FFRC Weekly Blog Week Ending October 19, 2024
Adoptions:
Sweet, little Fizzy got her a family and a home! And waiting for at home is Snooks, who was adopted by this family last month.
Fizzy came to us in late August. She was found outside of a VFW and had gotten wedged in the dash of the car. She was healthy except for nasty fleas. She is now flea free, spayed and has had her last round of vaccines. Congratulations sweet girl.
New Cats:
A local couple were having their morning coffee and a little kitty about 3 months old came up to them. The kitty was bleeding from her rectum, covered in fleas, her paws were covered in mud. She is very thin and Megan wasn’t sure if she could be saved as she had internal parts outside of her. She was rushed to Dr. Darcy and her ‘parts’ were put back in with surgery. She was diagnosed with a prolapsed anus.
She is doing much better but does have a long road to recovery. She has been named Moo Moo. She is orange and white. She loves food and loves to be loved. Her sutures will stay in for about 2 weeks.
Delta came in with some bleeding in her vagina. She was sent up to the vets and they determined she was fine and didn’t need any surgery. She was cleaned up and is now on infection prevention protocol.
We had three new tigers come in about 10 days ago and they all have names now from the Name A Cat lists:
Perogie = female, light tiger found in a bean field.
Mr. Carson = male, black tiger, American shorthair
Teddy = male, light brown tiger.
Taco Belle is now officially Taco Belle (female)
Health Updates:
Despite our best efforts, our prayers,our love, Minnelli did not make it. She passed peacefully. She was simply too weak to fight her illness and injuries. She was in such rough shape and we are comforted in knowing she passed surrounded by love. She was held and kissed and told over and over that she was loved.
Xavi was originally scheduled for surgery this week, but it had to be rescheduled for November 8th. Dr. Darcy’s office had several unexpected long surgeries.
Thumbelina did have surgery on her paw. The surgery was more involved than anticipated but she handled it well. Her ingrown nails were more ‘ingrown’ than thought and fortunately, Dr. Darcy was able to fix the issues.
Other Updates:
Because of the unusual number of major medical issues requiring substantial vet visits and treatment, we will be running a Halloween Fundraiser. We wanted to make it fun and include the cats! There are 7 cats and one ‘I think I may be a cat” that we want you to pick who is your favorite Ghoul. The pics are on Facebook and our Flickr Photo site: flickr.com/photos/fofrescue. The cats who agreed to participate are listed and for a $5.00 donation for your choice, we will have a drawing on Oct. 25th after updates for some fun prizes. You can vote by sending with your donation (paypal, venmo or check) which cat you pick. Each vote is $5.00 but you can vote multiple times for multiple cats. For example, if you can donate $25, you can vote $5.00 for Spiker, $5.00 for Malade and two $5.00 for Derecho and $5.00 for Magic. Gizmo would like all votes to go to him. As always, we appreciate your help. If you can’t give this time around, we ask that you wish the event, success.
Our fuel that keeps us running and saving lives.
We have gotten questions asking the difference between staff and volunteers. We do have about 8 or 9 paid staff. You simply can not guarantee the consistent level of outstanding support without a paid staff. We also have around 30 volunteers who are able to help with invaluable support to our cats. We could not do what we do without our staff, volunteers and supporters. All are crucial in providing care for our cats. When we say ‘volunteers’ or ‘staff’ they really are one and the same. Our paid staff give so much of their time off ‘work’ volunteering for the cats. They run ‘errands’ which can be 50 mile treks to help a cat in need.
On November 16 there will be a volunteer/staff party. This is a nice event to get everyone together to celebrate the past year and the upcoming holidays. It is a way for us to thank all those who give so much of themselves for our cats. The party is from 11 to 3 (Defiance time). During this time, the cam will be lowered and audio turned off. This will allow all of us here to enjoy the day respecting the privacy of all.
We would like to thank everyone for their understanding for those few times when we do mute the cam. When Dr. Darcy was here a few weeks ago, everyone was so supportive of us muting the cam. This enabled us to have private conversations with our main Vet without people misunderstanding or taking things out of context. We know you would rather the cam not be muted but remember we have sound every minute of every day and maybe have 5 or 6 total hours during the year when sound is off. The amount of people who support our right to privacy is truly uplifting. Thank you all for that.
We will have little baskets of thanks for our volunteers. If you do want to send something in, feel free, but do NOT feel obligated. These little goodie bags are our way of thanking the people who scoop, feed, clean up many icky messages and overall compassion and love for our cats.
Now into kitty Christmas. We’re going to do things a little differently this year. In the past we have all the boxes sent in with our needed items, opened during a special day. However, this takes up to 10 hours of box opening and this taxes a physical toll on everyone. So this year we will open as the boxes come after November 15th and read the names and items on cam during Kitty Christmas Day. We also will have different fun things for everyone during the day so we can all truly celebrate the past year and celebrate our cats.
Kitty Christmas is more of a ‘needs list’ of things we use to get by day after day. Food, litter and other basic supplies.
As we get closer to Christmas we will be providing more updates.
About our cam. As you know we broadcast 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our broadcasts through YouTube are copyrighted. If you copy from the broadcast then put it on your page without FFRC permission, it is against copyright rules. We all know about different scams, we have been the victim of some of those. Not too long ago, someone downloaded our video’s and passed them off as their own (or passed themselves off as being us) and asked for donations to a site that was a scam. Please be careful of what you copy from our site.
We know you all want to copy content to help spread the word of FFRC and we thank you. However, implying (whether it was meant or not) that the content is yours is not legal. There are some people who download a tremendous amount of content then reposts giving the impression they own the content. They do not. All content on our youtube stream is the property of FFRC.
There is a group of FFRC mods/admins that know what can and cannot be shared. If you ever have a question as to what you can or can’t do with our content, just let us know. Thank you for understanding this. The world changes daily and technology do’s and don’ts get confusing for all of us.
And as always, keep in mind we welcome donations but be sure you are donating to FFRC through paypal (our site), Venmo, (our site) check, cash that is walked through our door. We don’t use Go Fund Me. Don’t let anyone tell you to send them money and they will make sure FFRC gets it, even if you know the person as they may not be the person you know!.
FYI: We could never do all we do without our Friends. If we ever forget to say it, please know we do mean it: Thank you for being our Friend. Thank you for everything.
Mr. Carson, Teddy and Perogie.
