Pets/Friends for Life - St. Thomas

05/17/2025

Please help this organization

05/17/2025

Please help this organization if you can foster.

**FOSTERS NEEDED, PLEASE MAKE A DIFFERENCE NOW **

Dear Friends,

We’re reaching out with heavy hearts and a desperate plea — our rescue is on the brink of closure, and time is running out. More than anything, we’re terrified for the lives of the 200+ cats in our care who depend on us.

What will happen to sweet Skye if she’s taken from our care? What about the other precious souls — like Colton, living with FeLV, or Pearl, who has FIV, or the shy, semi-feral kitties who are just beginning to trust again? We don’t want to imagine their fate, but we fear the worst. And they deserve so much better.

Right now, fostering a cat could mean the difference between life and death. We’re URGENTLY asking you to open your heart and home to just one of our cats. By doing so, you're not only offering love — you’re offering them safety, stability, and the guarantee of a future.

Please, if you’ve ever thought about fostering, now is the time. Let’s make sure none of these innocent lives are lost. Together, we can be their lifeline.

We don't know when PAWS will come back and soon, it may be too late to make a difference. Please fill out a foster application today:

https://www.ragstorichescatrescue.com/get-involved

With hope and gratitude,
Rags to Riches Cat Rescue Team

11/09/2024

Please consider helping this rescue. Like all shelters, they are struggling with bills. We don’t want another rescue to close in southwestern Ontario! 😿

*** WE NEED YOUR HELP! ***

Rescues everywhere are struggling to stay open… the numbers just don’t add up. WE NEED YOUR FINANCIAL HELP PLEASE! We do NOT receive government funding. WE NEED YOU!

WE ARE A REGISTERED CHARITY, . We issue deductible tax receipts for donations $25.00 OR MORE. PLEASE DONATE!

We have a lot of veterinary costs & expenses due/coming due that WE NEED YOUR HELP for…

Oxford County Veterinary Clinic (Woodstock)
(Call In Donations Directly To Our Account: 1-519-290-9400)
10/01/24 Invoice: 159099  $5471.27
10/31/24 Invoice: 159099  $1520.79
 
East Village Animal Hospital (Kitchener)
(Call In Donations Directly To Our Account: 1-519-894-2323)
10/15/24 Invoice: 2216042  $153.68
10/15/24 Invoice: 2216020  $1449.05
10/17/24 Invoice: 2216796  $1271.25
10/29/24 Invoice: 2219881  $2631.98
11/05/24 Invoice: 2222497  $3014.17
 
We also have a kitty named Maxine who requires an estimated 3 hour dental surgery at a cost of $1339.05  

We had to purchase an oxygenator machine for the shelter for a discounted cost of $880.69.

Every week, we order 12 bags of non-medicated layer crumble chicken feed from Country Mills (Norwich) that we use as low cost cat litter, approx. $1000/month.
(Call In Donations Directly To Our Account: 1-519-863-3905). 

Rental disposal container is $270.00/month. 

Total owing for NOVEMBER 2024 (so far) is $19,001.93.
 
PLEASE DONATE TODAY. WE ALSO ACCEPT AUTOMATIC MONTHLY DONATIONS ON OUR WEBSITE RAGSTORICHESCATRESCUE.COM
  
E-Transfers: (NO FEES DEDUCTED) [email protected]   
 
Website Donations: https://www.ragstorichescatrescue.com

Mail/Donations:
Rags To Riches Cat Rescue
132 Colonel Talbot Rd., Tillsonburg, ON, N4G 4G9
(Visits by appointment only)
 
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PLEASE ADOPT A FIXED KITTY FROM A SHELTER. BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION, NOT THE PROBLEM.

10/28/2024

Over the last while, we have been sharing and donating our last resources, equipment and leftover items from the Pets/Friends for Life shelter. While it was a difficult decision to have to close our shelter, we have done our best to “pay it forward” to other worthy shelters and rescues in our region. We would ask our past supporters to please continue to volunteer time, donate cash and supplies to shelters and rescues in particular Rags To Riches Cat Rescue, SALT Saving Animals’ Lives Together, Country Charm Animal Rescue, and https://www.facebook.com/newhopeanimalrescueguelph 😺 #

09/02/2024

Great news! SALT Rescue will be opening a new adoption centre at 353 Talbot St. in St. Thomas. We are thrilled that this wonderful rescue will be taking over our adoption centre. Please help support SALT Saving Animals’ Lives Together in their work! Their first adoption event will be Monday September 2, 2024 from 11-3 😺

07/28/2024

Day two of our closing out sale begins Sunday July 28th at 9:30 AM. There are plenty of great finds still available.

Join us for our closing out “Indoor Yard Sale” on Saturday and Sunday July 27 & 28th from 9:30-2 each day. Everything must go by the end of July 28th! Share your PFFL kitty stories with us as we say goodbye and help us fundraise for our closing costs. 🐈🤎 Please share. Many interesting gift ideas, office equipment and cat items available. Some items will be priced and for the rest all reasonable offers accepted. Pricing not available prior to sale. 353 Talbot St., St Thomas

07/27/2024

Sale will begin today at 9:30am! 353 Talbot St

07/26/2024

Closing out sale starts tomorrow at 9:30 AM. Please join us as we liquidate the remainder of our items. 😺 353 Talbot St., St Thomas

07/24/2024

4 More Days until our Closing Out Sale. Everything must go! All reasonable offers will be accepted on our office equipment, cat items, gift ideas, etc. Sale begins this Saturday July 27th at 9:30AM. Please help us liquidate our items to cover our closing costs. 😺 Come share your PFFL adoption stories.

05/31/2024

Pets/Friends for Life has had a busy month! We have found homes for over 30 cats who had been patiently waiting for their own families. We thank our adopters who opened their homes and hearts to add to their families with a feline in need.
Currently, we have five cats remaining in the shelter. Sadie, Jenny, Fancy, Layla and Nate are all more shy and will need patient and experienced adopters who will bring out their sweet personalities. Message us to come meet our available cats. Our adoption fee is $100. Please check out our website, petsfriendsforlife.org for more information on these lovely kitties.