Fundraising

Georgia Renaissance Festival

Attend the Georgia Renaissance Festival and help Furkids’ animals! 

Buy your tickets through our special discount website and mention promo code: furkids for a 20% savings of adult and child’s tickets! For every ticket sold through our page Furkids we receive at $2 donation! 

Adult tickets $15.95 (regularly $19.95) Child tickets $6 (regularly $8.95) Children under 5 are free

Open Saturdays and Sundays and Memorial Day, 10:30-6:00, April 13 – June 2, 2013

Discount website: http://garenfest.com/promo

Promo code: furkids 

Celebrate 28 Years of Amazing Days and Crazy Knights!

• We’re a theme park that’s closer than Disney and more affordable than Six Flags.
• Be royally entertained with 10-stages offering nonstop great entertainment! Enjoy minstrels, comedians, jugglers and much more!
• Feast like a King with hundreds of savory delights to tempt your palate!  
  Hungry!  Our eager guests have consumed over 2 MILLION POUNDS of Turkey Legs!
• Experience world-class shopping in our 32-acre World Bazaar with over 150 artisans!
• Experience the original extreme sport – the Joust Tournament of Kings –– performed by professional stunt men direct from Hollywood!
• Witness weaving, coin minting, glass blowing, pottery and jewelry demonstrations and more by artisans from all over the world!
• Ride thrilling rides and play unique games in our medieval amusement park!
• FREE parking!

2012 Cat Calendar Contest | Results

Furkids recently ran a contest for our 2012 calendar and invited entrants to submit a photo of their rescued/adopted cat and share the story of why they deserved to be in the calendar. We received over 40 wonderful entries! We only wish there were that many months in the year so we could feature them all!

It was a very challenging decision for the committee, but we are pleased to share the 13 finalists.

Over the next few months, our fantastic volunteer professional photographers, Jacob Fu and Esther Julee, of Julee Photography, will hold photo sessions with the finalists and will produce our beautiful 2012 Furkids Cat Calendar! Stay tuned for information on how to pre-order your calendars. If you pre-order, you get to vote for the cat that you would like to see on the cover!

Here now, are the finalists that will grace the 13-months and cover of the 2012 calendar. Get ready for your close-ups, kitties!
(Click on the image to move through the slideshow, and be sure to scroll down as this blog post continues below).

We have also put together a pictorial of all of the entrants so we could share with you these beautiful and special felines. We have selected six Honorable Mentions to be featured in our upcoming newsletters.

Saving Sight: How You Can Help

A police officer friend, responding to a recent call, found a stray mother cat and her five sickly kittens. Given the grave condition of their eyes, he reached out to Furkids for help. We responded immediately and went to rescue the family.

The mom, Belle Star, was malnourished but trying desperately to feed her kittens. I can honestly say that I have never encountered the severity of sickness that afflicted these kittens. The photos of their condition upon intake are too grotesque to share. We all were overcome with grief at their condition, including our veterinarian, and especially for one kitten that did not survive. We all wished we had learned of this family sooner so that we could have spared them such suffering and we vowed to do everything we could to not only save them, but save their eyesight, too.

After examination and treatment orders were received, we quickly placed the family with our experienced volunteer, Lisa. She has worked diligently to keep up with the demanding medical regimen implemented by ophthalmologist, Dr. Winston. Regardless of everyone’s best efforts, Billy the Kid and Jesse James will each lose one eye. Fortunately, they have perfect sight in their good eyes.

josey wales	jesse james	calamity jane	billy the kid

We continue to keep up with their medical regimen while we wait another month until they are old enough for their surgeries. Their other siblings, Josey Wales and Calamity Jane, will not lose an eye although they each will have cloudy vision in one. Other than the loss of an eye for two of the kittens, these are all healthy and happy kittens and they need a good home.

Right around the same time, another kitten with a horrible eye infection was found by a postal carrier during her daily route. She brought the kitten to Furkids and we named him Radar. We are grateful that Lisa agreed to foster him as well. Like the other kittens, Radar has no vision in one eye and very little sight in the other. He has an ulcer on his eye that we are aggressively treating with four different medications and weekly examinations with our specialist. It is possible Radar will go totally blind, but we hold out hope for him that the treatment will work.

The weekly doctor visits and medications for six kittens have been costly to our organization. We are grateful to have been able to help these kittens in need and we hope you agree and will provide support to help offset the great expense of their care and future surgeries.

Please help us raise $2000 using the chipin widget below.  Thank you for your support that allows us to provide the help needed in these challenging situations.