Catnip Condos

Catnip Condos
772 150th Ave
Amery, WI 54001
715-268-7077
Email us at catnip@amerytel.net

A SPECIAL THANKS

Thank you Star Prairie Vet Clinic in Star Prairie WI! Dr. Eric took over Armstrong Veterinary and he has been wonderful.
Dr. Eric has been a most impressive vet and is one of the best I've seen working with cats. They seem to trust him as well, which tells me a lot! He's a vet well worth going to. Check them out at Star Prairie Vet Clinic

We want to thank Marcy and Armstrong Veterinary Clinic
for donating our nice big window, and for all their help and professional support these many years.
Thank you to Dr. Helen and Dr. Amy who used to work at Armstrong Veterinary as well, as they helped us with our "Pet Population" projects as well as for their help answering all my questions over the years. We Miss You Guys!
Thank goodness, Dr. Eric has been as patient with us!

A very big thanks to Tanya, who works at the Star Prairie Vet clinic. She has been assisting me with the feral cat colony that I "inherited" by helping me find money to spay and neuter them and we've formed the "Feline Farm Aid" organization. We've Spayed and neutered a lot cats in the last couple years. She's also helped me to find homes for a number of orphaned kittens and has fostered quite a few. She also helps me around here when it's time to do vaccinations and such. It's really hard to do some things all by myself.
Her help has been a godsend! THANK YOU TANYA!!!

Thank you Feline Pine Cat Litter! Feline Pine has a shelter program that helps shelters get affordable cat litter. It's wonderful to find a company that cares so much! I encourage all of you to support any company that is willing to forgo a little profit in order to help take care of those little animals that need sheltering. Feline Pine is a company definitely worth your support.

We also want to thank Rob from Dragonfly Gardens in in Amery for the small side windows.

Thanks go out as well to my father, Art Dilley, who took the time to build me really nice cabinets for the cat family room

Thanks to Larry Behne Construction, Amery WI, 715-268-8655.
Larry was my builder for the first version of Catnip Condos, for those of you who remember that place. Larry once again helped me build a wonderful cat room within my budget. We recommend his services very highly!

Thanks to Kathy Larson, who helped us out whenever she could. She died of cancer last year and we miss her.
Her two cats now live here with us.

Thanks to Claire Todd, who has done so much to help me get started with all this. She was my very first customer as well. I couldn't have gotten all this off the ground without her.

ALSO - In regards to our spay/neuter activities: Thanks especially to Nancy and Dodd Knutson, who really came thru and The Old Store in Star Prairie, who let us use their place for our spring sale.

Thanks to PAWS of Western WI. They provided funding for many spays, and we appreciate it very much! They are located in River Falls, WI and have a number of wonderful programs to help animals: The spay/neuter program, Love on a leash educational program, and a foster program. If you would be interested in checking them out and maybe providing them with some help or support, go to PAWS

Thanks go out as well to all of our clients.
Everything we earned here went directly for food and vet care for the rescued strays that live here, and to the cats in the cat colony that we care for near St. Croix Falls. Many of our clients also donated extra money to help us keep up with the costs of taking care of all the stray and abandoned cats and we sure appreciate the help. Cat food and litter are not cheap, and we spay or neuter and provide vaccinations and emergency vet care for as many as we can as well. All the cats that come here have to be neutered, vaccinated, and feline leukemia/aids tested. It gets really expensive and I pretty much cover most the costs myself so every donation is really appreciated.

Thanks to the help from you all we were able to get 17 cats spayed and 9 neutered in 2009, another 10 or so in 2010, and so far in 2011 around 10!!! Thank you - every one of you!

We also want to thank all of you who have adopted cats from the rescue!

Just a couple of the more memorable cats that you have helped:

Quasicatamoto - This little lady is a long haired orange cat who was abandoned during Jan 2009. She was an indoor cat so had no idea of how to take care of herself outside. The weather at the time was about 20 below - she froze her ears off, and somehow (we can't tell if she crawled into some machinery or was attacked by a dog or coyote) had one side of her face torn thru from top of head to chin, and one eye ripped out. We nursed her back to health and she is now a one eyed, fat and sassy, spoiled baby here at Catnip Condos.

Tippy - Tippy came to us from Deer Park in 2007 where a not-so-friendly homeowner was putting out leg traps to catch and kill cats when they'd come in his yard. Tippy got lucky and was found after escaping the trap but his right rear leg was unfortunately no longer attached. He healed up well and manages to get around without a problem.

Paco - Paco was attacked by a large dog when she was about 4 weeks old in 1997. The dog chewed off her tail and the two spinal vertebrae before it. She managed to survive but has no control over her bladder anymore. We just spend a lot of time cleaning up behind her and used a lot of puppy pads. She died of complications at around 10 yrs old. She was worth the extra work and we miss her.

RoadKill - She was hit by a car at 6 months old, spring 2011. The lady that hit her brought her here as she had no money to take her to a vet. We had to amputate her tail, remove her the top of the leg bone that goes into her hip socket. The lower part of that leg was broken badly and she had a lot of bruises and cuts. Dr. Eric, the miracle worker, pulled her thru. She lacks control of her bladder but we had all Paco's supplies so we were all set for another one with these problems. She is doing well otherwise. The lady that dropped her here promised to bring her food and litter but we have yet to get any help from her.