What Do We Need This Week?
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We always need ProPlan and Fancy Feast dry and canned kitten food. These little furbabies eat a lot! Check out our Wish Lists:
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With your donations, you are helping create wonderful moments like these—Pixel walking for the first time after her multiple surgeries. Thank you!
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So many donations have flooded in since our last newsletter, we haven’t been able to keep track of them! We’re working on a report, and we’re dwindling down the vet bills as each $15, $25, $50, or $100 comes in. Some people have given money directly to veterinarians’ offices on our account. We've retired one vet bill. To help with the other, call Dripping Springs Animal Hospital at 512-858-4787. If more funds come in than we currently owe, they know we’ll be bringing in more kitties soon.
When you complain about the high cost of veterinary care, think of these things. (1) It’s harder to get into vet school than medical school. (2) Vets cannot collect the fees that human doctors bring in. (3) Veterinarians have been fighting a worldwide pandemic—rabies—since veterinary science began. (4) Their patients cannot describe their symptoms and are often considerably less cooperative than humans. (5) Running a veterinary office is just as expensive as running a physician’s office, except perhaps for glitzy waiting rooms.
We thank all of you, whether you responded to the newsletter, the Facebook plea, or you heard from your neighbor that we needed help. Our donors are the best! 
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Too Little to Be Spayed/Neutered? Whaddya Gonna Do?
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When we trap, we often get itsy bitsy kittens. How they trip the trap mechanism is a mystery except in the case of Mick, Stevie, and Lindsey, all three of whom clambered into the same trap. These three turned out to be frightened but not feral. The woman from whom we took them didn’t want them back, so they are now fostered and in our adoption program.
 Ziggy was trapped at a safer and more desirable location. He did NOT want to be tamed and he hissed at us whenever we came close. At 1.9 pounds when he arrived at Thundering Paws, he had over a pound to gain before being neutered and rabies vaccinated. In addition, he had to wait a few days longer, even after he weighed enough, as we didn’t have an appointment at a low-cost vet clinic for a while.
The people who manage the colony at Ziggy’s home want their cats for rodent control and snake intimidation as well as for the beauty and friendliness of several members of Ziggy’s cat family. He is now neutered, vaccinated, and back home.
 Picard was trapped in the yard of a couple that has fostered and adopted from Thundering Paws. She is 2.19 pounds of attention-demanding fur baby without a feral bone in her body! This kitten is happiest when she is climbing all over a human, purring, and, unfortunately, digging in with those awful kitten needle toes. She will definitely hang around until she is old enough to get spayed and then adopted. We would love for her to have a foster.
Jeff was picked up by one of our supporters in her Dripping Springs neighborhood. She asked us to bring Jeff into our program and we are happy to do so. Unfortunately, his rescuer will be using his room for company coming for her birthday party in early September. He will need another foster soon.
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Jeff is another rescued itty bitty kitty looking for a foster home.
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Jeff relaxing at his temporary foster home.
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Jeff and Picard could go together if they both agree. I have often written about the dangers of “only kitten syndrome.” A kitten needs the vocal disapproval of siblings or other kittens when she bites or scratches too hard. This is how she learns to avoid hurting her human adopters.
Before we place non-sibling kittens together, we follow our protocols of having each kitten tested, at least first FVRCP vaccine, and determined to have solid stools. We quarantine new intakes ideally for fourteen days to be sure he or she isn’t harboring a respiratory infection or other problem.
Please become a foster for us. We work with your schedule. You are NEVER abandoned! If your sister needs you to come watch her kids while she goes on a surprise business trip; if your grandfather’s hundredth birthday party is wisely moved up a few months; if your best friend visits on the spur of the moment from far away and needs a room, we’ll find your foster kittens another situation. They’re fun and, best of all, they’re temporary!
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Everywhere you turn in Dripping Springs, new neighborhoods are springing up. If you live in one that is less than 15 years old, we probably have no inroads into your area. We could use your help to attract donors, fosters, and adopters for Thundering Paws.
Put this on your Next Door, your HOA newsletter, or any site permitted.
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Thank you for everything you do for us, and for animals!
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