Alms, Alms for the Poor
Hey everyone! I thought I’d update everyone on our three little rescues. They continue to be the sweetest animals. The puppy, which we’ve been calling Snarf after the dog in a book Nikki read recently, is super energetic and loves to run. He’s pretty clumsy but what else can you expect from a puppy with paws bigger than Spunky’s. We brushed him yesterday and he looks better. As far as I can tell he’s a hair dog, not fur, and he has no undercoat to speak of. Nikki and I still aren’t sure what breed of dog he is. Do any of you know? I’ve called both local shelters and animal control and looked in the local newspaper but no lost dog reports have been filed. You’d think that if he was lost on Saturday (or even earlier) that there would be reports already. The way this economy is going, though, who knows what the story is. I’ll keep looking but we’re going to go ahead and take him and the kittens in to the vet tomorrow. If they all check out then it’ll take a lot of stress off of us. The dogs are UTD on all their vaccinations but we still want to be better aware of Snarf’s health before we introduce him to Spunky & Rufus. The kittens seem to be doing well and are still the biggest lovey dovey little girls. We’ve named the bigger tabby girl Rhea & the smaller grey one Satsuki. They made a mess by dumping their litter this morning but you can’t even begin to get mad at them. They’ve been eating really well and enjoy the Pounce cat treats they’ve been getting. The kittens are a bigger concern because none of our cats are vaccinated against Feline Leukemia. As such we’ve had the whole household pretty much on lockdown to do our best to keep our cats safe. Nikki hasn’t had contact with the rescued kittens since the first day and I haven’t had contact with ours since then either. I’ve also been wearing disposable gloves each time I touch the kittens and then wash well with antibacterial soap when we get back upstairs. And yes, I hate the thought of throwing away so much plastic but these are my kids and I need to do everything I can to protect them. Hopefully the kittens FelV tests will come back negative tomorrow and we can relax a bit. I hate keeping everyone so locked up but right now it’s our only option. We know the kittens have fleas but there have been no baths yet because there have been constant storms here in Tennessee. If it keep up, we may ALL end up in the basement. To be clear, that would be 3 dogs, 6 cats, 2 ferrets, 3 rats, 2 fish and 2-3 people down there. Heh, yeah.
Anyway, we have tried our best to find a way to get these animals vet checked for a discount since they’re rescues but it’s been to no avail. The vet doesn’t offer discounts and the local rescue won’t help and told me to just take them to the shelter. I realize they are full but I just wanted to try and find some cheaper tests. I’d love to get them their shots but we certainly can’t afford that right now. So as it is our vet has told us that they can see all 3 of them for $160. That would include their health checks & feline leukemia tests for both kittens. I’m not sure if it would cover a heartworm test for Snarf. We can’t keep putting this off, even if Snarf’s family is looking for him because it’s not fair to him to have to be locked up so much. So we have a vet appointment for them at 11:00 tomorrow morning. Now is the part where I swallow my pride and ask if any of you can spare any amount of money to help us pay for this. I feel bad since I know there are so many shelter animals out there that need help but these are rescues too and we are going to take care of them to the best of our abilities. I feel like they came to me for a reason and we can’t just turn them away. If you could donate anything to us we would be unbelievably grateful. We plan on getting it all done tomorrow and we’re scrounging to come up with at least $160 – if we end up with more than that from your generous donations, that extra money will be used to get the kittens vaccinated as well.
That link to donate will take you to a secure PayPal transaction page, so no worries about your information leaking out – everything is safe here. Just click on the button if you have a bit of change that you could donate to help us with the vet bills for the puppy and kittens. We all really appreciate it. I know the animals are grateful too.
Also, if you’re a business, another way to help us out is by buying advertising space on our homepage. $15 will get you a 125×125 ad for a month. That’s a pretty great deal and the money goes to helping us run this site. And, of course, 5% of whatever we get from it will go towards helping animals in need. Because who can say no to a puppy who just wants to be adopted?
