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Sheets Feral Cat Fund

****The grand total on this GoFundMe page reflects funds raised since the page was begun in Dec. 2016 –  it’s NOT the total we have in the Feral Cat Fund account right now. We're always actively raising for more TNR/adoption projects. It never ends! Please view updates since 2016 to view the big picture. Many thanks. ****   

December 2016

The Sheets Feral Cat Fund of Sheets Pet Clinic asks for your support in its efforts to spay/neuter feral and stray cats before the next kitten boom in spring 2017. 

Here’s one story that stands for so many. . .   

Around 2009-2010 in rural North Carolina, the Leonard Family discovered a stray mama cat with kittens. They fed them. By the summer of 2016, even though they used retirement money to spay/neuter 17 of the cats, the Leonards found themselves struggling to feed 60 or more cats. Some of those cats migrated from an abandoned site, following the food, and found shelter in an old tobacco barn, further adding to the population.

The Leonards believe that “it was not an option to let the animals go without food.” This good family ran up their credit cards to feed all the cats. They saw kittens born, only to get sick, and tried to medicate them as best they could, but many withered away and died from preventable issues such as intestinal parasites, flea anemia, malnutrition, dehydration, predators such as dogs and wildlife. They buried them.

The Leonard Family reached out for help. Sheets Pet Clinic responded.  

So far, via our Feral Cat Fund, Dr. Kimberly Sheets has spayed/neutered and provided other veterinary services free of charge for about 30 cats in the colony.  

Our adoption program also took in 13 very sick young kittens and 1 social adult from this colony. We are taking care of them and socializing them for adoption. And we found excellent barn homes for 13 ferals from the site.

 An estimated 20-25 cats, maybe more, from the Leonard colony remain to be vetted, and the 17 the Leonards already “fixed” must be tested and vaccinated, but we’ve depleted our Feral Cat Fund.

We request your donations now so that we can continue to spay/neuter this huge colony and other feral and stray kittens and cats that most assuredly will come our way in the months to come.

What’s the urgency? As our winters are warmer, we can expect more feral cat cycles, more births. More unseen suffering and death. We can prevent the births from happening in the spring by rigorously spaying/neutering NOW. 

Can we help all feral cat colonies? No, but we can do our best to help some, and every dollar makes a difference. 

You can donate here, via GoFundMe, but you can also donate by PayPal (you don’t have to have an account to donate) at www.facebook.com/SheetsPetClinic/app/208195102528120/. Indicate that your donation should go to the Feral Cat Fund.

If you’d like to donate funds, but would rather not do it via GoFundMe or PayPal, come by the clinic.
 
Please help us help the most forgotten and invisible of felines.  Thank you!

FOOD

The Leonards need food, especially canned food, this winter. Donations can be dropped off at Sheets Pet Clinic, 809 Chimney Rock Court, Greensboro, NC, 27408. Be sure to write on your donation that the food is for the Leonards.

SPECIAL THANKS

Sheets Pet Clinic is deeply appreciative of CatsFirst Spay Clinic and Dr. Linda East for already donating 12 spay/neuter surgeries and other veterinary services for the Leonard Colony. Dr. East plans to donate 8 more spay/neuter surgeries next week! Huge thanks to volunteer transporter Dianne Lamb as well. Misty Hinshaw of Pandora's Paws stepped in early on to find two great barn homes for ferals, and Dara Lamberson of Loving Pet Inn Adoptions funded 5 spay/neuter surgeries. The SPCA of the Triad (Brenda M. Overman) has offered food for the colony.

It truly takes a community of rescuers to tackle a job this big. Please consider donating to all of these wonderful organizations this holiday season! They're all on Facebook.

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Sarah Clemmons
Organizer
Greensboro, NC
Stephen Sheets
Beneficiary

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