Piedmont Pound Paws, Inc.: Kia Pet Adoption Grant Report

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

Most of our cats have been with us for a long time, since adoptions everywhere seem to be slow while intakes have increased. This grant always helps to attract the attention of more serious potential adopters when the cost lowers. Even when we adopt at regular price, people don't seem to understand that $140 is way lower than around $400 that a free cat would cost if they had to pay for their own vet. But attach a "discounted price" to it and even those who would have paid the original price see it as a sign that now is the time to go for it, and many do.

How many pets did this grant help?

8

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

The one adoption that stands out was that of Phineas, a male Russian blue mix who had belonged to one of our elderly fosters who passed away; when that happened, we had to take in her own cats as well as her fosters.

Phineas was hers, not a kitten, and was not used to all the commotion of a crowd. Still, he was definitely a keeper, if only someone could connect with him. Luckily, that person arrived after seeing Phineas’s photo first, and then saw the special fee. Phineas won the jackpot and was adopted, with the encouragement/push of the grant.