12/27/2025
Public Statement — Read Carefully
Itty Bitty Kitty Committee Rescue is a small, volunteer-run rescue. We are not a veterinary hospital, we are not an emergency clinic, and we are absolutely not an insurance plan for private pet ownership.
All animals are examined by licensed veterinarians and cleared for adoption based on the information available at the time. Congenital conditions that require advanced imaging cannot be identified in a healthy, asymptomatic kitten, and no ethical rescue or veterinarian performs advanced imaging on animals showing no clinical signs. Suggesting otherwise is misinformation.
What is truly ridiculous is the expectation that a volunteer rescue should be publicly pressured into funding thousands of dollars in private veterinary care after adoption, while someone else retains custody and control. That is not how rescue works anywhere, and pretending it is doesn’t make it true.
This situation could have been handled privately, calmly, and appropriately. Instead, it was escalated to social media in an attempt to shame and coerce. That behavior is immature, irresponsible, and unacceptable.
If someone is unable or unwilling to pursue care for an animal they adopted, the solution is simple: return the animal so the rescue can reassume custody and determine next steps within its means or coordinate transfer. What will not happen is a volunteer rescue being guilted, bullied, or manipulated into absorbing unlimited financial liability.
This will be addressed publicly one time only. Moving forward, this rescue will not engage with public pressure campaigns, misinformation, or entitlement disguised as advocacy.
Our boundaries exist so we can continue helping animals at all. Anyone who cannot respect that does not understand rescue — or personal responsibility.
