St. Francis Animal Rescue Center needs help!

St. Francis Animal Rescue Center

Dear Friends of the St. Francis Animal Rescue Center,

WE ARE BEING EVICTED! Without your help we cannot keep the St. Francis Animal Rescue Center open. If we have to close I don’t know what will happen to our animals. I cannot let them be killed! Please, if you can help at all, send a donation via PayPal by going to PayPal.com and entering our email address: stfrancisanimalrescue@yahoo.com and then following the prompts.

You can also send a donation to our mailing address:

St. Francis Animal Rescue Center, P.O. Box 4044, Rock Hill, SC 29732.

We have almost 150 cats and kittens at the center and each one is special, unique and precious. When I am at the center and I look into those beautiful, trusting eyes I know that I cannot let anything happen to them. As you know, we are an absolutely no-kill shelter. No matter what, I have to keep these cats safe. Please help me to pay the rent we owe and to keep the shelter open. Our rent is $900.00 per month but, because of the economy, we have had very few donations and now we owe almost $13,000.00. Our landlord has really worked with us for the past three years, but now he is at the point where he is saying, pay up or move out! I would like to be able to pay him what we owe so that we could stay in our present location, if possible. Our only other option is to find another location to move to, but that is costly, too, and it has to be a location where the landlord and the zoning will allow an animal shelter, which is not easy to find.

We are a 501c3 non-profit agency so every donation is tax deductible. Being a non-profit agency also means that our income has to come from public donations. That’s why I am asking everyone who cares about animals to please help us.

The need for a no-kill shelter in our area is critical. Every spring and summer we have dozens of cats and kittens dropped off at our shelter after hours. We try our best to find them homes but the adoptions just cannot keep pace with the number of cats people just dump on our property, as though they were garbage! In the last week alone we have had a mother cat and five kittens left in a closed flat-screen television box; four kittens left in a tiny carrier on our back steps; and a mama cat and three kittens left in a crate at the side of our building late last night. If I hadn’t gone back at about 10:00 p.m. to give some kittens a dose of antibiotic, those poor cats would have been in that crate in 90+ heat today, without food, water or shade, until we came to do the daily feeding and cleaning, this afternoon.

I beg you, reach deep into your heart and help us save these precious animals. Thank you for anything you can do to help. Please also put us in your prayers.

If anyone has any questions for me, I can be reached at (803) 554-9930. Take care and God bless!

Sincerely,
Charlene G. Rodriguez, Director
St. Francis Animal Rescue Center