Seeking Donations for Cats Needs

I have always needed some financial help to cover the cost of the Cat Colony Needs that I have provided for many, many years. Now that I have been unemployed for several months, it is even more challenging. My income has decreased by $400 a month.

I do use a low-cost Spay & Neuter Service to Help Stop Breeding the Homeless©. I call my dedication to these animals PAWS of SEK©. Protect All Wandering Souls of SouthEast Kansas©. I do not allow these animals to multiply - adding to my cost.

I REALLY need some SPONSORS on a regular basis. One time donations help as well. The WIDGET to DONATE is on the upper right side of this blog. Local donations in person would allow 100% of the money to go toward this cost. By using the widget I am charged 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction (ex: $3.20 fee on a $100 donation).

Weekly I purchase:
• 24 lb bag of cat food each week
• Scoopable litter & litter freshener
• OUT cleaner for the floor in litter room and any other areas that need cleaned
• Febreeze
• Paper towels

Other supplies I use as needed:
• Economy bottle of flea spray
• A few cats need the individual spot treatment that includes ear mite treatment {and also because the spray scares them and I get torn up treating them}
• Knockout™ flea treatment used in areas that are hard to reach to clean where any flea eggs might have fallen. This product has kept me from having any flea outbreaks in my home. I love it!
• Virbac Yard Spray™ for the three lots that I live on {applied with a garden hose}
• Worm pills - 2 types of pills - this is costly for all the cats I care for.
• Mr. Clean
• Laundry Detergent for washing all the indoor and outdoor bedding {I have made many shelters for them to get out of the inclement weather}.
• Added cost to electric, gas and water bill for all the cleaning that is done.
• I ALSO CARE FOR A THREE LEGGED DOG that was abandoned in my neighborhood. I have all his financial needs to meet as well. {food, heartworm meds, flea meds, tags and routine shots}. He needs a sponsor too.

Every year I have someone dump several cats on me. I also have neighbors that do not practice spay & neuter then their momma cats bring their babies to my home. I guess they know where they will get unconditional love and be spoiled. I refuse to send them to the city pound or dump them in the country as many people have told me to do. My heart breaks for all the homeless animals I see in my community. I DO MY PART in my neighborhood to help control this and take on the responsibility.

I am very fortunate that my parents have purchased the two lots adjacent to my home so that I have plenty of land for the animals to enjoy and relax. Also, I do not have any immediate neighbors and nothing but land and ponds on the property behind my home; therefore the cats have PLENTY of land to enjoy and not a nuisance to anyone.

Mother Nature always runs it course. I lose some to the busy road or predators. I always gain some each year. It's truly a never ending cycle. I do what I can to love and protect them. Below is a photo of a pond that still needs a lot of work, but provides them a peaceful, happy place to hang out!

URGENT GOAL:
I have both indoor and strictly outdoor cats {feral and untrained}. I need to do some much needed structural work for the leaning attached garage. I want to add a raised floor with heat/air ducts. I plan to make a cat entrance in the end that will go to a new small enclosed room with "bunk bed" sleeping quarters to get them out of the elements and have some comfort during inclement weather. I will have an interior door to go in to feed them daily and clean the room. The rest of the garage entered from my home will be the new Litter Room & Supply Room so that it is NOT INSIDE my home any longer. I will also put my tool & household supply rack, chest freezer and yard tools in this room. This will be a true blessing to have this change made!

Additional Goal before Winter:
The cat shelters that my mom and sons helped build out of ammo boxes several years ago are getting old. I need to build new structures in several areas of my property for the extremely feral cats that won't come near me, yet live where they can on my property.

I have Chronic Pain and some severe injuries.
It's very painful to help these animals.
I'm worn out with keeping up with all my duties, but I will not stop. I would be SO GRATEFUL for any FINANCIAL SUPPORT to help me with all my efforts, but also some physical help as well. Once I have the CAT ROOM in the garage built, I would be grateful to have someone local come help with the weekly deep cleaning that would need to be done in that room. That would be such a Blessing! Keeping up with all the other cleaning IN my home is very hard on me, not to mention all my yard duties on this large property. My dad mows, but I do the weed eating - which puts me down for days. I also hand pull the invasive weeds that are very stubborn. I want them out by the root, and I do not like to use sprays that might be harmful to the cats. I am in constant pain to keep up with all of this.

Thank you for reading. Please share this post on your FB wall or email/msg the link to any friends that help with Animal Causes to help me with the financial burden.

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Too Many Irons in the Fire

I have not been blogging obviously! I've been working on the house renovations - old 1920's house that is screaming for love and attention! I have also been trying to start putting in some time to start working on some websites.

My aunt's church asked me to take over updating their website (designed in html only) which has gone well. I have purchased 7 domains and put up the godaddy temp page for each of them.

I've been working on designing the logo for our local animal shelter and the mock websites for them to chose what look and feel they like the best. Our local animal shelter was nearly shut down and a group of us came together to save it. So far, it is coming together much quicker than expected. I'm so happy that people care enough to help our homeless animals and community!

I will start posting links as I get websites up and running. They might be basic sites as I get several up and running, but then I will update them and repost as I can throughout the year. I'm still working full-time for a family member - which pays the bills - but hope to work from home full time (and there part time) within a couple years.

I always burn my candle at both ends. It seems I thrive on having Too Many Irons in the Fire!

Blessings of the Beast! Pet Odors!

I take care of 20 cats... most are outside, but I let some in whenever they want. But that isnt the reason for a new product I discovered. Recently, I had a bag of dog food in my car that I was feeding a homeless dog with. While at work, I forgot to roll my window up. There are quite a few feral cats there, and an old Tom decided to help himself to my dogfood.

Upon licking his chops (I presume!) he "blessed the whole car with his scent! The nerve of him! I assume he smelled my dog in there and wanted to let him know that he ate all his food! LOL. I treated it with Febreeze and pulled a towel out of my trunk to drive home. I used a product I have called OdoBan that I get at WalMart in the cleaning isle.


Click the pic for the product website!

Product Benefits

* Eliminates Smoke Odors
* Cleans, Disinfects & Deodorizes
* Controls Garbage Area Odors
* Safe for Use on Washables
* OdoBan is not a Masking Agent
* Use on Pet Odors

That just didnt seem to cut it, but I kept using it several times a day. I do like it for regular animal cleanups though so maybe I just didnt use enough?? OdoBan has a Eucalyptus Scent, is an air freshener, fabric freshener, and kills 99.99% of germs! Its a staple in my house for regular cleaning.

A few days later, my son had taken my car down to my moms, but upon returning he left the windows down for the night. I had warned the boys that all the stray males in our neighborhood would do the same thing, especially since the first Blessing of the Beast was from a totally different neighborhood! Sure enough, I went out the next morning to leave for work and bailed right back out! I sprayed it down, re-toweled my seat then headed for work, leaving the windows cracked to air out. After work I went to WalMart and checked the pet isle to find a new product:

OUT! Multi-Cat Urine Odor Destroyer.


Click the pic for the product website!

OUT!™ CAT STAIN AND ODOR REMOVER

* Permanently removes pet urine, vomit, feces, spilled foods and more
* Effective on old or new stains and odors
* Unique natural bacterial enzyme formula
* Use on carpets, pet bedding, upholstery, concrete and other water-safe surfaces


It worked very well. Unfortunately, my son did it again the next week and the inside of my car was sprayed for a third time! My mother's cat was the culprit this time... he laid there about 10 feet from my car, cleaning his privates and legs, and looking up to smirk at me in between licks. I just glared at him and mumbled under my breath about my mother criticizing me in the past for (back then) not getting my cats fixed... and I pay the price now for her hipocrisy! It's a good thing I am a cat lover! And a good thing my mother has a new car! He would have been returned home quite quickly, and I might have decided HER car needed to be aired out! :)

Thank goodness I had vowed to keep towels on all the seats... which helped with the cleanup. I totally saturated ALL the fabric in the car, and used paper towels to wipe ALL the plastic surfaces down. It seemed to do the trick.

People with a sensitive nose can pick up on the smell but only slightly. Its only been a couple weeks, and I have not retreated. **Note to self: Do one more treatment in the a.m.** I added some of the OUT! to the washer with the detergent and let them soak while I was at work. They came out just fine. I also added a little fabric softener to the rinse just for good measures!

The scent of the OUT! is hard to describe. The only thing I can say is it is a neutral scent, yet with a "industrial" smell. I prefer the OdoBan scent all in all, but OUT! truly is a neutral scent. It says it combines enzymes and pro-bacteria to combat urine odors once and for all. It can be added to carpet cleaning machines as well. My cat litter room isnt the best of surfaces, so I spray the room down several times a week and it has made a difference.

Hope you can find it to test out. Let me know what you think of it if you try it out.

And dont forget to click on the Coupon to print out!
OUT! coupon
You have to enter your name and info, but then you can save the coupon PDF to print as many as you like.

http://www.outinternational.com/


And for one more product I do use regular is Clorox Cleanup in a spray bottle.



I have several rooms that are just plywood subfloors. If I see there is a pet-mess, I spray it on and let it set a minute. The area that has urine that may not quite be visible will turn white... sort of like peroxide in a way. It really helps find hidden pet urine. I wipe it up, spray again and let sit about 5 minutes to soak in, wipe it, then do a final spray and wipe. This is a great product as well... but oh the bleach odor! Make sure you ventilate if you use very much at a time!