$331/$550 ($300 deposist here+$250 deposit at the new place)

EDIT 3: The apartment won't budge on letting us bring him in a few days early, so for now, he's going to go to a short term foster family/cat boarding house so he won't be accidentally adopted out. They can't officially let us adopt him until we have all of the paperwork and legality stuff settled with our current complex (and there also might be slight hold for them to make sure that our new apartment is also ok with us having him and our deposit is squared away, or at least 'on the bill' for move in). Right now we're looking at one more week before he can actually come home, as an estimate, but we're free to visit him in the coming week while he's on a kitty vacation(their words not mine).

Part B(Kitties times two?): The Cat boarding place has a cat there that was abandoned, more or less, by his owners. His original pick up date was back around thanksgiving, but he's been with them since July. The lady that owns the boarding house has been taking care of him, but hasn't had any contact with the original owners for months and is looking to take legal action to both claim the missing payments for his care, and find him a new home. The idea came up that possibly, if he and our big guy get along, we might be able to take him as well, but it all hinges on if Cream Loaf is good with other cats, as his records mention nothing on how friendly he is with other animals, but his personality is so laid back, that I don't think there will be too much trouble *and he was fine with most of the other cats that were in the cat area at petsmart.* The other cat, Roman, is a GIANT black fluffball of a cat (Think sterotypical fluffy halloween cat and you've got it), and is very cat friendly. In the time he's been there, he only had problems with one of the boarded cats, and it was mostly because the other cat was not socialized to other animals at all. This would end up doubling the new pet deposit, but the second $250 could be squeezed into the second months rent payment(according to the landlady of the new place) if we end up able to take him too.


Minor Edit 2b: OK, so something we hadn't thought about, it takes 2 to 5 business days to transfer money from GoFundMe to a bank account. Tiny tiny setback, but we'll still be following through with the morning's plans to visit Petsmart and talk to our landlord about letting the deposit slide for a handful of days while the money transfers. They're kind of a dick, but hopefully not so much of a dick that they'll make us wait.

EDIT 2: We've got the adoption fee and the pet deposit for the current apartment handled! Well, gathered. We're going to go talk to both OCAS and our apartment about getting the ball rolling(as well as inquiring if the pet deposit will be refunded after we move out*fingers crossed*) I don't know when we'll actually be able to bring Cream home because of different processes and stuff. They may hand him over to us tomorrow, they may need to do a sort of 'background check' to make sure everything is ok on our end before we get him, but I'll keep people posted! Thank you all so much so far! :3

EDIT: Donation Art related Information will be gathered/asked for starting this weekend.



OK. So... I'm... kind of not sure how to feel about this, but going over our budget, this is the best idea we could think of right now. There is sort of a TL;DR at the end.

http://www.gofundme.com/2y65uk

Narco, myself, and our other soon-to-be room mate have fallen in love with an adorable lovable loaf of a cat(and by loaf I swear this guy is a beefy 25 pounds of cat muscle or something) named cream. He's currently being hosted at our local petsmart and we've seen him there for a couple weeks now.

Now I don't take adopting new animals lightly, and as much as I love and gush over animals, cats especially, because reasons, adopting and actually living with any specific one is very serious business, and not every animal will mesh with everyone.

This guy is different. Like really different. He's loving and sweet but he's got this somber intelligence behind his eyes that makes me think he knows the situation he's in. Like this wasn't the first time he's had owners have to give him up and send him back to the bad place with the cold metal cages. At first he was just another cat at the adoption place. We stopped by and played with them all like we typically do, because cats, and I didn't bat too much of an eye, but as all the others kept getting changed out and adopted (mostly kittens, because fuck kittens, they always get adopted), being a 3 year old adult male cat makes him pretty much shit out of luck. Which made me feel bad for him, but still not really enough to break down and want to take him home. Each week though when we stopped in to get snake food, we'd go in and hang out with the cats for a bit, and while he's always been just a loaf (a term not used lightly. We've seen the petsmart people go about cleaning the cages and he'll just lay there and make the person wipe the bottom of the cage around him like he fucking owns the place and couldn't give less of a shit) he'd started to perk up and actually come to the cage door and meow and headbutt the door for our attention.

Tonight we stopped in again after I got off from work and picked up the roomie to be to go get dinner and snake food again. Cream greeted us with gusto again, though he was a little less interested in the new roomie, he warmed up to her very quickly. He clicked with all three of us, which isn't something I'd really expected.

Que petsmart employee to come in and tell us he's only got a couple weeks left before what the kill shelter oh so nicely calls his 'OUT date'. And he would only be with this particular store for another week or so, so going back to the shelter itself, which has a surplus of Christmas kittens as is would be an absolute death sentence for him, regardless of his euthanasia date. We asked if there would be any way for them to hang on to him for us if we adopted him right there, but their store policy pretty much outlaws that. Once a pet is someone else 'property' they can't keep it. We called the shelter to see if they would be able to house him an extra 2 weeks over their planned, and they also declined. Given a list of various other cat rescues, the best they could come up with, at present, is a $15 a day boarding service, which would end up just as much as paying the full pet deposit here in the mean time. On top of that is another pet deposit for the new apartment.






All in all, the total to adopt and house him between now and the new apartment comes to about $550 that's outside of our currently tight budget. With help from the new roommate in the new apartment, providing food, vet care, and other things will be no problem, but there here and now puts us at a disadvantage on funds.

We've set up a GoFundMe site to try to bring this big guy home, and donations won't be without rewards for anything over $10.

http://www.gofundme.com/2y65uk

$10 = quick headshot sketch from myself or Narco
$25 = quick full body sketch from myself or Narco
$50 = a spot in a group picture, full color, collabed between myself and Narco, plus a headshot sketch from one of us
$100 = a spot in the group picture, a collabed full color 2 character piece from us, and a headshot sketch

These will be done as soon as we can. At present, we'll still be working on our current commissions, but we're bordering on the side of desperate to save this guy right now. We'd like most, if not all donations to be done through GoFundMe, but ones done directly through paypal will also be graciously accepted (and we'll try to keep up with adding them manually so the total collected is accurate). http://www.gofundme.com/2y65uk

There is the TINIEST part of me that feels guilty about asking for help with this, but it's the best way we can think of making the extra money, as our usual commission art makes up for the last bit of needed fundage for bills, food, and gas...