Chilliwack Animal Safe Haven Society: Purina Canada Happy Paws & Hearts Operation Grant Report
How did this grant help your organization and the pets in your care?
This grant was put towards one of our vet invoices for March 2024. March was a very high-volume month for us in terms of the number of cats coming into the shelter and being vetted. Our total vet invoices (we use 3-5 veterinary clinics) was over $10,000.
That is more than average. Last year we averaged $7,000 per month and knew this year would be more, as veterinary clinics have increased their rates across the board. The invoice that this was put towards lists the 34 cats that went through one specific vet clinic. This grant made a significant impact towards helping with this large invoice.
How many pets did this grant help?
34 in March 2024
Please provide a story of one or more specific pets this grant helped.
The Safe Haven offers a “last litter” program, where we will pay to spay a momma kitty and the owner surrenders the kittens — so it is the momma cat’s last litter. The owner usually acts as the foster until the kittens are ready to be spayed/neutered and adopted. It is a great program and we’ve been able to find homes for so many of the kittens.
One of the mommas was a kitty named Valkyrie. She’d come from a home with a large number of cats who were all related and none had been fixed. There were four kittens from two different litters she had (Lemon, Mako, Tiger, and Ragnar) who came in.
All four have been adopted. Lemon (first photo) is a gorgeous orange kitten, now known as Steve, who has charmed his family so much and they share updates with us often. Tiger and Mako (second photo) are fluffy black kittens who were just recently adopted together. Ragnar, another orange kitten, was adopted in March. And Valkyrie will never have another litter.
We also had two strays who arrived together and whom we believed to be sisters. They were so dirty, they received the names Duchess Dirt Foot (third photo) and Princess Peaceful Paws (fourth photo). They were the sweetest girls and both were spayed in March.
Duchess was adopted on March 30 with another Haven kitty named Raven and Princess Peaceful Paws is now Princess Leia and was adopted in early April.
We are so fortunate to be able to get these cats in, off the street or out of bad home situations, vetted, and into loving new forever homes.
