Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Casey’s House, Inc.
Year End Review 2013
Where We’ve Been and What We Are Doing Now
Over ten years ago I made a promise to Casey as she sat in my lap in the vet’s office waiting for the shot that would send her across the rainbow bridge of life.  A couple of years later I reiterated that promise to Eeyore, the patriarch of the colony which with Casey they had created.  My promise was to build a sanctuary for older and harder to adopt cats.  I did not realize the enormous scope of the problem.  According to the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services records 46,441 cats were euthanized in the Commonwealth during 2012.  If the assumption was made that each no-kill sanctuary could house 50 cats that would still require over 900 sanctuaries just to house the population of one year’s homeless cats!  This of course does not include the cats that were not brought to shelters or rescues that remain in poor circumstances daily struggling for their survival.  We simply cannot keep up with the need by putting up more buildings, this is why Casey’s House main focus is now the promotion of spay/neuter.  We remain dedicated to the wonderful felines in our care and will continue to provide sanctuary to as many as our current space allows but our strategy is to “fix” the problem by shifting to spay/neuter.  We are working with other rescue groups, trappers, and pet owners.  We offer discounts and subsidies as needed for our spay/neuter services striving always to reach 100% sterilization of each and every colony indoor and out that we encounter.  With your help we will continue our mission to end the plight of feral and other abandoned cats!

How you can Help???

·         A Tax deductible gifts can be made either with the enclosed donation form or through our paypal account, a link to which is on our website, www.caseyshouse.org via our donation page.
·         igive” is an online shopping portal that donates a portion of your purchase to Casey’s House if you click on the ‘Shop Online Through IGive” line found on our donation page at our website www.caseyshouse.org

·         We are collecting aluminum cans.  Bagged cans can be brought to either Petco on Saturdays (by 5PM) or any time to our Bluemont location.  Call Cindy at 703-220-9965 for more information.

     
                                             Upcoming 2014 Event!

Casey’s House will be hosting an event in the June 2014 timeframe for the dual purpose of finding homes for next spring kittens and raising funds for Parkinson’s disease research.  Tim Ingram, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, is the primary caregiver for our cats.  We have a link to our Team Fox Event page on our website-www.caseyshouse.org.




Thursday, November 7, 2013

November 7, 2013

Please remember Casey's House when filling out your CFC form this year!  Our CFC number is 86714.

We plan on making our Dec 3rd spay/neuter transport the largest to date, our goal is to spay/neuter 50 cats that day.  With your help we can do it!

Thanks for all your support!

Sincerely,
Cindy Ingram
President
Casey's House

Sunday, July 7, 2013

A Brief Note From Casey's House about a July Fundraiser!

Dear Friend of Casey's House,

I don't often send email blasts out as I feel as though people prefer hearing from us via a newsletter in the mail.  I did want to quickly send you information though about a July fundraising effort generously offered to us:

Please check out Amy Sikes' website! She is donating a portion of her Avon sales to Casey's House this month!  Orders can be placed online and shipped to your house and orders $30 or more incur no shipping charges!

Amy does this every month for a different rescue, she truly is an animal lover and I encourage you to consider her for all your Avon needs throughout the year!  

Thanks and I hope that you had a wonderful 4th!

Sincerely,
Cindy Ingram
Casey's House

Monday, May 20, 2013


Casey's House, Inc.
Home to many of the elderly and hard to adopt cats in our region; dedicated to the promotion of Trap-Neuter-Return to help end the plight of feral and other abandoned cats!
161 Pine Grove Road
Bluemont, VA  20135
Phone: 703-220-9965
Fax: 866-220-7375
Ein# 20-5866187
CFC# 86714


20-May-13

Dear Friend of Casey’s House,

Kitten season is upon us and already we are filled up with kittens at Casey’s House!  Shortly after we took in our first mother from Winchester we received a call about a mother in Berryville!  Both mothers are merely more than kittens themselves, about six months old.  We are hoping to find homes for the mothers along with the kittens; the mothers will be spayed and fully vetted.  If taken with a kitten, the adoption fee for the mother will be fully waived!

After taking in two mothers one right after the other we were going to take a breather for a few days to get adjusted to our fast growing foster family.  However, a feral mother cat had other ideas and we hadn’t even realized that she was pregnant!  We woke up one morning and instead of a feral cat alone in her cage waiting for the spay/neuter transport there was a feral cat with five kittens, don’t ask me where in her belly she was hiding those kittens as I still can’t figure it out!  We have received quite a few calls since about mother cats and kittens and will be working with a few families to try to find homes for everybody but we need your help!  Each mother needs to be combo tested, dewormed, shots, and spayed.  Each kitten also needs to be fully vetted and it all costs money.

You can support Casey’s House in a variety of ways:

·         Tax deductible gifts can be made either with the enclosed donation form or through our paypal account, a link to which is on our website, www.caseyshouse.org via our donation page.
·         Tax deductible gifts can be made through CFC through your employer, our number is noted above.
·         “igive” is an online shopping portal that donates a portion of your purchase to Casey’s House if you click on the ‘Shop Online Through IGive” line found on our donation page at our website www.caseyshouse.org
·         We are collecting aluminum cans.  Bagged cans can be brought to either Petco on Saturdays (by 5PM) or any time to our Bluemont location.  Call Cindy at 703-220-9965 for more information.

We will continue our mission of providing a safe and loving home for our hard to place cats and working to put an end to the pet over population problem.

Together we can make this world a better place for all our feline friends!  Thank-you for your support!

Sincerely,



      Cindy Ingram                                                                     
     President                            
     Casey’s House, Inc.           
For a complete list of our adoptable cats visit our website www.caseyshouse.org and click on “adoptions”