Rescue Kitties of Hawaii just took in over 80 cats and is in desperate need of your help!

Rescue Kitties of Hawaii is in the middle of something overwhelming.

In just a short period of time, they have taken in over 80 cats—and the calls have not stopped. Kittens are pouring in daily. There is no pause, no break, no extra hands waiting in the wings. It’s just this small, dedicated team saying “yes” again and again because there is no one else.

Recently, two newborns were born into the chaos. Fragile and tiny, they are now warm, fed, and safely tucked into an incubator alongside another baby named Garfunkel. Both have latched, are panleuk negative so far, and appear healthy—but they are being carefully monitored and snap tested to be sure. Every new intake carries risk. Every kitten needs quarantine space.

And there is no more quarantine space.

Supplies are stretched thin. Incubators are full. Formula, medical testing, vaccines, litter, cleaning supplies—it all adds up quickly when you are caring for more than 80 cats at once, with more arriving every single day.

The urgency is real. Without support, there is simply no room to take in the next emergency call.

We are asking for donations to help Rescue Kitties of Hawaii cover medical testing, vaccinations, neonatal care, quarantine supplies, and the daily cost of keeping this many lives safe. Every dollar helps create space for one more kitten who has nowhere else to go and hopefully, get them healthy enough to be adopted.

Right now, they are doing everything humanly possible, and they simply cannot do it without you.

Please help them keep saying yes.

6/10/26 Update

RKH flew 20 kittens and 4 mom cats from Kona Low Storms out to their amazing rescue partners at SpokAnimal last week for adoption! The rest are still growing (must be 8 weeks) to fly.

They have the other 60 in foster on Molokai and almost 50 in their home.

They are so cute and some have ringworm.

One with a badly ruptured eye had it enucleated when the Big Island Pet Care Clinic came to Molokai for a vet clinic. The other 2 bad-eye kittens are healing well but likely still need enucleations. All the rest went through post-flood extra parasite, flea, and worm treatment. They picked up bacteria, and many had horrific coccidia and Giardia and bacterial gut infections from contaminated water.

Gratefully, they have all the proper meds, and they were able to save every single kitten, and they are thriving,

The only kittens they could not save were 3 neonates. One was rejected by the mom immediately after birth. They fought to save him, but he had something very wrong and could not pee or poop. He survived a week.

2 more neonates (hours old) were found in flood zones and brought to us too far gone. They were severely emaciated, dehydrated, hypothermic, and hypoglycemic, and even with their best experience and efforts, sadly they never recovered.

They are exhausted to say the least, but they got through the hardest part; all the 24/7 bottle feeding of almost every kitten. They only took in kittens 0-4 weeks that could not survive in the wild. Every single one had to be bottle fed.

They are extremely grateful to their community for bringing the babies to them and helping any way they could, along with the support from all of you.

This has been their greatest challenge yet since they were established on Molokai almost 2 years ago.

Their goal is to fly all the storm kittens out for adoption by the end of July as finances allow. The cost PER KITTEN to get them to Oahu, flight vetted, and flown to the mainland is a minimum of $500 each!

6/30/26 Update

Thanks to all of you, Rescue Kitties of Hawaii has been able to get more kittens spayed, neutered, eye enucleations, and various medical help, and they will be adopted out by their awesome mainland rescue partners!