Webster's House has the most wonderful community support from the area, both from our big-hearted hardworking volunteers and from our dear adopters.
Recently, we reached out to some of our supporters. We needed help fast. And just as quickly as the call went out, the love and help showed up.
It is difficult as a small, non-financed, all-volunteer animal shelter that relies only on kind and generous people to keep us doing what we do. They come out of the love and commitment they have for us and our animals.
Webster's House often runs on the love of our mission alone, with empty pockets, unpaid bills stacked up, sick animals needing a vet, and the coming and going of board members and volunteers.
If you think about it - and we have - it's the members of the community, our community, who share in our successes during our 15 years of service. If you're wondering who pays for our heat in the winter, cooling in the summer, electricity, food, cleaning supplies and, most importantly, our vet bills, it's you.
We especially thank:
• The cat tenders who feed, water, and clean; the handy people; the bakers; the gardeners; the painters; the booth sitters; the tag-sale runners; and others who stay for an hour, a week, a month, or years.
• Those volunteers who have served on our board over the years. They take what little we have and make it work. As many of our past board members will tell you, it is almost an impossible job.
• To the donors who don't know us but who send us funds to honor their friend or loved one. We are blessed by the charity of people daily, including those who've walked through our doors and adopted our animals, those who've stopped by our booths at events to leave a bit of change in our jar, and those who've made a random stop at our website to make a donation.
We also thank:
• Our regular donors who monthly forward $5, $10, $25 or what they can spare.
• The children and their teachers who hold bake sales, collect cat food, and donations.
• The anonymous donors who leave cat necessities, wood pellets, and other shelter needs, with no recognition.
• Our local businesses that distribute our literature, keep our collection banks on their counters, drop off paper towels and such, and allow us to post our signs on their walls.
• The media that publishes our news and appeals.
We know you are there and we know you are why we are still here. You are why most of the hundreds of cats we've housed over the years have the love and home lives they crave. We know that because of our spay/neuter commitment, countless animals are saved from a life of abandonment or abuse.
So thank you - from all of the animals and humans at Webster's House (and the Animal Rescue and Protection Society).