Our Serenity Fund is a resource devoted to helping animals in immediate danger, when no owner is present or can be found, to get the life-saving help that they need to survive. Many times, we are the immediate lifeline they need to survive. Sometimes, these animals are later adopted by the loving human who found them and stopped to rescue them.
Some common examples are:
The Serenity Fund is not a fund to pay medical bills for owned pets. This is meant to help abandoned/injured/ill animals who have been rescued by good Samaritans who are willing to give them another chance at life.
100% of your donations to the Serenity Fund will go to help these animals in need. We can only help when we have the funding to do so.
When you give to the Serenity Fund you are giving a gift to end suffering, promote healing, and provide a second chance in life.
Serenity was a cat who was seen being thrown from a moving vehicle in front of our farm several years ago. A whole posse of people tried valiantly to find her but she had run off, injured and terrified. We searched to no avail. But three days later, she managed to drag herself into our hay barn and we rushed her for urgent medical care. Serenity was named because of the love and affection she immediately showed to us and to her medical team. She never stopped purring and rubbing her head against them as they cared for her. Sadly, despite valiant surgery, and excellent medical care in a specialized hospital, Serenity could not overcome her injuries. She died warm, fed, and loved. And she inspired us to try to help other animals in a similar plight to find help. Thus the Serenity Fund was created in her memory.
Blue was living in a colony of feral cats for several months. The caretaker of the colony noticed that he had gotten very sick and was in very run-down condition. She had contacted us to see if we could help. He was a candidate for the Serenity Fund and we arranged for the colony caretaker to trap and bring him in for our veterinarian to examine him. The goal was to treat him and return him to the feral colony where he had food and shelter daily.
Upon examination, Blue was found to be very ill and would need extensive treatment. He was also an in-tact male, but with a retained testicle, so neutering him when he was healthy enough was going to mean a more extensive surgery. We temporarily housed him in our quarantine room where he could recuperate and eventually have surgery. Once inside and getting care, we discovered that Blue was indeed not feral. He most likely had been dumped and became feral-like in trying to survive outside.
As you can see, Blue is a particularly handsome fellow. After his recovery from his illness and neuter, Blue was found to be very adoptable and was sent home through a humane society with whom we partner for just this sort of case.
Thanks to the Serenity Fund, Blue found a whole new life ahead of him.
We were called about Odin when he was found by a feral cat colony caretaker with an extraordinarily bad eye injury. It was winter and he was suffering outside. She had called to see if we could help euthanize him so that he wouldn’t suffer. We agreed to help. But one look by our veterinarian Dr. Christine and she knew that Odin could indeed be helped. His eye had been badly injured and indeed had ruptured. There was no saving his eye and the only thing to be done was to remove the eye. Odin had been living on the streets a long time and was thought to be truly feral. He could continue life as a one-eyed cat but that is not a surgery we could do here.
Because of the Serenity Fund, we could keep Odin for treatment and send him to a specialist to have his eye removed. We’d also be able to provide the aftercare needed. But as Oden was recovering from surgery, we also began to see he had other pressing issues. It turns out with further testing that Odin had a disease affecting his mouth called stomatitis. It is very painful and made it very difficult for Odin to eat. He clearly could not continue his life living in the feral cat colony. But Odin surprised us all by continuing to let us help him. He started to let us handle him and he began to really appreciate life as an indoor cat. We tried him in one of our communal cat rooms and Odin began to thrive. He loved living with other cats and indeed began searching out human interaction as well. Odin made the decision to be a house cat and we had the needed surgery done to remove all of his teeth. While this sounds radical, it gave him a pain free life and he can eat even kibble just fine. Odin also tested positive for FIV so he will live the rest of his life here with us in the sanctuary.
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