Take a peek at what enrichment time can look like for our residents!
Enrichment is a huge part of a cat’s well being, and since Spring Farm CARES is the permanent home of its residence, we try our best to fit in enrichment activities as much as possible. While medical care is essential, play time is just as important to a cat’s happiness! We’re very lucky to have a great team of staff and volunteers who are always coming up with innovative ideas to keep our residents entertained.
Please note: we had some technical issues so there is no audio with this video.
Join Dawn as she chats with the four residents of our kitchen: Gizmo, Gracie, Joy and Mezi. You’ll be able to see what animal communication can look like live and get lots of interesting insight from the cats. Each one is totally different and it’s fascinating to see all of these unique personalities in one room together. We hope you enjoy!
Join Dawn Hayman, professional Animal Communicator and SFC co-founder, for a free online lecture on living from the heart. Dawn will share insights gained from over 30 years as an Interspecies Communicator to help you see death not as an end, but as a natural and vibrant part of life, empowering you to live from the heart with more love and less fear.
Animals offer us a drastically different viewpoint on death, and they can help us understand the profound connection between the Spirit and Physical realms, and how love transcends all.
Understanding these connections can help us live free of fear and rooted in the natural flow of life.
The lecture will be recorded and the replay will be sent out to all attendees.
For those of us in our local area, I know you are probably tired of shoveling, plowing, sanding….. repeat. But sometimes we just need to step back and look at the beauty and magic as well.
Just finished tucking all the equines in for the night and left with the sound of contented munching filling the barn as I closed the doors. There is something so satisfying about the camaraderie they all feel as a herd together knowing they are safe and warm in the barn, even as the snow storm trudges on.
Spring Farm CARES Open House Saturday, September 14 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM 3364 State Route 12, Clinton, NY 13323
You’re invited to a very special Spring Farm CARES Open House!
Join us in celebrating our newly renovated small animal facility with live music, food, tours and meet & greets with our animal residents.
We have been undergoing major renovations since June 2023 that included a complete remodel of all 13 of our cat rooms and their enclosed porches as well as a new roof, new floors, new walls, whole new porches, new bathrooms, a new heating/cooling system, new lighting, and some structural fixes that had to be made to a 30-year-old pole barn structure.
Throughout this process, the priority has been to cause the least amount of stress to the animals who call Kigercat Hall their home. To do these renovations, all of the cats needed to be removed from their rooms for several weeks. We completed the job in phases involving four rooms at a time and had large temporary cat rooms built in the middle of the hall, so cats had a nice place to live while their home was getting renovated. The cats enjoyed the novelty and variety of their temporary digs but were even more excited when they could return to their beautiful, brand-new homes.
The renovations are officially complete as of July, which marks an exciting new chapter for us here at Spring Farm. It is incredible to have our hall back to its usual glory and to see our cats blossom in their wonderful new homes. And with all the construction complete and the temporary cat rooms gone, we can better accommodate more visitors and tours.
We’ve also had other new developments in the works, such as the creation of a new volunteer program, and we will have lots of exciting information to share with you at the open house about how you can get more involved and be a part of our mission here at Spring Farm CARES.
On days when the weather is too nasty, the goats have to stay inside. We always try to find enrichment for our animals. This is a group of our small and medium goats out together in our arena for some playtime. Watching goats play is always entertaining!
Coming soon is our annual tradition of a message a day from one of the Spring Farm CARES animal residents. Animal communicator and co-founder, Dawn Hayman, asks the animals to share what they are most grateful for in their life and/or what messages of wisdom they’d like to share. Many of you have told us that this is a part of your holiday tradition now. We cannot think of a better tribute to our animals than to share their wisdom with all of you.
Each day, from November 23rd – December 31st, Â a message will be posted on our Facebook Page as well as right here on our website.
We thank WPBS in Watertown for doing this piece on Spring Farm CARES. Although it was filmed a couple of years ago, the information is still current and shows the farm and our mission very well.
D.K. is a most gentle and kind soul. He was born in 2009 and came to the farm as a tiny kitten. He had been adopted out but was later returned because he was scratching the furniture. This really rattled D.K. who is rather sensitive and shy. After that, he never would show well to adopters. Actually, D.K. decided that he was just fine right here.
D.K. loves his cat friends and is totally loved by them as well. Especially Lil G who has also grown up with him and is often seen snuggling with him. He is the cat who all the other cats gravitate to in his room. Clearly he is a healing presence. We adore D.K. and are so glad he is content in his work here with us.
D.K. does not currently have a sponsor but would love one. The animals truly do feel the sponsors’ energy. And animals can have more than one sponsor!
For those of us in our local area, I know you are probably tired of shoveling, plowing, sanding….. repeat. But sometimes we just need to step back and look at the beauty and magic as well.
