Friday, November 12, 2010
Click For The Cats
I have a friend who has helped me out immensely when it comes to saving cats and the hoodlums. She was instrumental in assisting me with some stray cats I took in where I live and ended up having kittens. She spent considerable amount of time, money, effort, getting up at the crack of dawn, etc, just to help.
And she never complained.
I’d like to help her and her organization out in return. Eventually, I would like to work up some sort of donation for her organization but right now, I’d like to ask all of you if you would help out in the following endeavor:
"As many of you know, Midtown Cats is part of Cat Network. We’ve been involved in many of their Spay Days. Cat Network is a South Florida organization where ALL of the money goes to assisting felines. We are competing for a Pepsi Refresh grant and need your help. Here’s your opportunity to think globally and act locally!
Please take a moment each day to click on the link below or text your vote - we can’t win without you…
PHONE: text 103893 TO 73774
About The Cat Network, Inc.
We are a grass-roots organization with over 2,500 members. Members have trapped & sterilized 55,000+ stray & abandoned cats & have adopted out 7,500+ cats since inception in ‘96. Our mission is to make South Florida a no-kill community through education & low cost spay/neuter of pets and strays.
* Spay/neuter 3,000 free roaming cats at no cost to the community
* Work towards zero euthanasia rate by humanely reducing cat over-population
* Reduce shelter intake of stray cats
* Educate the public about the importance of spay/neuter
Overview
South Florida has an extreme homeless/stray cat problem. Due to year round warm temperatures, stray cats breed all year long. The situation is compounded by lack of funding for sterilization programs. There are an estimated 700,000 stray cats in the Greater Miami & Ft. Lauderdale areas. Most stray cats that wind up in shelters are euthanized due to lack of space and homes, even healthy adoptable ones.
In the past, The Cat Network has partnered with other local animal rescue groups to offer free spay/neuter days for free-roaming cats. In the last such event over 230 cats were sterilized. However, we need to offer more of these events to put a dent in the homeless cat population and euthanasia rate.
Winning the Pepsi Refresh challenge will enable us to once again partner with local animal rescue groups to offer 8 free spay/neuter days for free-roaming cats. 100% of the money would go directly to sterilizing homeless cats thus humanely reducing their population. Thank you.
How will the 50K be Used?
Budget Notes: All vets, vet techs and support personal for the events are volunteers. One hundred percent of the money will go to the direct expenses associated with sterilizing cats at a cost of approximately $25 per cat.
$ 40,000--Pharmaceuticals
$ 9,000--Surgical supplies
$ 1,000--Fuel & insurance for mobile surgical units.
The Cat Network, Inc.
Your vote is very important..."
Click and vote. Help out. Save a kitteh. Save $50,000 worth of kittehs.
[Editor’s Note: Please be aware that blockquote was slightly adjusted in areas for emphasis, grammar errors and spacing.]
