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All changes and updates to our site will be announced on this page,with a link to the updated page. Check back often to see what is new at the farm!
- Check out the new photos of our Nature Sanctuary - Updated 3/20/10
- More animals have gone home to new homes - View our Happy Homes Page - Updated 3/20/10
- We are in desperate need of old blankets, comforters, and towels! - Updated 3/20/10
- Help us win a $10,000 grant! Its very easy! - Updated 3/20/10
- Sponsor an Animal - check out our new additions and new format - Updated 2/27/10
- We thank our dedicated volunteers for all their help and service!
- We have a new on-line store through Cafe Press
- Announcing a new workshop with Dawn Hayman! Schedule for 2010 included.
- NEW!!!! Sign up for our new email list. Even if you think you've done so before, we have a new system. Please sign in again, you will not get duplicate email, nor will we flood you with emails.
- Rabbit Volunteer needed for Saturday Mornings!
- The Reality of Kitten Season - How you can help
- Wish List for Orphan Kitten Supplies. Here is a great way you can help if you can donate any of these items!
- Help support our special needs animals while you shop for dog and cat treats for your animals!
- Help support Spring Farm while you search the internet
Help Us Get a $10,000 Grant
The Animal Rescue Site is hosting a special challenge for eligible Petfinder.com member shelter and rescue groups. The grand prize is a $10,000 grant, and they will be awarding many other grants to rescue groups with the most votes — a total of $100,000 in grants for animal welfare organizations.
Help us win! All you have to do is click to help rescued animals, and then vote in The Animal Rescue Site $100,000 Shelter+ Challenge. Both of these actions are absolutely free! You can vote once a day, every day, from January 18th through April 18th, 2010. Every time you vote, or tell a friend to vote, you are making a huge difference for us. Just click the link below and type in Spring Farm CARES.
WE URGENTLY NEED USED BEDDING!!!
We are almost out of blankets and comforters for our dogs and cats. Towels too! Spring cleaning and getting rid of some? Please consider donating them for the animals. You can either drop them off at the farm, or mail them to us at Spring Farm CARES, 3364 State Rt. 12, Clinton, NY 13323. The cats and dogs will be very grateful!
WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!
THE REALITY OF KITTEN SEASON
Folks, we need your help. With the economy as low as it is, the rate of homeless animals is dramatically increasing, especially for cats and kittens. The impact on our organization is tremendous. Right now, we have about
50 kittens in need of loving homes, and we are only half way through the season. Adoptions have also slowed down and the flow of people calling us having found abandoned litters of kittens is ever increasing. We are doing our very best to combat this problem. Our spay/neuter program is running above capacity. And still, we are not yet seeing an end to this sad commentary. This is a problem that can be solved. And, if we indeed are a society based on humane principles, it MUST be solved. So, what help do we need? And what can you do?
Here are the facts for what is happening right now for Spring Farm CARES. Shelters are full to capacity and forced to euthanize when they no longer have room. The reality is that we also only have so much room, and so many resources. We cannot offer endless space or endless staff hours or endless money to do this.
Facts:
- Each kitten we take in costs us at least $400. This figure includes, food, medical care, shots, wormings, spay/neuter, and staff hours for their care (and this figure is very conservative.)
- A newborn litter of 4-5 orphaned kittens takes an average of 6 hours of staff time per day just to care for that one litter.
- Our space is not unlimited. Kittens need room to romp and play and socialize as a necessary part of their development.
Ways you can help:
Besides the obvious need of donations of money, goods, or services, there are other ways you can help.
- Tell all of your friends, family, neighbors about adopting a kitten (or two!) from Spring Farm CARES.
- Please spay and neuter your pets and encourage everyone you know to do the same. If they are Oneida County residents and need financial assistance, they can call our spay/neuter office at (315) 737-8035, M-F, 9am-4pm.
- Volunteer some of your time either to help at the farm, or as a Spring Farm CARES Ambassador (more to come on this soon!)
We must as a society respond to this problem. Animals are out there by the thousands suffering and dying. This is a man made problem that takes a man made solution. Spaying and neutering is such a simple solution that would go a long way to help.
But right now, the most immediate need we have is for adopters for these amazing and beautiful bundles of joy. Please spread the word to anyone you know who could offer a loving home.
Thank You!
WISH LIST FOR ORPHAN KITTENS
Below is a list of things that we need desperately in the rearing of orphan kittens. We have included some links to places on line where they can be obtained, but you may have other sources as well. If you can donate any of these items it would be greatly appreciated!!! Items can be shipped directly to the farm at: Spring Farm CARES, 3364 State Rt. 12, Clinton, NY 13323
Gerber Baby Food - 2nd Foods - Chicken (that is the one flavor we find the kittens seem to accept most readily. We can use this to ease them over to solid food and also for administering medications when needed.) We go through cases of this each year.
Play Pens - Petyard XT or Super Yard XT (human version) - this particular kind only please! We have made special tops that fit these pens exactly and work perfectly for us. These work great for giving the kittens more room than a crate, until we can move them into a room or they get adopted. Two sets make a complete pen and we never have too many. There are two links below where they can be found on line. There is one version at Petsmart, packaged for animal use, and the exact same product can be found at Toys R Us and often less expensive.
Click here for the Petyard XT at Petsmart
Click here for the Super Yard XT at Toys R Us
Paper towels - again, we can never have too many!
Old blankets, sheets, towels - we go through these like crazy with kittens and other animals as well.
Heating Pads - we go through lots of these each year as they tend to wear out and not last long
Cat toys - little kittens love to play!
Small cat trees or condos
Small cat beds for kittens to snuggle up in
THEIR LEGACY..... IN MEMORIAL
OCTOBER 31, 1993
15TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY
OF THE SPRING FARM CARES FIRE
24 Animals perished in the blaze. 17 cats, 4 dogs, and 3 parakeets. Two cats and 2 dogs got out to safety and have since also passed away. All of them left us a legacy of moving forward with our hopes and dreams. All of them are remembered in the very breath of the farm. Although we moved on without them, it is because of them that we knew we must continue forward. In 15 years, we have done a lot and their legacy lives on always in the work we do. With a moment of silence, we give tribute to their lives and our memories of the joy we shared with them and for what each one of them taught us about giving, loving, and living.
For more information: email us at information@springfarmcares.org
As of 12/28/08 : Your donations have now paid for over half of this project! (These figures are based on the total cost of the project LESS grants/incentives. In other words, this is our out of pocket cost.)
Total donations to date: $131,000
YOUR DONATIONS TRULY ENERGIZE US!!!!
Watch your donations for our Environmental Project Fund go to work. Many of you have contacted us asking us if you could donate and request that your donations be put to the construction of our windmill project. The answer is a resounding YES. See our Alternative Energy Page for updates and for the complete story and genesis of our environmental project. Please note that no funds are taken from animal care or our spay/neuter fund to pay for this project. We are using donations, bequests, and grants solely allocated for this specific project. In order to complete this project, we are taking a loan from our invested funds. So even after you see the windmills erected on the farm, we will be fundraising to replenish the money we borrow to get them up and running.
Here's a way to help us while you shop for dog and cat treats and supplements!
Spring Farm CARES will get 25% of your total purchase!
Follow this link to start shopping and helping the many special need animals in our care.
Here's a way to help us
while you search the internet!
Click on the GoodSearch bar below and search the internet. Every search you make, earns us a penny. A penny doesn't sound like much but it quickly adds up. Think of how many times you use a search engine! Now your searching can help us continue our programs and care for animals in need. Click below for details and you can follow instructions to download the toolbar to make it even easier to search, shop on line, and help Spring Farm CARES in the process!
