Never A Dull Moment

Spring is always a super busy time for PFA with our annual sterilization blitz underway and kitten season in full swing. However, last week was exceptionally busy for our hard-working volunteers. Maybe it was the full moon, but we were kept hopping with the following:

• early in the week the feral team put their regular trapping activities on hold to assist a cat-loving woman who had relocated to Melville with the trapping and sterilization of 8 feral and tame cats that she'd left behind at her home in Regina and who were under threat of being seized and possibly put down. 5 of the 8 cats were relocated to Melville with her and PFA is caring for the remaining three feral cats at the site;
• the same site resulted in the rescue of a mama (Ophelia) and her 3 week-old babies who were found in a cardboard box in a garage and are now safe in foster care;
• we scrambled to provide emergency after hours veterinary care to a poor stray with a horrendously mangled paw that eventually required amputation;
• we sadly agreed to the euthanization of our beloved foster cat Meggie due to Feline Leukemia. Meggie was rescued with a terminal illness but had a wonderful life in foster care since her rescue last November and was well cared for and loved until the end;
• dealt with the sad diagnosis of a sweet male foster cat with FIV after nursing him through a severe post-neuter infection (he is on the mend and doing great thanks to his caring foster mom);
• fielded a call for help from a case-worker with a homeless client living in a bus with a dog, 2 unsterilized cats, and a litter of 7 kittens! Sadly, although we scrambled to find spots for the kittens, the homeless man opted to find homes for them on his own;
• we teamed up with a group of enthusiastic volunteers to build a stash of shelter boxes that will provide refuge to numerous feral cat next winter;
  
• we manned tables at the World's Biggest Garage Sale in order to raise much needed funds to help cover our vet bills; and,
• we showcased our programs and our adoptable cats at an adoption promotion at PetSmart.
  

All this took place in addition to our routine everyday operations such as working fund-raising bingos, facilitating the adoption of several cats and kittens, regular feedings at our feral colonies and the sale of raffle tickets for our fund-raising raffle along with the regular maintenance of our donation cans and candy machine!

And, our volunteers did all this in addition to working regular nine-to-five jobs and tending to their own families and cherished pets.

This week promises to be just as busy. We've already started off with the rescue of two baby kittens abandoned in a dumpster and the rescue of an 11-day old litter from an unsafe drug house where one baby had already perished - and that was just Monday.

All in day's work.

-Alanna