CRAN News
Spring Campaign
Spring has arrived – daffodils and tulips are in bloom, the blossoms are on the trees, and we’re seeing blue skies after grey and rain. You know what else arrives this time of year? Kittens, kittens, cats and kittens. Cat Rescue & Adoption Network is gearing up for the wave of exciting and challenging new life and all that it entails. Fosters; food; supplies; medical needs; adoption preparation of vaccinations; spay/neuter and socialization. Sad to say, it takes more than a little effort to meet all these needs. It takes the entire village of cat lovers, sharing talent, time and money. Please send your donation to: PO Box 72401, Springfield, OR 97475 or donate securely online at: https://catrescues.org/donate
Why Microchip?
1. A microchip can help bring your pet home and prove ownership if your pet is lost. Shelters, Vet Clinics, Humane Societies and Rescues check for microchips. We advise all people who find a cat to have it checked for a microchip.
2. The American Humane Association estimates 1 in 3 pets will be lost or stolen at least once in their lifetime.
3. Why microchip an indoor only cat? Cats can be escape artists, someone could leave a door open, something could happen on the way to the vet or even worse there could be a disaster or burglary.
Why Microchip? Traveler’s Story
Last October a new cat was sighted by one of our volunteers, Julie, on a game cam in her barn. The cat would appear occasionally in the wee hours of the night and eat her barncat’s food. She continued to see him on the game cam footage for months. Then one night she was late going to the shed and he was there…and he meowed at her! With much coaxing, he went into a big carrier for some canned food and she caught him!
Julie took him in to be scanned by another one of our volunteers. Based on that information, another volunteer worked with one of our vet partners and found the owners. Turns out they only lived a couple of miles away. They had moved to their new residence in October and immediately let their cat out. He never came back. He had been missing fore almost 5 months and they were so sure he was dead, they didn’t pay attention to the emails from the microchip company.
It was a joyous reunion and our volunteers coached the family on how to help Traveler bond to his new yard and reconnect with his family. They kept him in for a month and carefully introduced him to their new home so he wouldn’t get lost again.
More happy endings thanks to microchips:
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- Mordecai was separated from his family as they fled the 2017 fires in North Bay, California. The orange tabby was found once again by a local rescue organization three years later, and the organization’s policy to scan every cat for a microchip finally brought Mordecai home.
- Des Moines, Iowa, cat Lottie was identified by his microchip and finally brought back to his family after four years away from them. He came home just in time for the holidays.
- “Christmas miracle” cat Benny was reunited with his family in December 2020 after going missing from his Rochester, New Hampshire, home seven years ago. A scan of his microchip identified him and brought him back where he belonged.
- Fluffy cat Art became lost in September 2019 after climbing out of a window of his Rochester, Minnesota house. More than a year later, he was identified when his microchip was scanned—and he’d roamed nearly an hour away from his home! He’s since been reunited with his family.
- After being wrongfully trapped and relocated away from his home on the Hawaiian Island of Maui, Merlin the cat was brought back into the arms of his family thanks to a scan of his microchip.
- Calico Patches was believed deceased along with her owner in the aftermath of a mudslide in Montecito, California, in 2018. But she lived, and was brought into an animal shelter three years later, where a scan of her microchip revealed her identity. Patches has since been reunited with her owner’s partner.
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Holiday Fundraising Campaign
CRAN’s annual winter holiday fundraising campaign officially begins on Giving Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020.
Click hear to get the full text of the letter.
2023 Calendar Photo Contest
The third annual CRAN Photo Calendar Contest has started! Will your cat be the 2023 Cover Cat? Enter your cat and get all of your friends and family to vote (It’s just $10 to enter and votes are $1 each). All proceeds from the entries and votes go to help cats and are tax-deductible. Our goal is to make $12,000. It’s been an incredibly busy year and we could sure use those funds to help more cats. This contest is open to all cats everywhere.
Is your cat nervous about competing? That’s OK. You can reserve a day for them in the calendar.
Calendars are also available for purchase and will be mailed to you (no post contest sales this year). Check out the contest:
https://www.gogophotocontest.com/cran
PS If you participated last year, you can use your same username and password.
Kitten Shower – 2021
We have kittens and are expecting a lot more. With all of these kittens comes the need for lots of supplies to care for them until they are ready to be adopted. We need food, formula, bottles, litter and many other things to ensure these babies grow up happy and healthy. You are all invited to our second Kitten Shower! It’s really easy to help. Just go to our Kitten Shower Registry and you can purchase items to support the care of all the kittens:
Walktail 2020 – May 1-3
The first-ever national Walktail walkathon is only a week away! A big thank you to YOU for creating a profile and kicking off your fundraising efforts. We’re looking forward to counting our steps for homeless pets on May 1-3! Please support the Cat Rescue and Adoption Network Team in this year’s Bissell Pet Foundation Walktail 2020. We will be walking (with safe distancing of course) over the 3 days of the fundraiser: May 1st – 3rd. You can help by donating to our team or a team member, joining our team and getting sponsors and by sharing to get more people to participate. All money raised will go to help the cats in CRAN’s program (and we have taken in over 70 mostly kittens since April 1!)
https://walktail-2020.everydayhero.com/us/cranteam
Volunteer of the Month – Mar 2020
Nicki first joined CRAN in November 2017 when she began volunteering at “Gramster’s,” the familiar term for a minimalist building used to house kitties in our care being treated for ringworm. The small but dedicated volunteer crew takes extra precautions to treat, monitor and snuggle kittens and cats with this harmless skin fungus that was often a death sentence in mainstream shelters. She later became a foster and adopted two lucky kitties in the process as well! As a member of the medical team, Nicki schedules, coordinates and tracks spay/neuter appointments and assists with transportation and foster communication too. Most recently the family’s new auto business supports CRAN by sporting a donation jar on the reception counter. She also hosts a ‘cardboard cat’ promotional cut-out and, right now, she and her family are fostering a mama with kittens! Congratulations Nicki and thank you for your continued support of the CRAN mission.
Fall Campaign – Progress Report
Progress as of 1/26/2020 – $37,740 or 107%. We did it! You did it! Thank you, thank you!
Your generosity will bring a lot of cats and kittens, health, safety and a happy forever home.
November 2019 – Winter Greetings! 
This year is shaping up as one of the busiest ever for our cat rescue volunteer group. We often think the need to rescue cats and kittens will somehow slow down. However, despite public education and spay/neuter efforts throughout our community, the need grows each year. As of Nov. 1, we’ve rescued 580 cats and placed 424 of them into forever homes. I get emotional just thinking about it! And so, by necessity, Cat Rescue & Adoption Network (CRAN) must also grow with this staggering need.
To that end, I come to you this holiday season with humility, asking that you once again open your hearts and give what you can for the cats and kittens in our care. Fill out the form on the back of this letter and send it in using the enclosed return envelope. (The kitties will thank you for it!)
So, what exactly does CRAN do? Here are just a couple stories, from literally hundreds, about our lucky CRAN cats and the extraordinary efforts of our volunteers and foster families, all made possible by your generosity.
Sweet Fantine is an adult beauty who came to CRAN when her caretaker died and left several cats in the house, including two females with two separate litters of kittens, and two other adults.
Fantine (at left) and her five babies were lovingly fostered until they were ready for adoption. Along the way, a severe heart murmur was discovered which made her spay surgery both complicated and expensive. Thanks to the wonderful care received from CRAN volunteers and our veterinary partners, Fantine is living a happy, contented life in her new, forever home.
Forrest (below) was just a few days old when he, his mom and sister were rescued from the streets. He became very ill and fought hard for his life. From vet visit to vet visit, antibiotic treat-ment to antibiotic treatment, medicated nebulizer treatments to steamy showers, sub-Q fluids and bottle feedings . . . all of this care leading, at last, to a healthy and thriving kitten. If left out on the streets, he would not have made it.
Thanks to the CRAN medical fund, we were able to pursue multiple vet visits and treatment so Forrest could thrive. He and his sister, Astoria, have since found their loving, forever home.
Fantine and Forrest aren’t responsible for their predicaments
– we are. The suffering caused by neglect, abandonment and irresponsible care (not spaying or neutering) is devastating and . . .it’s not their fault.
We couldn’t do any of this without you.
Our 2019 budget is $199,000 of which $140,000 (70%) goes directly for medical care.
As an all-volunteer non-profit, no-kill cat rescue group, we receive no public funding and have no paid staff. And look what we’re accomplishing!
65% ($135,000) of our income comes from donations and grants. 35% from Adoption fees. Yes, it’s a lot (tell me about it.) As you can see, the need is great, and your compassion is greater!
On another front:
CRAN TLC is almost a reality! 
Our new medical rehabilitation and ringworm treatment facility is coming together after nearly two years. Remember please, this is not a shelter facility per se – it’s a place where cats can be cared for and returned to health. It’s been a very long journey and it is happening! We’ll keep you informed as to when we will have the grand opening.
“What else can I do?” I’m glad you asked!
Here are some ideas to start:
- Sign up for monthly giving – It’s easy, just go CatRescues.org and click on Donate
- Volunteer – We need about 300 people to meet the needs of all these little bundles of joy. We have 200+ now.
- Foster – Since we are a “foster based” rescue group, we need your help with temporary homes.
- Hold a Facebook fundraiser in lieu of birthday, holiday gift or just because.
- Sign up for Amazon Smile and Fred Meyer rewards CRAN gets a small piece of each sale.
- Think about donating that stock you’ve been holding for years without much success.
- Be creative! Maybe you could make and sell birdhouses or blankets or have a bake sale or ?
Our CRAN kitties are worth it. Knowing you are helping to find homes for hundreds of cats and kittens every year will warm your heart on these foggy, winter days. Seeing the pictures of the kitties with their forever families is priceless. Join us!
Have a Happy and Joyous Holiday!
Petco Holiday Wishes
Cat Rescue and Adoption Network is a Finalist in Petco Foundation’s Holiday Wishes People’s Choice Competition!
Since 2013, more than 15,000 adopters have shared the big and small ways that their pet brightens their life with the Petco Foundation to help make Holiday Wishes come true for the animal welfare organizations across the country. Through this campaign, the Petco Foundation has awarded more than $5M to lifesaving animal welfare organizations like ours.
We’re so happy to announce that this year the Petco Foundation has selected our organization for a Holiday Wishes award thanks to an adoption story submitted by Courtney Young-Hohenlohe Langenburg!
As a Holiday Wishes award finalist, we have the opportunity to earn up to an additional $25,000 – but we need your help! We need your vote in the People’s Choice Award Competition!
Visit petcofoundation.org/vote and vote for Cat Rescue and Adoption Network: Courtney Young-Hohenlohe Langenburg’s story about Sophia! You can also use this direct link: http://wshe.es/qvOujI8A
It’s Free! Tell all your friends, family, coworkers, everybody.
Voting ends on Friday, December 20 at noon CST.
Read all of the Holiday Wishes finalist stories at petcofoundation.org/holidaywishes.
Our Holiday Wishes grant award will be announced and presented to us at a celebration on Thursday, 12/19/2019 at 11:00. Please join us at the Eugene Petco located at 1169 Valley River Drive, to celebrate pet adoption, Sophie and Courtney Young-Hohenlohe Langenburg and our lifesaving grant award!
Thank you for helping to make our Holiday Wishes come true!
