Riley's Rescue Henthorn Haven: No Fee/Low Fee All Love Adoption Grant Report

How did this grant help your organization and the pets in your care?

This grant helped a whole lot of cats find homes and brought people to our adoption events. It was great to see so many finding homes and encouraged others at our events to donate money as well! It has expanded our horizons to know that we can do this.

I feel like the volunteers had more hope during this time as well. They were more engaged and networking with those who came to the adoption events. We also feel like tagging a reputable organization helped on social media.

When anyone is adopted, the grant money then goes into our general funds to help purchase food, find vet care, and to be able to take in more cats to help them also. So the number of cats then that you are helping increases. If we just base it on the cost of a spay/neuter and vaccines, that takes up each one's adoption fee so an additional 12 cats get helped.

So I'm not sure if the number of cats this grant will help should be the 12 adopted out or the other 12 that it will help to get medical care for. So really it is 24 cats and then those will hopefully get adopted as well!

How many pets did this grant help?

12

Please provide a story of one or more specific pets this grant helped.

Buddy was an 8-year-old male who came to us as a feral cat. He had some extensive work that needed to be done. He had a puncture wound from what we assume must have been an eagle talon and was picked up and dropped as I’m sure he fought free. The puncture wound was on his shoulder and perfectly round.

He also had a large black bulge from the side of his ear that I thought was necrotizing skin, but every time I cleaned it would come right back. Ultimately, it turned out that he had ear polyps that had become severely infected and the black bulge was blood.

When he went in for the neuter surgery, they had to remove both canines and tried to get one root out of the one tooth. Turns out they did not and because he was so unruly they weren’t willing to even look in his mouth again.

After he decompressed again, we tried a new vet. It turned out that all of his front teeth were rotted and infected. He had to have them all removed along with the ear polyps.

Buddy had gone through life in a horrible way; he had so many scars from cat fights, and he was also allergic to topicals so when I had given him Revolution Plus outdoors, he had self-mutilated.

He was like many cats we get here who come in as ferals and are very sick. We get them better and spend months socializing them. We were worried Buddy would never find a home.

Buddy was the grandpa to every cat who came through our doors. He groomed them and they would all crowd around him. I loved him very much for all he was and had become, but knew that the ultimate goal was to adopt him out to a good home.

He has found an amazing home now and has a brother and dad who adore him. He clearly adores them too!