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Rosie’s needs your help more than ever.

I will not comment further at this time, but yes I saw what’s been circulating last month and it will be addressed here after court this month, per my attorney.

July has been our worst month yet.

We did a $5 Friday and received one 2lb bag of dry food and 3 litters.

Our vet bills at Family Paws are $7k. I have no idea what Harvey Sparks was at Wilson’s last week.

Our rent is $6000+ now (it goes up each year) and we couldn’t pay it. Visits are way down. Adoptions have all but halted. I still owe the attorney for last month and we have a court date in two weeks and he has to be paid.

The cats have to be fed and we have kittens that need vetting this month and next.

If we have a repeat of July, the rescue will be done this month. That is a fact. Where the cats will go, I’m unsure. I’d need foster homes
Immediately. And a lot of them! We did that for a year and it was very difficult. Without a physical location to see the cats, adoptions are much more difficult.

We have 3 boxes of litter as of this morning. One bag of Blue Buffalo adult left that I picked up from Walmart last night. No Weruva kitten chicken and pumpkin wet as of this morning. I have enough GI kitten wet food for this evening. Enough GI kitten dry through tomorrow. We have plenty of Purina adult dry for the main room. After tonight’s main room feed, we will be out of wet food. We go through 200 cans a day in the main room and 40 in the kitten room. That’s 240 cans of wet food per day!

Without donations, adoptions, visits, attending fundraisers, events, we can’t sustain the cost of a Catfe and rescue. To fully vet each cat is more than $400 now. We run f***l PCRs, not regular f***l floats, and buy our own microchips, but still pay to have them implanted. We do our own vaccines when we can for the easier cats. Our adoption fee is $199 so we take a 50% loss each adoption. That does not include the cost of feeding them or any additional meds or vet visits for medical needs until adoption. Food and litter is the greatest fixed expense every month. Vet bills vary.

With all this being said, any donation, a box of litter, a bag of food, anything helps. We need to pay our rent current. It’s due again this month. Our landlord is understanding and knows what’s been taking place the past year and saw some of it himself on Facebook this past winter. We need a minimum $18,000 a month to cover food, litter, rent, and utilities. That does not include any vet care, meds, extras like toys, tunnels, beds, blankets, condos, hammocks, etc.

It is extremely costly to run a rescue. Even without a physical location, we still have a huge expense in caring for the cats.

Our Linktree has all the payment platforms, Chewy and Amazon wishlists, too.

https://linktr.ee/KittyCatfe

Family Paws is taking donations at 586-837-2278 today as well.

We have 26,000 followers. $1 from each would catch us up and then some. So every dollar literally helps.

We have an adoption event tomorrow 6-8pm, we are open Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday for visits. Sunday we have Painting with Cats. 3pm. You can click here to reserve any of the above: https://KittyCatfeEvents.as.me/

This Saturday is our Co****le Tournament Fundraiser and final count is due tomorrow(Tuesday.) We have 11 people signed up. We will be out the fee to rent the venue and no way to break even at 11 people.

If you would like to attend, please sign up today. Here is the link: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=Q5ZG4BBJ1U6N89B7HyxHfo8c2XV72HdGtQqmKgixSndUNExMRlFXMzRGTFJXMjhXUTg4VVRSSTlaTC4u&origin=QRCode

Lane sponsors are needed as well. $120 and includes a 2’ x 4’ sign with your logo or any info you’d like. Due tomorrow morning.

Please help us continue our mission.

Thank you so much ❤️

Sleepy Soda Pop below

Ok talk about a labor of love 🙀🥰

A new game just launched on Steam where every single sprite was physically stitched by hand with real thread and fabric, then digitally brought into the game. Frame by frame.

Scarlet Deer Inn is a 2D dark medieval folk tale from developer Attu Games. Not "embroidery inspired." Not a filter. Every animation frame was designed, stitched on a machine, and then integrated into the game one by one.

The main character alone has hundreds of individually embroidered frames just for her movement animations. Side characters have dozens each.

The developer estimates this approach takes around three times longer than traditional animation. When asked why they did it, the answer was simple: "Because we thought it was cool."

The game went viral in 2023 when the art style was first shown. Now that it's out, it's happened again. Sitting at 87% positive reviews on Steam within days of launch.

One player put it best: "What do you mean every frame is hand sewn? Are you joking?"

Such a beautiful art piece…

Hobby Lobby is what happens when a megachurch, a flea market, and a craft store have a three-way in a strip mall.

You walk in looking for model paint and immediately get hit with enough Jesus overtones to make you wonder whether buying a can of Mr Clear requires accepting Christ as your personal savior. Every aisle has a cross, a Bible verse, or some beige wooden sign reminding you that faith can move mountains, which would be a useful ability to have when trying to reach the actual hobby supplies buried behind acres of fake pumpkins and patio cushions.

And let’s not forget the pillaged ancient artifacts. They don't sell them anymore for obvious reasons, but still. Nothing says wholesome Christian family values quite like acquiring historical objects through methods that make Indiana Jones look like a customs officer.

And you can find an actual demon there. MPC's Dodge Demon, that is. Mix messages much?

At some point, the definition of “hobby” apparently expanded to include patio furniture, Joel Osteen books, fake lemons, galvanized buckets, cinnamon candies (which are delicious, despite being a weird thing to have in an alleged hobby store), and “Live Laugh Love” wall decorations for people whose homes have all the warmth and personality of a used car dealer's waiting room. When did buying a mass-produced wooden sign become a creative activity? You didn’t make anything. You bought a cutesy cursive platitude on a slab of fauxtina balsa and hung it over the toilet.

The actual hobby section is hidden in the back like an embarrassing relative. There are four of the same thirty model kits you didn't want the last ten times you stopped in, and enough Testors crap to qualify as a Superfund site. Meanwhile, there are actual acres of floor space dedicated to decorative pillows bearing messages like “Bless This Mess,” as though a cute pillow is going to distract visitors from the fact that your living room looks like a Cracker Barrel gift shop projectile vomited all over it.

It is educational, though. Hobby Lobby provides a rare opportunity to observe elderly women in their natural habitat. They travel in herds, slowly roaming the aisles and foraging the clearance rack for dried flowers like bipedal bison. One of them discovers a discounted wreath and emits a low, excited call. Within moments, the rest of the herd gathers around, blocking the aisle while debating whether mauve is too bold for Barb's guest bedroom.

Eventually, you find the one item you came for and head to the register, where the line moves at the approximate speed of continental drift. By the time you leave, you’ve aged six years, heard twelve instrumental hymns, and walked past enough fake farmhouse decor bu****it to furnish the home of every divorced aunt in the Midwest.

Hobby Lobby is not a hobby store. It is a religiously themed warehouse of patio furniture, stolen history, beige clutter, and decorative garbage for people who think buying a sign that says “Gather” counts as having a personality.

7.5 Hail Marys out of 10