10/21/2026
It is with GREAT SADNESS that we have to announce:
That come December 1st we will have to raise our adoption fee to $160.00.
We CANNOT continue to carry over such a high debt with the cost of care outpacing our income from drastically slow adoptions. We do not get enough donations from the community regularly to help keep our bills lower. Animal Control continues to fill up, and they reach out to us frequently with medical cases that no other rescues are willing/able to take on and sadly these are becoming too costly for us as well. This means more often the use of humane euthanasia will become more necessary.
Animal Control does their best to find homes or rescues for all the cats (and dogs) that come into their shelters. We go in and help vaccinate cats that are less cooperative due to the stress of the environment to attempt to prevent disease. People feel it's not necessary to Spay and Neuter so the problem continues. The answer is Spay and Neuter. The overpopulation is heartbreakingly OUT OF CONTROL. We vet every cat that comes through our rescue and to help more cats survive we pull from AC, VET, TRANSPORT and turn over to bigger rescues over 2 hours or more away that are able to find more homes quicker. We basically donate the cost of all that and food, litter and shelter to ensure more lives are spared from what seems like community ignorance or apathy.
The attached vet bill is our adoption account. This is what we owe for the medical care that we have given to cats we have/had in our care. It includes ONLY the medical care for not only the adoptable cats that we have available but the cats we tried to help and didn't make it, those sent on transport, as well as those that are not quite ready for adoption but on the way. This does not include the food, litter, gas for transport, time and other resources. It also does not include what we are trying to do for the community by building a new clinic! A clinic that will provide AFFORDABLE SPAY/NEUTER services for cats (AND DOGS).
The new building we are building; we have overcome obstacle after obstacle of bureaucratic red tape and are still fighting to bring YOU this gem!
You can donate on our website Therescueranch.org/donate or by TEXT 478-825-1233 and ask to pay on the Rescue Ranch Cats 2026 bill.
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