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#GivingTuesday, December 1st, is a global day of giving. Please keep that day on your radar, and donate to us.
At one point during the summer, our donations were down by 13% and our expenses were up by 13%. Thundering Paws is proud to say that we have only laid off one of our staff members and that was only because he had attained other employment. It has been a struggle! Please spread the word and donate to us.
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’Tis the season, already upon us, to be uplifted along with millions of other people by donating to your favorite causes.
Tomlinson’s Feed is hosting Pound4Pound between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Next week I will have the information on how to do this without going in person.
You buy a bag of cat food from Tomlinson’s and tell the person checking you out that it’s for Thundering Paws. Tomlinson’s matches that food pound for pound and donates it to us in three distributions throughout the year.
With this wonderful gift, we are able to feed the cats here who aren’t on special diets, all of our foster cats, and an abundance of community cats cared for by cat lovers in at least four counties.
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Ducky
You remember the most pathetic kitten we’ve taken in this year, Ducky. We didn’t know for a few weeks if she would live or not. But with the ‘round the clock care of Board Member, Foster Coordinator, and all-around volunteer, Tanya Palmer, Ducky pulled through. She is now being fostered by another foster family.
Ducky accompanied Outreach Coordinator, Julie Perales, to the Dripping Springs Farmer’s Market on Wednesday and was a great hit! She didn’t get adopted, but she was so cute and personable that she brought many people to our table.
Julie will take Ducky along to the Wednesday afternoon Farmer’s Market events at the Triangle in Dripping Springs until Ducky gets adopted. If you’d like to meet this cutie pie, drop by our table there.
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Spirit
 Last week we told you about Spirit, the cat with no social skills. He’s a quick learner and he’s better every day. Thanks to the patient caring of staff member, Victoria Henderson, he is mastering, as she puts it, “how to cat.”
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Beauregard, the “Wumpus”
We’ve told you about Beauregard, the cat we thought he was feral but he just hadn’t experienced love yet. As I write this, he is sitting on a staff member’s car. He likes to be up high.
He’s the only cat here that we let outside without a harness. The reason we do this is that, in his former, supposedly feral, life, his territory was right here. Our Trap Neuter Return program captured him, got him vetted, including correcting his entropion and returned him to his home, which is our yard. He has graciously allowed us to bring him in at night.
We know the dangers for inside/outside cats: they come in at night…until they don’t. However, we also know that Beauregard, like many community kitties, is miserable if he is not allowed access to his area. It’s up to us to protect him as best we can, and protect the wildlife from him. It’s time-consuming, but sometimes very fun. Witness this game Scott created; we call it Wumpus Stick.
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Beauregard enjoys his one-on-one moments playing with staff at Thundering Paws.
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We told you about a new bottle baby foster whose potential kitten was snatched away and adopted to an experienced bottle baby couple. I got off the phone telling her about this disappointment, and within 10 minutes a phone call brought her a bottle baby, whom she named Sloopy.
As happens quite frequently, Sloopy is going nowhere. Not that she’s unwell. On the contrary, Meryl has raised such a fabulous kitty that she fell in love, and Sloopy, now named Ruthie (pictured below), is what we call a “foster failure.”
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What We Need This Week
This is usually the lead article, but I put it here because what we need is a new term for “foster failure!” It’s a horrible phrase to call something so life-affirming as falling in love with your foster kitty. PLEASE submit your suggestions via email with “Not Foster Failure” in the subject line. |
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I don’t say it enough: Thank you for everything you do for animals.
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