Senior Citizens needed!

Our organization needs the help of Seniors who would like a feline companion without the requirement of a total commitment. In other words, be a foster and get so much in return. Not only will you be helping us find a furever home for the foster kitty but you will also be providing much needed companionship and love at the same time.  And getting loads of purrs and “head butts” in return! Often, if we do not have a foster for the cat of a terminally ill person, we have to board the cat at a veterinarian or, and this breaks our hearts, turn down the opportunity to help. Our fosters are only asked to make an initial 3 month commitment and we provide veterinarian care for their new best friend.  All we ask is that you supply the love and, of course, food and kitty litter but arrangements can be made for assistance if this is a hardship.

Please call 359-0201 and ask to be referred to Volunteer Coordinator.

Waldo Canyon Fire

100% contained.  A week ago that seemed like wishful thinking.  And this morning the view to the north from my deck could almost be that of another city from just days ago. No visible flames, no blankets or boiling plumes of smoke and no helicopters with their buckets of water.  I also no longer hear the drone of C-130’s and the smell of burning forest does not seep into the closed-up house.  “Almost” is the operative term because, of course, in the lives of many the fire remains all too real and the results long lasting.  

Thanks to the whims of the wind I was never evacuated like my sister and several friends but I was never without that knot of anxiety and to some extent still feel it. It will be a long summer, it seems. The greatest source of my anxiety was my dogs and what would happen if I were not home when an evacuation was ordered.  I had heard that it was likely I would not be allowed back in to get them.  And then I read on Face Book that officers from the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region, at the frantic request of a dog’s owners, had gone into an evacuated neighborhood to bring out their dog.  After that, rescuing these animals became one of the vital services HSPPR offered to our community during this disaster.  Not to mention what it did for my state of anxiety. I am still concerned about fire but I know my dogs have friends in the right places.