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Full Hearts Cat Rescue

Meet rescued cats of Rochester, NY, learn their stories and apply to adopt a new family member!

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10/27/2026

We are re-opening applications for our 5-6 month old kittens, after they have recovered from long-term GI upset, a common but frustrating issue for young cats and kittens. We have 6 kittens looking for homes.

All applicants who have pets already must have their animals up to date and have a vet. Your cats must have a negative FelV/FIV test on file, or you are willing to get one done - it is a ten minute test done in any vet office or clinic. We address this further in our first phone interview.

Two kittens in our group are bonded and must remain together, Jimmy and Julie. For the others, it would be nice if they went in pairs as they all get along great, but some of them have personalities we believe will adapt to other cats with proper and patient introductions.

They are still kittens and they need playmates. No single kitten will be adopted to a home without another kitten, or another playful cat. These guys all play hard and do not want to be alone for extended times.

I will be posting highlights about all of the kittens in the coming days.

Application:

https://www.fullheartsroc.org/apply/adopt

08/16/2026

Sunday's ain't easy. But I've got cute kittens.

07/23/2026

Pawsitive Cafe took on ownership of Bean while we were on hiatus last year. You may remember we treated him successfully for wet FIP. They just covered full dental for him. Please consider sending donations their way!

06/28/2026

Having 5 kittens in your bedroom is like if you took one very friendly adult cat and turned it into 5 hyperactive gremlins. There's usually at least one that wants to be in your face at all times. I still have the kennel in here if they get to be too much but they stayed out all last night. And I only feel like, half dead today 🫠

06/26/2026

Sometimes when I'm looking for a tidbit of information, I scroll through old chats and see names of cats, logistics, planning etc. Usually it triggers my memory. Other times, absolutely no clue who or what we were dealing with - other than seeing how crazy busy things always were!

6 kittens getting vaccines and tests today, after having a health scare with one yesterday. Emergency vet assured us he was ok, and gave us quite a break on the visit charge. We'll take a win where we can get it.

Oh, and someone donated an absolutely massive amount off our Chewy wishlist - I'm half worried it's a bug in the system and not real! We have had a few sizeable donations come through in the past several months and it has definitely helped us feel better about getting deeper into rescue again. Thank you!

06/23/2026

A student feeding for the club Caring Hearts for RIT Cats alerted me to a kitten at one of our feeding stations at RIT and waited for me to come try and get him. He was kind of stuck in some fencing at first. I hadn't had the chance to check the trail cameras in awhile, ironically I was hoping to get to that today. When I arrived he was hunkered down in the grass and popped out as I approached, and I got lucky with a drop-over transfer cage with a slide-in bottom. I say "him" but I haven't gotten that personal yet, as I'm just getting the kitten settled in. I'll have to see if I can squeeze in one more kitten to the testing/vax appointment I have Friday for the 5 kittens from our TNR spot...

06/18/2026

The release of a young black cat to her beautiful garden home and her family after spay, vaccines and parasite treatment.

For anyone that knows me personally, I have no idea why I sound kind of, Midwestern-ish here? Maybe there's no other way to say the word "feisty."And I don't think I ever speak in a register that high to humans. 😅 Editing these things, always fun to have to listen to your own voice and realize how ridiculous you sound.

06/18/2026

Pictured are two/five kittens from a city location where we are doing Trap Neuter Return of feral adult cats.

After about a year of being largely shut down, we have decided Full Hearts will continue, but in a limited and modified capacity.

As before, we do not take owner surrenders. Street cats remain our focus, especially Trap-Neuter-Return.

After initial intake and stabilization, we may seek to transfer some cats to larger facilities and rescues, as we just don't have the resources to safely and properly foster many cats long term, and screen and interview multitudes of would-be adopters.This, coupled with big medical cases, is a large part of what caused our past burnout.

As we are based in the 19th ward, we will also prioritize supporting the TNR group 19th Ward Community Cats.

Also, we will be support for friendly cats discovered by Caring Hearts for RIT Cats, who only have TNR capability.

This is plenty of "streams" for us to take cats from, and so working directly with the public will remain limited.

We know of underserved areas of the city that are in great need of TNR. Which, unfortunately, Rochester currently does not have a lot of options for these appointments. But we hope that will turn around.

We may only be able to directly save a small number of cats each year, but we hope we can be part of a larger tapestry of support.

I need to update our website, our Chewy wishlist, etc., and I'll be posting more often again.

06/15/2026

Two community cats went in for spay/neuter today - feeders thought the black was male, and the grey and white female. Nope, just the opposite. Luckily cats don't care about gendered nicknames.

06/08/2026

Update on sick kitten - under pressure for the vet file, I named her Juno. Because it's June. She had a low grade fever. We ruled out the big bad illnesses with snap tests - negative on FelV/FIV, and Panleukopenia "distemper" (they use the dog parvo tests). F***l sample sent to lab. She got fluids administered, and is eating the bland gastro food the vet sent us home with. So she's definitely feeling a lot better since before she was refusing all food.

Not cheap but a big relief to rule out distemper. She's only 1.3 lbs: that would have been a hell of a battle. And we also now have negative FelV/FiV tests on file, which we always do even if a cat appears healthy.

Thankfully we did recently receive a large donation from a friend - since we haven't been fully operational, we haven't been actively fundraising. But it's impossible to not do something in the current cat crisis here in Rochester, NY.

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Rochester, NY

Website

http://fullheartsroc.org/

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