03/12/2025
General updates/signs of life:
We have been on intake hiatus since late last fall of 2024, with the intention to close down or drastically change our mission and capacity.
Most of our adoptable cats have found their forever homes. We still have 3 cats at Pawsitive Cafe.
Darien and Roxy are being fostered locally together by one of our only active volunteers. Darien is still very nervous but doing well. Roxy continues to live with heartworm, still asymptomatic, but not cured. We don't know what to do with either of them long term, but they are okay where they are for now.
We have paid off most of our debt, in part from your donations, and in part from our own. We also had a loss of a large portion of personal income between me, the president, and VP, for about half the year. As of September we are in better shape, but we know these days no job or source of income can be taken for granted. We can't fall back into the situation of floating our non-profit by each year on thousands of our own dollars.
We are also hospice-fostering a 19th Ward Community Cat, Buddy Holly, who has polyps growing in his ears and head cavities. He had one big one surgically removed, but it is growing back. His quality of life is okay for now though you can hear obstruction when he breathes heavily and he snores like a truck. He's sweet with us, but a bit of a bully with our own cats but he's remaining at large in our home for now. We were not planning this as we took him in as an emergency when he was critically ill, and kept rolling from one thing to the next as his prognosis evolved.
Over the last year during our intake freeze, we have done short term holds in our home foster spaces of about a dozen cats for the 19th Ward Community Cats, so that they can get off the street and into vet appointments, into foster homes, or be fully transferred to other rescues.
