CAT’s mission is to work with our community to save the lives of homeless, sick and injured cats and kittens by offering shelter, adoption, foster, hospice, and veterinary services to end needless feline euthanasia in our community.
By Milton McCrae, CAT Meow Team Donor
I have had a cat or two in my life for almost 50 years now, and we currently have three. Two of them we picked out as kittens {Jesse and Scooby} and the last one {Silvia} was a black and white stray we found on a Friday the 13th in a Tigard parking lot. Boy, did she pick the right car to walk up to that night! We looked for over a month for her owner with no luck, so we just decided to keep her.
CAT is doing so much to stop the overpopulation of cats and the needless euthanasia of perfectly healthy cats due to overcrowding at county shelters. Whenever I make it by CAT, I always visit the room with the cats who have FIV (Feline Immunodeficiency Virus). They are some of the roughest looking cats there, but if you go in and pet them for a while they just want love like any other cat. This is one of the reasons I love the Cat Adoption Team so much - they believe every cat deserves to live.
When I found out CAT was a no-kill shelter, I knew I wanted to do more. I spent time volunteering, time permitting, to help with building projects. Because my job at the time was providing my family with a pretty comfortable income, we decided to make the Meow Team part of our monthly donations. We believe we need to share what we receive.
A little money can go a long way when it’s used right, and I believe CAT does this with the money I donate to them. It was hard to have to reduce our donation back in 2009 when I lost my job, but out of every charity we donated to, we felt CAT was the most important, so we kept them.
I gave up, last year, on ever finding a new job that would pay anything like I use to make and started my own business. We were happy that in January we could take our donation amount back up to $25 a month. I know how important these monthly donations to CAT are, as they help them plan their budget throughout the year.
You may think $10 or $20 a month is not going to help a whole lot till you look at the big picture. If 100 people do this for one year it becomes $12,000 to $24,000 – and that buys a lot of cat food and kitty litter!
The McCrae family LOVES CAT, and this is why we make a monthly donation to them.
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