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Daniel the shelter cat only has 26 toes, which is not enough to earn him a world record, but is certainly more than you or I have! The polydactyl cat was taken in by the Milwaukee Animal Rescue Center when shelter owner Amy Rowell spotted him at the pound, and now Daniel has returned the favor -by saving the shelter.
Unable to afford its raised rent at a suburban mall, the Milwaukee Animal Rescue Center needed to buy a new building. To raise the necessary funds, Rowell solicited $26 donations – $1 for each of Daniel’s tootsies.
Donors opened their hearts and their wallets, and $125,000 poured in within the space of just six weeks, the Associated Press reports – $5,000 more than the goal. And most of it came in the form of $26 donations.
The mortgage is not yet paid off, so Daniel will continue to solicit funds for the shelter. Link -via mental_floss
A house cat in Florida named Bobbi had six kittens and then nursed two other kittens for an animal shelter. Her latest assignment: three bobcat kittens!
The baby bobcats — two females named Midnight and Rain, plus a male, Storm — will be fed by Bobbi for up to four weeks, Big Cat Rescue president Jamie Veronica said.
The kittens were given those names because “we drove through a midnight rain storm to get them,” Veronica said.
A hunter brought the kittens to a veterinary clinic in Alabama earlier this month, Baskin said. Vets said they think the hunter shot the kittens’ mother. It is legal in many states, including Florida, to hunt bobcats for sport, Baskin said.
“He walked in with a shotgun in one hand and a bag of kittens in the other,” she said.
The bobcats will be sheltered for about 18 months and then returned to the wild. Link
There’s also video and a news story of how Bobbi came to be involved. Link -via Arbroath
There’s no question that in today’s tough economic climate, many worthy causes are facing trouble.
After it was broken into by a drunk man, the country’s only cage-free, no-kill animal shelter, The Saint Francis Animal Rescue Center, has gone into tailspin and needs your help:
Now, with almost no volunteers and two staff members, the shelter might have to consider permanently closing its bashed-in doors.
"It’s just been horrible," said shelter director Charlene Rodriguez. "My assistant and I have been using our own funds, and I don’t mean trust funds, but as in paycheck to paycheck.
"It’s been extremely difficult."
According to Amy Lieberman of ZooToo Pet News, you can donate to the Saint Francis Animal Rescue Center through their paypal email of StFrancisAnimalRescue@yahoo.com.
