HELP PETFINDER & TLC FIND FOREVER HOMES FOR PETS IN BUFFALO!

HELP PETFINDER & TLC FIND FOREVER HOMES FOR PETS IN BUFFALO!
 
Petfinder has helped facilitate more than 25 million pet adoptions through nearly 13,000 shelter and rescue organizations – one of which is Ten Lives Club.

To celebrate its two decades of helping pets meet their people, Petfinder is asking animal lovers nationwide to watch the #MetOnPetfinder 20th anniversary video with a goal of reaching one million views. The video shows how adoptable pets have transformed the lives of their adopters. 

If the one million view goal is reached by Oct. 24, Petfinder will donate $200,000 to the Petfinder Foundation, funding twenty $10,000 grants to select shelter and rescue organizations nationwide, and one of those grants could go to Ten Lives Club!

After you watch the video, we’d love to hear about your Petfinder success stories on social media. Just use the hashtag #MetOnPetfinder and be sure to tag @tenlivesclub in your post.

MEET LORENZO!

We have never met, but I love you already. My name is Lorenzo and I am a super sweet, young, FIV positive boy kitty who loves to be pet.

Stop by the Ten Lives Club shelter at 3741 Lakeshore Rd. in Blasdell and show me some love! 

Better yet, adopt me and you will receive a lifetime of unconditional love!

TO ADOPT LORENZO
CALL 716-646-5577!

GET A TAT TO SAVE A CAT!

GET A TAT SAVE A CAT

TLC TATTOO FUNDRAISER!

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

12PM TO 6PM

7 SEAS TATTOO

3187 ABBOTT RD.

ORCHARD PARK, NY

Choose from a variety of pet themed tattoo designs.  Each tattoo is $40 and 100% of the proceeds benefit animal rescue!  Ten Lives is donating 5% to Buffalo Pug.

The tattoo artists are graciously donating their time and talent for this event.  All tattoos will be done on a first come, first serve basis - no appointments accepted.  PLEASE BE SURE TO TIP YOUR ARTIST!





Read the shelterme.tv article "Tattoos For Charity - Get A Tat, Help A Cat"!

For more information, contact Diana at ziggy0312@yahoo.com 

or call 716-646-5577!

TEN LIVES CLUB BRICK CAMPAIGN "KICKS-OFF"!

TEN LIVES CLUB BRICK CAMPAIGN "KICKS-OFF"!

The future holds many hopes & visions for Ten Lives Club.  In order to continue our efforts to save and re-home as many kitties as possible while also assisting many other rescue organizations across Western New York, we need to build a warehouse on our shelter property.  The warehouse would store supplies, equipment and pallets of litter and food we receive from all over the country.  It would also serve as a pet food pantry for other rescue groups & compassionate individuals who care for feral colonies and strays.

Planned Warehouse - awaiting actual blueprints & sketch.

Ten Lives Club also plans to move our ringworm facility from South Buffalo to a new state of the art isolation/contagious facility within the warehouse.  Currently, we pay a steep rent to house and treat kitties with ringworm and other highly contagious diseases.  With the addition of the warehouse on property we already own, we would no longer have that additional monthly expense!

The Ten Lives Club shelter in Blasdell sits on 2.8 acres of land. The planned warehouse would be 48' x 81' x 16' built on the back lot of our property. Inside will hold our inventory, the planned isolation center, an inside area concession stand with outside awning for future fundraisers & even three dog runs so TLC can start working with dog rescue groups to show their dogs for adoption.

  

Back lot on our property where warehouse will be built.

If we raise enough funds we would also like to put a feral enclosure off of this building!  

Recently, TLC had a delivery of 41 pallets of cat and dog food.  In order to store this much needed donation as well as many other donations of food, litter and other supplies, we currently pay $1,000 per month to rent a space in the industrial facility next door.  Having a large storage space is a necessity!  Not only to store our own food and supplies but to share with other rescue groups.  Some of the rescue groups we provided food from this donation were: Joyful Rescues, Operation Pets, Feral Cat Focus, City of Buffalo Animal Shelter, Save a Pet, Tabbytown, Best for Pets, Bob’s Rescue, Niagara County SPCA, Almost Home AnimalSanctuary, Empire Rescue, SOS Cat Rescue & Supporting Rescue Alliance - to name a few!

Ten Lives Club also provides food to feral cat colony caretakers and others who have spayed or neutered cats on their barn properties.  With this recent donation, we were able to supply those who feed community cats in Tonawanda Island, Angola, Olcott, South & North Buffalo, Collins, East Concord, Salamanca, West Seneca, the Buffalo Marina, Boston, Colden, Hamburg, Blasdell, Cheektowaga, Lackawanna, Buffalo East Side, Tonawanda, Niagara Falls, Springville& Arcade.

The cats who come into our care depend on Ten Lives Club! Many rescue organizations & compassionate individuals who care for feral colonies and stray cats depend on us as well.  With the addition of our own warehouse facility, Ten Lives Club would save over $2,000 per month in rental costs for storage space and ringworm containment. 

Please consider donating a TLC Warehouse Campaign Brick in memory of a beloved pet, family member or friend that will forever be displayed in our new warehouse facility.  Businesses and other community organizations can also proudly display their sponsorship. Groups or families can donate a brick together with each participant proudly engraved! 

  

Each brick is 4" x 8" and includes an engraved message along with an optional picture of a cat, dog, heart or angel ($5 additional).  The cost to donate a TLC Warehouse CampaignBrick is $500. They will be prominently displayed on the East side of the 48' x 81' x 16' warehouse facility.  

PRINT OFF AN ORDER FORM 
ON THE BRICK CAMPAIGN PAGE

OR

SUBMIT YOUR BRICK ORDER ONLINE!

 

Nicholas - Age 1 - Friendly Stray Rescued by TLC!

WITH YOUR HELP!

Ten Lives Club can see this dream come true and continue our mission: 

TO PROMOTE 

FURTHER AND 

ENHANCE 

ALL CAT LIFE!

HAPPY TAILS~ SWEETIE PIE & HONEY BUNCH

 SWEETIE PIE & HONEY BUNCH

Submitted By:

Marianne McPherson

TLC Volunteer Store Coordinator

PetSmart - Cheektowaga & Pet Supplies "Plus" Sheridan Dr.

TLC Adoption Training Coordinator

Sometimes it is very tough on TLC staff and volunteers to see two sweet cats like Sweetie Pie and Honey Bunch being surrendered by their owners.   These two beautiful seven-year-old, declawed siblings shared the first seven years of their lives with one family. Now, they were unwanted and homeless. 

HONEY BUNCH

Any Shelter can be a scary place for animals where there are no familiar faces.  Being put in a cage for the first time is even more frightening!

SWEETIE PIE

Finding a home for one older cat is difficult enough much less two,  but we made it our goal to try everything we could to keep them together. 

After being processed, they were sent to the TLC adoption location at Pet Supplies "Plus" - 3340 Sheridan Dr.  

There, they cuddled together in the back of the cage not knowing what was happening to them.

PHYLISS & SWEETIE PIE

It was their good fortune that Phyllis Zagarrigo happened by chance to stop there that day.  Phyllis lives next door to her sister Sharon in Hamburg, NY.  Together they have promised they will give Sweetie Pie and Honey Bunch a Loving Forever Home.

PHYLISS'S SISTER SHARON & SWEETIE PIE

Volunteer Jill said when Phyllis and Sharon held them for the first time, Sweetie Pie and Honey Bunch settled right into their arms!  As if they knew everything was now going to be okay... 

This is why we all do what we do!

Thanks for all that you do for the kitties Marianne!

BE A SPONSOR FOR TEN LIVES CLUB 2016 CALENDAR!

For only $50, your business card will be printed on one of the various months in our upcoming TLC 2016 Calendar.
   
It's a great way to advertise your business and help Ten Lives Club kitties at the same time!  

Sponsors will receive a FREE TLC 2016 Calendar!

HURRY!  DEADLINE IS JULY 1ST!

Sponsorship fee can be paid via Paypal.  E-mail a scanned copy of your business card to copycatnews@aol.com with "2016 Calendar" in the subject line. 

To pay by check, make payable to Ten Lives Club. Mail payment and business card to:  Ten Lives Club - 2016 Calendar, P.O. Box 253, North Boston, NY 14110.

KITTENS FOUND IN DUMPSTER BROUGHT TO TLC!

On Friday, May 15, 2015, Ten Lives Club received an urgent phone call from a local veterinarian we work with regularly.  Their clinic took in some newborn kittens and needed our help immediately.  

That morning, while emptying a dumpster in South Buffalo, employees from Modern Disposal found two plastic bags with FOUR newborn kittens inside.  These poor little babies still had their umbilical chords and the afterbirth was also in one of the bags!  The employees saw no sign of the poor Mother cat who had her babies ripped away from her as soon as she gave birth.  

Unfortunately, it was already too late for two of the newborns but somehow the other two were hanging on - barely.

Ten Lives Club brought the two surviving newborns to the shelter for immediate medical attention and care.  They were literally only HOURS old & needed fluids and round the clock feedings.  One of our wonderful foster volunteers stepped in to help.

Despite our best efforts and care, one newborn passed away on Saturday and the other one followed on Monday.

READ NEWS STORY HERE...AND HERE

What a cruel and irresponsible way of dealing with an unwanted litter of kittens.  

Ten Lives Club is deeply saddened and outraged about this unbelievable act of cruelty against these poor newborn babies and the Mama cat, who's whereabouts are unknown. 

These newborn kittens were bagged up & thrown away like pieces of TRASH!  Meanwhile, the Mama cat, if she's still alive, will continue to have litter after litter of unwanted kittens...

There is a simple solution to unwanted litters - 

SPAY & NEUTER!
 

PetSmart Charities National Adoption Weekend - May 15 to 17

PetSmart Charities 
National Adoption Weekend!

May 15 - 17, 2015

Ten Lives Club at PetSmart 

1734 Walden Ave.

Cheektowaga, New York

Saturday, May 16 & Sunday May 17

10AM to 5PM

GLENDA - AGE 2/FIV+

LARRY - AGE 4/FIV+

 

• Special cats available for adoption at reduced fees during the event! 

• Food for purchase! 

• Ten Lives Club merchandise for sale!

DONATE ANY ITEMS LISTED BELOW & GET 5 FREE BAGS OF DOG TREATS!

KMR KITTEN 

MILK REPLACER 

(Powdered or Liquid)

PURINA 

KITTEN CHOW 

(Yellow Bag)

CANNED KITTEN FOOD 

(Any)

PAPER TOWELS 
BLEACH 
LAUNDRY DETERGENT 
GARBAGE BAGS (XL) 

Miss Polly sayz:

"THANKS SO MUCH!"

POLLY - AGE 8, FIV+

 
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED to help set up on Friday evening (May 15) anytime after 5pm. Extra help during the event on Saturday & Sunday between 10am & 5pm is also desperately needed! Any volunteers who have taken the TLC Adoption Workshop or are already qualified to approve adoptions would be extremely helpful!

TRANSPORTERS NEEDED - 5 cats need a ride from our TLC main shelter at 3741 Lake Shore Rd. in Blasdell to PetSmart on Walden Ave. on Saturday morning prior to the event (9:30AM).  Any cats who may not get adopted need a ride back to the TLC shelter after the event on Sunday (5PM).

TO VOLUNTEER or TRANSPORT on either day - Saturday (May 16) or Sunday (May 17) - ANY TIME between 10AM & 5PM on either day, please CALL ALLISON at 716-646-5577, ext. 101 TODAY!

ADOPTION DAY FOR CARL!

Ten Lives Club at Pet Supplies Plus E. Amherst : ADOPTION DAY FOR CARL!: CARL AKA CARLO & SUSAN ADOPTION DAY! Beautiful boy Carl kitty found his forever home on Friday, May 1, 2015!    Carl had been at...

MEET TOM KITTY!

Ten Lives Club at Pet Supplies Plus E. Amherst : MEET TOM KITTY!: This is sweet boy Tom!   Tom is 2 yrs. old & a super lovey, friendly boy who just wants to find his forever home & purrson who ...

SWEET PHOEBE FINDS HER FOREVER HOME!

Ten Lives Club at Pet Supplies Plus E. Amherst : SWEET PHOEBE FINDS HER FOREVER HOME!: Phoebe kitty came to our location at Pet Supplies Plus E. Amherst about a week ago.  She was a stray rescue who had been surrendered to...

DONATE A KURANDA CAT BED TO TEN LIVES CLUB!

DONATE a KURANDA CAT BED to Ten Lives Club & we could win a FREE ALUMINUM BED from Kuranda!  

Prices are specially discounted for donation. Only $5 shipping on each cat bed or cat tower donated!

Items ship directly to the shelter in your name!

During the next 4 weeks, Kuranda is raffling off 5 aluminum beds each week to groups who get 10 or more Kuranda bed donations! 

Drawings will be held on midnight Saturday, February 28, March 7th, March 14th & March 21st.

DONATE A KURANDA CAT BED TO TEN LIVES CLUB for our KITTIES who LOVE THEM!

TEN LIVES CLUB 13TH ANNUAL FUR BALL!

Join us for a fun filled day for the whole family!  

SUNDAY, MARCH 29

1PM TO 6PM

The Knights of Columbus

36 Pierce Avenue

Hamburg, NY

FREE ADMISSION!

100+ THEME BASKETS FOR RAFFLE!

SILENT AUCTION!

SHOP CRAFTS & SPECIALTY ITEMS!

FOOD FOR PURCHASE!

CASH BAR!

LIVE MUSIC BY 

"THE BUFFALO VIVE"!

CATS AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION!

SWEET VALENTINE BASKET RAFFLE! FRIDAY 2/13/15!

~Celebrate~ LOVE with your SWEETHEART at the 

TEN LIVES CLUB SWEET VALENTINE BASKET RAFFLE! 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2015 

5:30 pm to 8:00 pm

Gordy's Inn Too!

3220 Seneca Street

West Seneca, NY

Enjoy an evening of FUN, FOOD, great PRIZES & DRINK SPECIALS!

 

 

• FREE ADMISSION!

• THEME BASKET RAFFLE!

•  50/50 RAFFLE!

•  CASH BAR!

•  FOOD FOR PURCHASE!
  

100% to BENEFIT TEN LIVES CLUB!

For more information:

Contact: 
Allison at tlcadoptacat@gmail.com 

716-646-5577