FYI…good
cat info to have…;Billie
I JUST RECEIVED THIS INFORMATION. FORWARD TO
PEOPLE YOU KNOW.
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Hello, everyone. We're a rather new cat sanctuary and rescue group, about
a year old, but didn't really start
growing rapidly till February of this year. We now have 3 employees,
about 20 volunteers, 12 foster homes, and soon to have 2 locations. We
care for about 200 cats, most in foster care, but about 60 at our sanctuary
facility. Our greatest need (as with every rescue group) is money.
I've been funding it mostly out of my own pocket up till now, but our
expenses are approaching $8000 per month, so I won't be able to continue that
for much longer.
I volunteered with Best Friends and with Alley Cat Allies after the hurricanes
last year, and took in a number of special
needs cats from down there. Also assisted Alley Cat Allies in placing
special needs cats in December, when
they were getting ready to close down their base camp down there. A nice
lady north of Tucson took in an entire feral
colony of 20 cats from a trailer park west of New Orleans that was being
bull-dozed, and kept them in fenced enclosures for 2 months to get them
acclimated. All 20 stayed put when she turned them loose, so that was a
great success.
My background is in technology businesses. I sold my last one about 5
years ago, and started volunteering all
my time to animal rescue groups.
I got tired of no-kill groups thinking FIV+, FeLV+, or feral cats were expendable, so started a sanctuary to
take them in. We've expanded into other program areas since then, such as
taking in at-risk cats and kittens, doing regular adoptions, transporting
adoptable kittens to Helen Woodward Animal Center
in San Diego,
and helping pay vet care and spay/neuter costs for people who can't afford it.
We also spend a great deal of time educating people about what resources are
available, and helping them work out the best solution to their cat (and dog)
problems.
I travel quite a bit, so do some animal
transport as I go. I'm heading from Missouri (have a very small cat sanctuary in my hometown there) back to
Tucson in just a couple of hours, hauling a couple of rescue dogs to foster
care in Phoenix, my 3 dogs, 5 FeLV+ rescue kitties that my ex-husband has been
fostering for 2 months, and a very sweet FIV+ kitty girl that I picked up in St
Louis a couple of days ago. Her rescuer drove all
the way up from southern Tennessee
to bring her to me.
Let me know if I can do anything to help any of you with your cat rescue
efforts. I'm a huge believer in making connections and using them to do
more together than any one of us can do individually.
Beth Montes
Casa de los Gatos
Tucson AZ
www.CasaDeLosGatos.org
At 12:01 PM 8/7/2006 -0500, Kelsey, Alexandra wrote:
I am connecting y'all with Beth, who
is in AZ. Beth, these people are mostly in Houston, TX,
some in Austin or Dallas. Hope
this contact will be useful to y'all
in future. One is in New York and Jenie
networks all over the US.
This is Beth's note on what her group does:
We're northeast of The Hermitage, near Sabino Canyon,
if you know where that is. I've also
bought a house west of there, more in the midtown area, and that will soon be
our office, adoption center, and more cat housing. We are similar to The
Hermitage in that we are strictly no-kill and are cage free.
[For y'all that don't know, the
Hermitage is a 40-year old no-kill sanctuary for cats; I toured it in 2000 when
I was at the No-Kill conference.]
Z. Alexandra Kelsey
Assistant to Marcy E. Kurtz
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP
711 Louisiana St, Ste. 2300
Houston, Texas 77002-2770
Tel.: (713) 223-2300 x2868
Fax: (713) 221-1212
bracewellgiuliani.com">alexandra.kelsey
bracewellgiuliani.com
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