Who are We?
Neonatal kitten rescue of the PNW was founded by two neonatal fosters with over 20 years combined experience during the pandemic. We were fostering neonatal kittens when shelters and local rescues were struggling and not able to take them in from us.
We have grown and become our own 501c3 nonprofit and are looking forward to continuing the work we have always done on a larger scale!
Our Mission
We exist to provide lifesaving, hands-on neonatal animal care, with our focus heavily on vulnerable populations of kittens. It is our mission to increase the rate of survival for newborn animals by educating our community on care and prevention.
Mission Focused
Care
We provide these babies with the life-saving medical and supportive care they need.
Support for Other Rescues
We take kittens from other local foster based rescues. If they need urgent placement and care for a newborn kittens, we step in to bottle feed and stablize them. Once another foster is found within their rescue, the kittens are returned.
Board Members
Knikki Ledford-Swartwout, President
Co-Founder of Neonatal Kitten Rescue of the PNW
Little Hearts, Big Love
Pamela VanZanten, Secretary
Co-Founder of Neonatal Kitten Rescue of the PNW
Pam's Foster Kittens
I started fostering in 2018 when someone told me I could have kittens all year round after I complained that kittens grow up too fast. Now I own a rescue specializing in bottle feeding kittens.
Karen Holm , Treasurer
Retired school teacher.
Not a board member, but she thinks she's the boss.
This is Ceiba (say-buh). She was our first puppy rescue. We were on a girl's trip to Puerto Rico and found this gravely ill puppy lying in the middle of the road in the town of Ceiba. We scooped her up and rushed her to a vet. None of the local shelters could take her in so we brought her back to Oregon with us. Knikki decided to adopt her to be a friend to her 2-year-old husky mix.
Genetic testing results: 86% Siberian Husky, 8% Malamut, 2% Akita, 2% Doberman, 2% German Shepard and 100% spoiled rotten.