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Medical Emergencies
Why do we need an Emergency Fund?
In our work we often encounter serious medical cases that require immediate care to prevent animal suffering and torment. These cases are diverse and cover conditions from advanced chronic diseases to serious accidents, such as car or train accidents.
Usually we are contacted by community members, volunteers or even certain state institutions who notice the situation and ask for our help in managing it. This may mean traveling to the indicated location, transporting the animal to a veterinary clinic or helping with managing the initial bills.
As these are serious cases, where suffering is at its peak and the animal's life depends on emergency intervention, classical fundraising methods cannot be implemented in a timely manner.
A fund for serious medical emergencies is crucial, precisely because situations of this nature are unpredictable. They can occur at any time, they do not take into account our material availability, and the pain of animals does not stop even if we do not have the funds to treat it.
The impact of our mission
In 2023, we rescued over 40 urgent and extremely serious cases , for which we were the last option: a kitten with a paw severed by a train, a mother (with four kittens) who had 2 of her paws torn off, a tomcat with its tail torn off by another animal, multiple cases of road accidents, several street cats with serious infections or infestations, kittens with acute respiratory problems, several cats with FIP, and senior cats with chronic illnesses who lived every day in terrible pain.
Financial costs and challenges
Although we go through a lengthy process of prioritization, guidance, and counseling before taking on a takeover, we frequently face the dilemma of refusing cases, precisely because of financial limitations and the responsibilities we have towards the over 50 souls permanently in our care, at the cat house or in foster care.
New cases involve unpredictable and often considerable costs, which puts an enormous and long-term financial strain on our already limited resources. Although we can estimate the initial cost of an emergency consultation – additional investigations, tests, treatments and hospitalization vary from case to case, this is a major impediment to the efficient management of the budget we have.
Our constant challenge is to divide the budget between the cats already in our care, whose quality of life must be maintained at least at satisfactory standards, community cat spays and emergencies.
Community support
We want to be a refuge for those with big hearts and limited resources, supporting both the community and the cats that surround us. We want a united society that does not ignore cats in distress and that has someone to turn to for management of overwhelming situations.
This is only possible with financial stability that allows us to continue our mission, even in the face of medical emergencies. The emergency fund would allow us to intervene promptly and efficiently in critical cases, without compromising the quality of life of the animals in our care and without refusing those who have no means, but cannot remain indifferent to the agony of the animal in their arms.
Transparency and community involvement
We are committed to being transparent about the funds raised, periodically publishing details of expenses and stories of animals helped on our social media pages, but also in our annual reports. Only through active involvement and collaboration can we create the society we want, a society that is empathetic to the animals around us, but which does not put pressure on the individual, managing crisis situations through collective involvement and supporting NGOs!