Join Us for a Fancy Feast in Downtown Colorado Springs on AUGUST 5TH!

Wild Blue's 7th annual fundraiser dinner is coming up soon! Join us on Friday, AUG 5th for a fun evening of music, food, friendship and lots of fantastic silent and live auction items. This year's venue will be The Mining Exchange Hotel, Gold Room annex in downtown Colorado Springs.

 

The evening will be hosted by Jon Carroll, KRDO Channel 13News, and begins at 6pm with a social hour and a silent auction, while enjoying the bluegrass music of award-winning family band 'The Wielands of Mass Destruction'.

 

Tickets are $65. Guests may also purchase 8-person tables at a discount, $500. Purchase tickets here Fancy Feast Tickets ( http://wbars.org/donate) by clicking on the FastTransact link and then choosing either individual tickets, a table of 8 OR you can also purchase a ticket to donate to Wild Blue so that a volunteer of cat foster can attend the event for free!

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES ARE AVAILABLE
All sponsorships include a display table for your business, mention is event materials (online and print) and special thanks during the event to more than 150 attendees.

Wine Sponsor - $500 (3 available)

Music Sponsor - $250

Appetizer and Dessert Sponsor - $150 (2 available)

 

Please call us at (719) 650-4089 with any questions about this year's FUNraising dinner or to secure a sponsorship spot. Hope to see you there!

Wild Blue is joining animal shelters across North America to save the lives of one million more cats in the next five years. It's all part of a joint campaign of the Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Florida and the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program.

 

The Million Cat Challenge is based on five key initiatives that offer every shelter, in every community, practical choices to reduce euthanasia and increase live outcomes for shelter cats.

A -Alternatives to intake:

Provide positive alternatives to keep cats in the home or community when admission to a shelter is not the best choice.

B-Managed Admission:

Schedule intake of cats to match the shelter's ability to assure humane care and safe movement through the shelter system to an appropriate outcome for every cat.

C-Capacity for care:

Match the number of cats cared for at any one time with the capacity required to assure the Five Freedoms of Animal Welfare for all cats in the shelter.

D-Removing barriers to adoption:

Expand the pool of adopters by removing barriers to adoption such as cost, process, or location.

E-Return to field:

Sterilize, vaccinate, and return healthy un-owned shelter cats to the location of origin as an alternative to euthanasia.

 

These initiatives were chosen because they have the potential to create major impact and offer choices for shelters of any size, budget, or intake type.

 

Shelters need not implement or embrace all five initiatives to participate in the challenge. Even one initiative can set the foundation for dramatic improvement. Each initiative can also lay the foundation for others, which can be implemented synergistically in any order. They can be implemented for only one cat, for a small pilot project, or in whole. Each step toward implementation, however small, will have value.

The overarching goal of the five key initiatives is to give shelters the tools to evaluate, for each individual cat or kitten, whether intake to the shelter is the best choice now, later, or not at all, given the choices available for that shelter and community at that moment in time. Once a cat is admitted, the goal is to give shelters of any size and budget the tools to assure humane care, provide the Five Freedoms for animal welfare, and match each individual cat with the most appropriate outcome, whether that is being reunited with the owner, adoption into a new home, or sterilization, vaccination, and return to the location of origin.