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The Foster Kitten Project
Saving Kittens One Bottle At A Time
The Foster Kitten Project specializes in orphaned and abandoned neonatal kittens, newborns up until four weeks of age.
Many shelters are unable to care for these kittens due to their intensive round the clock care, because of this; they are one of the largest groups euthanized in the United States.
The Foster Kitten Project is proud to take in these challenging cases and give them a fighting chance at life. Even if we cannot save them all, we provide them with a home and show them the love they deserve.
In 2020 alone, we took in and cared for 139 kittens and have successfully found loving forever homes for 119 of them.
Our Story
Our founder, Jenni Riha, grew up in a rural area of Springfield, Nebraska. She graduated from Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture in 2001 with a degree in Veterinary Technology.
In 2004 Jenni found her first kitten, Samantha. Samantha was found right after birth, with the umbilical cord was still attached. With no momma cat in sight, Jenni took Samantha in and cared for her. Samantha was Jenni's first foster fail.
After continuing to take care of the occasional abandoned farm kitten, Jenni found herself fostering more and more. In 2014, The Foster Kitten Project was born on Facebook where she could share her happy, and sometimes heart wrenching, stories.
In 2017, Jenni found herself desperately trying to reunite a neonatal foster kitten with the rest of his siblings before they were picked up and euthanized for being too small, expensive, and time-consuming to care for.
This was when the true purpose of The Foster Kitten Project was born. Jenni wanted to focus on orphaned and abandoned neonatal kittens. In 2018 she earned the not-for-profit 501(c)3 status, and The Foster Kitten Project has been saving neonatal kittens ever since.
