Full Hearts Cat Rescue

14/04/2026

13/03/2026

Just a quick little update on toothless! She happy https://youtube.com/shorts/jpyyDyW3QK0?si=R_-vDEzUH2fwChRp

GoFundMe at $6,663 of $10.4k https://gofund.me/4afc37c3c

10/03/2026

Toothless update: She’s home, eating, cuddly, taking medication well, and will get more blood-work soon. We dare to hope. Fundraiser at $6,613/$10,425 of ICU costs. https://gofund.me/5bd2c58c1

This is the most stable she has looked since the emergency started.

We now have the final emergency vet invoice and will update the fundraiser goal to reflect the real total.

The Keep Studios also completed the $1,000 donation match, and the community has helped push the fundraiser to $6,613 so far.

She has follow-up blood-work scheduled later this week.

Thank you to everyone who helped us get her through the ICU phase.

https://gofund.me/5bd2c58c1

09/03/2026

Quick update on Toothless.

She is home and eating, which is the best news we’ve had so far. She has been good about taking her medication, and we are cautiously hopeful.

We are still taking things day by day and monitoring her closely while we wait for the final culture results so the vets can confirm the correct antibiotic.

Thank you to everyone who helped get her through the ICU phase.

If anyone still wants to help with ongoing care and medication, the fundraiser is here:
https://gofund.me/39f12c2a6

We’ll keep posting updates as things develop.

08/03/2026

Hello all,

As we have continued trying to support and place our last few fosters, and support our other rescue partners where we can, one of our last rescue kitties fell critically ill.

With everything negative going on in the world and our morale crushed, we really wanted to give her a fighting chance. Her bills wracked up as we kept trying to give her one more day in the hospital for her kidney values and other levels to improve. Unfortunately some improved and others fluctuated and she is still in limbo. Any help is appreciated as her bills are on credit that has a relatively short payoff time before we get slammed with interest. We have a go fund me up.

https://gofund.me/eea205a49

We still want so badly to help where we can with Rochester's cat crisis despite repeated burnout and fatigue. We've gone through personal and financial turmoil again and again.Toothless is a special lady to us. Thank you for anything you can contribute.

03/12/2025

General updates/signs of life:

We have been on intake hiatus since late last fall of 2024, with the intention to close down or drastically change our mission and capacity.

Most of our adoptable cats have found their forever homes. We still have 3 cats at Pawsitive Cafe.

Darien and Roxy are being fostered locally together by one of our only active volunteers. Darien is still very nervous but doing well. Roxy continues to live with heartworm, still asymptomatic, but not cured. We don't know what to do with either of them long term, but they are okay where they are for now.

We have paid off most of our debt, in part from your donations, and in part from our own. We also had a loss of a large portion of personal income between me, the president, and VP, for about half the year. As of September we are in better shape, but we know these days no job or source of income can be taken for granted. We can't fall back into the situation of floating our non-profit by each year on thousands of our own dollars.

We are also hospice-fostering a 19th Ward Community Cat, Buddy Holly, who has polyps growing in his ears and head cavities. He had one big one surgically removed, but it is growing back. His quality of life is okay for now though you can hear obstruction when he breathes heavily and he snores like a truck. He's sweet with us, but a bit of a bully with our own cats but he's remaining at large in our home for now. We were not planning this as we took him in as an emergency when he was critically ill, and kept rolling from one thing to the next as his prognosis evolved.

Over the last year during our intake freeze, we have done short term holds in our home foster spaces of about a dozen cats for the 19th Ward Community Cats, so that they can get off the street and into vet appointments, into foster homes, or be fully transferred to other rescues.

18/02/2025

Pics of Falcor today.

It's been a difficult winter keeping up morale with special needs cats and human illnesses.

Despite our lack of posting, we have received a lot of food donations from our Chewy wishlist, and a sizeable cash donation out of the blue. Not sizeable enough to solve our financial issues but very much appreciated that a little less money comes out of our own pockets.

Bean has been cleared of his FIP. His last treatment was at the end of January and his recent blood work was good. Leonard seems fully healed from his full mouth extraction and is currently in one of our foster rooms with Bean, Wesley and Reed. We have to work out a schedule of when and how many of them can go back to the cafe to meet people. Stressing Bean is a concern as that could cause an FIP relapse.

Falcor is still having oral inflammation though a round of steroids brought  down initially from his sever inflammation that made it so he couldn't eat. We will be exploring ongoing medication options as steroids are not a good long term treatment and he just weaned off his last round. He has someone very interested in adopting him, so we may set up a foster to adopt situation to make sure he's set up as well as he can be with his chronic issue. 

Evangeline is still at our home as well. She still will not touch kibble though her gums look less inflamed to me than they once were. And she doesn't grind her teeth eating wet food as she once did. So her prognosis is still murky, if she also has stomatitis or if just some kind of weird juvenile gingivitis. Her playmate Rainbow Dash is still here as well, as is Toothless, Evangeline's mother, who has become tolerant of our cats but still seeks a home as a solo cat. 

Roxy has been in our care for over a year and is still testing positive for heartworm. They didn't expect the antigens to still show after a year on Revolution treatment, so we may discuss more options or ideas with the vet this week. So far they say she isn't presenting clinical signs of the disease but she did register a heart murmur.

We still have many cats at the cafe as well. I need to update our website to more accurately reflect everyone's current status.

09/01/2025

Leonard waits to check in for his complete mouth extraction - later today he will have no more teeth to trigger his painful stomatitis gum inflammation.

His estimate is 800 - 1,000 for today's procedure, and we still have about 200 from his previous exam and bloodwork we haven't paid off yet.

We have dealt with several full extractions so in my experience will likely take about 2 weeks before he is recovered enough to return to the , assuming no one applies and is approved to adopt before then. He had many friends and fans at the cafe, but previous applications were scarce and fell through.

As always you can help Leonard and our other cats by donating at our website.

fullheartsroc.org/donate

23/12/2024

Pictured is Bibi, who is still at the cafe.

Sorry for the radio silence, I badly strained my back last week, during my last few days of RIT work, and it's been a slow painful recovery. I'm still not back to full function after several days. Some vacation...

Leonard was confirmed to have stomatitis at his vet checkup, no big surprise there from his symptoms - he's scheduled for a full mouth extraction January 9th. We desperately need funds to help cover that major surgery.

We've still been processing applications, but this time of year there's a lot going on for people so scheduling hasn't been as smooth for interviews and meet ups. Topaz got adopted last week.

We still have lots of cats ready for adoption at the . I really need to update our own website but I haven't been sitting at the computer much as inactivity locks up my back.

We have had an uptick in food donations from our chewy wishlist which we greatly appreciate, we are now well stocked. We really need cash funds for vet bills.

https://www.fullheartsroc.org/donate

13/12/2024

When the feral colony gets impatient for breakfast, Dopple sits on our mailbox and leans in front of the window.

We just got the reports today that we did get a few donations through Roc the Day, so thank you to all. We've never participated before. Looks like the funds don't come through until late January, from what I can see, but that will help us with bills eventually.

is taking Leonard to his vet today for us. He has some inflamed gums and isn't eating well.

Bean's one month blood work looks very good, about two more months of daily injections to see if he will beat FIP.

09/12/2024

Bean had a blood draw to check his levels after a month of FIP medication. He has been acting very well and gaining weight, but the bloodwork will give us more details on how he is progressing.

Reed is doing much better, his nosebleeds and diarrhea have stopped and he doesn't sound congested. He's eating wet food without me having to warm it up.

Leonard at the cafe is having issues, gum inflammation, and discomfort eating. I don't see immediately rotten teeth or anything but it does seem worse on one side. We'll make an appointment for him to get checked out, but we have no funds to spare if he needs teeth extracted.

04/12/2024

Reed the former barn kitten has been sick since Saturday, and while he seemed to be improving somewhat, we went to an urgent care appointment anyways. I didn't like that he was still sneezing bloody.

The vet did recommend a switch up of antibiotics, moving from clavamox to doxycycline, and we are getting a fresh bag of sub q fluids to have on hand, as the bag of fluids I have been using for him was started for Wesley, and I don't like using a punctured bag past a month or so and that is coming up. We also will pull some small dosages of buprenorphine for pain as we have leftovers from another cat that didn't use it all as that cat had a poor reaction to it. Saves a few bucks anyways.

His chest and heart sounded good, and the bloody nostrils are from the irritation of his nasal passages, which is what I assumed but sometimes it seemed like a lot.