It may not be a scam. There are a lot of these types of contribution sites
around, mainly because people are struggling with vet bills and animals that
are difficult to get adopted. Matter of fact, I am developing a site called
Community Cats in Crisis and going to try to get funds through YouCare, another
publicly used site for contributions. This is in answer to the fact that
several people in my independent rescue group have spent over $5,000 of their
own money dealing with illnesses and injuries of colony cats and abandoned cats
in our community. I am $3,000 down in my finances from two rescued cats, one
still surviving with bone cancer. That said, these people are going about this
slightly backwards. They should first identify the Sanctuary that has agreed to
accept Alan so people can contact the Sanctuary and see what it's all about.
Then they need to find out where Alan will be living at the Sanctuary and what
other types of cats will be living
with him. You wouldn't want to mix FeLv and FIV+ cats together. Anyone can
start a Sanctuary and take in cats. That's a problem. Here near San Antonio
there was an FeLv sanctuary. The woman had over 100 FeLv+ cats there, all
crammed into a small shed, with an outside enclosure that was smaller than a
small backyard. The rest of the property was a sheep ranch. She took very poor
care of the cats and did not separate those who were positive but not active
for the disease from those who were already showing signs of the disease. The
place was filthy, food was rotting or very low grade and symptoms were not
treated with medications. She had no certification as a shelter or sanctuary or
certified rescue group. Just a woman using part of her sheep ranch to store
FeLv+ cats. She would collect up to $2,000 per cat and the people who released
the cats to her care were shown a very nice living room type area with several
cats lounging about. They never saw the
real place where she eventually crammed more and more cats.
Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty neighbors
too!
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> From: Margo <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 11:32 AM
>Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] campaign to get an felv cat to sanctuary
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>Not to be a downer, but this screams scam to me. There is no specific
>sanctuary who has agreed to accept Alan (and surely they could get a decent
>picture of him?), nor any details. Way too nebulous.
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>>I sincerely hope I'm wrong, but no, I wouldn't contribute to this
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>>.-----Original Message-----
>>From: dana giordano
>>Sent: May 26, 2013 12:10 PM
>>To: [email protected]
>>Subject: [Felvtalk] campaign to get an felv cat to sanctuary
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>>I've never seen one of these, but wanted to pass it on in case anyone wants
>>to reach out to her, knows a sanctuary or wants to adopt.
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>>They have $700 out of $1000 raised with 20 days left
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>>http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/alan-s-sanctuary
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>>Dana
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