Emergency Fire Disaster Assistance Requested!

Town Cats has established a fund for Chris Pruett's Taj Meow Animal Sanctuary which was completely destroyed along with Chris' personal home and everything he owned when the Santa Cruz mountain fire struck. Chris provided homes for and took care of horses, dogs, cats to the tune of about 100 total animals in his loving care. We now have taken in 6 burn victims, 1 mother cat and 6 kittens from the fire. (We have also taken in 4 adults who were ferals but were not burned and looked healthy, so we spayed/neutered, vaccinated and went back with Chris - he thinks new disoriented cats are showing up since they found the food/water.) All of the rescued cats are starting to recover well. All the horses are fine, but he lost 2 dogs and about 20 cats. He is busy trying to round up all the animals and get up and running as soon as possible. Town Cats is collecting donations of dog/cat dry/wet food; hay for the horses; large troughs for water for the horses and dogs and smaller, but large feeders/waterers for the cats and dogs dry and water. We are also collecting monetary donations for the sanctuary as well and you can pay any amount from our website paypal link or mail to our PO Box 1828, MH, CA 95038 - just mark this is for the "Catman Fire Fund". (Note: if Paypal won't let you say what the money is intended for, send us a follow-up email at towncats@garlic.com to let us know.)

He has an older Bronco which costs $120 to fill the tank with gasoline for going up and down the mountain for supplies, so money is appreciated too. And if you would like to donate specifically to help the 5 burn victims in Town Cats' care, please mark on your donation it's for the 5 cat burn victims. Thank you very much for all your support, Chris has given everything to the animals over the years and now he needs our help.

A volunteer wrote a wonderful story about Chris and his animals. Please follow the link below to read it:

http://www.justmeagain.typepad.com/ (Scroll down to May 25th, 2008 Entry)

Three of Chris's cats, being treated for burn wounds.... See how nicely the bandages are wrapped on the recovering kitty's feet! Many thanks to the volunteer who has taken them in and is treating them....