Help Struggling Animal Shelter with Over 400 Dogs and Cats!
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- $100
- Next milestone
- $150
At Furever Home Romania, no cat or dog is "hopeless" or "beyond help." The shelter is the home of over 100 cats with incurable feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), dozens of dogs and cats who have had amputations or eye removals to save them from suffering after car accidents and other tragic injuries, and many others who were nursed back to health from the brink of starvation or dehydration.
The shelter is run entirely by Remus and Simona Gall, a brother and sister who have dedicated themselves to saving sick and abandoned animals. Although both work full-time jobs, they travel to the shelter every morning, afternoon and night, to clean, feed, and provide essential medications. At their home, they shelter over 40 kittens and special needs cats who need nearly round-the-clock care. Neither Remus nor Simona has ever taken a salary - not even $1 - from the donations that keep the shelter going.
Their phones ring day and night for desperate cases of animals dying or being abandoned on the street, and they drive hundreds of miles to rescue them.
Setting aside constant emergency surgeries for new rescues, the shelter's basic expenses (ALL of which are for the animals) exceed 9000 euros per month:
~1200 euros for raw chicken meat, which is their breakfast, half of which is also intended for the many dogs;
~1500 euros per month for dry cat and dog food;
~300-400 euros for basic cleaning materials such as disinfectant solutions, paper towels, detergents, etc.;
~400-500 euros for water and electricity bills;
~1000 euros for recovery food and gastro food for the sickest cats;
~800-1200 euros for drugs, such as antibiotics, spot-on treatments, vaccines, supplements, etc.;
~1200-2000 euros per month for routine vet bills;
~800 euros represents the salary of the single shelter employee who helps clean the two cat houses and spends more than 8 hours a day with the animals;
~400-500 euros a month for more than 66 bags of wood pellets for the litter boxes used by the sick, young, and special needs cats that cannot go outside;
~400 euros to +40 homeless cats in Tunisia who are cared for by Hedi Saidi, a man in Tunisia who has rescued many injured, dying and sick cats - Furever Home has supported and sponsored his cats for 3 years now, monthly;https://www.facebook.com/hedi.saidi.5205622
And when they are able to pay for GS antiviral medications from China, which are vital for the cats with FIP, thousands more euros.
Remus and Simona selflessly sacrifice every spare second of their lives to work tirelessly for sick and abandoned animals, giving them a second chance at life in a safe and loving place. But every moment of the shelter's survival - and thus the survival of the hundreds of animals who live there - is entirely dependent upon donations.
PLEASE give, even if only a few dollars - they are grateful for any help the animals receive.