12/02/2025
✨ This Giving Tuesday, we’re asking for your help. ✨
Even with the incredible generosity of our supporters throughout the year, our funds are running low. 2025 brought us a double whammy: more than $10,000 in unexpected building costs — from emergency heat repairs in mid-February to a broken washing machine — plus the installation of a new backflow valve required by updated state code. On top of that, we cared for many cats who needed complex and costly medical treatment. Here are a few of their stories:
• Gladys, a beloved long-term resident, needed emergency eye surgery and sadly passed soon after from B-cell lymphoma.
• Bernie needed a full diagnostic workup, including an echocardiogram — all so he could safely go home with adopters who adore him as much as we do.
• Blossom arrived pregnant and gave birth to 6 healthy kittens in our care.
• Monroe, a volunteer favorite, underwent extensive testing to uncover the cause of his blindness and is also FIV+.
• Oscar is our sweet diabetic boy who needs regular insulin... and a warm lap to curl up in.
• Santiago, who has feline leukemia, requires ongoing monitoring and daily medication but still bounces around the office.
• Orlando (Floof) doesn’t let IBS slow him down as he welcomes every visitor and shadows our volunteers.
• Lianna, who joined us just last month, is partially blind and may need orthopedic surgery on both knees.
So far this year, 35 cats have come through our doors, each with a unique story, personality, and set of needs — and we’re thrilled to share that 36 have found loving homes. Our shelter is truly a revolving door of healing, hope, and second chances, and we feel lucky to meet every feline who comes our way.
But we cannot do this work without you.
As we enter the season of warmth, joy, and peace — all things we wish for our cats at HAAL — we hope you’ll consider making a Giving Tuesday donation. 100% of every dollar goes directly to the animals in our care.
❤️ Donate: www.haalnj.org/donate.
“And God said, ‘I’ll send them without wings, so that nobody will know they are angels.'"
In loving memory: Gladys, Nightfall, Sunkist, Mouse, Jean Claude, Patsy, Mooshdi, General, Calypso and more
