April 2016 – Volunteer of the Month – Christina Drumm

Christina Drumm

Christina Drumm has become a key volunteer in WCDC’s goal of improving the health of cats in our care. She also leads our fight against ringworm, the benign fungus that many of our local shelters can’t handle.

Combining her background as a high school biology teacher with her deep love of cats, Christina has become our ringworm expert: supervising and helping fosters treat infected kitties (including bathing and lime-sulfur dipping the cats); collecting, growing and evaluating fungal cultures to monitor the cats’ improvement; and providing overall supervision of the health, socialization and progress to adoptability for the estimated 30+ cats in our care with ringworm.

Recently adopted kitten Mae is just one example of the kitties Christina nursed:  Mae was suffering from ringworm, dehydration, malnutrition, lice, fleas and a horrible upper respiratory infection when the little under-socialized kitten was caught and brought in for medical treatment.

Now healthy, spunky, loving and adopted, Mae’s progress is a remarkable testament to the wonderful team effort of many caring volunteers, and Christina’s dedicated efforts.

Christina also acts as a foster mentor, providing moral support and helpful information to several cat foster parents in our organization. Volunteer medical assistant, volunteer ringworm treatment coordinator, foster parent and foster mentor; in her “spare time” (real life) Christina teaches high school biology. Thank you Christina!