When you hear the word rescue, it’s easy to picture adorable kittens, happy adoption photos, and cats finally getting the love they deserve. But there is another side of rescue that people don’t always see. Rescues are often filled with animals who have been abandoned, lost, neglected, sick, injured, or simply unwanted. They don’t arrive with a medical history and everything already taken care of. They arrive needing us. And right now, Mama Spice Rescue desperately needs help

Sometimes rescue isn’t a dramatic before-and-after story. Sometimes it looks like this. A pile of kittens tucked together on a cat tree. Full bellies. Warm beds. Little eyes getting heavier by the minute. No worrying about where their next meal will come from or where they’ll sleep tonight. Just kittens getting to be kittens. ❤️ When I look at this picture, I see so much more than a bunch of adorable little faces. I see vet appointments, bowls of food, loads of laundry, litte

Today, Mama Spice Rescue woke up to an email letting me use know we received an incredibly generous surprise. A kind donor completely cleared the cat food from our Amazon Wish List! 🥹🐱 Keeping our pantry stocked is one of our biggest ongoing expenses and knowing our rescue kitties have full bellies takes such a huge weight off our shoulders. To the amazing person who made this happen: thank you for believing in our little rescue and helping us care for these cats. Your kind

Yesterday, little Prince needed us—and Mama Spice Rescue was there. 🐾 Prince wasn’t feeling well, and we knew we couldn’t wait. He was taken to the vet where he received an exam, testing, medication, vaccines, and treatment to help get this sweet boy on the road to feeling better. We got some wonderful news: Prince tested NEGATIVE for FIV and FeLV! 🎉 He does have some unwanted little roommates—worms—that we now need to evict, and he was given antibiotics and his first baby

FIV Positive Doesn’t Mean Unadoptable 🐾 When people hear that a cat is FIV positive, it can sound scary. Unfortunately, that diagnosis can also cause some amazing cats to be overlooked for adoption. But an FIV-positive cat is still just that a cat. ❤️ What Is FIV? FIV stands for Feline Immunodeficiency Virus. It affects a cat’s immune system and can make it harder for the body to fight off certain infections. However, an FIV-positive diagnosis does not mean a cat is currentl