Baseball Goes to the Cats!!

On June 28th the General Manager/Owner of the Fort Collins Foxes, Kurt Collichio, invited us to have a booth and bring some adoptable kitties to their baseball game. It was also the Throwback Jersey Game where the players where special baseball jerseys which are auctioned off. All of the money raised would go to help the kitties at FCCR.

We set up a booth with all of our information, and also brought along an adult cat and a kitten: Jake & Chase.

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Our wonderful volunteer, Chandra, came with me to help man the booth. Jake had a lot of fun hanging out on our table and being the center of attention! At one point he even gave the kitten a bath. We also loved seeing the Foxes players checking out the adoptable kitties notebook, and petting Jake & Chase.

We had lots of FTC Foxes fans come over to meet the kitties and learn more about our organization. The kids especially loved meeting the kitties - and Jake hammed it up for them!

We also got some donations!

Kurt Colicchio is a cat lover, and has been a huge supporter of FCCR.

He is a great guy and we really appreciated the opportunity to represent FCCR at the game.

In addition, the jersey auction raised $150 for the homeless kitties in our community.

Hooray!

Rising From the Ashes

It has been just over 2 weeks since the tragic fire in our spay/neuter clinic ocurred on 7/11/2009. A malfunctioning autoclave had burned and combusted. The fire stayed contained in the autoclave, but the smoke ruined everything in its path. It is impossible to describe the damage that was done. A layer of soot coated every square inch of the clinic, and the smell of fire had seeped into everything. The worst loss of course was Strut, the clinic cat, because he is the one thing that cannot be replaced.

(Strut helping Carey work just days before the fire.)

The total losses come to over $25,000. We are waiting to hear what the insurance will cover, but at the absolute most we can expect $20,600.

Thanks to the community, we are slowly rising from the ashes. Wonderful volunteers spent a week cleaning and re-painting the entire clinic. (It is a miracle that we were able to re-open in a week!) We have had over $6,000 in donations at this point from people that support what we are doing. Businesses like VCA Fort Collins Animal Hospital, Petco, and Home to Heaven made generous donations to help out.

Thank you community!

The old Autoclave, Inside the Autoclave, The Soot that Covered Everything

Cat works hard Painting, Carey takes a break to smile, Thank you Bonnie!

Cleaning Machine Shelly, Cindy helps paint, Brittany also helps paint



The clinic with its new coat of paint. It looks so cheerful!