I am running for Team Kitten Rescue the 2018 Los Angeles Marathon

Scroll down to the bottom of this page to see a video of Sugar Ray with some little friends!

Kitten Rescue is a non-profit organization dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and placement of homeless animals. Each year they rescue over 1,000 cats (and some dogs!) from the streets and city shelters and place them into new homes. Kitten Rescue is on the forefront of making Los Angeles a No-Kill City and they will not stop until all of the shelters are empty and every animal has a loving home.

One of these animals is Sugar Ray....a sweet 16 year old boy whose owner decided to have him euthanized after Ray was diagnosed with diabetes. A Kitten Rescue volunteer with diabetes herself happened to be at the vet when she heard what was about to happen Ray, and asked take Ray home, knowing diabetes did not warrant a death sentence.

Ray's diabetes is now under control with daily insulin shots and he is living a happy, healthy life. He also has a new job as a "manny" cat to all his mom's foster kittens. It turns out this senior has a lot of life experience to impart to his little charges... and he says they help keep him young!

Ray must go to the vet every months for testing to make sure his blood sugar levels are being controlled properly by the insulin, so I am running the 2018 5K to raise funds for Sugar Ray's continuing medication and care.

More about Kitten Rescue:

Kitten Rescue is comprised of dedicated volunteers who devote much of their time to helping homeless animals, while juggling their own families, jobs and lives as best as they can! At any given time you may find them bottle feeding orphaned kittens, nursing sick cats and dogs to health, visiting high-kill shelters to save animals, running back and forth to veterinary clinics, trapping community cats for spay/neuter, feeding community cats, taming feral kittens, rehabilitating animals with behavioral issues, taking foster animals to adoption events, or delivering animals to their forever homes.

The Kitten Rescue Sanctuary is home to up to 150 special needs cats and around 1000 animals are cared for in foster homes at any given time. In 2016 Kitten Rescue opened the Kitten Rescue Nursery, where they bottle feed orphaned, unweaned kittens around the clock.

EVERY DONATION MAKES A DIFFERENCE!

$5.00 will microchip a kitty
$15.00 will pay for a series of vaccines, worming and flea meds for a kitten
$20.00 will provide antibiotics for a sick kitty
$25.00 will pay for a health certificate for a transport kitty
$40.00 will pay for an FeLV/FIV combo test
$50.00 will spay or neuter a kitty
$150.00 will SAVE A KITTY

ON BEHALF OF THE HOMELESS CATS AND DOGS WHO YOU WILL BE HELPING SAVE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT!