It has come to our attention that another rescue with a close name to ours has been black listed in Poway, California.

We call ourselves “Furry Friends Rescue Center” and we are located in Clover, SC. We are a 501C3 (as you can see at the bottom of our website on every single page) and a no-kill shelter/rescue organization. The rescuer in question is “Furry Friends Rescue” (minus the center) and they are accused of animal cruelty, among other things.

We can see where there could be confusion and wanted to make the distinction.

Thank you for following our journeys, supporting our projects and volunteering your time to share, care and promote our little operation so far. As you know, our information and where we are located is clearly stated several times on our website. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions, about anything!

We hope that you will stick around and we love the community support so far and appreciate all your help.

Our front page will be updated to reflect our latest project needs, so check back periodically to see if you’ve missed anything and we thank you for your like’s and shares. Stay tuned!

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The hardest part of rescuing is dealing with the unexpected…every single day.

Yesterday afternoon our little Fred began seizing suddenly and very intensely. Melissa was able to immediately rush the little six week old Border Collie/Aussie mix to the emergency vet. He remained overnight and we await an update this morning.

How can you help?

You can help us by donating or sharing this post. Our expenses have reached nearly $1000 in one day. We appreciate your support.

Please notate “Fred” on your donation to make sure it gets earmarked for him! Thanks.

**Updated to add a new Chipin for the long term fundraising that it will take to pay off this bill, unless someone’s feeling spontaneously generous? Thank you always for all of your support, we raised a few dollars to help when he was hospitalized, but this large and unexpected bill is really looming over our heads. It was at a different doctor’s office than usual…We will update soon with that information.**

UPDATES

1/22/2012 Melissa reports that Fred has not had any further seizures and is now eating and drinking. We are hopeful he will go home in the morning.

1/23/2012 We would like to take Fred home but need to raise the funds to do so. Please help us at this time.

1/26/2012 Fred has returned to his foster home and is under watch for more seizures. We are unsure what caused them at this time but we will monitor his condition in case this happens again. In the meantime, we have a bill of just a little over $1000! We hope you noticed that nice new blue Chipin where you can help us out by sharing or donating!

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You can see this earlier post for more information, here’s a video telling you some more about what we’ve done. If you can foster, donate, or adopt (yes, please help make room!) we would love to hear from you. Melissa has rescued 10 cats so far and there seems to be another 10 or so lingering around outside.

Please donate here:

To help us out you can contribute monthly, foster or sponsor one of these rescues if you want to help out. We are also seeking maybe another rescue to help spread out the foster situation, if you know of someone who would be willing to help out feel free to contact us. The money raised so far is a great start. Thank you all for your support.

On Friday, December 30, we got a desperate phone call. A called trying to get help and was so very desperate.  His wife left him the day after Xmas leaving the 12 yo child with him and taking their 3yo to Mississippi. He left on New Year’s Day, taking with him only the dogs and 10 of the 30+ cats. They were living in this house. When he called and said he was leaving and said he was abandoning 30 cats the next day. He left on Saturday. Melissa went out today and took some pictures and checked on the situation.

As you can see the conditions of this home were deplorable. Melissa reports still feeling ill after her brief assessment visit. What is most shocking is that the couple was living with their 3 year old and 12 year old children up until Christmas when the wife took the toddler and left the 12 year old with the husband who left on Saturday. We are considering contacting the news, the property owners have abandoned the house. They left the keys with a neighbor who considered moving into the house as it is a bigger space than where they were living.

This is an email we received about the situation:

Hi Melissa,
I think you spoke with Mr. S about the 30 some cats that he has and needs to find homes for.
His wife left and took their daughter to Mississippi, he has to move to Ohio to help take care of his mother who is dieing of cancer. He is desperate to find help and needs this help asap. I have been trying to help him by finding rescue groups, but to no avail they are all full. He is a man that loves and adores cats, this is breaking his heart to have to give them up, but he knows he has no other option. Most of the cats are well socialized and get along well with dogs and other cats. Is there anyone out there that has room for his cats. I am begging on his behalf for help!!! PLEASE, PLEASE, SOME ONE PLEASE HELP, SO THESE CATS DON’T HAVE TO BE PUT DOWN!!!!

Melissa has been in touch with the neighbor who is feeding and providing water for the cats and has removed a litter of kittens to help them survive. Her circumstances are not one that afford her the ability to care for additional animals and she was also told she could live in this home.  The property is a double wide trailer 80′s located in McConnells, SC.

Needs

Donations. You can donate using our Chip In for this situation. We estimate if all the cats are rescued and homed that there will be over several thousand dollars in vet bills, vaccinations and spay/neutering.

Traps. We only have one trap. More traps will be needed as we assess there to be over 20 cats living in this situation indoors and out. We got more traps!

Volunteers. Are you willing to foster or go help out on site with this rescue? We need your help, we are not equipped for a situation of this scale.

Rescue Organizations. If we can spread out the cats among several rescues to help spread out the fostering and medical care that would be fantastic. We are looking for rescues in the Charlotte, NC area to help us catch, foster and home these cats. Please contact Melissa at the information below for this urgent situation.

Please contact Melissa Stone on her cell phone as soon as possible regarding this situation. Her number is 803-230-3648 and she is the contact person for this rescue.

Thank you for your assistance in spreading the word, donating or volunteering.

UPDATES:

1/3/2012

A fellow animal lover and local foster for a dog rescue was contacted by one of our volunteers. He owns the company PuroClean and does cleanup for severe situations. Considering someone is trying to live in this space post abandonment, he would like to offer his services to clean it up if they can get volunteers out there to help with the work. We don’t know what the future holds for this situation but we are very grateful to have such an offer already. Thank you, Mike and thanks to everyone who is helping us get the word out. 

1/5/2012

Melissa has 3 traps she is using and has caught 7 cats. We are still seeking donations to help with the effort and most definitely need fosters or another rescue to help with the post rescue situation. It is going to cost about $110 per cat to vaccinate, test for disease and spay/neuter. 

1/9/2012

PuroClean came out to help clean up the interior. We captured 3 more cats but one big grey got away. We need to continue raising money for the vet expenses and would love to see some foster opportunities come forward. If you are in the Carolina’s this is ideal. Will be posting video this week.

We will continue to keep you posted. Thank you for your assistance in this matter.