It’s happening, but we need your help!
We’re starting to build our clinic! Randy, our carpenter extraordinaire, has once again volunteered his time and hard work. This time he is donating his talented hands to convert an old garage into a beautiful clinic space for our rescued cats. Naturally, the timing couldn’t be worse, we haven’t even begun to recover from the financial devestation left behind by Animal Charity and their big, bad and highly illegal raid of our shelter in September. We had been – for once – in reasonable shape prior to the raid and in a position to make this dreamed-of clinic a rocking reality.Then came the raid, like a tornado out of a clear blue sky. Stealing our cats, our records, and pretty much anything that wasn’t nailed down in one fell swoop. We tried very hard to take the high road here, which isn’t easy while listening to yourself being described as everything from a crazy cat hoarder who meant well but got overwhelmed to an actively evil human being who pocketed money meant for food and medicine while watching cats suffer and die. I’ve heard that I’m an incoherent drug addict, an escaped mental patient, a brooding sociopath, a woman on the edge… of what, God alone knows.
The job begins...
Anyhoo, here we be. The carpenters are available for a few precious weeks between jobs and we have to build now, before they have to leave us to earn an actual living. And the fact that the raid left us financially devestated can’t be allowed to stop this from happening.
And this is where you, our friends and adopters and even those of you who aren’t cat nuts like the rest of us, can help us. We’re begging you to please help us. We’ve been able to scrounge enough 2 x 4′s to frame the room out. We received 2 small grants that paid for spray insulation on the ceiling and the walls. Randy and our wonderful landlord Gary have found enough pipe and parts to make the sinks a reality. But, even insulated, it is cold in there. And by summer, it will be hot in there.
So here we are, once again begging you, our friends, for your help. We need to raise $6500.00 to finish this project and we have to do it while we still have carpenters here to finish it up. Please, please consider making a donation to our clinic fund. You can send a check directly to the shelter or use the button on this page to donate online. Or, even better, drop by the shelter with your donation and see for yourself what we’re doing with it. Who knows, you might walk into one of our cat rooms and emerge with a new best friend!
I posted this on my blog and Facebook, hope it helps! If you guys get a chip in link or something of the sort so that people can make online donations let me know and I’ll post that too! Thank you for all the wonderful things you do for the kitties!