Hello! This is Joan and Don Neptune of Stillwater Cat Haven!
We need to emphasize our financial difficulties. We were encouraged by our end of last years support and we hope you can realize we can only continue if you will understand our survival depends on such of a continuing response.
We continue with community cat stabilization with spay/neuters and monitoring efforts with food, water, and review of colony conditions. Among sites in Redding is a group which earlier numbered more than 100 cats that we regularly aid still today. In Anderson there are 9 separate locations in the downtown area including 57 cats, and we have been involved in the Anderson River Park which has had the reputation as a place to abandon cats and kittens; currently there is a dedicated group of volunteers working together to improve that huge colony condition, and the Anderson City Manager has begun to establish support for that park situation. We must continue to support our own sanctuary population down now to less than 100 cats, by conditioning and adoptions of these wonderful cats where that is possible.
As we try to complete our 25 year involvement with community colony stabilization we still get frustrated/exasperated calls from persons seeking solutions for their own encounters with conditions of new found cats and kittens; we help however we can, but our current focus on our exhausted financial abilities and our 83 year old need to retire from this endeavor make only our history, verbal sympathy, and miscellaneous advice available. While we currently can not take in all abandoned cats and kitten, Joan and her friends continually reach out to find fosters homes and loving cat helpers so these cats are not abandoned from all support. Joan, the founder, and her helpers, remain with a dream to see our actions and mission continue forever, even beyond our own lives, if that were possible.
Any help you can provide to our situation enables you to become an essential part of these efforts. We do also have donation wish lists of miscellaneous items, on Amazon Smile and Chewy, including cat food, litter, various cat medications, and flea control products. Locally obtained items to help our cats our welcomed too! We do hope for your assistance and thank you for becoming a part of these ongoing efforts!
Sincerely, Joan and Don Neptune and the Stillwater Cat Haven Family!