SAFCC
Community Cat Newsletter
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Our vision is to have a community where no kittens are born wild on the street, no cat capable of living in a home is lacking one, and no feral cats are wanting for food, water, and appropriate care and concern. |
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The Big Give 2021 is less than a month away! This big day is from midnight to midnight on Thursday September 23, 2021. As our biggest fundraiser, the support you give during The Big Give is meaningful to the work we do.
How can you support SAFCC during The Big Give?
You can sign up to be a fundraiser on behalf of SAFCC. Create your page and tell family and friends why SAFCC is important to you and to support SAFCC by making a donation. Get started by visiting our page HERE and click the FUNDRAISE button.
Share our message about The Big Give on September 23! Forward our emails, share our social media posts and let people know how this giving day helps our work throughout the year!
Give early! The Big Give website will open one week before from September 16 through September 22 for early giving so you won't have to worry about missing the big day.
This year we are competing for prizes against larger organizations so our success in bringing in dollars depends on you, our friends, volunteers and supporters! Just one $10 donation from you and all your friends and family helps us!
However you choose to do it, we hope you will support SAFCC during the Big Give 2021. Visit our page HERE.
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Animal Care Services Gives Generous Food Donation |
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We are so thankful for the generous canned food donation given to us by Animal Care Services! ACS and Fumiko, their Community Cat Program Director, helped our food program so that colony feeders can continue making sure no cat goes hungry!
We would also like to thank Sandy Guerrero who picked it all up in her truck and got it to our office to unload! The Feral Food Program is a small resource we manage through donations only so this helped a bunch! If you would like to donate cat food, please visit our Amazon Wish List.
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BRACKETVILLE TNR PRESENTATION |
As a best-practice TNR Program, other cities and towns ask us how to start their own program and we are always happy to help! Brackettville, TX, was one such town and all it takes is one dedicated, motivated individual to get started.
Brackettville offered free accommodations, along with a free meal and Yvonne took the bait! Yvonne is the presenter on our TNR training video and also heads up our Cat Advocacy Team so we sent our best! Yvonne spent 2 days in Brackettville and gave 2 presentations, further convincing the town folk that TNR is the way to go in helping to control their growing cat population. If only all groups were this easy to convince! They were very appreciative and left us several 5 star reviews on our Google business page.
Thank you, Yvonne, for representing SAFCC well and for always doing such a great job!
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Thank you Leah for all your contributions to helping community cats! |
When Leah Belanger joined the SAFCC Board of Directors in August of 2018, we had done 48 adoptions that month and finished the year with 376.
The following year our adoptions doubled to 789. Last year under her steadfast leadership adoptions rose to 1,302 and we are on target to exceed that this year with 194 adoptions just in July!
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Numbers are important and the numbers showing the growth of our Community Cat Adoption Program (CCAP) are certainly impressive but Leah has done so much more for CCAP and for our organization as a whole. She could always be counted on to step up and help out whenever there was a need, all while holding down “another” full time job! Her ever-present smile and ability to oversee up to 80 fosters is just short of miraculous - and it took 3 people to take care of everything she’s currently doing! SAFCC and CCAP are losing a very special person, and Leah, we wish you and your family all the best in Michigan and continued success and happiness in all that you do!
Thank you!!
-SAFCC
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Thank You For Supporting Our CCAP Fundraiser! |
Thank you to everyone who supported us this past month for our CCAP Giving Grid fundraiser!
With the help of our supportive community we raised $5,118.00!!
No words can express our gratitude towards everyone who donated to this cause. We could not help our community cats without those who recognize the importance of getting them the help they need.
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We Are Looking For More Volunteers! |
We are currently seeking trap loan volunteers and respite foster volunteers!
For those interested in applying to be a Respite Foster Volunteer, we are looking for volunteers who are interested in being a short-tern foster!
Compassionate respite fosters are needed to temporarily step in to watch foster cats who are currently in the care of a permanent SAFCC foster parent or to provide our cubicle cats a temporary home to run around and stretch their legs!
An ideal volunteer for this role is someone who:
- Can temporarily provide a few weeks to care for our adoptable cats and kittens
- Experienced in caring for cats of all ages
- Is interested in being a short term foster
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For Trap Loaner Volunteers, we specifically need help in the downtown area.
Requirements for this opportunity are:
- Storing up to 20 traps (3' x 5' x 5')
- Responsive to all phone and email requests within 24 hours
- Trained by our TNR class
- Subscribed to the SAFCC newsletter
- Experience in trapping is a plus!
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Cheeky may look big and intimidating, but he is over 17 lbs of cuddles!
He was originally a street cat, but he won us over with his award winning personality and is given a chance at adoption. Cheeky enjoys lounging in high places during the day, his ideal family would have a cat tree waiting for him! He is indifferent towards dogs, and gets along with most cats. Human attention is what Cheeky craves most. Pick him up, hug him, pet him, he wants it all.
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SAFCC's Cat Crisis Fund Continues to Help Community Cats Like Smokey! |
On May 19th, one of our primary fosters was informed by a Petsmart manager of an injured cat seen on their loading dock. The injured cat was found in the dumpster area and was also very skinny and stressed. After some coaxing with food he went into a carrier and Rebecca was able to take him home and named him Smokey. |
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It was suspected that Smokey had a broken pelvis due to the limited use of his back legs and he was also favoring one of his front legs. A fresh ear tip indicated he had recently been neutered and he was discovered to be a cryptorchid!
After a flea treatment, deworming, and a good meal, Smokey was feeling much better! The vet confirmed he had a broken pelvis and a large shoulder abscess was drained. Good news was his FIV/FELV test came back negative. Cage rest for 8 weeks was recommended for his broken pelvis
and he has continued to enjoy Rebecca's hospitality and gaining weight.
We could not have helped cats like Smokey without the help of our Cat Crisis Fund. Link to donate here.
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We would love to give one of our trappers some special recognition on trapping 14 community cats!
"I recently worked with DJ as she trapped a lot of cats on Texas Ave. The cats were wily and quite reluctant to be trapped. DJ, however, was determined to get every cat she could. At the end of two and a half weeks, she had trapped somewhere around 14 cats. She just kept coming back till it was done. DJ deserves a pat on the back for being such a determined trapper!"
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Thank you so much for all that you do for our organization DJ! |
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GLOBAL CAT DAY IS OCTOBER 16TH! |
SAFCC would like to celebrate Global Cat Day this year by earning a Great Non Profit Badge!
Help us reach this goal by doing one of the following:
- Share your story with us! We would love to hear how our organization has helped you in any way. Find us on social media or email us!
- Leave us a Google review! We need to maintain a rating of 3.5 stars or higher!
- Invite friends, family, and businesses to share their experiences with us too
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If the work we do is important to you, obtaining a Great Nonprofit badge would help us generate more donations and increase donor trust, recognition, and exposure. We want to celebrate the love for cats in our community and want to hear from you!
If you have 3 minutes to leave us a review, please go to Great Nonprofits website to share your story here. |
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SAFCC is a Guidestar Platinum Partner
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San Antonio Feral Cat Coalition | [sanantonioferalcats.org]
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