Giving Tuesday MATCHING GIFT CHALLENGE of $2,500!
The first $2,500 raised will be matched to total $5,000 of our $7,000 goal to support the purchase of improved Ringworm Housing at the SPCA of Tompkins County Intake Building.
Meet the Harry Potter Girls on "Team Ringworm."
Our Harry Potter girls, Rowena (top), Luna (bottom) and Desdemona arrived at the shelter as strays in August from Groton. Two more sisters and a tired mom picked up the rear.
This family of kittens needed isolation housing to prohibit the potential spread of ringworm to other animals in the shelter.
Ultimately, only Luna, Rowena, and Desdemona tested positive for ringworm of the whole family, and they spent nearly a month getting intensive ringworm treatment until a foster family was found.
After another month in their foster home to finish treatment, regain their health, and then return to be spayed, these kittens made their way to the adoption floor and to their forever homes with Luna and Rowena going to the same home.
Here we have the exotic and ethereal Mist, also on "Team Ringworm."
This sweet 1 year-old girl was surrendered back in January. Upon intake exam, Mist was found to have Ringworm.
Mist spent a couple of weeks in the ringworm room being treated with a Lyme Sulfur dip. Eventually, Mist tested negative and was cleared to move to the adoption floor where she was adopted last February.
Ringworm is a contagious disease.
Quarantine is crucial to the success of a positive outcome. Unfortunately, the housing in the shelter’s ringworm quarantine room is not ideal for what we really need. So we are coming to you today to ask for your help in buying an entire bank of safe and well-constructed cages for cats and kittens to live safely and comfortably.
Housing is a critical component when it comes to animal care.
Because Ringworm treatment takes so long to treat, we need the best housing available to manage their welfare while they are contagious. We do a lot of work with medications, baths, and diagnostics to ensure they stay the shortest time possible, but it takes 4-6 weeks, on average, to demonstrate cure.
When animals are provided with adequate housing, both their mental and physical states are improved, which leads to faster recovery, and ultimately a shorter length of stay at the shelter while decreasing stress and improving welfare.
This safe and easy to disinfect housing is not inexpensive.
We would like to replace our current isolation housing (seen above) with new steel housing (seen below) including port holes to adjacent caging to increase the square footage of living space.
This housing will cost approximately $7,000, our goal for our Giving Tuesday Campaign.
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