One-Time Donations and/or Adoption Fee
For Animals is a 501(c)3 organization and all donations are tax deductible. We rely on donations such as yours to continue the life-saving work done by our small group of dedicated volunteers 365 days a year.
Please choose the Paypal Giving Fund button if you have a Paypal account, and For Animals will receive 100% of your donation! (This can also be used for Adoption Fees)
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Monthly Sponsorships
- Felix Sponsor: For $10 a month you will feed 1 cat in our shelter
- Heathcliff Sponsor: For $25 a month you will feed 3 cats or spay/neuter and vaccinate 1 feral cat
- Garfield Sponsor: For $50 a month you will spay/neuter, blood test, vaccinate and feed 1 adoptable cat
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Our Seasonal Fundraiser: 21 years of For Animals, Inc.
Anonymous
I really appreciate all the help with the three cats in my backyard. I was a mess trying to figure out how to help them and with Theresa’s guidance and advice they are doing so much better and are happy kitties. Thank you so much!
Patricia Chan
Thank you so much for all your help. Theresa and Cita are the best😊😊
Madeleyn Valenzuela
Anonymous
To help you rescue high-need, abandoned cats like Star and connect them with loving homes.
Anonymous
From Taz and Darcy (FA Alums)
Ingrid Rieske
On behalf of Petra for her gotcha day!
Lynne Shevlin
In response to Jernee's post.
Gail Upshall
Geoffrey Silverstein
Shay Holloway
Hoping Mamma cat's surgery goes well for the sweet girl. She has been through so much.
Judy Panan
Shay Holloway
In loving memory of my dear friend Jeter.
Anonymous
Geoffrey Silverstein
For Buster
sandy westen
Lisa
For Mouse
Lisa Madden
For Mouse the kitten or whatever you need it most.
Selina Yasin
Love the work you do!!
Option 2
[Note: For Animals is a 501(c)3 organization and all donations are tax deductible.]
If you’ve donated to our Winter fundraiser though our PayPal Giving Fund account, please send us an e-mail at foranimalsincnyc@gmail.com We’d LOVE to send you a personalized thank-you. We truly appreciate your kindness towards these innocents.
For 21 years, For Animals’ founder and our small team of dedicated volunteers have tirelessly worked to rescue thousands of felines (and occasionally dogs, rabbits, chinchillas, birds and many other species.) Without a break. Despite seemingly insurmountable odds, we have kept going through super storms, the pandemic, tough financial and political times, and personal losses. Our intrepid trappers are out doing TNR in hurricanes, blizzards, and heat waves, often at risk to their own safety in dangerous areas . While our other volunteers are working several hours every day to foster and find homes for the “friendlies” by posting on adoption sites, social media, answering e-mails, texts, making adoption checks, making informative & educational brochures to hand out – somehow finding time for all this with their day jobs.
Our composite fundraiser video will be posted later for a visual insight into our work. Many of you may have seen the before-and-after transformations of a number of our rescues on social media FB and IG through the years. But those are only a small number from the many others who are rescued or TNR-ed or placed in homes behind-the-scenes and the innumerable ones who were rescued/TNR-ed/adopted over the years before social media sites took -off. All of them – ferals and friendlies – are spayed/neutered, vaccinated, and vetted. The cost of vet care has skyrocketed since the pandemic began due to clinic closures and the ongoing shortage of vets and vet techs, causing financial hardship for small rescues such as ours. The cost to spay or neuter and vaccinate one cat can be upwards of $100, even with a rescue discount. And many of the cats who come through our doors every year are sick or injured, requiring medication and much more extensive, often very expensive, vet care. For Animals is dedicated to eliminating companion animal homelessness, engaging our larger community as vital and active participants in this shared social and ethical responsibility, and providing that community with the resources and education necessary to achieve these goals together. We have helped cats and dogs not just in the New York City area, but through the efforts of individual volunteers and affiliated rescue-groups, we have helped animals in Ukraine, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, Albania, Egypt, India, Nepal, and Cuba. The major focus, however, is always on our targeted TNR areas within NYC.
There are many aspects to this process, including partnering with veterinarians to do TNR and to restore health, maintaining a shelter with holding and recovery space for TNR, running foster and adoption programs for friendlies, and finding barn homes for ferals through our working cat program who cannot be returned to the area where they were trapped. In the best of times, having the resources to help the animals is a struggle. In the last 3 years this struggle has increased manifold. The problem has been compounded by massive, never-before-seen numbers of cats being dumped across the world in 2021 and 2022, following the 2020 increase of pandemic-adoptions. Due to the closures of the ASPCA-run low-cost clinics during the pandemic in economically suppressed areas, the homeless-cat population increased even more. The continued shortage of affordable veterinary services along with increased prices of cat food and other supplies, and the increased number of dumped cats which have no-kill shelters overflowing puts a hefty financial strain on small non-profit TNR groups/rescues like ours.
RENA’S MEMORIAL FUND FOR FELINE-FRIENDS
You can read the full story HERE
Update: Despite our very best efforts and special thanks to Jean Bubley who donated generous amounts, sadly, little Rena did not make it. But she hopes she can help other kitties like her.
July 27, 2021. Rena was rescued by For Animals last year when she was 3 months old. On her vet visit, she was sent to be diagnosed further and her rare case intrigued doctors. On Tuesday, July 27, 2021, she is undergoing surgery to treat a rare congenital heart defect – an extra blood vessel between her aorta and pulmonary artery, through which blood flows in the wrong direction. [UPDATE: July 28 – The AMC after checking on Rena decided to postpone her surgery to a later date and recommended increasing her current med dosage, after which they will check further and then reschedule her surgery. Thank you so much all for your support!]
She’s sweet and playful, but she tires easily and has difficulty meowing because of her condition. Without surgery, her prognosis is very poor. But with surgery this beautiful innocent kitty can live a longer, more comfortable life. Won’t you help save her life? She is one of only a handful of cats to have surgery for this condition, so she will be making history! Please send your best wishes for her recovery, and please make a donation to help us defray the cost of this procedure, which is estimated at $5900. (Please see the estimate from the Animal Medical Center)
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- Rena’s surgery cost (click to enlarge)
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- Surgery Costs for Rena (click to enlarge)
It is A LOT and especially for a small non-profit no-kill rescue as ours. Any amount helps! Rena is counting on you!
“Will you help me live?” – Rena
Any amount helps! Please feel free to enter a custom amount. Thank you for your support! The donation buttons are set through PayPal. After you click “donate now” it will take you to PayPal’s secure site and you’ll have the choice of selecting a credit card option or your PayPal account. There is no transaction fee. Thank you.
Rena’s Fund for Feline-Friends
Tadd Wamester
In honor of Betty White. Thanks for everything you do Theresa, Rocky and Dolly are relaxing in Kew Gardens!
Hanna Edwards
In memory of our sweet/salty/spicy Peanut Tuxi.
Chris Petranis
I’m so grateful that Rena had a chance because of the work you guys do. Thank you from the rest of us humans.
Anonymous
Ida Adam
Valentina D.
Feel better Rena !
Flavia
♥️♥️♥️
Amanda Singh
Anonymous
Diane Schank
Thank you so much for all you do, not only for cats and other animals, but for humans as well! You help us become more compassionate and caring people.
Susanne Vanderhoef
Best Pet Rx
All of us at Best Pet Rx are keeping Rena in our thoughts. Thank you to For All Animals, Inc. and everyone involved in her care. We admire and appreciate your compassion and dedications to animals in need.
Kathryn Rose
Lisa Madden
Thank you for going the extra mile for Rena, she deserves a healthy life.
Jean Bubley
Vanille Gavenko
Sending you lots of healing energy and love, sweetie!
Sarah Rybicki
In memory of Tabitha and Thomas. The heart never stops missing cats beloved.
John Deal
In memory of Sophie Stardust.
Option 2
[Note: For Animals is a 501(c)3 organization and all donations are tax deductible.]
If you’ve donated to Rena’s treatment though our PayPal Giving Fund account, please send us an e-mail at foranimalsincnyc@gmail.com We’d LOVE to send you a personalized thank-you. We truly appreciate your kindness towards these innocents.
Thank you for your kindness!
Updates: August 20, 2021. This fundraiser has now been converted to one in memory of Rena for her Feline Friends. You can read the full story HERE
For Sage & Fellow Felines-in-need
We rely on donations such as yours to continue our life-saving work 365 days a year. Please help us help the innocent and the defenseless. Your help and compassion are needed now more than ever. Any amount helps! Please feel free to enter a custom amount. Thank you for your support!
[Note: For Animals is a 501(c)3 organization and all donations are tax deductible.]
Support us as we keep going on despite all the challenges in these current times
For Animals hasn’t let COVID-19 stop our rescue & TNR work. Your help today can save lives and keep cats safe & healthy.
Here’s a look at what we went through in March, April, May….and the struggle continues.
During these trying times we desperately need your help so we can continue helping those that are defenseless.
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