Thank You

We thank you very much for your kind donation. Without you there will be no Puffy Paws Kitty Haven. Every time you donate you are giving the gift of life for the kitties. Please accept this as our personal thank you at this time.
We are very sorry at this time, as it is almost impossible to send out a personal thank you. It is Chrissy and I running the daily operation of Puffy Paws Kitty Haven. Let me fill you in on the details.

The very sad fact of the matter is that it has been my wife and I taking care of the Special Needs kitties by ourselves for a very long time. My wife and I are only two people running Englewood, Florida's "World's Greatest Cathouse."

Puffy Paws Kitty Haven is a non-profit, no-kill cat hospice & rescue specializing in providing quality and loving care to special needs cats. We have been begging this community for help for years with adoptions, PR, and fundraising events. While the Humane Society and other rescue groups in the area enjoy paid employees and a host of volunteers, we do not. We do not get paid; 100% of all donations go to the kitties and the operating expenses. Our books are open to the public.

Funds are like the tide over here at Puffy Paws. Funds in and funds out. The priority of incoming funds are in this order: the kitties' daily needs, cat food, vet care, and operating expenses. After that, funds are used for the maintenance and improvement of the Haven for the kitties and the care and maintenance of the vehicles. Just by asking for help when the kitties need it.

Puffy Paws Kitty Haven believes in 100% transparency in all of our dealings. Chrissy and Rick do not get paid. The Kitties Need Cat Food, Monthly Operating Expenses, Kitties Daily Needs, and Veterinary Care pages are designed to let the whole world know where their donations go and why and when they are needed each and every month.

My wife and I take care of the special need & unwanted kitties together. We still have to work 8–12 hours a day because Sarasota Code Enforcement banned all traffic at the Haven.
Chrissy hauls in cat litter in the Haven daily & takes it back out. She washes over 20 cat litter boxes daily. The kitties are fed at 10 feeding stations, she vacuums & mops and dusts daily. Chrissy gives out meds. She grooms the kitties. She tends to the sick ones. She runs to the Vet and the Publix for the kitties' supplies. Chrissy does this day in and day out. She does the work of a paid staff of 10.

My job is to raise the funds to keep the doors open. On most days I work up to 8–12 hours a day. In addition to raising the funds, I run The Pop Culture Antique Museum and Business Center. I'm our Web Master. I do all the graphic art work. I update on Facebook everyday. I pay the operating expenses. I put out the SOS's for help. I put out all the fires that pop up daily. I'm my wife's venting post. I'm the fixer.

I’m in a fight for the kitties' lives. If I fail at raising the funds needed to take care of the kitties under our care, there will be no other option but to close down. What choice would we have? 

A whole Cat Hospice will be wiped out and only painful and sad stories will be told because I could not round up the worldwide awareness and financial help these beautiful cats deserve.

When people want to volunteer and find out that they cannot help with the kitties at the Haven because of the ban, they do not want to help out in other areas and move on. But we do need folks to help us with the thank you letters and emails. But it is not happening right now.

 We have improvised, adapted, and overcome these human obstacles by telling the truth of our situation. This is why we had to take our story Nationwide a few years back and now Worldwide. Without your support we could not do what we do and we will always be eternally grateful.

When we receive a donation online, it is my job to safeguard all the personal information that is sent. Puffy Paws Kitty Haven does not store, nor does it have access to, your credit card information, bank account numbers, or other account data sent through PayPal.

So the burden falls on me. This is very time-consuming in sending out a personal thank you for each donation received. It involves many hours in gathering the emails from PayPal to send out a personal thank you. I have a tremendous amount of guilt every single day because I do not have the time to send out a personal thank you for each donation received because I’m trying to keep the doors open. And for this I'm sorry.

One day I will get help in other areas so I may send out a personal "Thank You." But until that day comes, please know that we appreciate and are very grateful for every single donation that you send in to help the kitties. We cannot do it without you.

Sadly enough, time is my enemy. I only have a certain amount of time to raise the funds daily to keep the doors open at Puffy Paws and I hate this fact.

I pray for your understanding and forgiveness if I offended you.


Thank You For All That You Do.
Mad Kitty Love,
Co-Founder Puffy Paws Kitty Haven
Rick Kingston