' Year-End Campaign
Dear Friend,
If you lot know Animal Friends, you lot know that spaying/neutering pets is at the view of our organization. For to a greater extent than than xx years, we’ve been compassionately together with proactively fighting pet overpopulation. For far also long, also many pets accept been unnecessarily euthanized inward our region. At , nosotros however firmly believe that euthanizing pets is never the solution to pet overpopulation.
To genuinely stalk the tide of pet overpopulation, spay/neuter services demand to live accessible together with affordable to everyone – no thing their marker of income. But that’s only role of combatting this crisis inward our region. We demand to ensure these services are accessible to the communities that demand them most.
Our Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Program is making incredible strides inward many of Pittsburgh’s underserved communities. Our staff has been hitting the ground, knocking on doors together with getting to know the residents of these neighborhoods to amend empathise what they demand together with how nosotros tin help.
I’d similar to part a flush amongst you lot that was passed along yesteryear our Director of Clinic Services, Carol …
“Earlier this fall, nosotros were visiting a neighborhood due east of the city. We got air current that this neighborhood needed aid caring for the expanse feral cats. They were reproducing at an alarming charge per unit of measurement together with roughly were fifty-fifty beingness hitting on the route yesteryear cars. They didn’t know what to do, thus they turned to .
When nosotros visited the neighborhood nosotros similar a shot saw what they meant – nearly 2 dozen filthy, starved cats together with kittens roamed the street. It was overwhelming. And, it seemed that all of these felines were visiting ane specific theater – Miss Sylvia’s.
Miss Sylvia is an elderly widow, possibly inward her 80s. She lives solitary together with suffers from Alzheimer’s. She is a woman raise to children that accept grown together with moved away. And to a greater extent than recently, Miss Sylvia became a caregiver to to a greater extent than than 2 dozen cats.
To Miss Sylvia, these cats are thus much to a greater extent than than but animals that demand nutrient together with shelter.Several times a day, neighbors spot her padding onto her porch inward her slippers to feed them.
There on her porch is where Miss Sylvia spends her waking hours. Through snowfalls together with thunderstorms, she’s at that spot cooing together with talking amongst her beast friends. It’s clear these cats are the argue for her to instruct upward inward the morning.
When nosotros visited the neighborhood nosotros similar a shot saw what they meant – nearly 2 dozen filthy, starved cats together with kittens roamed the street. It was overwhelming. And, it seemed that all of these felines were visiting ane specific theater – Miss Sylvia’s.
Miss Sylvia is an elderly widow, possibly inward her 80s. She lives solitary together with suffers from Alzheimer’s. She is a woman raise to children that accept grown together with moved away. And to a greater extent than recently, Miss Sylvia became a caregiver to to a greater extent than than 2 dozen cats.
To Miss Sylvia, these cats are thus much to a greater extent than than but animals that demand nutrient together with shelter.Several times a day, neighbors spot her padding onto her porch inward her slippers to feed them.
There on her porch is where Miss Sylvia spends her waking hours. Through snowfalls together with thunderstorms, she’s at that spot cooing together with talking amongst her beast friends. It’s clear these cats are the argue for her to instruct upward inward the morning.
And if that isn’t sugariness enough, Miss Sylvia also selflessly shares the nutrient from her ain plate.Some days the cats instruct spaghetti together with meatballs, other times, chicken. But never truthful cat food,she couldn’t afford it.
We ventured to Miss Sylvia’s house. With pinkish plastic curlers inward her hair, she answered the door. We tried to discovery out how much nutrient she needed to attention for the cats but she politely refused together with humbly wouldn’t acknowledge to feeding the cats. So nosotros did what nosotros could together with left roughly truthful cat nutrient amongst her.
Not only did nosotros demand to instruct the colony’s population nether control, nosotros needed to aid Miss Sylvia. So nosotros started yesteryear successfully trapping the xx cats from her yard who were thus spayed/neutered together with vaccinated at . After they recovered, they were returned to their home. To Miss Sylvia.
But it won’t halt there. She however needs our help. Miss Sylvia needs the proper tools together with resources to amend attention for her love cats. So we’ll proceed trying, together with eventually, we’ll instruct her everything she needs.”
The ’ staff left amongst a sum vehicle – together with fifty-fifty fuller hearts. It’s from hearing stories similar these that brand me thus proud together with thus thankful for them. At Animal Friends, it’s this pity that genuinely sets us apart.
commits nearly $1 ane 1000 1000 of our annual budget to keep spay/neuter affordable together with accessible to low-income families – similar Miss Sylvia. But nosotros can’t struggle the pet overpopulation crisis alone. To live a truthful resources to pet owners together with communities, nosotros demand your help.
There is no amend fourth dimension than at nowadays to invest inward spay/neuter. To proceed our clinics running through the destination of the year, nosotros demand to enhance $250,000. Together, amongst you, nosotros tin brand a divergence inward the lives of pets together with people inward our region. Together, nosotros tin destination pet overpopulation.
Kind supporters, similar you, are our reasons to live thankful this vacation season.
commits nearly $1 ane 1000 1000 of our annual budget to keep spay/neuter affordable together with accessible to low-income families – similar Miss Sylvia. But nosotros can’t struggle the pet overpopulation crisis alone. To live a truthful resources to pet owners together with communities, nosotros demand your help.
There is no amend fourth dimension than at nowadays to invest inward spay/neuter. To proceed our clinics running through the destination of the year, nosotros demand to enhance $250,000. Together, amongst you, nosotros tin brand a divergence inward the lives of pets together with people inward our region. Together, nosotros tin destination pet overpopulation.
Kind supporters, similar you, are our reasons to live thankful this vacation season.
In appreciation,
David J. Swisher
President & Chief Executive Officer
AnimalFriends Resource Center
562 Camp Horne Road | Pittsburgh, PA 15237
412.847.7000 | ThinkingOutsideTheCage.org
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