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Donation Boxes Donated Anonymously Surprise! Surprise! Some wonderfully thoughtful and kind anonymous person purchased and donated clear lucite lock donation boxes to us after all these years. For 19 years, we’ve never had any...and now it’s our turn to find kind “hosts” for them to put them to work. Many local businesses are graciously responding by placing them on their counters in prominent spots to encourage their clients to donate, thereby helping us to provide funding for the only county-wide lowcost feral cat and kitten spay/neuter program. Thank you to our friends at Zachary’s Restaurant on Pacific, Aptos Feed, Pacific Veterinary Specialists, Mollies Country Café in Scotts Valley, Ark Animal Hospital, newly opened Mint in Scotts Valley, Scotts Valley Feed, Capitola Book Café, Hansen’s Feed on Freedom in Watsonville, and Pet Pals. If you would like to “host” one of Project Purr’s NEW donation boxes, please give us a call at 423-MEOW and leave us a message. It’s a wonderful way to give back to our community and take “Compassionate Action!”
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Important News! Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County Awards Grant to Project Purr. The Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County's Board of Directors has approved a grant for Project Purr to support cat rescue and spay/neuter/return programs. The Board members and staff stated that they "are aware of the important services Project Purr provides to the community and are pleased to make these funds available to support this work." This grant is made possible through a contribution from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Project Purr says Thank You for your on-going help and support! |
"What's to be done with 150 cats encroaching on county property earmarked for a $68 million data center? Officials and cat feeders have come up with a life-sparing solution." The Working Cats Program, of Voice for the Animals Foundation, relocates sterilized and vaccinated feral cats who would otherwise have been euthanized at the shelter to places that have problems with rats. The rats are repelled by the cats' odor and leave. Compared to the methods that are most commonly used to control rats, this method proves to be effective, humane and environmentally friendly. It is a win-win-win situation! |
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Memorial Day 2007
Hugs and kisses from the kitties to all the wonderful people who donated their special items, all of the people who volunteered to work and also those who came and shopped at our successful June 2007 Fundraising Field Sale! Together we raised over $21,000.00 towards spaying and neutering the feral cats and kittens of Santa Cruz County, thereby ensuring a better chance at long, healthy and happy lives for them!
Thoughtful and caring local businesses included Way of Life, The Buttery, Gayle's Bakery and Rosticeria, Kitty Hill Resort for Cats, Ocean Honda & Chevrolet, Lundberg Studios Art Glass, Palace Art & Stationers, DeLaveaga Golf Lodge, The Bagelry, Outside-In, Pacific Cookie Company, The Garden Company, Well Within, Trader Joe's, Zinnia's, Staff of Life, The Swift Stitch, Meltzer's Mints, and New Leaf donated either to our silent auction or yummy goodies for the hardworking volunteers. Heartfelt Thank-You's to all of them too! Project Purr's lowcost program at Adobe Animal Hospital has assisted thousands of cats and kittens since 1987. Overwhelming community participation showed enthusiastic support for both Project Purr and Trap/Neuter/Return (TNR) the ethical choice for reducing feral cat numbers. TNR is effective, cost-efficient and humane. Managed colonies and TNR teach compassion, nonviolence and tolerance for others. As an organization, we are committed with integrity and compassion to a high quality standard of care for our ferals, safety for both cats and humans, and a responsibility to the community ! We believe in a feral cat's right to live, free from the stress of uncontrolled breeding. We believe, along with other feral cat spay/neuter organizations throughout the world that healthy feral cats should not be killed simply because they were born without a house address. Spay/neuter is the single most important thing we all can do to help the animals! There are not enough homes for all the animals in Santa Cruz county...and you can never stem the tide of homeless animals if you ignore the least understood and in the greatest danger...feral cats and kittens! It is interesting to see how our yard sales have grown over the past 11 years... we surprised even ourselves! From a slow beginning in 1996 and $490.00 raised at our first sale on South Branciforte Avenue to the culmination of this year's field sale on Thurber Lane/Soquel Drive and $21,000.00, we have raised over $196,000.00 selling "stuff" to fund spay/neuter for all of Santa Cruz county's kitties! |
Project Purr and Silicon Valley Animal Rescue Team to Save Seacliff Cats State of California - Killing Stopped! When the State of California sought to trap and send defenseless cats to animal control, they realized the public did not take kindly to having the cats killed at the shelter. Silicon Valley Animal Rights has been working with the State of California and Project Purr in Santa Cruz county to address the feral cat concerns at Seacliff Beach. The intelligent and humane method is to work cooperatively with organizations to relocate the cats. After numerous meetings, the State, Project Purr and SVAR reached a working agreement that was favorable to all parties concerned - most importantly the cats! Equally important was SVAR's opportunity to develop new and important relationships in Santa Cruz county. It's up to us and the community to insist on using this ethical and humane method and the Seacliff State Park Rangers have proven that it's a workable solution. Click here to read more. |
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