13/08/2024
🆘 To say we need your help is an understatement. The best way to describe it is we are in an inflatable life raft with a slow leak. We’re okay for now, but without help we won’t be for long!
🎁 Read all the way through for our updated Thank You Gifts & Giveaways!
A not-so-quick snapshot:
🐭 USQKS is in total (from the smallest mouse to the biggest rabbit) caring for just over one hundred rescue and sanctuary small animals. We are a foster-based rescue but Adam & I (Sammie) have a number of rescue and sanctuary animals with us in group foster. This includes the nine “orphaned” baby rabbits that are now fourteen weeks old AND Nellie & her eleven babies who will be turning EIGHT WEEKS OLD this Thursday! We are at max capacity and our current foster homes are currently full as well. We desperately need responsible fosters and adopters! Our greatest needs are for chinchilla adopters (or fosters) and rabbit fosters & adopters!
🐰 FUNDS NEEDED: Our current known upcoming medical costs are as follows:
🐇 SURGERY: Renny is scheduled for dental surgery on 9/10 to have incisors pulled. We are estimating that this surgery will cost about $400.
🐇 VACCINES: The nine orphaned rabbits go in for their 2nd RHDV2 vaccines on Monday 8/19. The cost will $315 - 1 sponsor = $280
🐇 ADD’L VACCINES: Renny + Nellie & her 11 babies will also need to be vaccinated. $455 for the 1st RHDV2 Vaccine + $455 for the 2nd RHDV2 Vaccine = $910
🐇 SPAYS/NEUTERS: We plan to have all nine orphaned rabbits spayed/neutered by November. Total cost $810 - 1 sponsor = $720
🐇 ADD’L SPAYS/NEUTERS: Renny + Nellie & her 11 babies will also need to be spayed/neutered = $1170
🐰 TOTAL for these KNOWN medical expenses alone will cost us $3480! All of these are scheduled to be completed by January 2025.
Adoptions are few and far between. Foster placement is the same. We have a few faithful donors helping us stay afloat. We also have supply donations trickling in here & there. What is keeping us most afloat is guinea pig boarding. We have limited boarding space available at this time and aren’t taking on additional boarders, but 100% of the funds that come in from boarding go to the rescue. Also, Adam and I are currently covering all overhead costs (such as our website, email, etc.) so that 100% of funds coming in go towards the animals’ medical and supply expenses!
Any expenses that we aren’t covered by adoptions, sponsorships, boarding, and donations are covered by Adam and I. We are on complete intake hold at this time until we get animals adopted, additional fosters and until these medical expenses are covered. As we have shared, we have a good number of sanctuary animals and medical cases as well. In the future, we hope to share their pictures & stories and have sanctuary sponsorship opportunities. We have been sharing some of their stories along with the medical cases as needs arise.
We will be breaking down these different needs along with some additional (more upbeat) updates over the next week or so. But, for today, we will be setting up a Facebook photo album with the vaccine sponsors needed by Monday and the spay/neuter sponsors needed for the nine orphaned rabbits. We will soon be adding the additional vaccine and spay/neuter sponsorship opportunities.
THANK YOU GIFTS/GIVEAWAYS:
🎁 MONTHLY GIVEAWAYS: We will be picking a monthly winner from all those donate -OR- sponsor a vaccine or spay/neuter to receive a $10 Amazon eGift Card. There will be a winner for each month August, September, October, November and December in the hopes of starting off 2025 strong.
🎁 AUG. SPONSOR GIVEAWAY: Next week, one of vaccine sponsors of the nine “orphaned” rabbits will receive a $10 Amazon eGift card (since the planned gift basket would be hard to send to those who aren’t local). Right now, there is only one sponsor!
🎁 NOV. SPONSOR GIVEAWAY: Once the orphaned rabbits are spayed/neutered, one of their sponsors will receive a $10 Amazon eGift Card plus a custom pet portrait by Daytona Wolfe (can be substituted for $30 Amazon eGift Card).
🎁 JAN. SPONSOR GIVEAWAY: Once Renny + Nellie & her 11 babies are all vaccinated, we will be picking a winner from their sponsor to also receive a $25 Amazon eGift Card.
🎁 In January, once Renny + Nellie and all the babies are spayed/neutered we will be picking a winner from their sponsors to receive a $75 Amazon eGift Card.
Ways to Donate:
💚 Online Donation Link: https://square.link/u/nJDvMfd1?src=sheet
💚 Online Vaccine Sponsorship Link: https://square.link/u/NBitxvxb?src=sheet
💚 Online Spay/Neuter Sponsorship Link: https://square.link/u/fUmxZg1b?src=sheet
💚 Venmo: (under businesses) - If sponsoring, note sponsorship info.
💚 PayPal: paypal.me/undergroundsqueaks - If sponsoring, note sponsorship info.
🛒 Shop Our Amazon Wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3TU9CYJ4NTF2X?ref_=wl_share https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3TU9CYJ4NTF2X?ref_=wl_share
* These gift cards are being donated by a generous supporter.
** Each donation and/or sponsorship earns additional chances to win a gift card. Sponsors are eligible for both the monthly and sponsorship gift cards
*** Anyone of who has already sponsored a spay/neuter will be receiving a crocheted bunny as a Thank You Gift but the volunteer who handles these needs some additional time to make them so be patient. We will contact you when they are on their way.
