Wet Mountain Animal Welfare Put Our Money To Good Use!
Between Pets of Balloon Juice Calendar sales for 2021 and donations that included a mention of Balloon Juice, we contributed $4,465 to the pet rescue.
To every BJ peep who bought a calendar (or 10!) or made a donation – take a minute to pat yourselves on the back. It sounds like what we contributed made a big difference.
Everything changed because of Covid, and that was no different for Wet Mountain Animal Welfare.
So their focus and expenditures for 2021 are different than in previous years. They were able to increase their aid for low-income spay and neuter, vaccinations, and urgent medical needs. They were able to offer bridge loans for emergencies, and they channelled more of their energy and their funds to helping individual cases.
This post includes a short summary of what they were able to accomplish with our help, and if you want to learn more, you can read all about the guys who are pictured below and learn about how Wet Mountain (WMAF) was able to help all of them. Plus a few more!
READ ALL THE STORIES HERE: Wet Mountain Animal Welfare 2021 Report to Balloon Juice
Wet Mountain Animal Welfare 2021 Report to Balloon Juice
The extra monies (from Balloon Juice!) allowed us to get involved in more cases, and more extensively, resulting in us having more impact through humane advisements with owners.
It also helped us to cement reciprocal connections with the shelters, rescues, and vet clinics outside of Custer County.
One Story to Get You Started
Niko and Koko
A well-meaning local approached us for help with some kittens being over produced at a friend’s house. The adults were pets, but free-roaming and intact, so they just kept reproducing. The friend was concerned for the kits going into winter and caught them up and took them home, but was afraid she would have to rehome them due to the expense of initial med care (vet check, vax and eventual neuter). She asked for help with the bills and/or rehoming. We made an agreement with her to cover a certain percentage and she was able to keep both boys.
READ ALL THE STORIES HERE: You can find the full report and all the stories here.
For the Math Lovers
Balloon Juice contributed $4,465.00 to the pet rescue.
Medical, urgent, emergency and loans, WMAF spent $1789 on 10 kittens, 6 cats, and 5 dogs.
Typical rescue costs for cats: neuter is $180.00, spay is $250.
Typical rescue costs for dogs: neuter is $300.00, spay is $350.
Other Projects
–Pet Waggin – dog and cat chow, dry and canned, at the Share and Care Center in town, two times a month. We have very consistent donors, so we can make sure that the food is higher quality
–Making free tags with phone number and pet name.
–We have a chip reader so that people who find animals on the weekend can get a chip read when the vet is closed.
–Facebook group and Facebook page (under construction) and website, are becoming the ‘go to” places that people with pet problems or questions can reach out. So we educated along the way, when you have an audience willing to absorb the message.
–WMAW Facebook group, our website, and our googlevoice mail are in constant use, from Lost and Found posts, to rehoming, to general help questions. There is no way to count the number of pets we have aided through the social media network.
Going Forward Into the New Year
Continue to be available to aid, assist and educate.
Fundraiser auction (online) is under construction.
Pop ups with recycled, donated pet supplies and educational flyers.
In case you want to make a donation – beyond buying the calendars – click DONATE on the page below.
Be sure to make a note with your donation so they know it’s from a Balloon Juice person!
Benw
Awesome!
Gravenstone
Third row, I swear for a hot second there I thought that basket kitten was cuddled up to a koala!
Anyway, glad to know this place and the inmates therein can continue to have a positive impact on the critters.
Miss Bianca
Those are some squee-o-riffic photos there!
Thank you everyone who has bought a calendar or otherwise donated to WMAW – I have had a chance to talk to the board members over the course of the last year and they were just blown away by the generosity of the BJ community.
eclare
Great story! Where is this group, I looked on the website, Colorado?
Miss Bianca
@eclare: Custer County, Colorado
rikyrah
Some of those pictures are adorable :)
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: Some of them really are adorable. Most of the photos were low res so I wasn’t able to make them any bigger than they are. But so adorable!
WaterGirl
@Gravenstone: i thought the same thing!
Miss Bianca
btw, I totally recommend clicking on the link that WaterGirl has in the post and reading all the stories.
Old School
@Gravenstone:
It’s not?
WaterGirl
@Miss Bianca: I linked to it in two different places – perhaps that was too subtle
edit: I just upped my game with the addition of READ ALL THE STORIES HERE in all caps in two places. :-)
Miss Bianca
@WaterGirl: : )
Thank you, Girl!
realbtl
I put this in the previous thread but unless my old eyes are failing Jada is missing. Thanks
MazeDancer
Looks like a worthy org that knows how to stretch a dollar. Chipped in a small amount, they deserve it.
Made me realize we need a ‘BJ Signifier” on an amount number – where ever one might donate – so that the org knows from whence it came.
Like 2 cents or 27 or 33. So that instead of 10 bucks, one donates $10.02. Or $10.33. And all the donations with the BJ number stand out.
Ruviana
Love all the little bebes!
WaterGirl
@realbtl: I answered in the previous thread, too. Jade is in Calendar A, this is preview for Calendar B. :-)
LongHairedWeirdo
If we were friends who hung out, I’d now have license to act offended and say “THAT’S NOT MATH THAT’S ARITHMETIC!”
And you’d probably have come up with “Arithmetic is a proper subset of the broader set ‘maths’ and therefore certainly belongs to the superset.”
(Oh: if you *weren’t* from the UK, you might still use “maths” just to annoy me – razzafrazzin’ brits think they’re so cockney with their extra Ses to needlessly extend a perfectly fine word….)
WaterGirl
@LongHairedWeirdo: If I am understanding your comment correctly, i should now pretend to be offended by your math / arithmetic correction.
Is that correct? If so, please consider me to be highly offended. And suitably chastised! :-)
heidi E.
@Benw:
thanks to all of you for your comments, cracks and super support..next year we hope to be better with photos, most actually come from cell phones, and aren’t the best or the biggest photo options, but better than nothing, and always need to document. so appreciate all of you!