09/02/2022
Our friends at Scruffy Paws Animal Rescue really could use some help right about now. They have had to close all intakes due to financial burdens. Can you spare just $5 to help them out?
🐈$5 Friday Fundraiser🐈
Today is a sad day for our community and our community felines. As of this morning, Scruffy Paws Animal Rescue is on temporary hold for any new incoming intakes. 😞💔
Unfortunately recent financial burdens have put us in this horrible position. Last week, our team experienced a tragic loss, a teenager kitten by the name of Reggie. The veterinarians believe he ingested some sort of foreign material and was actively choking on it. He went into emergency surgery to remove it. In the meantime he developed horrible pneumonia and required to be in the oxygen chamber for several days. Part of his lung lobe was infected. We knew keeping him in the hospital was going to cost over $1000 a day but we owed it to Reggie to give him a fighting chance. On day three, we received a call at 2:30am in the morning, Reggie was struggling to breathe again and they thought his prognosis was poor. We couldn't let him suffer any longer and decided to let him go. It was all devastating and one of the worst calls to receive at 2:30am. It happened so fast and so slow all at the same time to the point we couldn't get two minutes to post about him and how much we loved him.😞
Now, many shelters/rescues would say spending such extensive funding on one animal is ridiculous. Imagine all the animals you could have helped with that money. To an extent they have a point.✔️ But we have a different philosophy. Every rescue that comes into our care will be treated as one of our very own pets and if there is hope then we stand behind them during their fight. Unfortunately, little Reggie lost his fight, but if we had to do it over again, we would still provide him with that fighting chance. Thank you to the wonderful veterinarians and techs over at Ocean State Veterinary Specialists who worked on Reggie's case. I know they were just as upset as we were with this outcome. They became very fond of that little boy. Now we have been left with a $5000 medical bill and this would have hurt a lot less if Reggie had come home.💔
Do you all remember the kitten Oliver with the diaphragmatic hernia pushing into his chest cavity? If not, catch his original story here.👇
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2550839151714309&id=978947842236789
Well, he's doing absolutely amazing. His foster mom is absolutely smitten with him. The specialist wanted Oliver to get bigger before his big surgery day, if stable enough. Luckily, he had nothing but improvement after his initial setback. Oliver is scheduled for a consult appointment with a specialist at the end of the month and most likely will be receiving surgery with in a week after that appointment. This is a VERY invasive and expensive procedure. Another $5000-$6000 to be exact. But if Oliver has a chance at survival and it improves his quality of life, you bet your butt/tail he will get this procedure.
In addition to what was stated above we also had some more minor things go on at the same time at the shelter. Most of our shelter animals came down with upper respiratory infections and required antibiotics. Although everyone is doing well and on the mend, we wiped through our antibiotics and our team is exhausted from providing nursing care. But they are all troopers and did/are doing a phenomenal job. 💪 Dewy had to go in for yet another procedure because his wounds will not fully heal. Andre's incision became infected and we had a little scare but he seems to be doing better now. Owen with the bleeding eyes has a recheck coming up. Luckily there has been some improvement. Then of course there's the typical veterinary care we provide on a daily basis.🤷♀️
With all of this going on at once, we are looking at a $15,000-$20,000 funding loss. This is HUGE and the cause of our intake hold! We have no choice right now but to stop 🛑 and think about the current animals in our care. We have to catch up. Find loving forever homes for everyone who is ready. Put some fundraisers in place. Build up our veterinary fund again. Then we will be back at it, we promise. This is totally destroying us, especially because the need is so high right now. We have RI residents going through awful situations and need to surrender their pets. We have litters of kittens currently out there and ones about to be born out there. Stray/abandoned cats who need rescue. Reproducing cats who desperately need to be spayed/neutered. 😭 We will refer everyone to other amazing organizations in this state that we are hopeful can help until we can get back up on our feet. 🐾
We are hoping our community can come together once again to give us a good start. We know most of you have contributed to one of our many fundraisers recently and we completely understand if you just financially can't right now, we totally get it. So we please ask you to share. What we are really hoping for🤞is to be effective with a $5 Friday Fundraising campaign! We have over 8000 followers on this page, even if we get half to just donate $5, we would be in good shape. The amount of money 💲 raised is always wonderful but what is really heartwarming to us, is the number of people that come together to make it happen. 💙
So please, if you can just spare $5 today to our $5 Friday Fundraiser, please do so by one of the following ways:
🐈⬛️ Donate through this link below.⬇️
🐈⬛️ Paypal [email protected] and note "FFF" for Five Friday Fundraiser.
🐈⬛️ Venmo and note "FFF".
🐈⬛️ Send a check to 2944 Post Rd Warwick, RI 02886 and again note "FFF".
🐈⬛️ Drop off $5 in person and say hi 👋 to some of our shelter cats and put a smile on our team members faces!
