And those unexpected bills---last week we had the FFRC's air conditioner unit go out. This bill is approximately $460. We also had no water yesterday. Unfortunately, a brand new pump and the electric all had to be replaced. I don't have the cost on that yet, but it will be over $1,200. Steve and I will pay a portion of this but FFRC will also have to pay a portion. We also have window problems in Kitty City. While I had said I do not want to put anymore money into Kitty City, we will have to. If we don't have these 3 windows repaired, the building is in trouble. All 3 are completely rotted around each frame. The windows are slipping out. We use this building for event storage, holding of equipment for FFRC and it's our main area for food storage. This bill will come to approximately $1600. And just in case you are wondering, the new fan and motor for the dryer was still under warranty. The dryer is working great now.
We sent up some kittens yesterday to HumaneOhio yesterday. While I prefer to do all of our spay/neuter surgeries here at FFRC, we needed that last Saturday time with Dr. Darcy to do all the outside physicals and catch up items for the many cats of the Cove, Porchies, Barnies and FireCats. Because we have so many that are now of weight, we sent 8 to HO. Now, we can get these kittens adopted! Six of these 8 are spoken for already! The kittens that went are: Doodle, Freckles, Cheerios, Pow Wow, Razzle, Zazzle, CeeCee and Ximanga. They all did just fine and acting like the goofy kittens they are today. Their healing ability is amazing.
We had some donations that we'd like to give thanks to! YOU are appreciated.
Faithy/vol--donation to FFRC
Janet M--donation to FFRC
Sandra C--donation to FFRC
Colleen P--donation to FFRC
Our HumaneOhio day stats from yesterday--we sent up 47 cats and kittens altogether! It was a good day! Any day we can do more spays/neuters, is a good day to FFRC. We did 29 spays and 18 males. All surgeries went just fine. This makes our Grand Total at 725 cats for 2018. Each year we want to increase these numbers. For this time in 2017, we were at 598. And for 2016, at this time we were at 366. As you know, my goal for 2018 is to reach 1000 (or more!).
We had BOXES yesterday. Many thanks to all that provided these gifts, to our catetary Mudjie and to you all that show your support to these people.
Billie K - 6 - 7lb Bags Royal Canin Baby Cat
NHFurry - 60 Hair Tie toys for Vern & Friends
Josette M - 20 Toys for Adoption Bags, case of 24ct Friskies Pouches
Aussiecat - Made by Mom: 7 sets of 5 Beautiful Greeting Cards for variety of occasions
Two Whiskers from kitties Murphy & Nellie
Joseph & Rhonda - ME Case Fancy Feast Kitten
Judeannlee & Phil - IN Case Kitten food, 7lb Bag Royal Canin Baby Cat, 2 Boxes Appetizers,
Sleeve of Baby Food, Gallon of Mr Clean, 2 Bags Dr. Elsies Litter
Kris M - Giant Slipper bed, Large Pillow Top Mattress bed, Large Comfy Cup
Nona-- 10 Sleeves of much needed Baby Food Meat
Anony - 3 Tubs Clorox Wipes, 350 6" plates
Don & Sandy - 2 - 40ct Cases Friskies
Flymom--donation to help buy some baby food meat
Today is the dental day for Mitz. Many thanks to Jennie for taking Mitz to the vet's office. She will come back to us today.
Take care everyone and enjoy your pets!
