Showing posts with label spay neuter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spay neuter. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Christmas holiday season & funds needed for foster kittens

I'd like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very merry Christmas!

I would also like to remind everyone this is a crucial time of year. Yes, we get tons of kittens during the spring and summer months. What makes this time so important is all the kittens from earlier in the year that didn't find a home are now at the age and size where the 'cuteness' factor may be on the decline or people just don't want an older kitten because they miss out on the growing personality of the cat.
I'm not above begging for help. I wish more people would beg for help so they could possibly keep their pet and get food through their local animal shelter long enough to get them through a rough patch.
I have a friend who I've been working with for several years now. She has paid thousands of dollars of her own money rescuing cats and kittens. She recently changed jobs and she took a pay cut. I don't have to tell you what that means. But I will anyway. It means less cats & kittens are going to be rescued.
Without funds, gifts & donations, we can not save as many as we'd like. There is a handful of us who work the East coast. We try to rescue as many cats & kittens as we can from high kill shelters here in NC. We also work with other rescue groups all the way up to New York. We also will do what we can in helping other rescues in nearby states transport all kinds of animals to places they will be safe.

Let me get back to the kittens we've not found homes for yet. They are now aged 6 - 9+ months old. At this point, we will have to find and rely on cat sanctuaries to take them in. That is if they have room.
And we have foster families who have room to home a few until a permanent forever home is found but these foster families need help with purchasing food, litter & medical expenses.

I personally have ended up keeping 8 older kittens the past few years because homes couldn't be found. Not only is it hard to find people to foster cats/kittens, if the few fosters we have end up keeping a quarter to half of all their fosters, they no longer have room to foster more that we could save.

So I am asking, no, begging for your donations this holiday season. You wouldn't think it would be hard to raise enough money to care for the cats. I look at how many so called Facebook friends I have and I can't get each of them to donate $1 a month. If I could get that from my friends and if my post is shared and someone else posts it and they have say 879 friends who also give just $1 a month, we could save just about every cat and kitten that gets brought into animal control. We're not asking for a dollar a day. Just one dollar a month.

This will be my last post until the new year. I have zero shame when it comes to saving cats and kittens and asking for help. Begging for help even.
I still have one foster that I need to get neutered and current on his shots. And I still have four total that I've had for months. We also have kittens that have been in boarding for months and if we are able to find another rescue, we will need funds to get them a medical certificate and pay for transportation cost.

So if you can, please share this with your own group of friends and ask them to share with their friends and so on and so forth. Just one dollar a month from 400 or 800 or 1300 or more people would change the lives of so many.
Gift cards to Wal Mart are also needed as they have the best price on food & litter. You can send an email for the address.

God bless you & yours this holiday season and God bless our four legged best friends.





Monday, April 29, 2013

Fosters need donations for medical certs & transportation

Hello everyone! We have a new batch of kittens ready for transport to their new home!

There will be at least 4 of the 6 kittens traveling this Friday May 3rd, 2013. Because the kittens were given to me when they were only about a week old and very sick, not all may be able to travel. We are keeping our fingers crossed though. Here is a video of the 6 kittens who are now 6 weeks old:



You can also watch a video of when I received them below.

We also have another mama kitty (#1295)with 4 babies (I previously posted she only had 3 kittens). She is doing super fantastic and so are her babies. Here is a video of them:



I want to thank everyone who has helped so far. Without you and your generosity, these kitties would not have made it out of Gaston animal control services. If you or anyone you know could possibly make another small donation, every little bit helps. Medical certificates run between $25 to $50 and a special transportation vehicle equipped just for mama's and babies runs $125 for each rider group ($125 for mama & babies, $125 for the kittens) for a total of $250. So we are looking at near $300 to get them safely to their destination.

If you could get each of your friends to donate $1, I'm positive we could raise the funds needed to make this happen. And that is the great thing about using PayPal's donation buttons instead of going through a different 3rd party fund raiser that charges a percentage of donations raised. And it is a great tool to use so not a handful of people need to make another charge on their credit cards. If everyone you know and everyone they know and so on and so forth would just donate $1, we could save a lot more cats and kittens from being put to sleep.


I want to make it clear that we work on getting cats and kittens out of Gaston animal control in Gastonia, NC. There is only 2 rescue groups for them and NO fosters in the area. We work closely with the employees to save as many as we can. But if the funds are not there to provide for the cost of food, litter, medical and transportation, then these cats and kittens would be put to sleep.

Please help us in saving as many lives as possible. Thank you so much!

And let's not forget to spay and neuter our pets!

Monday, October 3, 2011

Need contributions for Oct. food, litter & medical cost

Thank you everyone who chipped in so 7 kitties can be spayed/neutered next week. We now need contributions for the month to cover food, litter and medical cost for the remaining 14 cats & kittens. Drop off contributions are also welcomed as are gift cards (prefer Wal Mart because they have the better prices). Food used is Kit n' Kaboodle, kitten dry food, canned food (we really need this!). If you have a few extra dollars, we would love to have it! We accept Paypal but will also accept mailed contributions (and we don't loose fee money for this) and the address is to the right. Thank you so much in advance and the kitties really appreciate it too!


Thursday, September 22, 2011

Need contributions for spay/neuter clinic in October & November

You can visit our ChipIn page too! We now have 10 that need to be spayed/neutered. Please share on your page. Even $1 from 150 people would greatly help! And thank you so much!