Pawsitively Jefferson County

19/08/2024

This past June we held a fundraiser 💲 as some have seen in the previous 2 months posts - Sponsor -A -Clinic Cat!🐈‍⬛

This fundraiser was such a cute idea and so fun to put into place. Watching kiddos 🧒 👦 and adults 👩 👨pick out a stuffed🐈🐈‍⬛ friend to take home, name it and fill out an adoption certificate 📜 then get their picture 📸 (if they chose to), then we got the fun of trying to match to the best of what we could, with a cat 🐱 that came in for the clinic the last 3 months. White cats were the hardest and most unfortunately weren’t solid white but we came close!

We hope you had fun with this like we did and as the fundraiser coordinator I continue to think 🤔 of new fun ideas- our next though is our Bingo Oct 17th, 2024 🗓️ and trust me you do not want to miss out on the prize baskets 🧺 or silent 🔕 auction items!

So for the final sponsors for the sponsor - a - cat 🐈‍⬛ for August and to wrap up this fundraiser, have fun looking thru the included photos!

Thank you 😊 to all who participated with this and we hope you enjoyed your sponsorship post and are taking great care of your stuffed friend 🐈‍⬛🐈for life!

18/08/2024

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted- Aespo

Event #39 is officially wrapped up and in the books as ✅
This event officially makes -

wait for it…..

1804 cats 🥳🥳 we have taken thur our clinic since the very beginning! 39 events - 1804 cats!! 🎉🐈🐈‍⬛🥳🐈🐈‍⬛🥳🐈🐈‍⬛🥳

The clean up 🧹 crew & release crews did their things this morning and all kitties 🐈‍⬛ 🐈 were returned to their homes, equipment cleaned 🧼 and supplies packed away until next month for event #40!

While some events go smooth as butter 🧈 - others slow and steady as molasses. This event, I personally call molasses 😂 maybe even a little over the expiration date molasses😜 ( and those things have a major long shelf life if done properly 🤣😂) . But here’s the thing, any community service, volunteer program or really life takes a village and Pawsitively Jefferson County has just that - our small mighty village!

This event was full of eventful moments from start to finish - the finish takes the cake and wins the award!
Volunteer Dina, while releasing today had one kitty 🐈‍⬛ decide after being released her car 🚙 sounded like the best place to run to instead of back to his home. She tried everything to get the little guy out but nothing was working. Thankfully she was able to phone a friend and was able to have help get said stowaway out and she was able to wrap up.

Last post I shared some photos from the set up and event, this post is sharing some of the clean up and release loading.

I hope sharing these events shines a little light 💡 on the work that goes into this program, from start to finish 🏁.
However there is so much more behind the scenes to get the event planned- from the trapper coordinator taking calls 📳📴, planning the locations 🏡for the trappers, last minute changes, the volunteer coordinator making sure every spot needed has someone to fill it - this involves emails, phone calls 🤳, texts 💬 until it’s figured out. Then there is also the shopping 🛒 for supplies- litter, gloves 🧤 , wipes, soap, disinfectants etc, and meal 🍽️ planning and prep and cooking for the event as the vet staff and volunteers are provided an amazing home cooked meal 🥘 Saturday of the event- we do have some amazing cooks 👩🏻‍🍳🧑‍🍳!
The group also holds a monthly meeting to discuss previous event, upcoming and anything in between and more. It really is a full time program ran by 💯 volunteers putting in whatever time they can and want - and it works! 👏

Pawsitively Volunteers- THANK YOU! You all are amazing and many tell us this but today this event post I want to make sure it’s said here to!

Once again thank you for following along our journey and from all of us at Pawsitively, we hope you have a wonderful Sunday evening!

18/08/2024

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves - Mason Cooley

Here at Pawsitively compassion is deep in our hearts and souls and cat clinic weekends we come together to make it all happen and change the lives of the cats that go thru the clinic.

Event #39 is almost done- the night crew is wrapping up as this post is being written as the day crew had a very long slow full day. 41 cats came thru the door, 39 were fixed, 1 was already fixed but received an ear tip so she doesn’t have to go thru the process ever again and 1 was just to small and sick to go thru safely at this time.
Release day and clean up still to come and then rest and refresh!

Lots and lots of kittens this round which is a good thing as they get to live their lives without reproducing. Some red cups indicating aggressive but most were just scared and not truly aggressive.

All in all we call today another successful event and look forward to event #40! It will be here before we know it!

Watch for the upcoming post for our summer fundraiser of sponsor-a-cat as this event should wrap those up ! And don’t forget Bingo coming up Oct 17th!!

17/08/2024

How can 1 person save 100 cats? ….. 🐈‍⬛ 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈
Easy just spay 1!

Saturday Caturday event #39 is here!
Our set up crew, trapper crews and check in crew all have been busy preparing for the arrival of kitties, running all over Jefferson County, weighing, feeding, handling paperwork and have officially met their numbers and are resting up for clinic day tomorrow! The night crew has checked in and on, fed and tucked in the cats for the night!
The heart and soul all of the volunteers we have is amazing. If you are looking for something to invest some extra time in, we are always looking for and welcoming new volunteers!

A few pictures to enjoy from 1 of our trapping teams for this clinic.

The little white cat just going in far enough to eat and not set off the trap 😅 eventually the cooked chicken volunteer Niki makes every trapping morning was just too tempting and irresistible😋

Big Boy 🐈‍⬛ hung out by traps telling all the smaller ones “don’t go in there “

Our youngest volunteer Lizzie got to have an after school stop to see her favorite kitten 🐈 from a past event while her mom picked up from trapping that day.

Volunteer Niki and Big Boy 🐈‍⬛ making friends since he had his spa day in June and was very mean and feral then and come to find out he’s the biggest love bug 😽ever or maybe he’s just extremely thankful and feels so much healthier and happy now and can be a truer version of himself 🐱

Volunteer Dina checking in some she trapped - look at that smile 😊 - she’s in heaven!

Cats cats cats - every where cats! 🐈‍⬛ 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈

New mama - she will have to wait till next time but good job mama take care of your babies - we’ll be back!

And last but not least - young lady /man it’s not nice to stick out your tounge at people 🤭😂🤣

Stay tuned for more fun from the clinic this weekend!!!

07/08/2024

Bingo! BINgo! BINGO!
Did you hear we have an amazing bingo night planned! We have had some very generous sponsors and our fundraiser coordinator Niki has had a whole lot of fun shopping for some really fun bingo baskets ( sneak peaks of those will come at a later date).
We wanted to share some shoutouts to the amazing sponsors so check out the photos and mark on your calendars October 17th, 2024 to join the fun! You definitely don’t want to miss it!

24/07/2024

Check out the event we have coming up! ⬆️
October 17th, 2024 Bingo night! 🗓️
You don’t want to miss out on the bingo baskets 🧺 and silent 🤫 auction items!
Grab a friend 👯 or 2👯‍♀️, have some wine 🍷 and some snacks 🫒😋 and try your luck 🍀 with bingo!
Help us fill the house, patio , parking lot 😹 and raise funds for the cats 🐈‍⬛ 🐈and 🐾Pawsitively Jefferson County🐾!

Hope to see 👀 you there😸!

22/07/2024

It’s Sponsor spotlight time!
Pawsitively Jefferson County runs solely on donations and the kindness and generosity of all who joined in on the fun with our Adopt-A-Cat fundraiser was amazing! We will be continuing the spotlight posts until we run out of sponsors from the adoption fundraiser. So if you haven’t seen your picture with your clinic cat keep watching, the next event in August will have more!
For the July 2024 clinic the photos attached are our adopt-a-cat sponsors! We hope you have given your stuffed kitty a great home and hope you enjoy the cat chosen for your sponsorship from the past weekend clinic!
Once again thank you from the bottoms of our hearts for supporting Pawsitively!

21/07/2024

Event #38 is officially wrapped up and in the books ✅
Volunteer Kitten Whisper 🐱her new nickname aka Dina and our youngest volunteer Lizzie who loves kittens just as much, with her mom Niki over seeing - are our big trappers this past weekend! Coming in with 14 🐈 from one location, 6 🐈‍⬛ from another and 5 😸 from one more - 25 of the 45 cats 🙀 that went thru our clinic! The team of 3 put in the work and got it done! 👏👏

All kitties 😽 have returned to their 🏠 homes to enjoy out the rest of their lives happily, clean up crew 🧹🧼 has made our location shiny and new. Supplies packed 📦 away and all home to enjoy the remaining of their weekend. 😎

Event #39 will be here before we know it in August and the teams will be refreshed💆🏻‍♀️ and ready to do it all over again, as we continue our mission to help the cats 🐈 🐈‍⬛ of Jefferson County, the communities🏡 within the county, care givers etc.

Don’t forget to watch the page for sponsor posts and mark down 🗓️ October 17th for Bingo night!

From all of us at 🐾 Pawsitively Jefferson County we hope you have a wonderful remainder of your weekend!

21/07/2024

We had a very successful event #38!
45 cats! 🐈
From lots of unique faces and personalities, kitten cuddles and kitten naps, Aaammaazzing food 🥘 from our wonderful cooking volunteers, team work, laughs 😹 and the hard work of all the volunteers and K-State vet students the day crew is wrapped up and passed to the night crew 💤 for feeding and cage care. 🐾
Tomorrow all the kitties will be returned to their homes/colonies to live out their best lives and the clean up 🧹 🧼 crew will do their work to wrap up things until event #39 in August. 🐈‍⬛🐾👏

Don’t forget to watch 👀our page for sponsorship posts from this clinic, coming in the next few days and also mark on your calendars
📆 October 17th, 2024 to join us to help raise funds for Pawsitively Jefferson County 🐾 at our annual Bingo night at the 🍷Crooked Post Winery! This helps us continue our mission with TNVR clinics for all of Jefferson County!
You definitely don’t want to miss winning those bingo baskets 🧺 that our fundraising coordinator Niki is putting together!

20/07/2024

Saturdays are Caturdays!
We are in full swing with our TNVR Caturday!
45 felines having their spa day!
On the menu of services offered and given
Spay or neuter, vaccinations, eye cleaning, ear cleaning, tick removal and lots of love by the volunteers and vet approved ✅
We have several batches of kittens that have been telling us their whole life story and about their time spent with us from the minute we walked in the door!

20/07/2024

Event #38 is in progress!
Our group of trappers had 2 full days of trapping in various locations and ended up with 45 cats for the clinic this weekend! Trapping takes a lot of patience and trying all kinds of different things. The reward of the day’s hard work, is knowing we’ve helped the caregivers, made the cats’ lives so much better and helping reduce the population from growing of feral kitties!

If you sponsored a cat at one of the events this summer, make sure to watch this page for your sponsorship post in the next few days!!

Attached is our youngest volunteer Lizzie utilizing a drop trap and a trap full of kittens that are finally big enough to be spayed or neutered!

Want to get in on the action and become a volunteer? Let us know! We are always welcoming new team members to help our mission!

09/07/2024

The July quilt has been won! Congratulations, Kim Berberick!! 😻

There's still time to buy tickets for the Christmas quilt! The drawing will be held on October 17th at Crooked Post Winery during our Bingo fundraiser!

26/06/2024

We had amazing people of all ages come by our booth for OSSR this past weekend and so many donated to become sponsors of a clinic cat! 🐈 They adopted a stuff kitty, named it, told us what color and filled out the certificate. 😽In return they got to take home their stuffed friend and we get to have fun matching them with a kitty that went thru our clinic! 😺
So in no particular order, as we don’t know when the certain colors will come thur the clinic and we want to best match to the sponsor’s description, we found from our event this past weekend 7 matched! 🐾🐾🐾🐾
We hope you give your new friend a good home, enjoy your stuffed kitty 🐈‍⬛ and love the one we chose to match it with while in our care!

Remember to watch 😺this page if you adopted for your sponsorship post in the upcoming clinics! From all of us at Pawsitively 🐾 we thank you for your support and donation, it helps us continue to help as many kitties 🐱 we can to give better lives to ♥️🐈🐾♥️🐈‍⬛♥️🐾♥️

23/06/2024

From all of us a Pawsitively Jefferson County we thank you for supporting us this past weekend at the Oskaloosa Old Settlers Reunion and last weekend at Ozawkie Heritage Festival. Being a non-profit donation only organization, we rely on the generosity of donations to continue our mission and you helped us raise funds this past weekend!

If you adopted/sponsored a clinic cat make sure to watch this page in July, August and September for your sponsorship post with a kitty from the clinic!

The winner of the beautiful red/green quilt, donated by Yvonne Hewitt and Cheryl Swayne is Angela Griffin!! (Picture of the quilt is in the comments)
Thank you to the Georgia Peach Queen/ booth for drawing our winner!
Angela we will be getting in touch with you.

Drawings for the other 2 quilts will be July 8th and Oct 17th- so there is still time to join in those raffles for the other beautiful donated quilts!

Don’t forget to make your calendars for our Bingo for the cats and silent auction at the Crooked Post Winery October 17th, 2024! We are still taking donations for both bingo basket items, full done baskets and silent auction items if you have a small business or would like to donate.

Once again we thank you for your support and hope to see you at our next event!

23/06/2024

Here's a look at a few of our feline friends who joined us for our 37th TNVR event!

20/06/2024

Pawsitively is set up at Oskaloosa Old Settlers Reunion! Come swing by and adopt/sponsor a clinic cat, buy some of Lizzie’s pawtastic jewels, free will donation of goodies, and grab some tickets for the quilt raffle! We will be out here tonight, Friday afternoon and evening and Saturday afternoon and evening!

03/06/2024

We are deeply saddened to share that our friend, Judy Bailey has passed away. Judy was a valuable member of Pawsitively Jefferson County. She went above and beyond for the group and for the community cats.

Judy was a beautiful lady with a gentle soul. She always made those around her feel comfortable, included and loved. She loved her family, her many friends, and all animals. She felt that cats were the underdogs, unappreciated, and didn’t receive the care they needed. She was their champion!

Judy will be greatly missed by all who knew her.

30/05/2024

Pawsitively Jefferson County runs solely on the donations we receive! What better way to support our mission and help us continue our services that we offer to Jefferson County Kansas!
Introducing our new fun fundraiser
🐈‍⬛♥️🐈♥️ Sponsor-A-Cat. 🐈♥️🐈‍⬛♥️

Pick out a new furry stuffed friend, name it, tell us what color, have your pic taken with the certificate and stuffed friend, pay the $5 sponsor/adopt fee, then we will match a kitty to your adopted friend at the next TNVR clinic ( up to 3 clinics depending on number of sponsors), then you will be posted with the clinic cat on our page!

Make sure to stop by our booth on June 15th at the Ozawkie Heritage Festival and our booth at the Oskaloosa Old Settlers Reunion June 20th - June 22nd, to adopt your very own, learn about TNVR, take a chance at a beautiful quilt being raffled, inquire about becoming a volunteer and help Pawsitively raise funds for the cats of Jefferson County!

Our first sponsors for the June TNVR event!! Thank you for joining the fun!

14/05/2024

13/05/2024

We are extremely grateful to be guests today at HHHS Community Clinic. We already have 20 new kittens at our Oskaloosa colony. Thanks for helping us break the cycle.

12/05/2024

Pawsitively Jefferson County celebrated Mother's Day by adding four new litters of kittens to our list to be fixed. 20 new kittens total! Whether your kids are cats, dogs or humans….. Happy Mother’s Day!

09/05/2024

Did someone say more food? Yes! The Jefferson County Pet Project Pet Food Pantry will be open today 12:00 to 4:00 PM. Location: 9887 Main St., Lakeside Village, Ozawkie, KS. They have dog food and a little cat food. Thank you to the Pet Project for helping Jefferson County pets.

08/05/2024

Thanks to all of our friends and supporters that helped, donated items, and those that came to our garage sale. Your continued support, generousity, and compassion are appreciated!

08/05/2024

A big thank you to HHHS Community Clinic for giving these Oskaloosa friends a new, healthier life.

04/05/2024

Rain has stopped!!! Doors are open!!

03/05/2024

Come by our garage sale today and tomorrow, May 3-4 at 101 Coyote Ave, Ozawkie to get in on the raffle for two more of our beautiful quilts donated by our generous supporters Yvonne Hewitt and Cheryl Swayne.

03/05/2024

Let's do lunch! Hi Jefferson County feline friends. Come join us today and tomorrow May 3-4 at 101 W. Coyote Ave, Ozawkie at our garage sale. Pulled pork sandwich meal served between 10:30-1:30 each day.