Sociable Sheep Meditation

13/11/2024

13/11/2024

Good morning from Boycie. Some after breakfast hay please. Love to all 💚🐑🍪💕

12/11/2024

Breakfast by torchlight. That time of year again 💕🥶🐑🍪💕

11/11/2024

Good morning from Lala. Love to all 💕🐑🍪💚

09/11/2024

Good morning from Dave. Stay cosy pals, it's cold this morning 💕🐑🍪💚

07/11/2024

Please don’t kill a cat based a single combo test.

Another supposed Felv (aka Feline Leukemia) positive cat we pulled that tested positive at the shelter is actually negative! This has happened repeatedly this year. The thought these cats are carelessly discarded is crushing my heart. These tests are fallible. They give false positives, or the vet or shelter reads them wrong or the test is compromised. It is happening too often!

So much new information is available about Felv. It’s not black and white. Felv cats can live happy, although possibly shorter, lives. There is a vaccine to protect other cats. Not all Felv is fatal. Please do your homework before making a final decision about that cat’s life! Vets may not even know all the new information available.

Please get a second test done. Use IDEXX tests if possible. They are excellent tests.

Almost every street cat we have taken in has FIV. FIV cats can live long normal lives, there is never a good reason to kill them just with that diagnosis. We can’t kill our way out of FIV. It’s rampant.

This is Ginger. She almost lost her life in a shelter because she tested positive for Felv….but she does not have Felv. 😔

07/11/2024

Good morning from Twinkle. Love to all 💕🦄🐑🍪💚

06/11/2024

Good morning from Lala. Love to all 💚🐑🍪💚

02/11/2024

Happy Saturday from beautiful Blossom 💕🐑🍪💕

01/11/2024

01/11/2024

30/10/2024

Good morning from Twinkle 💕🐑💚

29/10/2024

Good morning from us, have a twinkly Tuesday peeps 💕🐑💚

18/10/2024

URGENT FUNDRAISER, PLEASE READ 🚨

These absolutely beautiful paint horses are scheduled to ship to slaughter on Monday. They will cross over the Canadian border and then will be brutally murdered for their meat.

Today is the last day that we can return to the slaughter holding facility to save their lives. Around 30-40 horses remain trapped inside…

We’re not sure yet on if we can do a live feed or not, but we just can’t walk around from those last few horses. They deserve a chance at being rescued too.

This may be the very last fundraiser that we run today, and the last chance to save them all… so we are challenging all of our followers to at least a $1 donation and a share of this post. Think if half a million people saw this post? We could save them all. If it’s within peoples means, we will challenge you to a $25 or $100 challenge. If just 10,000 people (just 10,000) took a $100 challenge… we wouldn’t have to come back next month, we’d already have the funding to just save them all! Are you one in 10,000?

Look at the hopeful expression on their faces… they one help might finally at last be coming. Let’s not let them down….

If you can’t donate, please follow Colby’s Crew Rescue and share. Here is our full donation information:

🚨 DONATION INFORMATION 🚨
PAYPAL & ZELLE: [email protected]
VENMO: ohkaytacos
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Checks & Money Orders: P.O. Box 6992 Charlottesville, VA 22906

Colby’s Crew Rescue is a 501c3 organization. All donations are tax deductible. Employer matches are often offered— please check with your HR department. Our EIN is 86-2351417

04/10/2024

Beautiful sky this morning, have a fab Friday 💕🐑💚

03/10/2024

The most important post of 2024…..
And this isn’t going to happen unless we crowd fund between us all ❤️‍🩹

Lyra and Cavan…..

Where do I start? Baby Lyra has had her X-rays, and this confirmed that her jaw hasn’t developed properly, she’s missing the ball joints, and she’s also got a deformed joint, which has caused her jaw to fuse. This means her mouth doesn’t open as wide as it should, which in turn means yawning is difficult, she can’t eat chunks, she cannot gag (so we have to be SO careful she doesn’t access any chunks so is strictly on mousse or pate) and on top of all that; our biggest concern is her teeth need to come through but can’t as their isn’t enough space. If she ever needs to be sick, she’s at huge risk of aspiration.

Now bear in mind, this kitten is racing around playing, she’s happy, in no pain, eating well and loving life…..

We have moved her to a foster home for 24hour care. She’s so happy.

So, tell me, what would you do? I’m not going to lie to you, I’ve sat here and said this over and over again- “funds are the worst they have ever been”, sadly funds are actually the LOWEST they have ever been and this little girl has zero options except orthopaedic referral, which means CT scan, huge jaw surgery, and right now, we do not know if she’s operable, if we can save her life, if any of these amazing brainy specialists can come up with a plan for her. But what we do know, is she’s a one off and extremely rare. The first referral centre to get back to our vets said “how odd” as one of their initial comments.

So what would you do? In true Scrt fashion , do we pull together and fight? Or do we give up? I know what I want to do, but the reality right now is we need to raise the funds or we can’t fight. We don’t have any reserves. So we raise it and fight or we give up. I can’t promise you we can fix her, so that’s a gamble we would all be taking.

Her estimate we are unsure of but we are putting a safety net of a minimum of 6k, but I think it may go higher- but of course whatever estimates and quotes we accept, I’ll post photos on here for you to see…..

The target on this fundraiser is 10k - that’s because our fortnightly bill for Cavan is 4.5k and that will be due in 2 weeks.

I know it’s a ridiculous target, but money sadly makes the world go round. And with Lyra needing 6k, Cavan needing 4.k, this takes us to our target…… ❤️ 💔

So what would you do? What do you want US to do? Do I let her live a month or two of happiness and then lose her? Or do we TRY?
We may succeed, we may fail. But this kitten is so happy.

See the video in the comments on here, you’ll see how happy she is. 😭

I know it’s a mad target, but I’m doing my best here and sadly it never feels good enough.

I know we have the best support network in the world, so can we pull together and crowdfund to give this girl a chance & pay Cavan off? 💔

The PayPal link for everyone to see what we raise is here ⬇️ (you don’t need to have PayPal you can use your bank card as a guest)

🔗 https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/98vxxv5wGj

Bank. Zempler bank.
Business bank account.
“Stray cat rescue team west mids”
08-71-99
11746334
(It often says incorrect but they ARE correct)

You can donate via our normal PayPal too,

📞 You can call Cavan direct and pay money off our general bill 01902 784555 (but if for Lyra, direct to us is better as she’s a referral case) if you want to ask our balance they will tell you.

Our my giving circle account. If you donate on there, we get votes too. We get 100% of donations…..
🔗 https://mygivingcircle.org/stray-cats-rescue-team-west-midlands

Our go fund me… the total that is shown has been raised and SPENT in five years of rescue.
🔗 https://www.gofundme.com/f/stray-cat-rescue-team-west-midlands

🙏 Please help if you can.
Her chance = US.

Thank you . ❤️‍🩹💔