Frisbee Golf Anyone??

Just recently got great news from Sue Lande (a proclaimed animal lover and awesome woman) that FCCR has been chosen as one of the recipients for this years discgivings! Our good friends , Animal House Rescue, are the other recipients.

Want to find out more?? Visit: www.discgivings.org

Regardless of what you like to do there is always an opportunity to do it while helping the kitties!!! Thanks Sue!

Meet Tiger!

Everyone meet Tiger our latest addition to our shelter. Tiger is a male 6 month old domestic medium hair, male, grey tabby that was relinquished to us. He is extremely sweet and loves to snuggle with everyone. See the video of him loving on Judy....... this could be YOUR ear lobe!! Come meet Tiger today!!

Shred-a-Thon Success!

Last Saturday we had a first Shred-a-Thon fundraiser which was organized by our fabulous volunteer, Claudia Arbaugh. The fundraiser was a huge success and raised an incredibl $1100 in just 4 hours!

Thank you to Apex Shredding (http://www.apexshreddinginc.com/events/) for providing this fundraising opportunity!

Also, thank you to King Soopers for allowing us to have this fundraiser in their parking lot.

And of course thank you to the volunteers that helped run the fundraiser, and to all of the individuals and businesses that came to shred some paper!

The kitties will benefit due to all of your generosity!!!!

Good News!!!

We have been so busy these last few weeks that it has been hard to write any updates, but we have lots of good news!

We finally had a van donated to us thanks to the generosity of Jim Madl!!!! Brian K. is working on some FCCR decals for the van to spruce it up!

Cats in the Garden at Bath Garden Center and Nursery was a huge success! We just received a check for over $700!!

Also, we received a check for over $2000 from Natural Balance due to the diligence of the Poudre Pet & Feed staff. They cut the UPC's off of all of the bags of Natural Balance that they sell, and send them in. Natural Balance then makes a donation for each UPC.

Thank you, thank you!!

Calendar Contest!!

Hey Everyone -



If you haven't heard yet, we are accepting pictures of your precious babies right now for Fort Collins Cat Rescue's 2010 calendar. It is $15/entry, and your kitty is guaranteed at least a thumbnail somewhere on the calendar. Of course all of the money goes to help the homeless kitties that come through out shelter (today we have already received a mom with 7 kittens, a single kitten with radial hyperplasia, and an adult cat from a homeless family).

Please get your pics in soon - the deadline is Aug. 15th. We are looking forward to seeing your little models! You cn find all of the information on our website at http://www.fortcollinscatrescue.org/

Sarah

This is the picture I submitted of one of my kitties (Squishy). Isn't he a doll?!?

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!