Once upon a time, this house became a salvation for hundreds of feline souls and a dream come true for us, those who rescue them. And today we risk losing it. Finding a facility that can house as many animals as ours (and do so without breaking the law or sanitary standards) is an almost impossible task.
That's why for a long time we huddled in technical rooms - ventilation shafts and basements dreaming that someday the homeless will have a home.
Thanks to your support, this dream came true: we found and rented the building we were looking for for so long. A house remote from other residential buildings (required by law), where quarantine could be arranged, separate rooms for cats with FIV and leukemia, post-surgery block, isolation ward and treatment rooms.
Under this roof, more than three hundred cats were given a second chance at life and are now being cared for.
We invested in this building not only tremendous efforts and money (we did repairs, replaced boilers), but also a part of our soul - for example, our caretaker, in her rare free hours, picked up a brush and painted the walls herself. Because it is much more than a workplace. This is a place where love lives and real miracles happen. A place where the so-called hopeless come back to life.
But, unfortunately, we risk losing everything.
Unfortunately, by the time we paid the vet clinics (the bills were astronomical due to the sheer number of heavy furry patients), a huge rent debt had accrued. If we don't turn it off, our electricity will be cut off, this is the first step.
The second is clearing electricity for us is not just light (although you can't turn on a cat with candles). That's all - heating (on the brink of winter!), water and support for life support systems for seriously ill patients: infusion pumps, oxygen tanks and heated boxes run on electricity.
If you turn it all off there will simply be no cats.
And we have nowhere to go. No one anywhere is waiting for 300 sick and unwanted cats.