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It’s official, CGMFF is returning to Otavalo! Partnering with Caring Hands Animal Support and Education (CHASE), we will return to Sante Clinca Medico Veterinaria in Otavalo from December 9th – 13th. Last year we provided medical care to 484 pets, and we hope to help just as many if not more this year!

In December of 2023, CGMFF once again teamed up with Dogs of Otavalo for a spay/neuter 3 day marathon. Over the 3 days the team spayed 242 dogs and cats!

2022 did not disappoint the CGMFF. We helped twenty-five high risk fosters with significant medical conditions as well as gifting funds to several cats in the community that needed assistance. 

While the world spent another year dealing with COVID-19 and its multiple variants, the foundation was still here accepting advanced medical care cases for forty seven (47) cats this year!

Today we’d like to share two very special adult cats, both available for adoption!

This spring brought a significant loss to the foundation. Our foundation ambassador, Benedict Cumbercat, lost his battle with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a common heart disease in cats. During his short lifetime, Benny raised dozens of kittens over the course of six years and showed how male cats can and do enjoy being involved in playing an important role of socialization and affection to these tiny beings that helps them learn how to “cat.” We affectionately called his love to his kittens “Benny Blessings” as the first thing he always wanted to do with a new baby was to pat the kitten on the head and start grooming it as if telling the kitten everything is going to be OK from here on out.

Minerva is a 6 month old Dilute Tortie girl with WAVY fur! Talk about a trend setting cat!

She is a quiet, laid back girl who gets bursts of energy and tends to keep herself occupied but not in trouble.

While she was relinquished to us reluctantly due to uncontrollable seizures at the time, we have them well controlled with medications that she takes without a problem. She has been vetted by a boarded veterinary neurologist and has been given the “GO” for adoption. We would prefer her to be adopted into a quiet home as the only cat or a home with an older, relaxed sibling. Read more about Minerva!

Panther is a handsome young man with a vivacious spirit and a heart of gold despite all of the challenges that 2020 threw his way, and now he’s determined to make 2021 his best year yet. At just 6 lbs, Panther’s big personality perfectly complements his small stature. This charming dude is a social butterfly who insists on morning belly rubs and nightly snuggle sessions — non-negotiable! If he’s not curled up in your lap, you’ll likely find him perched by sunny window, zipping around with his feline friends, or blissfully batting around some of his favorite toys in quiet solitude. Read more about Panther!

What a year 2020 was, and we are sure glad it is over! While this was the year of the COVID 19 Pandemic, it did not stop the mission of The Chris Griffey Memorial Feline Foundation. With your help, we saved twenty eight high risk, medically advanced cases that would have been euthanized without the necessary medical care.

Flora came to us as a transfer from the PG County Shelter during Thanksgiving week in hopes the CGMFF could provide her with the medical care she desperately needed. Not only did Flora have a condition called “eyelid agenesis”, where the body fails to develop full eyelids, she was extremely malnourished and emaciated. She was a perfect candidate for our program and was welcomed as a new member of Team “Scratch N’ Dent.”

Last year I had the privilege to be asked to sit on a task force committee to help update the 2013 American Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP) and the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) feline vaccination guidelines.

Nessie came to us from North Carolina from a family who noticed a resident feral mom had a special kitten in her litter and could tell she was going to be more than they knew how to care for … Read more about Nessie!

Fiona came to us as a transfer from the PSPCA in Philadelphia, PA in March 2020. Her scratch n’ dent “feature” is she has what is commonly called “spinal avulsion”, “sacrocaudal fracture” or a “tail pull” injury. Read more about Fiona!

Updates on our kittens Twitch, Bailey, and Eggbert

Kitten season is in full swing here in Arlington, Virginia! As of May, The Arlington Welfare League’s Kitten Academy has reported over 250 kittens in their foster system already. That’s a LOT of kittens, and many come in quite ill. The Chris Griffey Memorial Feline Foundation itself has received over a dozen complicated kitten cases from VA, MD, & DC that needed advanced medical care, and we could not do this without the generous support by our cat loving community.