TLC MURDER MYSTERY THEATER!

"Murder of Millionaire Cat Fancier"

Presented by WNY Improv

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4

5:30 PM TO 9:30 PM

The Grapevine Banquets

333 Dick Rd.

Depew, NY

TICKETS ARE $40 PER PERSON

Tickets can be purchased ONLINE or from the TLC Shelter (3741 Lakeshore Rd. in Blasdell) only until THURSDAY, Nov. 3.  Tickets will only be available at the door on Friday.

SEATING IS LIMITED!

Almost 500 tickets have been sold to date!

Tickets include dinner and two drink tickets for beer or wine.  Dinner will be served at 6:30 and includes Italian Specialty Chicken, House Rigatoni, House Salad, Garlic Rolls, Mashed Potatoes, Coffee, Tea, Assorted Sodas and Desserts.

Drinks & Appetizers served from 5:30 to 6:30 pm

Play begins at 7:30 pm

All proceeds benefit Ten Lives Club!

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

CALL 716-646-5577

TLC MOURNS LOSS OF BELOVED FRIEND & VOLUNTEER

On Sunday afternoon, September 4th, our dear friend and dedicated TLC Volunteer, Marianne Annibali was hit by a car while jogging.  The accident happened on Walden Ave in Depew and she died instantly.  Her death has left a big hole in all of our hearts and she will be greatly missed.

Several years ago, Marianne and her husband Rich, adopted a TLC Cat named Tucker.  When Marianne saw an opportunity to volunteer at our Pet Supply Plus location on Union Road, she joined our TLC family.  She always brought along her 14 year daughter Marirose.

Marianne then started fostering and was seldom without a Mom and kittens at their home.  As if that was not enough, She also cleaned Friday nights at Petsmart after learning we were very short handed.

Marianne and Rich also volunteered for a Greyhound rescue group. She certainly shared the love and compassion for animals with her family. She ran five miles every day, rain or shine.  On her run, she always stopped by Marianne McPherson’s house to chat about her fosters. Dorine, who also lives in the neighborhood, would frequently see her running down Walden Ave.

Marianne said she needed to run every day so she would stay healthy. She wanted to be around a long time to watch her daughter grow up, get married and maybe someday enjoy a house full of grand kids. 

Marianne worked at Sisters Hospital where she also had many friends. She was married to her husband Rich for 34 years and her daughter Marirose will celebrate her 15th Birthday next week.

This is such a tragedy for her family and ours here at Ten Lives.  We know she is surrounded by numerous animals up at Rainbow Bridge but things will never be the same for those of us she left behind.

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PRAYERS FOR JEANNIE

Katherine Street in the First Ward of South Buffalo is particularly a problem area for stray and unwanted cats.  Recently, Ten Lives took in five kittens from a business property on Katherine Street.  There were three more at the time that volunteers were trying to trap. Those three were rescued last week.

Some may not have given this kitten - we named Jeannie - a chance. But at Ten Lives Club, this is what we do.  Although it can be so heartbreaking to see what neglect and abandonment can do to the kitties that come to us for help.

Jeannie was surrendered with severe eye infections in both eyes.  Her eyes had gone untreated for so long it's clear in the picture to the left how severe her infection was when she came to us. One eye is beyond saving and will need to have enucleation (eye removal). 

Her foster home has been treating Jeannie with three different eye medicines six times a day.  That's 18 times a day plus antibiotics!  Her foster Mom, Paula, turned this very sick little baby into a perky little kitten who has started to play. 

It's amazing how far little Jeannie has come in less than two weeks with medication and tender loving care!

Paula has been with Ten Lives Club for 14 years. She has easily fostered and/or adopted out over 1,000 plus moms and kittens!

Paula is a true cat angel to little Jeannie and all of the kitties that she takes under her loving wings. Ten Lives is so grateful to have Paula and all of our committed foster homes! They give so many cats and kittens such loving care and the chance to find their forever homes. 

Jeannie will have the one eye removed when she's bigger as Animal Eye Care could not save that infected eye.  But now, she is out of pain and can see with her other eye.
We still need "Prayers for Jeannie" and thank everyone for the donations and kind words of hope and love for her!  We love our little Jeannie! 

Thanks to all who believe and support us in all that we do! 

If you would like to make a donation towards Jeannie's continued care, please CLICK HERE!

 

SPONSOR A CAT CONDO AT TEN LIVES CLUB GALLERIA!

Looking for a unique gift to give someone special this holiday season? Sponsor one of our 13 state of the art kitty condos at the new Ten Lives Galleria Mall! What a special holiday gift to give or to honor a family member, friend or beloved pet that has crossed the Rainbow Bridge!

Businesses can also sponsor cat condos for additional exposure inside the TLC Galleria location. Sponsor a display window as well as a cat condo and increase your exposure to visitors!

Ask your workplace if they would be interested in sponsoring a cat condo! Ask friends, family or co-workers to sponsor one (or more) together!

Sponsorship signs will be professionally made by Evenhouse Printing LLC. Signs measure 5" x 7". You choose what you would like your sponsorship sign to say as long as it will fit within the parameters of the signage. Condo Sponsor signs will be displayed for 2 months at a time.

They will be prominently displayed inside one of our 13 cat condos and visible to every visitor to our store. (See examples of cat condo sponsorship signs above and below).

Cat Condo Sponsorships also make great gifts for birthdays, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Anniversaries or other special occasions. You choose which months you would like to sponsor one or more of our kitty condos! 

Each condo sponsorship will be for 2 months.  $150 will include a condo sponsorship for 2 months of your choice - back to back, i.e. - March & April, or for 2 specific months (special occasions such as birthdays, anniversaries or holidays). 

Ten Lives Club will send a personalized card to the sponsorship honoree to let them know of your donation in their name or family's name.
 
Please help us help more kitties by becoming a sponsor for the Ten Lives Club Galleria adoption location! Think of the difference we can make for so many more homeless cats and kittens with your kind support.

SPONSOR A CAT CONDO! 

Galleria Cat Condo Sponsorship

1 Cat Condo - for 2 months $150.00 USD 2 Cat Condos - for 2 months $300.00 USD 3 Cat Condos - for 2 months $450.00 USD 4 Cat Condos - for 2 months $600.00 USD 5 Cat Condos - for 2 months $750.00 USD

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SHARE YOUR TEN LIVES CLUB ADOPTION STORY TODAY!

How has your Ten Lives Club kitty changed your life?  

What makes your sweet Ten Lives Club kitty so special to YOU?  

Nominate Ten Lives Club by sending in a story about adopting a cat or kitten from Ten Lives Club and how they made your life happier, more joyful and just all around better.

This year, Petco Foundation is looking for great adoption success stories of how “Love Changes Everything” for the kitty and the adopter.

SHARE YOUR TEN LIVES CLUB ADOPTION STORY for a chance to win the PETCO "Holiday Wishes" Campaign!  

The winner receives a YEAR'S SUPPLY of HALO cat food and Ten Lives Club could win the GRAND PRIZE GRANT worth $100,000!  

PETCO is looking for inspirational, well-written & life changing stories about Ten Lives Club adopted kitties!  

PLEASE HURRY!!  

ONLY THE 1ST 10,000 STORIES WILL BE 

CONSIDERED FOR REVIEW!

Stories MUST BE SUBMITTED by OCTOBER 31st!  

CLICK BELOW TO SUBMIT YOUR STORY TODAY! 

Petco Foundation’s Holiday Wishes

For inspiration, read the SAMPLE STORY below to help you get started! 

MAMA CAT & 5 KITTENS FOUND IN DUCT TAPED BOX RESCUED BY TLC!

Mama cat CHELLE & her litter of 5 babies!

 
On Monday, July 20, Ten Lives Club volunteer Ken Lyon was helping TLC prepare for their upcoming garage sale.  He discovered a cardboard box sitting outside the Ten Lives Club donation bin that was sealed with duct tape. When he heard meowing noises coming from inside the box, he immediately took it inside the shelter. 

Ken started removing the duct tape and a cat's head popped up through the opening! Inside was a mama cat and her litter of 5 newborn kittens who had been sealed up tight and abandoned in the hot July heat.  Ken and other Ten Lives Club volunteers and staff were appalled!  Who could do such a thing?  Why didn't they surrender them to the shelter which was only a few yards away?  Instead, they shoved this poor mama cat and her babies into a cardboard box, duct taped it shut so there was no way to escape and left it by boxes of donated items like a piece of trash!  In the middle of JULY!

Dr. Fisk examined them and determined that the kittens were between 7 and 10 days old.  The mama cat and all of her babies were okay.  Thankfully, it appeared that they had been inside the box for about 15 minutes or less.  Had it been much longer on a hot 80 degree July day, the outcome would not have been so good.

WIVB Channel 4 and WGRZ Channel 2 did a wonderful job covering this heartbreaking story.  Both broadcast stations sent reporters to interview Marie Edwards - TLC President & Founder, Ken Lyon and Dr. Fisk the very same day.  

Ten Lives is so grateful for the kind donations and compassionate response for these sweet kitties thanks to WIVB and WGRZ! People from not only Western New York, but all over the United States have shown their support!  THANK YOU!

The mama cat - now named "Chelle" - and her 5 babies are being fostered by a seasoned Ten Lives Club volunteer.  Chelle will be available for adoption in a few weeks once her babies are weaned and she has been spayed.  Her babies will be available for adoption around the end of September.
 

Call 716-646-5577 for more information 

about adopting Chelle or her babies!

It will cost approximately $1,000 for Ten Lives Club to treat & prepare these kitties for adoption.

~PLEASE HELP US HELP THESE KITTIES!~

To make a donation for the "Duct Taped Box Kitties" 

CLICK HERE!

~CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES ON CHELLE & HER BABIES!~

TLC MAMA CATS & BABIES NEED FOSTER HOMES!

Kitten season is in full swing right now! Ten Lives Club is overflowing with Mama cats & their newborns, pregnant cats and orphaned kittens.  These cats and kittens MUST be in foster care so they can stay healthy and in a quiet setting away from all the other cats in our shelter.  Please consider fostering for Ten Lives Club this kitten season.  More foster homes are desperately needed! 

New Mamas and their babies need to be away from so many other cats so they don't get sick.  They are very vulnerable and fragile at this stage and need to be in foster homes until they are big enough to find their forever homes.  Can you open your heart and home to foster a new mama and her babies for just 10 to 12 weeks?  Ten Lives Club will provide Purina cat and kitten food to those who can foster for us!

Ten Lives pulled 3 very sickly four week old kittens with terrible eye infections from the Buffalo City Shelter on Tuesday.  

Two of the three kittens are shown in the picture to the left.  These poor babies are very sick and don't have a mother.  

Our vet staff gave these babies fluids and treated them with eye medications. Unfortunately, they may lose their eyes because of the severe infections they are suffering. 

Pictured right is a healthy new Mama who just had a litter of 4 babies. She and her newborns were also pulled from the Buffalo City Shelter on Tuesday.  

Her babies (pictured left) are only a few days old and still have their eyes shut.  

This new Mama kitty and her newborn kittens need a foster home so they can stay healthy.  

TO FOSTER for Ten Lives Club, please call 716-646-5577 TODAY!  

DON'T MISS BEER FOR CATS! FRIDAY MAY 22

TEN LIVES CLUB ANNUAL BEER FOR CATS!

FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015

MR. GOODBAR

1110 ELMWOOD AVE.

BUFFALO, NY

STOP IN to Mr. Goodbar on 

Friday, May 22 from 5 to 7:30pm 

for an evening of FUN & great BEERS!  

FREE ADMISSION!

TLC DRINK SPECIALS: 

Tröegs Troegenator Double Bock 
Slice of Life Hard Cider 
with lemon and ginger 
Two 10 oz. drafts for $10 or Five for $20

*5 FREE RAFFLE TICKETS*
*With Any Donation of:
 KMR KITTEN MILK REPLACER 
(Powdered or Liquid)
PURINA KITTEN CHOW 
(Yellow Bag)
CANNED KITTEN FOOD
PAPER TOWELS
BLEACH
LAUNDRY DETERGENT
GARBAGE BAGS (XL Heavy Duty)
 

Beer themed Silent Auction Items!

Beer Themed Basket Raffle!  

50/50 Raffle!  

Come out for an evening of FUN all to benefit the kitties!

TEN LIVES CLUB 14TH BIRTHDAY BASH!

TEN LIVES CLUB 14TH BIRTHDAY BASH!  

Enjoy a Ten Lives Club birthday cake & sing "Happy Birthday" to the kitties~! 

Bring a Birthday Gift for the kitties or make a donation in honor of Ten Lives Club hard work & dedication to saving thousands of kitties over the last 14 years! 

Help Ten Lives Club Kitties Find Forever Homes!

Ten Lives Club is looking for dependable, enthusiastic, responsible, mature individuals who LOVE cats & would like to help place them in forever homes!  *Must be 18 years old or older.*

Volunteer Nicole Calandra with "Mae"

We will provide the necessary training required to qualify potential adopters & completing the paperwork involved with Ten Lives Club cat adoptions. 

Ten Lives Club showcases our cats & kittens at satellite adoption locations throughout Buffalo & the surrounding suburbs as well as at our main shelter.

About once or twice a month Ten Lives Club also holds adoption events at various venues such as area malls & other places of business over a weekend where we need qualified volunteers to assist with adoptions during the event.

Theme Basket Raffle

These events also involve transporting cats & kittens from the main shelter in Blasdell to the event, setting up for the event, tending to the kitties during the event (food, water, play time, etc.), promoting Ten Lives Club, answering questions from potential adopters &/or people who are interested in becoming a volunteer, completing adoption paperwork & handling payments, selling fundraising items & breaking down after the event.

If you would be interested in a rewarding, exciting experience to help place our kitties in loving, forever homes, please fill out the form below & one of our volunteer coordinators will be in touch very soon!

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Robin Wants A Home for the Holidays!

ROBIN - Age 7-8 months old

Little Robin was rescued by a Good Samaritan who saw her roaming their neighborhood without a home.  She was brought to Ten Lives Club where she was treated for a urinary tract infection.   She is doing just fine now!  We recommend keeping her on a special diet for urinary tract maintenance so we want to send along a 6 month supply of her special diet when she finds her forever home!  We want her to spend her first Christmas & many more with a loving family!

Robin is a beautiful domestic short haired Torti who is approximately 7 - 8 months old.  She loves to play & is a friendly little girl~!  She would be a good fit for any household.

Her adoption fee is only $50 & includes a 6 month supply of her food!

TO ADOPT ROBIN, CALL 716-646-5577 OR VISIT THE TEN LIVES CLUB SHELTER AT 3741 LAKE SHORE ROAD IN BLASDELL!