CRAN News
3rd Quarter Adoptions 2023
108 cats found their forever homes in the last quarter! Thank you to all of our amazing volunteers, donors, partners and supporters who made this possible.
Fundraising Event at the Side Bar
Come enjoy a Spooktacular night out at Side Bar on Monday, October 9th from 6-10pm for a Halloween Party fundraiser for Cat Rescue & Adoption Network and Luvable hosted by Wilvet South. Dress up in your best costume and enter our costume contest, enter the raffle, and enjoy some live music with your dinner while helping cats in the community! $10 cover charge (under 15 are free) which will be donated to CRAN and Luvable. All ages are welcome until 10pm. After 10pm it is 21+. We look forward to seeing you there!
Wilvet South collecting Donations for CRAN!
There’s no better way to celebrate Halloween than trick or treating for the cats of Cat Rescue & Adoption Network. Now through October 31st, bring a donation of much needed supplies to Wilvet South and support an animal and receive free candy! All donations stay in the local community and are greatly appreciated.
Our most needed items are:
· Yummy food for sick and recovering cats: Weruva, Tiki Cat
· Cat-appropriate Bone broth for fragile kitties with poor appetites
· Churu treats
· Royal Canin Mother and Babycat loaf in sauce wet food
· Royal Canin Mother and Babycat dry food
· Purina Fortiflora probiotics
· Temptations cat treats
· Cardboard cat scratchers
· Fancy Feast Tender Turkey kitten wet food
· Friskies Poultry Platter pate’ wet food
· Iams (purple bag) kitten dry food
$5,000 Matching Donation!
We have a very generous donor who will match donations to our Summer Campaign up to $5,000! This couldn’t have come at a better time. We were currently caring for 256 cats at the end of July and have taken in 27 more cats so far in August, including a cat who was surrendered at the Emergency Vet and has needed over $4,000 in care.
Donations must be received by September 3rd to be matched.
If we can take full advantage of this amazing offer, we will almost be at our goal!
You can donate online here: https://kindest.com/991599-summer-campaign
or you can mail a check to:
Cat Rescue & Adoption Network
PO Box 72401
Springfield, OR 97475 (please note on your check that it is for the Matching Donation).
A huge thank you to all who have donated so far!
Volunteer of the Month – June 2023
Congratulations to Sydney Brisco, CRAN’s June Volunteer of the Month!
Sydney has been volunteering with CRAN since February 2021. She has fostered litters of squiggly little kittens, and recently, has started volunteering as part of the CRAN adoption team!
From Sydney:
“I came to CRAN originally as an adopter. I adopted my kitty Ronin (Versace) from CRAN way back when the medical facility was somebody’s outdoor shed. He had to go through ringworm treatment but he’s been the sweetest cat we’ve ever had and we appreciate every moment CRAN gave us with him. Later, I started volunteering when somebody posted on the CRAN Facebook page that if CRAN didn’t take their cat, he was going to just let her out. So I told him I would come get the cat and accidentally became a CRAN foster. The rest is history.
My favorite part of volunteering with CRAN is getting cats to their best homes and best lives. I love the happy endings. I still get updates on some of my fosters and I love the adoption photos from my counselor work. To see a family that is so happy to have their new kitty and a kitty that knows it’s found a safe and loving home is something that can’t be matched by any other experience.”
The picture is me and our foster failure Anthracite–Annie now 🙂 She knew from the moment I brought her home that she wasn’t leaving. It just took us a little while to figure it out!”
Thank you Sydney for all your hard work to help CRAN and the cats!
Volunteer of the Month – April 2023
Congratulations to Ryan York, CRAN’s Volunteer of the Month for April.
Ryan has been a steady volunteer presence in the cattery at Petsmart North since the world started re-emerging from COVID shutdowns. He is a regular in the cattery, checking on the CRAN kitties, ensuring they have food, water and attention. Ryan also trains new cattery volunteers.
From Ryan:
“What I enjoy:
I particularly enjoy the bittersweet moments when a cat goes home from our cattery – that mixture of sad farewell, relief that they found someone who cares, and excitement for their new life – and the dawning disappointment that I have to deep clean a cage *wry grin* Deliciously conflicting feelings.
What brought me to CRAN:
Especially after COVID we ALL wanted OUT!! Coupled with many years of stay-at-home parenting, and my partner’s mention of a cat rescue looking for volunteers, I was more than grateful for the opportunity to leave the house to PLAY WITH CATS!!”
From all of us, thank you so much for all you do for CRAN and the cats!
