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.

NATIONAL ADOPTION WEEKEND AT TLC PETSMART CHEEKTOWAGA

PETSMART CHARITIES

NATIONAL ADOPTION WEEKEND

 

SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPT. 17 & 18
10AM - 4PM

TLC at PETSMART
1734 WALDEN AVE.
CHEEKTOWAGA

On average, more than 15,000 pets find homes every time PetSmart Charities hosts a National Adoption Weekend.  Held 4 times a year, these events showcase adoptable pets in every PetSmart store in the United States and Canada.

Come find a new furry, purry family member!
 

CRAFTS & CAT THEMED ITEMS
SPECIAL ADOPTION FEES
 

INTERESTED IN HELPING OUT?
CONTACT MARIANNE at mmcpherson@noco.com

PETFINDER WORKS WONDERS FOR TLC KITTY

Benjamin Stein-d'Lobita and Axel d'Lobita with Winston

Submitted By: Benjamin Stein-d'Lobita and Axel d'Lobita

Several years ago before I had moved to Buffalo from Long Island, NY, a neighborhood black cat that had eye problems disappeared during the spring and was never seen again. He had always followed me home as when I walked around, meowing and insisting on endless belly rubs. I always wondered what had happened to him. I sincerely hoped that wherever he was, he was at peace and somewhere he was loved.

My parents had always firmly believed in “don’t shop, adopt” and took in many rescued animals, leading to my passion for rescuing pets. In December 2015, my then-fiancé (now husband) Ben and I had been mulling over the idea of adding a new furry member to our family. We had left a multi-roommate situation where our three-year-old cat Orion was one of six living in a three level house. He no longer had his best friend (a white Siamese mix named Walter) that he had bonded with over a year and a half. Ben and I had also discussed finding a special needs cat that required extra love and attention. We knew whomever we adopted had to be cat-sibling friendly and able to adapt to a small apartment. I began my search on Petfinder.com daily, scrolling through a plethora of adoptable cats while working overnights at a hotel.

A week before Christmas I had discovered Winston's profile. The Ten Lives Club of the Walden Galleria Mall had a posted a short paragraph on his history. He was a rescue from a high kill shelter that lost one eye but still had all the charm in the world and love to share. I printed out his Petfinder listing and came home the following morning and showed it to Ben. Winston’s story and personality called to me and I knew from that moment I wanted to bring him home. I called the shelter to ask if he was still available after returning from a holiday trip. Kristen, the manager from TLC, confirmed he was still at the shelter.  I asked Ben his opinion on Winston and he agreed that he would be a good fit for us. Every few days I would check the shelter’s Facebook page to see if Winston was still there, and he was. We had to stand by to prepare our home for a new addition and ensure he would have a smooth transition. Ben and I agreed we would not adopt a new family member until everything was ready.

A month before Valentine’s Day, we made the trip to the mall to meet Winston after weeks of patiently waiting for the right time. An hour and a half ride from downtown by bus, we arrived in the afternoon and requested to have a meet and greet. Kristen noted that if he were to go home with us, he must have a slow introduction to Orion. The second stipulation was that he must take his beloved green coil toy home. After the approval was given we asked if we could return the next day with our friend’s car to pick him up. As of January 15th, 2016 Winston came home with us, coil and all. Orion and Winston met nose to nose through the carrier and behind the bathroom door; Orion seemed unfazed but interested in who this new friend could be. After a few days we allowed them to interact with supervision but barrier-free. Winston became a much-loved part of our small family. His similarities to the long-departed neighborhood cat continued to make me wonder daily if this was him in a new body but the same spirit.

Ben now volunteers at TLC’s Galleria shelter, and we have since adopted our third cat and second special needs baby, a deaf cat named Neil. We thank not only the Ten Lives Club for their dedication to rescuing high risk, special needs, FIV+, and senior cats but also Petfinder.com for helping us connect with them and find Winston.

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...

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

KITTY LOVE ADOPTION EVENT - RESCHEDULED FOR Sat. 2/21!

~KITTY LOVE~
ADOPTION EVENT!

SATURDAY,

FEBRUARY 21, 2015
 
11 AM TO 5PM

Pet Supplies "Plus"

9630 Transit Road

East Amherst, New York

DONATE ITEMS 
from our 
WISH LIST 


For FREE tickets 
to ENTER our



SWEET
THEME BASKET RAFFLE!

 

20+ Theme Baskets with purrfectly wonderful surprises!

8+ gift certificates to popular local restaurants valued from $10 -$25!

Wine/liquor & stemware, premium cat/dog toys & treats, cat/dog related gift items, candles, home decor & SO MUCH MORE!

Pet Supplies Plus has already run out of room to put all of the donations for Ten Lives Club under the tables! They've had to make space in their warehouse now - WOW~!

Our theme basket raffle runs until the end of February & we've gotten so many donations there are already a lot of tickets in those bags!   

A very talented & generous lady donated beautiful bracelets to Ten Lives Club recently that will be available for purchase during our adoption event this Saturday.  

They are made of hemp with a silver charm & are adjustable.  

These one of a kind, handmade with LOVE bracelets are $12 each & 100% of the proceeds benefit Ten Lives Club kitties!

Bunny

Look at these sweet kitties available for adoption!  

 

 

Nyema

Special 

Kitty LOVE 

Adoption Rates! 

Stormy

 
Adult Cats - $25

Age 9 Months+

(Reg. $50)

Mr. Grey

Rosetta

Diamond

Kittens - $75

8 Months & Under

Reg. ($100)

CAN YOU HELP?

We still need volunteers to help cover this event any time before, during & after the Kitty Love Adoption Event on Sunday, February 15.  

If you can volunteer, please submit the form below!  

THANK YOU!

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Bring DONATIONS for THEME BASKETS 
or desserts for the BAKE SALE to:

Pet Supplies "Plus" 

9630 Transit Rd.  

East Amherst, NY

Leave DONATIONS with any 

Pet Supplies "Plus" Manager on duty!

OR make a CASH CONTRIBUTION

THEME BASKET DONATION SUGGESTIONS:

• Wine or Liquor
• Bar Accessories
• Bath & Beauty Products
• Candles, Wax Tarts or Potpourri
• Cat Toys
• Cat Treats
• Cat Food
• Cat Related Gift Items
• Dog Toys
• Dog Treats
• Dog Food
• Dog Related Gift Items
• Valentine's Themed Items
• Baskets
• Gift Cards/Certificates - Restaurant, Movie Passes, Wine/Liquor Store, Spa/Salon, Pet Supplies "Plus", Dog/Cat Grooming Services...
• Event Tickets - Sports, Theater, Movie Packages