Inflation, Our Funds And Your Rescue And Caregiving Work

With the recent petrol hike, inflation usually follows. Everyone is going to be hit. We know that animal caregivers are also going to be hit hard as there are vet bills to be paid, petfood to be prepared/bought and this is above the household and personal expenses of every individual and family.

Since May 2013, we have had a sudden increase in medical claims. This coincided with the Berjaya Funds that came in so that has been a great help. But in a few months’ time, the Berjaya funds are going to be used up, so we have to think of ways to raise funds to sustain the increased number of applicants. After all, the Medical Fund is our primary focus and we will certainly do our best to sustain it. Closing the Food Fund will help too, as we can now channel all funds over to the Medical Fund, which reaches out to a larger number of caregivers.

Once inflation sets in, everyone is going to be hit, so merchandise sales will be similarly hit. After the army green Go Meatless” tshirt, we are not printing anymore new tshirts or even replenishing the stock of old designs for the time being. Donations will be affected too as everyone will be tightening their budget strings and living more thriftily and frugally.

Would you like to help us raise funds to sustain our Medical Fund? Here’s one way:�In the event that you have to buy gifts, we hope you could consider getting our tshirts, soap and toothpaste as gifts. After all, these are useful things. If you are organising an event, maybe a keychain or a bar of soap can be your door gift. If you are using Primal for your pets, why not buy from us? We give a 10% discount and free shipping, right to your doorstep. All proceeds will go towards our Fund, which means, to the animals.

Whether economic times are good or bad, the street animals will always need help. In a way, we are glad that there is an increase in the medical claims, and many are new applicants. This means our message is reaching out to more people, and we hope, encouraging more people to help the street animals. As such, we really hope we do not have to close our Medical Fund. More so, if all expenses are going up, veterinary medicine and petfood will be similarly affected too. Animal caregivers will definitely need the financial help.

In this respect, we hope that everyone will work together with us in helping us, most importantly, to prevent fraud and multiple claiming. If a caregiver has already claimed from elsewhere and has raised his/her own funds through friends, we urge such caregivers not to apply to us again. Please be honest so that we can channel our funds to those who are really needy and those who do not have the means to raise their own funds.

If you happen to know of cases of multiple claiming by applicants who are claiming from us, please send us the relevant links so that we can check them out, and if need be, advise the applicants on our policies.

For caregivers of community animals, we will continue helping you with your medical bills as per our policy. But we hope you will only claim if and when you are truly needy. If we all work together in this, our funds can last a bit longer and we can continue helping the animals for a bit longer.

As for petfood, if you are hit by the inflation, maybe you could consider other sources like preparing your own petfood. Do your own research about petfood and consult your veterinarian. Using home-prepared petfood can be a form of savings too, but we have to ensure that we prepare it according to correct proportions which provides sufficient nutritional needs for our animals.

Some links:

http://www.thewholepetdiet.com/andi-brown/

http://www.2ndchance.info/homemadediets.htm

http://www.catinfo.org/?link=makingcatfood#Raw vs Cooked

Let’s work together to tide through this inflation, for the animals.

Inflation or no inflation, the animals still need our help.

Thank you!

Source: http://myanimalcare.org/2013/09/27/inflation-our-funds-and-your-rescue-and-caregiving-work/

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AnimalCare is a registered society that promotes caregiving to street animals and helps in their neutering and medical needs. AnimalCare has a Medical Fund, Food Fund and Education Fund.

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