My name is Tammy, I am happily married with 4 children.  I am a office manager/administrator by day and cat rescuer by night.   

I am not a facility, I am a 1 person team that runs my rescue out of my basement in my house (Kitty Lounge). I do everything by myself, I do the trapping, replying to emails, text messages, transporting of cats, all the vetting, socializing the kitties,  sometimes have to bring a kitty to work that is in critical condition and needs 24 hr care.  I do all the adoption processing its a lot of work and is worth every minutes of it! 

I rescue kittens and cats here in Kitchener, Ontario.  It's a huge problem and huge commitment and the only way to fix the over population of ferals and stray cats is to trap them, fix/vaccinate and find new loving homes.  Sadly some of the cats that I trap are just way too wild(feral),  so I will fix, vaccinate and release them back into their territory where they want to be. 

Unfortunately, I don't get any funding to help with the community over population with kittens and cats so this is why I am going to start this GoFundMe so you to can help me save lives. 

I was occasionally doing a facebook fundraiser however it has a time limit so I am going to try GoFundMe and keep it going for the 2019 year.

I have a process when I rescue cats/kittens
I trap and get them fully vetted, neutered/spayed, vaccinated with rabies and distemper, dewormed and a treated for fleas and eat mites.   I will determine if they can be adopted or have to be released back.  I have only had to release 2 back into the outdoors (fully vetted) 

I have converted my basement into a Kitty Lounge (just for them) equipped with a fireplace, 2 couches, cat houses, cat trees, toys, anything they need to get use to living indoors.   This helps tremendously with socializing the kitties.  When people want to adopt a cat/kitten from me I encourage them to come to the kitty lounge and relax and get up close and personal to all the kitties  so they can pick a kitty that they connect with. 

Some of the kittens and cats I rescue are very sick, I will do anything to get the kitty back to health, no matter how many trips I have to make to the vet.  A sick Kitty is where is starts costing me a lot of money, I do not belive in euthanizing unless I have no choice or if the kitty is suffering. 

I spend anywhere from $400.00-$1800.00/month now on vet bills and medication and special food for cats that require it,  depending how bad of shape the kitty is in and how many I rescued that month. (Not including food and cat litter) P.S  thanks to all of you who have come to the Kitty lounge to donate food and cat litter! its means so much to me. 

Our local Humane Society is full and turning people away, they are at their max limit with cats.  I am getting unlimited calls to help strays in our community and its getting over whelming.

These poor cats are either born outside or dumped on the streets by previous owners, its not fair and my heart aches for them.  They suffer so much every winter.
For example I have a recent pregnant young kitty (9 months old) named Honey right now she was found trying to keep warm under cars in a Walmart parking lot. This evening I am off to trap 4 small kittens with no mom, its -10 degrees right now :(  its never ends, and I am asking for help to help me save more lives. 

Often people ask me why I do this? how do you find the time when you are  working, raising a family and being a wife?. well.... its easy, I do it because I am passionate about it and I am good at it and most importantly my husband and children are my biggest support team :) 

If you prefer to send an e-transfer my email is [email redacted] and make the password savethecats

Thank you for helping me save more lives, every penny helps! 

Please visit my Facebook Page Kitchener Stray Cat Rescue and see all the kitties that have been saved :) 

Much Love
Tammy Witen