Social Action
Donation Explanation
Regularly, we are asked by shelters and rescue groups to donate products. While our company does donate up to ten percent of our proceeds, we know that you may like to also help our furry friends. So, we have a donation program available.
For $5, $10 or $15 you can help donate a SnugglePuppie™ or a SnuggleKittie™ to an animal shelter. A little buys 1/4 SnugglePuppie™ or SnuggleKittie™, some buys half – and $15 buys the complete package! We combine partial donations and will send the items to each shelter asking for help.
Help Save The Basenji Breed
Another donation program we would like to introduce is "Native Basenji Importation", facilitated by our friend Dr. Jo Thompson. Jo is working to preserve the domestic Basenji dog breed globally from the high degree of inbreeding and the deadly results of some health related recessive traits. As a result of the limited genetic diversity in the present Basenji population and to ensure that there is a future for the Basenji, the ultimate goal of this Native Basenji Importation program is to expand the gene pool by importing native Basenji dogs from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Although Jo is usually in the Congo, you can download articles and read about her program (Basenji Conservation and Lukuru Imports) on this website. To continue reading, CLICK HERE.
Help Hard Luck Charlie!
Meet Hard Luck Charlie. He was found on the highway a few miles from my home. We immediately rushed him to the Vet where this tiny ball of furry love was given fluids, de-wormed, a flea treatment and tested for FeLV. Charlie has been with me now for two weeks and has several obstacles yet to overcome. He has an abnormally large heart that isn’t placed quite right in his tiny orange body. He has several large air bubbles in his stomach, lungs and intestines and because of several viruses attacking his body he struggles for breath. His vet bill is increasing and with my limited income, I can’t cover all the expenses. I have Charlie’s chronicles on my website at www.feralcatbehavior.com and I have his vet records available to share. If you wish to donate to Charlie's medical care expenses, please send your donations through Pay Pal to webcomposer@comcast.net. You can reach me (Maryanne) at love@felinexpress.com - as she says, ‘Charlie isn’t out of the woods yet, but we have managed to reach a clearing!”
Your Donations In Action - A True Story
"Dot was rescued from a local animal shelter. Arlington Kittens and Cats
took her in and is bottle feeding her. She was about 2 weeks old when found under a shed outside.
We have had her about a week, and she loves her SnuggleKittie™, it helps her to not feel
so alone. She is all white with one small patch on her head that is black, that patch is about the size of
a DOT, her name!"
"This is Dot on her SnuggleKittie™ that was
donated by you! Thought you would want
to see it is still in full use!"
Arlington Kitten And Cats.
Sincerely, Carrie
Your Donations In Action - Shelter Stories
Read a letter from a Dog and Cat Shelter
in Sheridan, WY USA 
The Simba Fund: READ MORE in the local press, CLICK HERE
In November of 2005, Julee Roth asked Mountain Veterinary Surgical Associates of the Roaring Fork Valley near Aspen, Colorado to establish “The Simba Fund” in memory of her cat, Simba. The Simba Fund helps with the cost of lifesaving procedures for stray animals and for those animals whose owners have extenuating circumstances or limited resources. Since January of 2006, The Simba Fund has helped four wonderful, deserving pets get a second chance. Please read their stories below.
Walley
Wally, our very first Simba Fund recipient, was hit by a car and suffered a fractured hip joint and nerve damage to his right rear leg. Walley’s owners had exhausted all of their funds on initial care to stabilize him following the accident. They did not know how they could afford to pay for the amputation surgery that Walley desperately needed. With help from the Simba Fund, Walley’s pelvic fracture was repaired and his leg amputated. Within a few days, Walley was back at home, happy, and running around on three legs.
Morgan
Morgan was riding through Glenwood Canyon, CO, when her family’s car was involved in a serious accident. Both of her owners were rushed to the hospital for intensive care. A good samaritan found Morgan by the roadside, having been ejected from the car, unable to use her hind legs and in a terrible amount of pain. Her condition was very serious, and her odds of recovery were less than 50% at best with surgery. The odds of recovery were close to 0% without surgery. In addition, if surgery was going to help, it needed to be performed immediately. With her owners, a retired couple on a fixed income, in the hospital, the Simba Fund stepped in to help pay for Morgan’s spinal surgery. Today, Morgan is happy, but was unable to regain feeling or movement of her hind legs as we had hoped. Nevertheless, Morgan is getting around great in a k9 cart and her owners are grateful to have her back in their lives.
Quixote
Quixote was rescued by the Animal Rescue Foundation with a poorly repaired broken leg. His leg had been repaired with an external fixater in Grand Junction, CO, but the bone had become severely infected, his fracture had not healed, and it had left his leg extremely deformed. By discounting her services and using the Simba Fund, Dr. McPherron was able to resolve his infection and perform a specialized surgery (corrective osteotomy) to straighten his leg and repair the fracture. Since his surgery, Quixote has been adopted and is now able to run and play with his loving family’s children and other pets.
Rafter
Rafter, our most recent Simba Fund recipient, was struck and dragged by a bus on Highway 82. He suffered a severe, open multiple fracture of his left front leg and many deep lacerations to his legs and body. The owner was unable to care for Rafter after his accident, and he relinquished ownership to Mountain Veterinary Surgical Assoc. After repairing Rafter's soft tissue lacerations, Rafter required surgery to amputate his left front leg because it was too badly broken to be salvaged. Three weeks after the accident, Rafter was doing great on three legs and has found a new home with one of the firefighters who rescued him from Highway 82.
How can you help the Simba Fund?
100% of donations to The Simba Fund are applied towards caring for stray animals or for those animals whose owners have extenuating circumstances or limited resources. If you would like to help an animal in need, tax deductible donations may be made payable to “A.S.C.C.” with “The Simba Fund” written in the memo and mailed to Mountain Veterinary Surgical Associates. For donations that do not need to be tax deductible, please make checks payable directly to “The Simba Fund.”
- Simba Fund
- 180 Fiou Lane, ste. 101
- Basalt, CO 81621
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