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Sponsor a Critical Need
Consider sponsoring an animal, to provide life-saving care, or TNR for a colony who is reproducing at an alarming rate, and whose population is out of control.
With your donations, we will be able to provide advanced treatment to improve the quality of an ill or injured animal's life, or we'll provide TNR to a feral cat colony in a badly needed area.
Unless we are able to raise enough money, the animals below will likely not get the urgent attention they need.
Please help by making a directed donation for these special cases of "nobody's pets", who are likely the result of the financial crisis we are facing in our country today. This is truly what animal rescue is about.
Cats Dumped at the LandfillIn honor of National Feral Cat Day on October 16, and America Recycles Day on November 15, we're asking you to sponsor the spay/neuter of a Landfill Cat, at a cost of $20 each. If you can afford it, we hope you'll consider sponsoring more than one.
There were 30 cats there when we were first contacted. We've been through a kitten season since then, so there are likely many more. We'd have altered them already, if we had the funds. Because of the financial burdens required for the animals already in our care, and for the senior citizens to whom we've remained committed, we are unable to take on another project until we raise the money to fund it. |
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For each $20 sponsorship, Animal Loving Friends will trap and alter one cat, and stop the breeding cycle. Each one could prevent another 18 cats from being born at the dump over the next year, and up to 420,000 over a seven year period!
How many can you sponsor? Only $20 each. Instead of discarding your items in the trash, please recycle them and donate the proceeds to ALF's Landfill Cats fund. It's a win-win! Please join us in this very important campaign. Make your Spay One Stray™ donation today, in honor of National Feral Cat Day and America Recycles.
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"I looked at all the homeless, neglected, and abandoned pets.. the cast-offs of human society. I saw in their eyes love and hope, fear and dread, sadness, and betrayal. And I was angry. "God," I said, "this is terrible! Why don't you do something?" God was silent for a moment, and then spoke softly, "I have done something," was the reply. "I created you."
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Willow is Unable to Walk
Our most urgent funding need RIGHT NOW is for medical treatment for Willow suffered some type of trauma to her back, apparently hit by a car. She was found in the parking lot near where she lived in a feral cat colony, dragging her back legs, completely unable to move them. In the first 6 weeks, Willow recovered the feeling in her legs, and is able to bend and straighten them at will. The site of trauma on the back is no longer as painful.. But it's been 7 months since her injury, and Willow still cannot stand, nor urinate on her own. We've tried to raise the money to have her seen by a neurologist and determine whether surgery could correct some of the damage. But with their costs in the thousands, we began exploring other alternatives. Today Willow is receiving a series of acupuncture treatments and we're seeing some improvement. While it's slow, we believe that she is beginning some level of healing. She really needs to continue this treatment if at all possible, but we need your help! Will you sponsor one treatment at $135?
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Kittens Rescued from the DesertALF spent several weeks during the hot summer, rescuing 10 precious lives, and sterilizing the adult cats who produced them. Our volunteers logged more than 180 hours on this rescue alone, and another 300 on socializing these beautiful babies who were born in the desert. We became way too intimate with the natural inhabitants of the desert, especially those who only come out at night. We caught and released skunks on more than a dozen occasions. Among the spiders, scorpions, ants, roaches, rats, bats, owls, skunks, and coyotes, one scared little kitten hid away in the crates much longer than his siblings and mama. Rest assured, we did not give up! Read more about Baby Dillinger and all 10 of the kittens rescued during this mission in our Breaking News Special Edition Newsletter. Our average cost to get a healthy animal ready for adoption is $125. Adoptions are usually handled by one of our partner rescue organizations, and ALF does not receive the adoption fee. In the more difficult rescues such as this, we spend a small fortune on smelly foods to attract the cats out from their hiding places, and specially made equipment for trapping small kittens in confined spaces. Next is lots and lots of kitten food, and treatment for a variety of illnesses. Finally tests and vaccinations, and spays and neuters, prepare them for adoption. Though 5 of these kittens have been adopted through our partner groups, and others are waiting in adoption centers, we're still caring for a few, and could be for a very long time. Their mama cats are now permanent residents in one of our feral colonies, where we will feed and care for them for the rest of their lives. Your donations, and sharing this page with your friends, are key to enabling us to continue saving lives.
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Excessive Heat Elevates Need for Cat HouseArizona experienced several Excessive Heat Warnings this summer, with daytime temperatures near 115, and nighttime temps barely getting under 100! Unfortunately we've had a lot of dumping occur near some of our colonies, and many cats are finding our feeding stations as their only means of survival. Some are tame, and beg for rescue. We had to make use of our outdoor overflow pet enclosure, but even with the mister system in the extreme heat, and the humidity of the monsoon season, it became unbearable. While we met our original estimate of $400 to build an air-conditioned structure, it took so long that the price of materials increased significantly. We are watching for deals, and hope to construct it before next summer. We still need a little more cash and some miscellaneous furnishings. We'll be able to use this house as a convalescing room for the feral cats, following their TNR surgeries, or a nursery for newborn kittens and their mama. If you have any of the following, please let us know!
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This is perhaps the ugliest side of humanity. We've all heard about these animals struggling to
survive at the landfills, eating what they can find in our community's discarded garbage. They
become entangled in plastic "six pack rings", are exposed to dangerous chemicals, cut their paws
on broken glass and other sharp objects, and do not have access to clean water or nutritional food.
Nobody wants to think about it, let alone see it. It's easier to pretend it doesn't exist. But it
does. We have been asked to assist one such landfill, where a colony of feral cats are being fed a
healthy diet, but they continue to reproduce.
7650 S McClintock Dr
Suite 103-120
Tempe, AZ 85284
Email:
alfrescue@hotmail.com