Paws 4 Life Animal Rescue, Inc.: Kia Pet Adoption Grant Report

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

We used the funds to help reduce adoption fees for cats who had been with our organization for longer than six months. We were able to adopt out 10 (yes, 10!) cats who had been with our rescue longer than six months, including one cat that had been with us for more than two years. This grant helped us so much and got some of these harder-to-adopt cats into forever homes.

How many pets did this grant help?

10

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

Roxie (photos 1-3) came into our care back in September 2021 at just a few months old as a feral kitten who’d had no human interaction. Trust did not come easily to her, but we were patient and tried to let her go at her own pace. Shortly after she was spayed, she was diagnosed with FIP and became one of the first FIP cats our rescue treated. Roxie fought hard and beat it. Then she developed recurring urinary-tract infections, but with medication and by keeping close tabs on her, we have been able to stay ahead of it.

Over this two-year period, Roxie has become a true lap cat! As soon as you sit down, she will happily sit in your lap and just soak up all your love and attention.

An approved adopter came to look a some of our available cats and, once she heard Roxie’s story, that was the cat for her. She also adopted a second cat, Sosa (third photo), who had also been with us for over six months who also keep getting overlooked.

Thanks to this grant, we were able to reduce both cats’ (fourth photo) adoption fees so that the adopter could set aside some of those funds for future vet care.