Working for FURR

FURR kitties take part in coffee clatch

January 17, 2011 By: kwilliams Category: feline rescue and rehome, Field trips, Working for FURR

SUSAN LOESCH

When the snow has melted and Saturday turns out to be a cool, sunny day, where does the young professional PR kitty go to hang out? Starbucks, of course!

But this wasn’t just any outing … Shadow asked his friend Bob to meet him for a “greet and treat” outing. Bob didn’t know it, but Shadow was auditioning him to possibly join the FuRR PR team.

Bob, a beautiful green-eyed Maine Coon with a bob tail, came with his mom, er, um, I mean staff, Ms. Moira. (more…)

Barney pounds pavement for worthy cause

December 27, 2010 By: kwilliams Category: feline rescue and rehome, Field trips, Working for FURR

SUSAN LOESCH

“Let’s go, Barney! It’s Cheeburger time!”

FuRR’s latest fundraiser was being held at Cheeburger Cheeburger in the Pleasant Ridge Shopping Center. We’d been promoting it for a while now, asking people to take a FuRR flyer so that we’d receive a percentage of each meal.

We missed one of my students, Trinity, and her grandmother, but met up with Barney’s friend Ms. Hannah, who went on field trips with him and Shadow last summer. She was accompanied by her family and some more “FuRR folks.” (more…)

Shadow helps kittens put best paw forward

December 14, 2010 By: kwilliams Category: feline rescue and rehome, Field trips, Working for FURR

SUSAN LOESCH

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, come and eat for FuRR! Shadow may not know a lot about bells, but eating is something he considers himself an expert at.

Sunday he headed to Petsmart where FuRR was showing kittens to hand out flyers for our Cheeburger Cheeburger fundraiser on Dec. 20. Since you have to take the flyer with you for FuRR to have a percentage of your meal cost donated, this job was a top priority assignment.

Since SOMEONE can’t find our Christmas bandanas and collars we had to check out Christmas gear; you can’t be properly festive without it. (more…)