Do you recognize this cat? He seems lost and is eating at a neighbors house near Ravenwood and Thurston. If he is your cat please call 585-709-6229.
September 2021
What our volunteers have been up to
As usual, we have been spending most of our time providing vet care for feral or community cats. We trap which takes hours and even days of prep work, hold the cats in a garage until they are transported to Lollypop veterinarian clinic. They return, get fed and monitored and then released to the colony where they live and get fed.Foodlink has been generous enough to provide canned cat food to us monthly. We distribute it to close to 30 colony caregivers and over 120 cats!!! 2 volunteers are fostering cats that are too sick, young or too friendly to be released outdoors. Please see our adoptables on our web site. We have also helped out 2 very sick cats that were friendly but need vet care. Both are indoors and safe now, but still need more care. Any donations help. Scarface or “Big Al” needs his eye stitched up as it appears to be missing. Molly , seen below, has healed and been spayed and vaccinated. She was adopted by the kind neighbor who found her. This is her before we attended to her fleas, poor skin, and lack of regular food. One of our neighbors and feral feeders […]
Update 19 September 2021
President’s Message Karen Emerson In a newsletter received from Sister Diana Dolci of Hope Hall, she wrote about community, hope and changing lives. She defined community as ”a group of people who come together for a particular purpose and who care about what happens to each member of that group.” Our neighborhood/city is struggling with having a sense of community. Recent incidents have made me sad, mad and befuddled. I know that we are a neighborhood and a city that cares. How do I know this? We have little free libraries, little free food pantries, neighbors who organize to help those who are burned out of their homes, and we have groups that go to every homicide in the city to give support to grieving families. We also have our share of problems: failing schools, drugs, violence and noise. It is my observation that the problems suck up all the attention and obscure our view of the amazing good things that happen daily in our neighborhood. Sometimes it becomes overwhelming and easy to believe that things will never change. My dear neighbors do not despair; a lot of good things are being done. We have strong business associations, we have […]
