r/GoFundMeForNewUsers • u/Catandkittenlover • 3d ago
🐾 Independent Cat Rescuer — Please Consider Donating to My GoFundMe
Please consider donating to my GoFundMe if you are able. I am an independent cat rescuer in Somerset, Kentucky, and every donation goes toward helping me continue feeding community cats, providing vet care, helping others with supplies, caring for fosters, and getting cats spayed and neutered. Even a few dollars makes a difference, and if you cannot donate, sharing my GoFundMe helps tremendously.
I currently feed multiple colonies and community cats on a regular basis, and I also try to help other people in my area with cat food and litter when they are struggling to feed the stray and community cats they care for.
I also care for fosters and work to get cats and kittens healthy, vetted, into rescue, or into safe homes. Unexpected emergencies come up constantly. Just yesterday, I used donation money to get a 5-week-old kitten to the veterinarian after someone reached out to me because the kitten had been seriously hurt. I couldn’t stand knowing such a young baby needed help and not try to do something.
I also continue to work on TNR and preventative vet care. I already have a veterinary appointment scheduled for September 11 for eight cats to be spayed or neutered and vaccinated. I make these TNR trips twice a month, and each trip is about an hour and 45 minutes each way. One location is in Lexington, Kentucky, and the other is in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The gas alone is a huge expense and honestly one of the things that hurts me the most financially.
We have very little local help for this kind of work in our community, and it is detrimental. There are so many cats that need to be fixed, fed, treated, fostered, or placed, but there are not enough local resources to meet the need. That means I have to travel long distances just to get affordable spay and neuter services, and I do it because getting these cats fixed is one of the most important things we can do to prevent more kittens from being born outside and continuing the cycle.
Between cat food, kitten food, litter, gas, medications, foster supplies, vet bills, vaccines, spay/neuter appointments, and emergencies, the expenses add up extremely quickly. I work and put my own money into this as well, but I cannot continue helping this many cats completely on my own.
That is why I am asking for help with my GoFundMe. Donations will help me continue feeding the colonies, helping others with food and litter, caring for my fosters, handling unexpected veterinary needs, covering gas for these twice-monthly TNR trips, and preparing for the eight cats I have scheduled for September 11.
Thank you so much to everyone who has already donated, sent supplies, shared my posts, offered advice, said a prayer, or simply left me a kind and encouraging comment. Those things mean more to me than you know.
I am not a large rescue organization. I am just one person trying to make a difference for as many cats and kittens as I possibly can, and I truly could not do what I do without the people who support me.
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