You do have to be careful when choosing a place for your cats. I have one, Rustic Hollow and they have provisions for FELV cats. They do ask you give a set fee per cat per year of expected life. It is not bad considering they have 6 or 7 houses for the cats with outdoor caticos. They will provide the food your cats are used to, even my Blue Buffalo or Wellness. I wouldn't even mind retiring there to one of the houses as a live in caretaker. I have no family and I would have more than enough cats to love.
---- Lee Evans <moonsiste...@yahoo.com> wrote: > It may not be a scam. There are a lot of these types of contribution sites > around, mainly because people are struggling with vet bills and animals that > are difficult to get adopted. Matter of fact, I am developing a site called > Community Cats in Crisis and going to try to get funds through YouCare, > another publicly used site for contributions. This is in answer to the fact > that several people in my independent rescue group have spent over $5,000 of > their own money dealing with illnesses and injuries of colony cats and > abandoned cats in our community. I am $3,000 down in my finances from two > rescued cats, one still surviving with bone cancer. That said, these people > are going about this slightly backwards. They should first identify the > Sanctuary that has agreed to accept Alan so people can contact the Sanctuary > and see what it's all about. Then they need to find out where Alan will be > living at the Sanctuary and what other types of cats will be living > with him. You wouldn't want to mix FeLv and FIV+ cats together. Anyone can > start a Sanctuary and take in cats. That's a problem. Here near San Antonio > there was an FeLv sanctuary. The woman had over 100 FeLv+ cats there, all > crammed into a small shed, with an outside enclosure that was smaller than a > small backyard. The rest of the property was a sheep ranch. She took very > poor care of the cats and did not separate those who were positive but not > active for the disease from those who were already showing signs of the > disease. The place was filthy, food was rotting or very low grade and > symptoms were not treated with medications. She had no certification as a > shelter or sanctuary or certified rescue group. Just a woman using part of > her sheep ranch to store FeLv+ cats. She would collect up to $2,000 per cat > and the people who released the cats to her care were shown a very nice > living room type area with several cats lounging about. They never saw the > real place where she eventually crammed more and more cats. Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty neighbors too! >________________________________ > From: Margo <toomanykitti...@earthlink.net> >To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org >Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 11:32 AM >Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] campaign to get an felv cat to sanctuary > > > > > > >Not to be a downer, but this screams scam to me. There is no specific >sanctuary who has agreed to accept Alan (and surely they could get a decent >picture of him?), nor any details. Way too nebulous. >> >>I sincerely hope I'm wrong, but no, I wouldn't contribute to this >> >>.-----Original Message----- >>From: dana giordano >>Sent: May 26, 2013 12:10 PM >>To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org >>Subject: [Felvtalk] campaign to get an felv cat to sanctuary >> >> >>I've never seen one of these, but wanted to pass it on in case anyone wants >>to reach out to her, knows a sanctuary or wants to adopt. >> >> >>They have $700 out of $1000 raised with 20 days left >> >> >>http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/alan-s-sanctuary >> >> >> >>- >>Dana >_______________________________________________ >Felvtalk mailing list >Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org >http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > > > _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
