Lucky Day Animal Rescue: A Shot at Life Vaccination Grant Report

How did this grant help your organization and the pets in your care?

We were awarded the "Shot at Life" grant. This was used to vaccinated all the incoming cats in our care.

We were paying $16 per vaccination at our veterinarian, so this gave us the ability to help many more animals. We were immediately able to help a momma cat and her five babies who were found starving, left in a live trap outside.

How many pets did this grant help?

This grant helped us vaccinate 50 cats.

Please provide a story of one or more specific pets this grant helped.

We were alerted to a live trap that was left with a starving momma cat and her five kittens. Some person had left this trap outside, next to a building. The finder was going to take them to animal control, where any animal brought in a live trap is destroyed immediately. The person who alerted us saw them and knew she had to intervene. She called us and asked if we could take them. Since we were feeling a little financial relief due to being awarded the vaccination grant, we were able to help.

These poor cats were covered with fleas, so skinny and literally starving. The kittens were 4 weeks old and were trying to nurse off of momma, but she didn’t have any milk, most likely from being so emaciated.

They were sweet as can be and all quickly put on weight and were healthy, happy, playful kittens. We are happy to report that every single one has been adopted and a nice person actually adopted one of the kittens and Momma together.