All Paws Rescue Services: Emergency Medical Grant Report
How did this grant help your organization and the pets in your care?
Our rescue helps rescue approximately 300 cats annually. With adoptions slowing down this year and requests for surrenders at an all-time high, we have been stretched incredibly thin. On top of regular vetting needing, we have had numerous cats requiring extensive emergency care.
Jinx (who the emergency grant was awarded for) required two expensive, but needed, surgeries to give her back her mobility due to luxating patellas. In total, we have spent over $9,500 on her for her two surgeries, emergency visits, tests, follow-ups, etc.! For our rescue, that is the equivalent of a month of regular vetting for all of the cats in our care.
To date, we have had some fundraising events and solicited for donations, raising $4,239 towards Jinx’s vet care. That means that we had to allocate over $5,000 from our general fundraising to cover costs to-date. The $500 grant has helped us offset some of these costs.
How many pets did this grant help?
1
Please provide a story of one or more specific pets this grant helped.
Jinx joined All Paws Rescue in the summer of 2022 when she was found in a barrel with her five babies who were only three days old. She was such a good mama, even though she was starving when we found her and needed lots of TLC to get back to a healthy state. All of her kittens found forever homes and then it was Jinx’s turn to spend more time socializing with her foster and get ready for adoption.
But recently in January she required emergency care twice for what we believed were seizures. What we learned after expensive tests and x-rays was that she was not having seizures: She has luxating patellas in both back legs, which means they don’t stay in place and she can’t properly use those legs (so she was flailing around trying to get out of the litter box).
We were lucky to get her seen quickly at the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph and she has now had both of her expensive, but needed, surgeries to give her back her mobility. She is fully recovered now and staying at her foster home until we find a forever family for Jinx.
We have a wonderful community of supporters, but with all of the emergencies we have had with the cats we have rescued, on top of a challenging economy, we have needed help to ease our financial strain. We are thankful for the $500 grant from the Petfinder Foundation to use towards Jinx’s medical care.
We thank the Petfinder Foundation for awarding us the grant and are happy to report that Jinx has healed very well and is now ready for adoption!
