We want to welcome our newest community partner and “Friend of Mandarin”, Desert East Animal Hospital!!🎉🎉. They have been our vet for almost 20 years and we love Dr Marquez and his staff!.
💥 💥We received a $1,500 grant from the El Paso Borderland Rescue Fund!! This will buy 4 months of dry cat food for our kitties!!! Thank you El Paso!😸😸
Vincent’s medical debt has been reduced to $4,200 as of 4 June, but more help is needed. Choose one of 4 ways to help! Please click here or on the donate button.
Kitties need help year round. Can you plan to make a donation? We would appreciate your help and support!!
Kitten season is here. Have all your community cats been spayed or neutered? Contact Sun City Cats for assistance with your community cats
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Category Archives: Caturday Feature

Friends & Supporters

It’s been a tough week with the loss of Vincent. On the 27th we sent a email to our financial supporters through GiveButter describing our last moments with Vincent. For all our friends and supporters who we do not have an email address, We want to share the same email with you this morning: DearContinue reading “Friends & Supporters”

Posted byBuck HamiltonMarch 1, 2025April 20, 2025Posted inCat Stories, Caturday Feature, Sick Kitties, Vet Care

10-15 Feb – The Week that Was

The week started out simple enough with a trip to see Dr Silverman for a surgical checkup. Vincent’s wound looked great and everything was on track. Mrs H followed up on Tuesday with a visit to her own doc and I had to go see the dentist, so we had a family doctor’s week. EveryoneContinue reading “10-15 Feb – The Week that Was”

Posted byBuck HamiltonFebruary 23, 2025April 20, 2025Posted inCaturday Feature, Vet Care

Fiscal Tidings

While we weren’t going to focus on fund raising for Vincent’s surgery costs, events have conspired against us. Mr V is spending time back at Dr. Silverman’s clinic and this may indicate an increasing costs for care and medicine. What I want today is to provide you with an insight into where your donations haveContinue reading “Fiscal Tidings”

Posted byBuck HamiltonFebruary 8, 2025April 20, 2025Posted inCaturday Feature, Sick Kitties, Vet Care

Saturday Musings

It’s been a busy and frustrating week, with some successes and failures. Biggest frustration was being bounced off the DAFDay website and having no idea as to why. It’s all fixed now, but man. Sometimes it feels as if we’re just floundering around in this fund raising effort. I sat in on a marketing webinarContinue reading “Saturday Musings”

Posted byBuck HamiltonOctober 12, 2024April 20, 2025Posted inCaturday Feature, Thoughts and musings, Vet Care

Update on Stella

It’s been awhile since we’ve discussed Stella. As you may remember, Stella came to us with an inflamed, swollen nose, thought to be cancerous and a large polyp in her left ear. She was bedraggled, skeletal and listless. We sent her off to the vet, then arranged for an operation and a couple of biopsies.Continue reading “Update on Stella”

Posted byBuck HamiltonOctober 4, 2024April 20, 2025Posted inCat Pictures, Cat Stories, Caturday Feature, Vet Care

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