Kitten Season: Cricket's Recovery

Kitten Season: Cricket’s Recovery

Cricket was found under a food truck last month and rushed to our clinic, limp and cold, with eyes full of discharge. Our vet assistant Sara took one look and immediately offered to foster her.

The tiny kitten was in rough shape, eight weeks old and weighing just 370 grams. She was anemic, dehydrated and fighting a URI. Sara took Cricket home to recover, where she soon perked up and started to overcome her fears.

Within two weeks, Cricket was eating completely on her own, had gained weight and was curling up on Sara’s lap to enjoy some cuddles. Once she was fully recovered, she was fixed at FixNation and headed off to her new forever home!

These are truly unprecedented times. Months of lockdown due to Covid-19 resulted in a drastic decline in the number of cats being sterilized in LA. Far too many of these cats have since gone on to have kittens, which now need to be fixed as well. There are thousands more cats just like Cricket living on the streets and in need of our services, on top of the cats that we’d already planned for.

Our dedicated team is working at maximum capacity, fixing as many as 120 cats a day, and we have appointments booked well into October. We need your help to continue providing urgently needed surgeries, vaccines and basic medical care for homeless cats, all for no charge whatsoever.