Project Post Haste

Current Community Assistance Project

Turning an Impossible Situation Into a Second Chance

Penny & Parcel Are the Last Two. And They Still Need Us.

Nearly three months ago, the Post Haste cat case brought an overwhelming number of cats into our care.... cats who needed food, medical treatment, spay/neuter surgery, vaccines, and ultimately, safe places to call home.

Today, every other cat from that case has been completely vetted and has gone on to their forever home.

Every cat except Penny and Parcel.

These two were the last kittens born into the Post Haste case.... Penny, a little girl, and Parcel, her brother.... and their story has been difficult from almost the very beginning.

When Penny and Parcel were only about one week old, their mother was tragically killed by a hawk. Suddenly orphaned and far too young to survive on their own, they came into our care needing to be raised without the mother they desperately needed.

For nearly three months, we have watched them grow from tiny, vulnerable babies into two of the sweetest, most affectionate kittens you could ever meet.

And now they are fighting for their lives.

Penny and Parcel contracted hemotropic mycoplasma, a blood-borne infection commonly transmitted by fleas that attacks red blood cells. Their little bodies are struggling to produce enough healthy red blood cells to overcome the infection and recover.

This week, their condition became serious enough that they required a blood transfusion.

Now we wait, treat, monitor.... and hope.

Their veterinary expenses have already reached approximately $1,500, and their care isn't over yet. But when two kittens still have fight left in them, we are going to fight right alongside them.

And Penny and Parcel have plenty of fight left.

They are loving. They are trusting. They want to be held. They want affection. They want to play. They want all of the things waiting for them on the other side of this illness.

They just need the chance to get there.

Penny and Parcel represent the final chapter of an enormous rescue effort. Every other cat from the Post Haste case has made it through our doors, received the care they needed, and moved on to their forever home.

These two are the last ones.

If you followed the Post Haste case, donated when these cats first arrived, shared their story, fostered, adopted, or simply cheered them on from afar, we're asking you to help us finish what we started.

A donation of $5, $10, $25, $50, or whatever you can give, will help cover Penny and Parcel's blood transfusion, veterinary treatment, medications, testing, and continued care.

We have carried these babies this far.

Please help us carry the last two home.

Help Penny & Parcel Keep Fighting

Every donation, no matter the amount, becomes part of their chance at recovery.... and part of finally closing the Post Haste case with the ending these two little ones deserve.

For Penny. For Parcel. For the last two. ❤️

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Project Post Haste is A HOPE’s current large-scale stabilization project focused on helping an overwhelmed multi-cat household where the animals have been trapped in a devastating cycle of chronic illness and lack of access to adequate veterinary care.

This is not the largest case we have ever seen, but cases like this require such an enormous amount of funding, veterinary resources, staff time, and volunteer labor that we can realistically only commit to a project of this scale about once per year.

So far, 78 cats have been identified as needing assistance through this project. The cats already brought into care have consistently been far sicker than originally anticipated. Many were suffering from upper respiratory illness, severe parasite burdens, malnutrition, gastrointestinal disease, and other untreated medical concerns that prevented them from safely undergoing surgery.

Prior attempts to help by scheduling only a few spay/neuter appointments at a time were unsuccessful. The cats would repeatedly arrive too medically compromised for surgery and be turned away due to health concerns. Because the remaining cats in the environment were also ill, the animals never truly recovered before becoming sick again. The cycle simply continued.

Project Post Haste was created to finally break that cycle all at once.

At this time, we have taken in seven critically ill kittens and one mother cat connected to the case. Several required intensive supportive care immediately upon arrival.

Among them were four neonatal kittens named Bean, Pebble, Nano, and Button, who arrived at only 7 days old and weighing under an ounce. They were severely dehydrated, covered in fleas, underweight, and suffering from significant diarrhea. Despite emergency intervention and around-the-clock care, Nano, the tiniest kitten, passed away just two days after arriving into care.

The remaining cats connected to this project will continue being corralled and brought into care over the coming weeks so they can receive: