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My name is "Willie"! I am perched safely in this cup because me, my siblings and Mom were rescued Thanksgiving 2019 from our birth nest under a tractor trailer at the Hagerstown Scrap Yard project. Please Give. With your help we can prevent situations like these.
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We are so lucky to have trapped Calypso. Here is she with her last letter of kittens as she has now been spayed. Like "Grandpa" she has a very infected mouth from bad teeth, that we have been keeping under control with antibiotics. Calypso needs dental surgery very badly to remove her bad teeth and the source of infection so she can be brought back to good health and released to her colony at the Hagerstown Scrap Yard project that has been ongoing since 2016. She is another example how critical spaying is. When our vet opened her up to spay, her uterus literally began to fall apart. I was told this was because she had had so many litters of kittens. There was a high probability that during her next pregnancy she could have developed pyrometra a life threatening bacterial infection and died. Or she could have just bled to death during the birth process leaving her kittens to perish as well. Her age is estimated to be about 8. Can you imagine? 8 years of age and at two litters per year she would have had 16 litters ranging from 1-5 kittens. If she had an average of 3 kittens per litter that means she would have produced 48 kittens over her life....and those kittens would have had kittens. Update: 6/27/20 We need your support to raise the remaining $205 to get her dental surgery.
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" Willie " and his 4 siblings were born under this truck -- a very dangerous place. "Mom" was spayed and all kittens were sterilized and vaccinated and now have loving forever homes. Mom was very feral and returned back to her managed outdoor home.
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"Tuff Tex" and "Stanley"
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Hello, My name is Strawberri. I am Willie's little sister.


Our Vision: to provide information and dialogue that will create a supportive environment empowering people to bring happier and healthier lives to the outdoor cats in our community.


TNVR  PROGRAM

PurrHaven, Inc. is an IRS approved 501(c)3 charity run by a passionate team of volunteers. Our mission is to spay, neuter, vaccinate and return (to their caretakers), the outdoor unsterilized cats of South Washington County Maryland using a humane process known as Trap-Neuter-Vacacinate-Return(TNVR). 

We target our efforts within certain areas in South Washington County where historically high rates of unsterilized cats are euthanized by county animal control authorities For 2020, our target area for TNVR is Rohrersville (21779), Knoxville(21758), Sharpsburg Maryland (21782).  We continue to work with property owners and caregivers to manage colonies of cats we previously TNVR'd in Rohrersville, Weaverton, Gapland, Keedysville, Clear Spring, Cascade, Smithburg, Sharpsburg, Fairplay, and Hagerstown (21740).   

We sponsor TNVR where the breeding cat colony is typically  10-50 cats and the caregivers  are unable to get the situation under control (lack of financial resources, equipment or transport vehicles).  We provide a the full cycle of services which includes trapping, transporting to clinic, returning sterilized and vaccinated adults back to the caregiver/property, vetting sick cats and kittens and re-homing adoptable kittens.  It can take up to one year to get large feral colonies completely spayed and neutered.

We are No-Kill.  Our services are free of charge but depend upon donations.  If you feed outdoor unsterilized cats in one of our target areas and need assistance, please go to our CONTACT PAGE, complete and submit the form.

FUNDING
Funding comes from donations from the public and by applying for grants. We are thankful for the support from the following foundations and organizations:   COMMUNITY CATS PODCAST matching grants, The Elizabeth Niemeyer Foundation, The Bissell Foundation.        
                               
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  A Sharpsburg cat is happy to be returned to her home after being spayed.