Stray Cat Blues, Inc.: Cat Enrichment Grant Report
How did this grant help your organization and the pets in your care?
Through this grant, Stray Cat Blues, Inc., (SCB) was able to purchase new scratching post activity towers for use at both the Whiskers Way Station and residential foster homes for foster cats within our care.
Whiskers Way Station serves as a "halfway house" for cats requiring more socialization prior to adoption. The cats are free-roaming in a home-like setting. This is the perfect place for increased enrichment!
SCB intakes and fosters over 1,300 cats annually, and between significant use and sanitization between fosters due to disease, foster equipment is often in need of replacement. These activity towers provide enrichment and satisfaction to foster cats while they are awaiting adoption through providing a place to climb high, scratch, play individually and with other cats, and sleep.
This grant helped to provide these towers for fosters who otherwise purchase items out of pocket, so this will allow fosters to invest more funds directly into the care of their fosters.
How many pets did this grant help?
200
Please provide a story of one or more specific pets this grant helped.
Timon is a super cute older kitten from a colony in Lansdale. Part of a TNR project, he, like many of his colony-mates, turned out to be very sweet and would prefer to live the rest of their lives indoors instead of struggling to survive on the streets.
While he is a little shy and will take time to adjust to his new home, he enjoys getting pets and chowing down on Fancy Feast. While in foster care, the towers purchased through this grant have allowed him the opportunity to climb, play, socialize, and fill his days with enriching fun as he learns to love life indoors!
