Kitty à la Crèche

Kitty à la Crèche Virginia-based cat foster and kitten nursery
https://amzn.to/3PIJGTV I started fostering in the fall of 2018 when I saw an advert for kitten fosters needed.

I honestly had no idea that animal fostering was even a thing let alone a need. I spent hours scouring google for how to be a foster and what to do. There were no rooms available in my home so my walk-in closet became a makeshift foster room. I started with 5 kittens about 9 weeks old and moved on to a semi-feral pair who bunked in my son's room. Eventually, I found that I needed a space for cats

to stretch out and roam. We borrowed space in my den which acted as a homework and gaming room and there I had my first pregnant mom. If you've never experienced the miracle of mama cats/dogs, let me tell you it is the most amazingly wonderful and humbling experience ever. Mamas are absolutely the most incredible beings. It was then that I knew I needed a dedicated space for my fosters. We moved rooms around and combined some spaces and I was left with the perfect little room just for fostering. Many kittens, cats, and mamas alike have sought temporary safety in that room. Unfortunately, that room has also experienced loss. In 2021 I took in mama Sarabi and her four 12-day-old kittens. Mama had experienced a traumatic eye injury; she would need to have surgery to remove it. However, she passed away suddenly leaving her young kittens behind and a gaping hole in my heart. I didn't think I had it in me to raise such young babies without her. I questioned if I deserved to be a foster if perhaps, I was too weak. But as her kittens grew up and thrived, I knew she gave me the strength to keep going. I dedicated the foster room/nursery to her. When lionesses go hunting, other pride lionesses stay behind to watch the babies. They form a nursery called a “crèche” (pronounced cresh). If a lioness never returns from her hunt, the other lionesses will raise her baby as their own. That’s the meaning of this page and what I have officially named my foster room. Fostering animals is an incredible journey that I’d like you to take with me – the ups and the downs. Maybe we can learn something together or at the very least be the crèche that many felines have needed. Thanks, xoxo Stephanie Bowne

07/03/2026
These are my favorite kind of updates. If you recall, 2 weeks ago I took in mama cat and her 5 kittens with pretty bad e...
06/30/2026

These are my favorite kind of updates. If you recall, 2 weeks ago I took in mama cat and her 5 kittens with pretty bad eye infections. Happy to report that they look much better, no longer high risk, and heading to a new foster to continue eye meds. It's likely that they will have some cornea scarring for the rest of their lives, but for now it doesn't appear that anyone needs enucleation surgery. 🙌🏻

Quick foster room request: I'm completely out of canned food. 📢⚠️Most of the kittens I foster are medical or at risk kit...
06/23/2026

Quick foster room request: I'm completely out of canned food. 📢⚠️

Most of the kittens I foster are medical or at risk kittens, so wet food is a necessity while they recover and grow. Between URI kittens, eye infections, GI issues, and parasites, I go through about 10 cans a day. A case of food lasts me roughly 2 days.

Fancy Feast Kitten Chicken is what I use most and is always my preference, but I've also added a Prime Day deal to my wishlist for anyone who would like to help. I'll post the link in the comments and my story.

Kitten tax courtesy of adoptable Aicy, who is still waiting for her first application.

Kitten season is humbling.One minute you're losing a kitten for no apparent reason. The next, you're treating five kitte...
06/18/2026

Kitten season is humbling.

One minute you're losing a kitten for no apparent reason. The next, you're treating five kittens with impressive eye infections several times a day while they continue to play, eat, and get into literally everything, (omg how can you even see to do that) as of nothing is wrong.

No logic.

Anywho. Here's 3 of the 5 kittens im treating along with mom who appears to be a kitten herself. Will update with progress pics as we go.
SFC Virginia

06/07/2026
New at the sick bay. Kittens can't catch a break.
06/01/2026

New at the sick bay. Kittens can't catch a break.

Gabriel was still in elementary school when I started fostering. While most kids just wanted to play with kittens, Gabe ...
05/16/2026

Gabriel was still in elementary school when I started fostering. While most kids just wanted to play with kittens, Gabe wanted to learn everything...bottle feeding, charting weights, medicating, and helping care for the sick babies. Animal welfare has always mattered deeply to him, and for years I thought he’d end up in veterinary medicine.

Over the years he volunteered with rescues I fostered with, and now he’s been hired by as an animal care tech, a role he takes very seriously. Watching him grow into such a compassionate and capable young man has been one of the greatest privileges of my life.

Today he turns 19, and I honestly don’t know what karmic good I did to deserve such an incredible son. Happy birthday, Gabe. 🖤

I do this to myself, really. Six under six. Upgraded play pen coming soon. But hopefully these guys are only with me a w...
05/14/2026

I do this to myself, really. Six under six. Upgraded play pen coming soon. But hopefully these guys are only with me a week.

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