Steinbach and Area Animal Rescue: Purina Canada Happy Paws & Hearts Operation Grant Report
How did this grant help your organization and the pets in your care?
Our organization is so grateful to have received this grant in February 2024. Since we received this funding, we have taken a total of 18 dogs and 111 cats/kittens into our rescue.
The grant went directly to the spay/neuter, vaccination, SNAP testing, and anti-parasitic treatments for 11 cats and one dog (along with some other miscellaneous required treatments, such as antibiotics). The total vetting costs for those animals was $4,938.
As a nonprofit, we rely on gifts and donations as well as grants such as this. Like every other rescue, our vetting costs are easily our largest budget item, and when an organization such as yours can provide us with some funding, the impact is immense. This funding, in reality, allowed us to take in and vet more animals. We cannot thank you enough.
How many pets did this grant help?
11 cats and one dog
Please provide a story of one or more specific pets this grant helped.
Bojack (first photo) is a 1-year-old male tuxedo cat who was found as a stray wandering in a rural area near Steinbach.
Sarah Thiessen, a former adopter (Karen and Boo), captured him after she had been seeing on her property for a couple of months. She posted him on Southeast Manitoba Lost and Found Animals and a community bulletin board for Ste. Anne with no one coming forward.
He was a friendly, intact male covered in engorged ticks. He had a negative SNAP test and much-needed tick meds on April 20.
Bojack was adopted to a wonderful family on May 14, 2024.
Suntan (second photo) and Sardine (third photo) had been living in a wood pile since they were wee kittens. Someone had been feeding them for months before they thought to call a rescue to get them into care. They were very frightened of people and are still in need of lots of love and patience while they adjust to life indoors, but they are the gentlest boys! Both are slowly coming out of their shells in their foster home.
Meet Suntan here.
Meet Sardine here.
Ritz and Dice (fourth photo) were stray cats fending for themselves along with their mom, who was already pregnant again. Ritz and Dice were at the age where they would end up just like their mom: living as stray cats and continuing to breed. All three cats were able to be trapped and brought into the rescue. They were fully vetted and spayed and are in a foster home where they are working on socialization.
