Took “Lake” into the vet this morning and she is about 7 months old, her fever is down (thank you God) but they suspect she has kittens somewhere based on how strange her mammary glands are- they do suspect that the kittens are old enough to be weaned as her nipples did not produce milk.
The sanctuary vet bill is out of control, but I still had her tested, vaccinated and put her on the spay schedule for Monday. With the recent flood of drop-offs- the euthanaias of the ones to sick to treat- the bill is topping over $800.00
If anyone can help us get this back to a manageable number- Thank You- if you can’t- I understand. But I have to ask because I am getting a bit of pressure about paying it off.
I still am refusing cats/kittens on a daily basis and it breaks my heart. But we are an organization of 3.5 people (Mike doesn’t count anymore because he can’t help out) Our resources are stretched thin and still the cats keep getting dropped off. If I ever catch someone dumping a cat on us- you will need to send bail money! But right now, we need vet money.
Thank you for listening, for caring and for helping IF you can-
Mary Anne
Thoughts and prayers with you MaryAnne. Just sent a little bit of money.
I wish I could help, but I don’t think I can at this point. It may be time to bring yourself to notice on the Cat Blogosphere site again.
In my area, there are businesses that donate to charity on a regular basis. They have programmes for that, usually through their marketing department. Is there anything like that you could research in your area?
I need to word this carefully or it could end up biting me hard. In my area, there is only one rescue that has a lock on pretty much all the donations. They hire people to go out and find donations and set up the process of people contributing to them when they make purchases. There has even been a few times when I have shown up to get my allotted donation of food for the cats only to find that the food had been mistakenly given to this rescue instead. When I made an appearance and asked if they could please let me have my food they got by mistake, I was given one small bag of dry cat food and that was it. They also selectively rescue- something that I don’t do. In other words, I take the cats that they won’t touch.
Made a very small donation, but all I can manage now. Good luck!
Mary Anne, Keep an eye on your mail.. Mailed you out something last night to help. 🙂