosted birthday parties and movie nights, and brought smiles to thousands of faces. We couldn’t have done any of it without your support, and for that we are forever grateful.

Animal rescue is my life-long passion and I very much hope to re-open someday in the future, in some capacity, whether it be a full-blown cat cafe or a place that focuses solely on rescue. Thank you again for all the donations, adoptions, and love along our journey.

We’d love to see photos of any and all kitties who have been adopted from us, please share in the comments 💗

01/19/2022

***ADOPTION EVENT***

This Saturday (January 22nd) from 12:00-6:00 pm

There will be a sign-up list outside. Please put your name on the list, and we will call each person/family in one at a time. If you are not present when your name is called, we will move onto the next. Please have masks for each person in your group.

We have many cats available! Below are some photos of (most of) the kitties. They range in age from four months to four years. There’s about seven kittens, 12 teens, and five adults.

We are not able to answer questions about specific cats prior to the event. If you are interested in adopting, please come to the event, and you can meet all the kitties and find your purrfect match! That being said, finding the right home for the cats is our number one priority, and we have the right to make the final decision when it comes to each adoption. Thank you for your understanding and patience!

Cost is $200 for one cat, $350 for two. All cats have been spayed/neutered, feline leukemia tested (all of ours are required to be negative), vaccinated (FVRCP combo, rabies), flea treated, and dewormed.

We look forward to meeting you 😻

01/17/2022

In honor of the late and great Betty White’s 100th birthday, we invite you to donate even just a few dollars to help us continue saving cats from high-kill shelters. Betty was a huge animal lover and advocate, and we think this is a wonderful way to further her legacy. Thank you all for your support ❤️

https://www.paypal.me/kittycatfe

If you’d prefer to donate items, just let us know and we can give you info as to where to drop off!

#TheBettyWhiteChallenge

01/06/2022

Hello everyone! First of all, we need to apologize for the typo in our last post. Our adoption event was supposed to be on the 3rd, not the 23rd. Oops! But perhaps it worked out, because Kristina is currently sick and out of caution is staying home until all her symptoms have cleared. That being said, we WILL be rescheduling the adoption event very soon, so please follow our page for updates!

Right now, we are only open to the public for scheduled adoption events. We hope, in the near future, to become more available for visits/adoptions. It is incredibly difficult to run a rescue with extremely limited funds, not to mention Covid protocols, but we are doing our best and we are super grateful for everyone who helps out with donations.

Thank you for your continued support!

12/28/2021

Thank you for your patience.

With the holidays, snow storms, still rebuilding from our tragic fire last Christmas and of course with several precious kitty lives to care for we have had very limited time available to keep up with the incredible amount of interest for our adoptable kitties.

Please know that we are on track and getting ready to launch many adoption days and times to accommodate our potential adopters. We appreciate your patience and understanding and will be posting an update with those days and times very soon!

Please remember if you don’t already, please like and follow our Facebook for the fastest updates.

Thank you and we hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and have a Happy New Year 😻

12/18/2021

Adopt Clinga on Petfinder

https://www.petfinder.com/cat/clinga-53940630/wa/edmonds/the-kitty-catfe-wa673/

Clinga is an adoptable Cat - Tortoiseshell searching for a forever family near Edmonds , WA. Use Petfinder to find adoptable pets in your area.

12/16/2021

Who’s ready for an adoption event??!!!

You may have noticed we have been very quiet on social media lately, and here’s why!!

These gorgeous kitties were all in their final hours, some in minutes. With the help of our amazing dream team in Bakersfield we were able to get these babies out of there!

Our Kitty Krew and our founder Kristina have been working around the clock to get these guys here, get them all settled in, cleaned up, fed quality foods to nourish these beauty’s, loved and assured they are safe and on their way to the best furever homes ever like the thousands of their predecessors!

So if this holiday season you’ve been thinking of adding in a kitty to your family, please consider giving one of these babies the best gift they could hope for!!! 😻

If you’d like to support our kitties and our mission, we are currently in need of clumping litter and quality dry food 🙏

Donations can be dropped at 9685 Firdale Ave Edmonds at Crafty B’s or may be left on our big blue bench in front of our windows, make sure to say hi to the kitties in the windows!!

Or donations can also be made to:

https://www.paypal.me/kittycatfe

Event Times: Friday Noon to 5PM
Saturday Noon to 6PM

Location: 9685 Firdale Ave Edmonds, WA 98020

Information:

Please sign in on the list provided
Doors will open at 12 but we will do a rollcall prior to Noon so please stay close by

Please fill out an application as well as a copy of the Adoption Agreement and Health and Wellness agreement (please read both documents but do NOT sign until an adoption has been confirmed)

Once your name is called you’ll be asked to come inside and begin the process by answering questions about your home environment, passed and current pets, type of kitty you’re looking for etc… please be prepared to answer these questions to help speed up wait times as well as help us find the kitty we may think would be a purrfect match for you. We do NOT guarantee that an adoption will be completed by attendance.

Our adoption fees are $200 and that includes: spay/neuter, UTD on current vaccinations, de worming, flea treated, transport and your lifelong companion.

Please bring a carrier!

Forms of payment: Cash, check or PayPal/Zelle

Please be prepared for a wait. We will do our best to be to get you all in and out in a timely fashion!

12/11/2021

12/05/2021

This is how Kristina gets sleep 🤣💕 How many of her fur babies can you spot on her?!

12/05/2021

Hi everyone! I am a long-time, mostly behind-the-scenes volunteer for Kitty Korner, and I also run Sweet Ivy Bake Shop. For the holidays I am making cookie decorating kits and a part of the sales will be donated to Kitty Korner! Each kit has 10 shaped sugar cookies, three bags of colored icing, and fun sprinkles. Pick up is just a few minutes south of the rescue, on Dec. 18th and 23rd. Let me know if you’d like to order, and thank you for your support, both for myself and the kitties! ❤️

12/05/2021

Molly Foy Johnson !!! Please send us a PM if interested!

12/01/2021

These babies are ready for play, cuddles and meeting their furever homes in time for the holidays!!!

Appointments are available as follows

Wednesday 12 to 6
Thursday Closed
Friday 12 to 6
Saturday TBD will update ASAP

Please send us a PM with the number of guests and if you are wanting to visit the kitties or if you are interested in adopting!!

Thank you 😻

1 hour slots per group. 2 people minimum $10 per person please 😽

All questions about adoptions will be discussed during your appointment time!

These babies are very sweet, cuddly, playful beautiful love bugs 🥰

***Not ALL kitties pictured below are available for adoption, however most of them are***

11/27/2021

If you’ve missed our live videos, a big thank you to Edmonds Chamber of Commerce for offering us a booth at this years Tree Lighting Ceremony sponsored by Certa Farrish Law Group!!

We will be collecting donations of quality dry kitty food and litter.

We will be having some fun giveaways if ya can make a shot at our bean bag board!!

And most importantly we will be bringing down some of adoptable kitties!!! 😽

Hope to see you ALL there 😻

11/23/2021

Check out my list on Amazon

Thank you everyone who’s been asking and for your patience! Here’s our kitties Amazon wish list, these are things we currently need as well as things the kitties love that we lost in the 🔥

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/P0QKS9TJRCS1?ref_=wl_share

11/23/2021

Photos from Kitty Korner Cat Rescue and Lounge's post

11/23/2021

These babies are ready for play, cuddles and meeting their furever homes in time for the holidays!!!

Appointments are available as follows

Tuesday 12 to 5
Wednesday 12 to 6
Thursday Closed
Friday 12 to 6

Please send us a PM with the number of guests and if you are wanting to visit the kitties or if you are interested in adopting!!

Thank you 😻

1 hour slots per group. 2 people minimum $10 per person please 😽

All questions about adoptions will be discussed during your appointment time!

These babies are very sweet, cuddly, playful beautiful love bugs 🥰

***Not ALL kitties pictured below are available for adoption, however most of them are***

11/19/2021

Please continue to share or donate what you can! Thank you 🥰

11/15/2021

***Warning graphic images below***

If you have adopted one of our kitties over the years you may see you kitties below, some can be upsetting, but please remember together we all saved their life!

I have always tried to spare the graphic details and images of where and what our kitties go through and where they come from.

I also never really post about the tremendous amount of work, money, emotional and physical pain, sacrifices etc… my partners in Southern California and I all devote to get these kitties up here and saved from the hell they live in over the last 5 years.

You see the last few days and now the days to follow transport issues have been a heart breaking, stressful, exhausting nightmare.

Unfortunately the private transporter we use, has been having to cancel multiple transports last minute. Which has put us all in a massive crisis mode.
When we can’t get these guys up here, then we lose them. They either have no choice but to go back to the shelters where they will have very limited time before being euthanized or they’ll be let loose in the feilds where they are rescued from, and be left to try to survive the elements, starvation, predators and God only knows what other nightmares 😩

Our incredible partners as well as several other beautiful human beings, have literally spent every waking minute of the last several days desperately trying get the kitties and doggies that were due to go on those transports up here to safety.

But have been hit with crushing obstacles and impossible hurdles everyday. First it was the rented vehicle that wonderful individuals volunteered to drive up. The air element failed and it’s crucial for these babies this time of year and on such a long journey they must have heat and air. Two days of trying to fix it with no successes and no part available they had mo choice but to return home, so then a great man offered to fly them up!! Every person is now on day 3 of waking up at dawn with very little sleep and under massive stress and pressure of transferring and transporting all these poor fur babies over and over again trying desperately to get them all to the Pacific Northwest.

The plane is loaded and everyone can’t wait to watch these fur babies and all their hard work take off! But then they get another crushing call, the planes flaps won’t open 😿😿😿

For those of us who devote our whole lives to this purpose, more hours than most could ever imagine, so many sacrifices, so much heart ache but we were put on this earth for it, well there just isn’t proper words to explain how our hearts shatter and the heaviness and the despair we feel. 😿

I have had to do emergency runs, many times in the last 5 years, many I have never posted about.

So now it’s time cause we are running out of options and we can’t just give up now, we can’t let anymore lives end.

So, we will do whatever it takes. California crew is currently working on a private transport on their end and I am making plans in this end.

So, to anyone who may have missed an appointment this weekend or a donation drop off with a kitty visit I apologize.

I have spent the last two days driving all over the greater Seattle area picking up many, many, generous donations for the kitties and the lounge to stock them and my volunteers up with everything they could possibly need while I head down. As well as getting my own animals and children squared away.

I will be heading south beginning of December for sure and possibly again before the end of December if needed, and potentially 1 x a month ongoing, we will see what the future holds, we have overcome so much and still been able to save thousands of lives we aren’t done yet!!!!

I’m sorry for some of the photos you will see below, it’s time to show the reality of what Kitty Korner Rescue and Lounge is all about.

If you are wondering how to help here’s how.

*Donating and Sharing this post, every single dollar helps.

*Food and litter donations (can be dropped at Crafty Bs two doors down) Tuesday through Saturday 10am to 6pm if no one is at the Kitty Korner

*Volunteers to help cover shifts or assisting current volunteers on shifts

* Volunteers willing to join Kristina on the trips down to help with driving, kitty transfers, crate cleanings, feedings etc…

***And the best way to help Kitty Korner is your patience and understanding of what we do here, and how our NUMBER 1 priority always has and always will be the kitties!!

And that we love and appreciate our customers, our friends, our supporters tremendously and want nothing more than to make everyone happy and we hate disappointing anyone and failing on communications or kitty play time etc… we are trying constantly to get back on our feet and running better than ever while dealing with these constant challenges of rescue, animal rescue is no joke!!

So please continue to give us grace, patience and understanding!!

It’s not about us it’s about them and those precious angels thank you all as well 😻😻😻

More info to follow, please be patient with communication responses at this time as well! Thank You 🙏

https://www.paypal.me/kittycatfe