Unfortunately we have to STOP INTAKE EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. The founder of Healing Animal SCARS, Sonya Higgins, has recently found out that her father has a fatal disease, ALS (more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease). This means she wants to spend more time with her father in a different province before he dies. Most patients with ALS die within 3 to 5 years of diagnosis, and her father is rapidly declining in health. So please understand that for a few years, Sonya will not be able to take new animals into her home. Sonya needs to take time off from cat rescue in order to spend the limited time she has left with her father. Cats will always be there unfortunately, unless ALL owners decide to become responsible during my hiatus from the cat rescue community. I will be back to rescuing some day, just need some time off to spend with my human family. In the meantime, other volunteers will be taking care of the 10 animals up for adoption and doing fundraisers to help us pay off our enormous vet bills. Healing Animal SCARS will continue to help those who want to help cats, we just won't be able to take any new ones into our home and workshop. If you are looking for assistance, we can only entertain serious inquiries from those who are willing to step up fully by taking the cats or kittens into their own homes and provide financial assistance. We cannot be a phone call solution to make a "cat problem" disappear. As we have always stated, the cat overpopulation is a "human problem" as humans caused it. Not the cats. We need humans to step up and help us help the cats.
Healing Animal SCARS is constantly fundraising to spay/neuter and provide high-quality veterinary care. We are unable to take in any new cats at this time and we have 10 adult cats and kittens waiting for homes. If anyone would like to host a fundraiser event on behalf of Healing Animal SCARS, please email us your idea and we would be thrilled to discuss it with you! Emails can be sent to katsonya@accesswave.ca or katsonya@gmail.com
Sonya Higgins Chairman/Director, “Sonya’s Cat & Animal Rescue Society” katsonya@accesswave.ca
While I cannot personally rescue every cat that I am contacted about, I can offer assistance to any caring citizen who wants to help a feral or stray cat. If the person seeking help can offer thier home as a temporary foster, I can offer reduced veterinary costs and to help find homes by advertising on this site. I have to fundraise for each cat I take in and resources are limited.
Trap, Neuter, Return programs can stop the cycle. I have been involved in several projects with other cat rescuers.
If I get a request for help from someone but cannot take the animal myself, so I enable them to become a rescuer themselves! I offer assistance in trapping, to loan any equipment such as cages and litterboxes, and my discount at the vet if the person is willing to sponsor the cat financially and foster it.
In some cases, these are straightforward TNR cats that only need to be kept a couple of days post-surgery. In other cases, when someone finds a tame cat and needs my help, if they are willing to foster it until it finds a permanent home, I can offer to help by advertising on Petfinder to find a responsible adopter and offer to obtain reduced-cost veterinary care for the cat.
It seems almost everyone has a stray or feral in their backyard. I am trying to change the way HRM thinks about the feral cat crisis. I want to empower other people to become rescuers on a small scale and teach people how to be part of the solution.
The main obstacle to starting this project is funding. Each cat can cost between $180 - $300+. To help financially, you can make a donation at the Eastern Passage Village Veterinary Hospital on the Healing Animal SCARS acccount.
They accept credit cards over the phone and will mail you a receipt. If you are visiting the clinic in person, they also accept cash and debit cards, but unfortunately are unable to accept personal cheques. We also have a Paypal account set up and there is a link on this page if you wish to donate via this method.
Contact Sonya Higgins at 469-MEOW or email katsonya@accesswave.ca for more information.
Donations are gladly accepted anytime at Matt’s Bottle Exchange in Eastern Passage. If you are dropping off your own refundable recyclables, please consider donating part or all of the proceeds to our account “Healing Animal SCARS - Sonya’s Cat & Animal Rescue Society”.
• Dust-busters
• Portable space Heaters
• Medi-cal brand cat food
• Traps, Cages and travel carriers
• Laundry supplies – bleach, detergent and dryer sheets
• Disinfecting wipes, Rolls of paper towels and Boxes of tissue
• Large/thick garbage bags & Ziploc bags
• New or gently used scratching posts
• New or gently used cat beds
Our goals include:
• Rescue feral or stray cats from a harsh life outside and try to rehabilitate them
• Find loving adoptive homes for the friendly cats
• Humanely trap feral cats and help to rehabilitate them
• If they do not turn out to be adoptable, we would do a Trap, Neuter, Return program.
• To educate the public about proper animal care
• To promote spaying and neutering pets to prevent further overpopulation
