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Chrissy - A Woman With The Strength Of A 1,000 Men.
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 In 2009, Sarasota Code Enforcement ban all adoptions, surrenders, and volunteers
to Englewood,
Florida’s “World’s
Greatest Cathouse,“
Puffy Paws Kitty Haven is a non-profit, no-kill cat hospice and
rescue specializing in
providing
quality and loving care to
special needs cats and finding homes for the adoptable kitties
under their care..
Bottom line Per
Code Enforcement - You can not run a business from a residential home - NO FOOT TRAFFIC.
For more information
on the background story, click on the story on the above.
Since than,my wife, Co-Founder Chrissy Kingston has been taking care of 200 kitties by herself.
It cost well over $30,000.00 a month to run Puffy Paws Kitty Haven. $41.09
a hour every single day, 365 days a year. Last month in May - 2019 - $31.,849.35 was donated.
$29,620.84 of that was donated by the kitty lovers of the World via PayPal. The remaining amount was donations
via checks and sales from the online stores. Last year in 2018: $561,557.04
was donated.
Of the $561,557.04 - $355,635.75 of that was donated via PayPal, by the kitty lovers
of the world. 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. The
unwanted & special need kitties are blessed to have a world wide family that loves them ever so much. The Majority of the fund Are Donated By The Kitties Lovers Through Out The World. Just
by asking for help when the kitties need it. With being a two man band
Chrissy running the Haven and I the business end of it all, I wear many hats through out the day.
I raise the funds needed on-line.
If I fail at raising the $30,000
a month needed to keep the doors open, there will be no other option but to close
down. What choice would we have?
An entire cat hospice will be wiped
out and only painful and sad stories will be told because we could
not round up the worldwide awareness and financial help these
beautiful cats deserve.
I run to the Vet.
I'm our Web Master. I do all the graphic art work. I'm the kitties photographer and video tech.
I update on fb everyday. I pick up the kitties daily supplies when needed. I put out the SOS's for help. I put out all the fires that pop out daily.
I help out at the Haven when needed. I'm my wife's venting post. I'm the fixer.
Now let me tell you about Chrissy. I love my wife and her
plate is full and heavy each and every day. So I will share her pain. Each day when Chrissy wakes up , life is pretty overwhelming. Her personal wants
and desires went out the window a long time ago. Her only concern is the kitties under our care. She works in pain everyday with her rheumatoid arthritis.. She is under a Doctor's
care but it is getting worst as the days goes on. She suffers in silence on most days.
 Yet Chrissy makes the best of everyday and
gives it her all by working long hours. Up to 16 hours on most days. When her head hit's the pillow for a brief amount of time she fears what kind of mess the kitties made while
she slumbered.
My wife takes care of the kitties
by herself while I run the Business Center and fundraising on-line . No help, nor friends who want to get down and dirty with the kitties. She works up to 16 hours day because
Sarasota Code Enforcement banned all traffic at the Haven. She starts her day by cleaning up any accidents outside the boxes, she mops and vacuums religiously.
Chrissy hauls in 600 pounds
of cat litter around the Haven daily & takes in back out. She washes over 20 cat litter boxes daily.
There are 20 feeding stations for the 200 special
needs kitties at Puffy Paws. Wet and dry food is down 24/7. The wet food gets changed out every four hours and the kitties
get fresh bottled water. She puts out the wet food every four hours at the 20 feeding stations. She gives out meds. She brushes
the kitties. She tends to the sick ones. She runs to Publix in the evening, to restock the kitties daily supplies. She does
this day in and day out.
 Chrissy is one women doing the job of 20
with the inner strength of 1000 men. Chrissy is
tried, some days down right exhausted , taking care of the kitties by herself. Her days are long and the same. It is
not a glamorous life style. It is a down
and dirty job to make the Haven spotless everyday and to take care of the kitties. Day in and day out, year in and year out.
 When the media has been in Haven they say
all the same. It's spotless and odorless for all
those hundreds of kitties under Chrissy care,
Most
folks would have thrown in the towel a long time ago and called it quits but not Chrissy.
Unconditional love is her fuel to go on to take care of the sick and unwanted
kitties. While I'm at the Business Center office,
raising funds. Some day are better than most and for Chrissy when she having a hard day at the Haven, she cries alone. One day her cell phone pocket dialed me and I heard her
crying in the back ground and I cried to because I was powerless as a baby to take away her pain. She could not hear me but I heard her loud and clear and my heart
broke that day for my wife of 17 years. At the
same time I'm her venting post and I hear her struggle and pain everyday, when I get home. I wish I was a better husband ,listener and better provider for the kitties , instead
of just making it everyday , to relive the burden that is placed on Chrissy shoulders everyday. I love to say our marriage is prefect but its not due to the extreme situation we
are in Some days she feels like a prisoner at
the Haven as she slaves away taking care of the kitties under her care. The kitties are all she knows these day. And I get
brut of her pain They are her fur-babies with their
own very special wants and needs. Chrissy knows
all the kitties by name and what their conditions are. I hate to say I have a hard times myself remembering all their names. But not Chrissy. I have accepted in my heart that the kitties come first before my needs, when it comes
to Chrissy. I long for better days in our personal
relationship but finding time for us is so hard to do. When we took our marriage vows, it was for better and for worst and we will go to our graves knowing this from the
first day we were one.
 You see I love my wife and the kitties and
I just wanted to share with you what its like for Chrissy..... If Puffy Paws ever comes to an end the kitties will perish cause I could not raise the funds to take care
of them. If that ever happens and with your help
it will not cause if that day ever comes -a piece of each and everyone of us will die that day, and all the work to save
the kitties would have been in vain, Chrissy has always
said she will go on as long as she can take care of the kitties under her care.If you can help and or share, please do. Because the kitties need Chrissy and you !!!!!!!!!!!!! Rick Kingston
A Very important Message From Chrissy Kingston: Co- Founder of Puffy Paws Kitty Haven Dear Friends of The Kitties. Thank
you for all the help in this time of need. Which is now. It is getting tougher and tougher each
day for me. I spend my day stressing over the cats daily needs. I really would appreciate any help for the sake of the cats. I devoted
my entire life to these cats. I have given up a normal life for these cats,so they can have a life. Do
not think I don't what to give up, at times. Words of encouragement, loyalty and devotion
from others gives me the strength to go on. It's hard when I'm short on my supplies for
the cats that is why I'm asking for your help because
they deserve the best of care, that I can give them,without you I can not do it
Love
Chrissy and all the cats from their Purry little hearts.
Where Does My Donation
Go ? Dear Kitty Lovers of The World
Puffy Paws
cares for kitties with feline leukemia,
FIV, feral
cats, unadoptable kitties, one eye cats, senior kitties,
kitties that
do not use their litter box, abused kitties,
cats with neurological disorders, abused kitties
and more - basically
unwanted and
unadoptable kitties that would be euthanized
elsewhere.
It cost well over $30,000.00 a month to run Puffy Paws Kitty Haven. $41.09 a hour every single day, 365
days a year. Funds are like the tide over here at Puffy Paws. Funds in and funds
out. Last month in September - 2017 - $56,764.74 was donated. $52,736.00 of that was donated by the kitty lovers of the World via PayPal.
The remaining amount was donations via checks. Last year in 2016: $419,065.80 was donated.
Of the $419,065.80 - $401,101.23 of
that was donated via PayPal, by the kitty lovers of the world. The remaining amount was donations via checks. 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. The unwanted & special need kitties
are blessed to have a world wide family that loves them ever so much. Puffy Paws Kitty Haven believes in 100% transparency in all
of our dealing. Chrissy and Rick do not get paid. 100% of all donations goes for the kitties
daily needs and operating expenses. The operating expense page is designed to let the whole world
know were their donations go and why and when they are needed each and every month.
In addition to this
Puffy Paws books are open to the public, upon request. Thank You For Helping
Rick & Chrissy & Da Kitties
   
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