Last day for the fundraiser garage sale!

The Garage/Bake/Craft sale continues! Here's the up to date earnings so far. Pre-sales: $500, First day: $1224, Second day: $207, for a grand total of $1,931 !! This totally blew away my wish of $700. Just awesome! Thanks to Connie K. and Curt for all their hard work. Last night was the first of the concessions for the Dance Studio. I know it rained, but there were still plenty of people! We'll have a total of this 3 day event later. As you might've seen on the cat's facebook, we've heard from the new families of Tibbits and Salimo. Both went into wonderful homes and have adjusted quickly and are well loved! We also took in a new cat from Dr. Pettigrew's office. He arrived there at the beginning of the week after he was hit by a car. His upper and lower right canine teeth had to be removed as well as an upper incisor. His most severe injury was to his rear right leg. It was fractured and had to have a pin inserted from the greater trochanter to the femur. He also had a fracture at the femoral neck. The pin runs from the top of the femur to the bottom. He's bearing a tiny bit of weight on it and is on "bed rest" in Patience's Pen. He's a young male, gray tiger and is named County (because his life counts). He had been living an outside life when he was hit. If he by chance doesn't adapt to indoor life (when he's healed) there is already a home lined up for him to live in a safe outdoor life environment. Time will tell. We received boxes last night! We received a bonanza of gifts from Mary2u. The cats got 2 cases of Friskies, 1 case of kitten Fancy Feast, big box of litter and Temptation treats! Thanks also to Dee F. for her PayPal donation--sure appreciate it! We had some wonderful visitors yesterday! pjpanda and her friend's 2 daughter's, Elizabeth and Emily, from Cleveland came for a day of visiting the Rescue Center and the Garage Sale. We enjoyed having them! ALL web-cam viewers are welcome to come for a visit!

-Jacci

Raza is looking for a new home.

Garage sale fundraiser

What a success the garage/bake/craft sale has been so far! Connie called last night with an update, and they have raised $1,224 so far!! Surpassed my hopes of $700! Racer & I went over yesterday for awhile. I helped Connie in the sales and Racer did a live stream. The sale continues today and tomorrow. Today also starts the other fundraiser. We do the concessions for the Dance Studio show for 3 days. Getting things ready for the big Volunteer Appreciation Day on Sunday! Lots of good treats also will be here. The construction continues. Today the drywall is going up and I just got done ordering the new sink and faucet for the half bath. We have the plaques ordered already for those that have donated $250 or more and hopefully we'll be ordering more! If the rain lets up, we will be reconfiguring the dog fences outside today. We had an adoption yesterday! Sweet little Salimo went to his new home. He will be joining a family of 3 other cats. FYI: Grommit also has a home. He actually went to a friend of the Rescue Center last week. Grommit was having a couple issues here and I asked this person to try Grommit in a home situation. Just checked on him yesterday and all is fine. Sometimes when they're in a quieter home, the "bossiness" behavior goes away. We opened boxes yesterday! BIG thanks to Dorothy Y. in CA for the new Pirate Ship. The old one was extremely well used and finally was given to the guys in Cat's Cove to play with! Thanks to Medic101 for the 2 cases of adult Fancy Feast, the cats love this! Quayside sent 2 cases of Friskies, which we use a ton of! BIG thanks too to Joann who sent TWO of those super duper soft cat beds. When the cats lay in them, they sink until they almost disappear. Joann also sent kitty treats & some fun toys. Thanks so much to everyone for your support. Also, thanks to Deette for your PayPal donation, we sure appreciate it.

Now-I need some suggestions! The new first room that people will go into will be the room where they'll be greeted, fill out paperwork, etc. This room will be called the WELCOME ROOM. I need some suggestions for the new kitty/cat incoming room. This will be a quarantine/intake room. But, I would love the name to be something different than naming it that, yet having the name mean the significance of the room. Any suggestions? Please let me know. Thanks.

-Jacci

Walls are up!

It's simply amazing. Where we had just a cement pad yesterday is now a building! Six construction guys came and now all the walls are up to the new addition, the roof is on and shingled, the door is on, electric lines are ran and the windows are in. What a lot of fun to watch. They will be back today. Lots more work to be done on the outside and all the work yet to be done on the inside. We had Boxes yesterday. Jatcat sent 500 more Styrofoam plates--thanks so much! This saves us so much time. Quayside (Elaine & Willis) sent lots of Whiskas treats and also 2 cases of Friskies. Whiskas treats are always one of the favorites. And you know we use a ton of Friskies! We were able to get NINE spays/neuters done at Earth Angels. The boys that were done: Waki, Gibbs, Scribbles & Manon.  The girls that were done: Ketzie, Iowa, Subra, Georgia & Denelle.  They are all doing just fine and were already playing last night. We have been adding them to PetFinder as they are neutered--working on getting their pics done now. More kittens added to the kitty crew, as Winken, Blinken & Nod are having a few exercise/play times out in the main area several times a day. We also had another organizational meeting for the Catathon yesterday. Plans are coming along! Remember to mark your calendar for July 24th, Sunday from 1:00 to 4:00. This is going to be a jam packed fun 3 hours! Tomorrow starts the BIG garage/bake/craft sale in Bryan at 1106 Bavarian Lane.

-Jacci

Another busy week ahead

We have a new arrival here at the Rescue Center. He came in, supposedly as a Bengal cat. When I pulled him out of the carrier, it turned out he's not a Bengal but a domestic short hair brown tiger! So...he has to have the name of NABBAT.  It's for:  Not  A  Bengal  But  A  Tiger !!  He's about 8 months old, a real sweetie, already neutered. He's been tested, vaccinated, wormed, the whole works, so he's now out and about with the others. The cats had their outdoor enclosure open all day yesterday. We will probably open it up again today also. Tinkerbell has been carrying around that big orange ball again in her mouth--it's bigger than her head. She growls and grumbles if any other kitten comes near her. It's HER ball! Kiara had a special treat yesterday for her 4th birthday, which she enjoyed. Tinker is one super ornery and fun kitten--he's here, there and everywhere! Murka has figured out how to open the top door above my desk and likes to nap there (& also mess up all my paperwork!). Dorri-Lynn and Rumble have adjusted beautifully to being back at the rescue center.  We have thank yous to give due to several Boxes on Saturday. Lynn S. from MI sent a box with 3 kitties that she made--they are shelf sitting kittens and absolutely beautiful. Each are different and with jewels, bric-brac on them, they are very pretty. We will put these in our Catathon bid blocks.  Also received from Andrea and Suzanne from Parma, OH three scrapbooks, all beautifully made with each page a blend of designs which are all cat related. They are unique and each page holds a slot where a cat picture can be put in. We will also put these in the Catathon bid blocks. Many thanks to both of you for helping with our fundraiser. Our morning at Wal-Mart was great. Mary H. and Jodi  did the table accompanied by Mary's dog, Sparky. They raised $141 total! Thanks Mary & Jodi. This is a super busy week for us. Tomorrow the walls start up on the addition! Also Racer arrives tomorrow. Thursday, Friday, Saturday is the BIG garage/bake/craft Sale at 1106 Bavarian Lane in Bryan. Friday, Saturday, Sunday another fundraiser, doing concessions for the Dance Studio's show. Sunday is also the big Volunteer Appreciation Day. Please also keep voting for us--each vote is important! Thanks for your support.

-Jacci

Tinker and Tinkerbell, descendants 

from a long line of Vacuum Slayers

Kitten hide and seek.

We had a busy treatment day yesterday. With all these kittens and cats, we had 26 felines to find for various treatments such as worming, vaccinations, repeat leukemia tests, flea prevention applications, etc. I keep telling them to come front and center when their name is called, but they just laugh at me and scamper away. Such is the life of a kitten. No worries! As the kittens are spayed/neutered each week, I keep updating Petfinder.com. We're about half way thru on the current kittens of getting them neutered/spayed. I talked to the contractor late this week. The cement floor has dried beautifully. On Monday they will be getting all their supplies together for Tuesday. Starting Tuesday they will be working on the walls and roof. This is when the excitement heightens! The 3 kittens Winken, Blinken and Nod received their first vaccinations yesterday so it won't be long until they're out in the thick of things with the other kittens. Every day we're accumulating a few more things for the July 24th Catathon. We received the first completed basket yesterday--looks so nice. Also today Mary H., a volunteer, will be at Wal-Mart for 3 hours with all our information on the Rescue Center. Connie K and Curt were here last night, gathering up the last bit of garage sale items from here, for the big Garage/Bake/Craft sale on Thursday, Friday, Saturday next week in Bryan. Also on Tuesday, Racer will arrive! The cats have already been lining up at the door waiting for his arrival. Another event for us is June 10, 11, 12 when the Defiance Dance Studio has their annual dance show. We provide the concessions for this event which is a fundraiser for us. Thanks to Jodi for handling this event. Lots of action going on around here! We also received 2 boxes for the new kittens, sent by Jatcat. 2 trays of Gerber baby food, they love this! We add it to the baby kitten formula. And of course, Bella always gets to lick (or paw) the jars out. Thanks bunches Jatcat. We also received a beautiful purple silky fleece slumber ball bed from Joanne H.  This bed is intended to be auctioned off for the Catathon. This is a wonderful cushie bed. Thanks Joanne, we'll put it up on the auction block for bids. Appreciate that!

-Jacci

We have the finalized earnings for May from our Google AdSense and Amazon Associates accounts. The Google Ads made $435.00 and the Amazon Associates referrals made $200.89, for a total of $635.89. Thanks everyone! This will all go into our Building Fund for the new addition. Remember to keep using the Amazon link we have here on the blog and on our new website whenever you shop at Amazon!

-Kurt

Dunakin is ready for a new home!

Our cafepress.com store is open!

We just got the weekly report from Petfinder.com and we had over 1,400 hits on our site there last week! We had a box from Jatcat yesterday, she sent disposable plates for us to use to feed the cats and kittens. Thanks bunches, it sure beats washing that many dishes! We had another organizational meeting for the Cat-a-thon. Things are coming along. Working on filling 24 baskets that will be up on the blocks for bids. Lots of things are planned; will be a very busy 3 hours. We will keep you posted. I love the Longcat that Racer put up to keep track of our donations for the new addition. We're working our way to the top! We had 2 older kittens returned yesterday, DorriLynn and Rumble. Their family loves them so much, but due to family medical issues cannot keep them. They've taken wonderful care of them and we'll find another loving home for them. Right now they're in June's Room, reacclimating to being back, but they'll be out and about soon. All 34 kittens (except for Winken, Blinken and Nod) are out and about all the time, except for special feeding times. When they run by Queenie or Raza, sometimes they'll stop for a quick slurp! The 2 mamas don't mind and it's comforting to the kittens. Probably no more work on the addition for this week. The cement floor is set and we can go out that door now until they start up again. The cats had the outdoor enclosure window open for hours yesterday--they sure do love that.

-Jacci

We now have a cafepress.com store! In it you will find all kinds of t-shirts and apparel as well as lots of miscellaneous things like coffee mugs, bumper stickers, tote bags, and more! All the proceeds go toward the building fund. Be sure to check the store often, as we will have a special “Cat of the Month” with special merchandise that will only be available for a limited time. This months Cat of the Month is Queen Bella, and you can get items with Her Majesties face on them until the end of June. You can find a link to the store over on the right side of this blog, as well at the bottom of our new web site.

-Kurt

Queen Bella, our cafepress Cat of the Month

Keep Voting!

What a very busy day yesterday! We were able to get 7 of our kittens spayed/neutered. The kitties who made their trip to the clinic were Dunakin, Dian, Dugster (the boys), and Cyrilla, Baaka, Birka, Lilly (the girls). All recovered just fine and were scurrying around last night, having so much fun. There are kitties galore here among the cats--it's truly a playground of fun!. We opened boxes last night! We are so thankful for all of you who send boxes for the kitties. Felinetoyz sent Royal Canin "oldster" can food--they love this stuff! Catsrthebest sent a book, Homer's Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned About Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat for the Catathon. It's also signed by the author. It's a great book that will be on the "bidding blocks" for the Catathon. We also received the angel bed (and some cool yarn toys) that Linda T. from Kansas sent. It's a beautiful bed that will also be up for bidding at the Catathon. Quay (Elaine/Willis) sent Whiskas Variety Packs that ALL the cats love! We had another organizational meeting for the Catathon. Things are coming together with some big plans! It's July 24th, Sunday, from 1:00 to 4:00. Hope you all can join us for an afternoon of fun! Construction continued on the new addition yesterday. The floor cement was poured---it looks great. Now, for the drying time. Ada Jane and Cutie are sporting their new collars--they look so nice on them. Farrah is doing great--no recent seizures. Asha plays often with the kittens--so very nice to see. Kurt Williams just wants a person to hold him all the time--he's a very sweet boy. Grommit thinks he's the playground leader--always tussling with the kittens. It's amazing how many kitties are starting to cruise on the Cat Go Round wheel already. Please remember to vote--we need to keep our status in hopes of
winning Ohio's prize!

-Jacci

Baaka