A New Beginning for Our Ellie!

We rescued Miss Ellie about a year ago. She was from Malone. We had received a call asking us to take this small kitten who had a bad eye. One of our volunteers picked her up and brought her to the Cat Palace.

Like all our new kids, Ellie was taken to the vet. Dr Stevens found Ellie was indeed not a kitten, but a senior cat who had a head injury. One eye was all cloudy, no sight, and her breathing was also labored . After her first vet check, it had also been determined that Ellie is deaf. One more ob-stacle she has overcome!

This sweet girl loved attention and fit in at the quarantine building in St Regis Falls. Ellie had the habit of sleeping with her head down. This was explained to us as due to her head injury. Pressure on her head was soothing to her.

A few months ago Ellie was saying her morning prayers. We posted the picture on Facebook and the calls started coming in from all over the place!! Toronto, Maryland the Carolinas, and Ver-mont. Finally Ellie found her home. An out-standing home with a loving couple. We met her caring, new parents in Syracuse, they had driven 8 hours to meet us. She traveled well and is doing well and adapted quickly to her new home. She is active happy and content. Many, thanks to every-one for caring. She is indeed a rescue with a great outcome! We do what we do because of happy endings like this!

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PO Box 274

Brainardsville, NY 12915

518-483-8189 or 518-856-9474

Email Us at:

savinglives@focusonferalstoday.com

. Our Little Cindy……. Another

Happy Ending!

Cindy was found standing over the yellow line on State Route 190 early one Saturday morning. Volun-teers of Focus on Ferals were travelling, in sepa-rate vehicles, to Platts-burgh, NY for an adop-

tion event when a movement of something white was spotted on the yellow line. As the volunteers ap-proached with their fast moving vehicles they realized it was a tiny kitten and had to swerve over the white line of the road to avoid the kitten. As the volunteers swerved to avoid the kitten, the kitten knew some-thing was there but didn't run, just stood there in fear.

They picked Cindy up and quickly realized that her eyes were glued shut from the crusty material embed-ded in her eyes. She spent the day at the Curtis Lum-ber Adoption Event wrapped in a towel and slept

peacefully all day, feeling safe and secure. Unbeknown to Focus on Ferals, Cindy met her adoptive parents that day and went home a week later.

She's one lucky kitty and we wish her and her family many happy years together. Thank you John and Carrie for adopt-ing this precious doll!

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Keep Your Pet Safe this Holiday Weekend!

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Volunteers Needed! ...Can you

give a few hours per Week to

Help?

Focus on Ferals needs volunteers at the Petsmart Adoption Center in Plattsburgh. As well as seeking an additional Adoption Coordinator volunteer in the Plattsburgh area for adoptions at PetSmart. Volun-teers are also needed in the Malone area and at the Cat Palace in St. Regis Falls.

If you would like to join our team, follow us on Facebook or visit our website at www.focusonferalstoday.com or email at::

savinglives@focusonferalstoday.com or contact The Saint Regis Falls Cat Palace at 518-856-3474. If you can’t volunteer, but would like to donate, click on the link be-low.

http://focusonferalstoday.com/Volunteer.html

Foster Homes Needed Focus on Ferals and the Pet Palace are in desperate need of

temporary foster homes for several cats and kittens. We have

no room to house any more rescues, but we continue to re-

ceive requests for help everyday!

Apply now! Foster Care Application

Bottle Drive

Drop off at Tap Industries Railroad Street,

Malone, NY 12953

Just let them know your returnable's are for Focus On Ferals

June 2017 Statistics

Program

Spay/Neuter 16

TNR 0

Adopted/ 16

In Foster Care 208

Intakes 30

Located behind Champlain Valley Animal Hospital, 408 State Route 3, Plattsburgh, NY (across from the driveway into Wal-Mart Plaza)

ASPCA Grants Focus on Ferals Funding to Assist low-income Pet Owners

Thanks to a grant received by Focus on Ferals from the ASPCA,

Focus on Ferals is currently taking applications for it’s “Quarterly Spay/Neuter Blizt for Low-Income Residents. We are now accepting applications to assist in the spay and neutering cost for cats from

low-income Franklin County residents.

Focus on Ferals will be offering assistance for the next three quar-ters, spaying and neutering 20 cats per quarter. For guidelines and instructions on how to apply, visit our website at www.focusonferalstoday.com/SpayNeuterBlitz.html or call 315-212-

5984

To adopt your new best friend:

Fill out an on-line application at our website. Or stop by

PetSmart to pick up an Application.

To look at the cats we have available for adoption stop by

PetSmart in Plattsburgh, NY or visit http://

focusonferalstoday.com/Adopt_a_Pet.html

Upcoming and Current News & Events

2017 GoGo Photo Contest will be held from July 12 to August 13 (More info will be posted on our Website and Facebook Page.

We will be at the Franklin County Fair from August 4 to August 13

Raffle—NYS Evening Pick3 (more info to come)

Best Friends July Adoption Event—July 1 to July 4—Adopt a Special Needs Kitties for only $17.76

Quarter Drive: Containers will be placed at various location throughout the area collecting quarters. Our goal is to collect 500,000 quarters by the end of the year.

We received a grant from the Onyx & Breezy Foundation in the amount of $1500 for spay and neutering cost.

We recently participated in the Curtis Lumber Petapalooza Event. We had 7 of our kittens adopted.

Update on the House of 40+ This rescue mission is coming to an end. We believe that we only have two more kitties at the House of 40+ (now 60+) to rescue. This rescue would not have been possible and successful without the dedicated volunteers, who worked relentlessly every day.

Thank you!

Three (3) of our newest rescues from the House of 40+. These little ones will be ready for adop-

Adopt a “Special Needs” cat for only $17.76 From July 1 to July 4

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We believe that all cats de-serve a forever home!

Adopt one of our Special Needs Cats for only $17.76 from July 1 to July 4!

Apply Today:

Adoption Application

Here are a few of our “Special Needs” Kitties

There are more!

Sheila

Pammie

Buttercup

Goldie

Chloe

Callie

Apollo

Harry

Goose

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Update on New Building for our FIV & FELV

Cats and our new “Mom and Kitten Suite”!

The lot has been cleared, fill brought in and leveled, and the cement slab has been poured. We are now getting estimates to construct the walls and roof, and will hopefully have enough money to start construction of the building soon. The current foster parent of the FIV & FELV cats reported, that each day that she goes into the room where the FIV and FELV cats are temporar-ily housed in cages and they look up at her through the wire cages, and she tells them “Soon guys!”

We are still a long ways from having sufficient funds to move forward and complete this building project. A GofundMe campaign has been created in an effort to raise funds for a FIV/FeLV shelter. We anticipated a few years ago that the need for an actual Shelter would be forthcoming. We currently have 18 positive cats and this number will continue to grow. Since we have lost our FIV/FeLV foster home, and other options have not been in our favor, we really don't see any other option. Please share with everyone in your email contacts and ask them to share as well so we can get the word out. There is a link on our Facebook page. If you wish to donate directly please use the donation button on our website, and specify “building fund”.

https://www.gofundme.com/shelter-needed-for-cats

Emmett is our newest FIV Positive Cat!

Congratulations to the Winners of the IBC Gift Card Raffle….

Sue Curry & Steven Yelich

We would like to thank Sarah Craig for donating the Gift card and all the volunteers who sold the

raffle tickets.

Lottery Ticket Fundraiser

Purchase your chance to win! Three (3) drawings, 1st prize for the tickets in the large frame, 2nd prize for tick-ets in the medium frame and 3rd prize for tickets in the smaller frame. Drawing is the last day of the Franklin County Fair.

Tickets may be purchased at the following locations:

Mullarneys on Rt. 11 in North Bangor NY

Feed Commodities on Elm Street in Malone, NY

North Franklin Veterinary Hospital, in Chateaugay NY

Labarre’s on Rt. 11 in Ellenburg, NY

Knight Automotive , Rt. 3 Plattsburgh, NY

Or contact us and we will get you tickets.