This is a short note to say that I have made a £100 donation to the Walsall branch of Cats protection as part of the regular PoC donations. Cats Protection do wonderful work and I am a member. Leah, a regular supporter of PoC, made the suggestion. I have made previous donations to Cats Protection (Chelmsford Branch)
I’m sorry that the payment is late but the amount is exactly as stated based upon what is really a regular amount of comments every month.
Because the number of comments every month is fairly similar and because I’m rather bad at doing administration and much prefer to write articles, at this time, I’m thinking about setting up standing orders totalling £100 per month to four cat charities.
Regular visitors might not know this but in the background I have been making a $25 per month donation to Maine Coon Cat Rescue in the USA. This has been going on for about 5 years.
That donation is in addition to the ones I make regularly based on the number of comments.
Accordingly, I intend to maintain that background donation to Maine Coon Cat Rescue (the name of the charity has changed but but I wish to continue to donate) while adding three more, one of which will be Snow Leopard Trust.
I do want to make a donation to a wild cat charity and my favourite wild cat is the snow leopard. In addition, the Snow Leopard Trust do wonderful work (example).
There remains, therefore, two other cat charities to which I wish to make routine standing order donations, as mentioned.
I would like Kays Hill to be one of those charities in recognition of the unfailing and unstinting support by Ruth and Barbara who both themselves support the charity very closely (recent article).
The fourth charity is yet to be decided and I will write about that later and would welcome anyone’s feedback.
Thank you for being so patient about this late payment.
Leah, I second a vote for the Soi dog foundation.
Back in the 1980’s I watched a CH4 documentary series on the illegal trade in various animals and one week it was cats and dogs for the meat trade. I’m not going to go into details, but I still shudder when I remember that programme. There are some images that cannot be unseen and I will never forget the horrible suffering of those animals.
The 3 charities are so deserving I love Snow Leopards as well. For the fourth if we all make a suggestion and you can’t decide perhaps you could put all the suggestions in a hat and decide that way? I think the Soi dog foundation so heartbreaking work to rescue dogs destined for the illegal meat trade and they suffer so much being skinned alive and then if they survive that they are boiled alive its just awful 🙁
Michael thank so much for the donation to Walsall CPL I can’t wait to tell them! I did mention it before but had to admit I wasn’t 100% sure that it would happen but now I can confirm that it has they will be so happy so thank you 100 fold!! 🙂
Thats wonderful news I’m so pleased that Kays Hill are going to receive a regular donation they do such amazing work and miraculously never turn an animal away. Ruth I’m absolutely over the moon about this 🙂
Bless you Dee, always so happy for others when you do so much yourself too for ferals x
I know how you feel about getting down sometimes because bad things happen to us. It makes me sigh with despair sometimes like anyone else I get my share. You and Ruth have been fantastic supporters of PoC through thick and thin. I don’t think I could keep going without that support.