5 Easy Ways To Help the Shelters

This is a quick list of 5 easy ways you can help the animals and pets in your community:

1. Volunteer at a local animal shelter by visiting the dogs and cats.  Grooming, pet walking and cage cleaning are simple ways to help the animal shelter.

2. Urge friends and family to spay or neuter their pets.  By reducing the number of kittens and puppies will in turn help reduce the number of unwanted pets that end up abused or given up.

3. Hold car washes, make and sell cat toys, or hold fundraisers for your local pet shelter. By doing this, you raise the awareness of who these shelters are and how much help they need.

4. If you have a special skill that could benefit your local shelter, offer your services so that it could reduce their costs and allow more money to go toward saving the lives of the animals that need it.

5. Let friends and family know that adopting a pet is more loving than buying a puppy or kitten.

Getting ready to make our presentation

We are gathering our donations and packing them up, and now we are in for the big presentation.  We will be videotaping a 5 minute commercial on why our project was so important and how it will help others in our community.

Our mom said that it was success just for the fact that so many people in our community wanted to help us to help the animals in the shelter.

We learned a lot from this project.   We learned that people like to help other people and to help animals that have been abandoned or relinquished because of financial hardships.  We learned how much cats love catnip, and that people like to buy toys for their cats. We learned that community projects do work, and that we really like helping others.

We also learned how to make cat toys and will be donating them to the shelters.

Thank you to everyone that donated or helped us with the project!

Michael and Morgan

Donation Button Removed

OOPS!!  We made a mistake!  Mom didn't know PayPal won't let us put a Donate Button on our website because of the IRS.  Sorry for the mistake!

Just imagine that these dogs and cats that were used to a loving home, have been dropped off to strangers and don't know what is happening to them.   The money that you give will help support them in health and healing.  

It was a sad day that a family friend hit hard times and left her cat with us.  He was with us for 6 months in a room by himself.  We finally thought that it would be better to have him have the chance at finding a real family.  Bud is a sweet sweet cat, and deserved his own home.  He encountered some health problems and had to have surgery.  The MSR Adoption Center had to pay the veterinary costs for the surgery.  Rather than having him put down, they gave their best efforts to save his life.  It was truly remarkable. He is still available for adoption.

This is another reason this charity means so much to us.  They give so much to the animals, and we want to be able to give back and we need your help to truly make it a success.

Their adoption fees are minimal too.  It is so affordable to adopt a pet from them.  Please consider a donation.  All of the money received will be donated to the cause.  In fact, our mom will make up the difference in the PayPal fees so that all the money goes to them.  Thank you!

Sold Cat Toys at School To Raise Money

We want to thank our school, River Springs Charter School and the director Marla Hart for allowing us to put donation boxes in the lunch room.  We were also given permission to have the basket of toys for sale in the front office.

We Made Catnip Cat Toys for School Donation

We are so excited about our new cat toys.  We bought some adorable kitty material and made our own cat toys.


The first design is very simple.  We took a square of fabric, put some wax paper, pillow stuffing, and organic catnip and folded all four corners together and tied it with yarn.  We tried one out with our own cat and here is a video that shows how much he liked it!

We're Getting Donations - But We Need More

Thank you to all who are helping and have helped with donations...but we still need more things:


Cardboard shoe boxes
Microwave rice packets
Clumping Cat Litter
Purina One kitten and Cat food
Any brand dog food
Cat or dog carriers
Dog and Cat shampoo and grooming supplies

We are in the 5th grade and are members of the F.I.R.S.T. Lego League through Riversprings Charter School.  We have been assigned to find a project that would contribute to our community.

We are from a family of animal lovers, and we both thought a good way to help the community is to start a donation drive for the Mary S. Roberts Adoption Center in Riverside, CA.  The Adoption center is a "No-Kill" shelter that has been remodeled into a beautiful facility. The cattery has floor to ceiling windows with large cat trees and loving volunteers that take time to play and socialize the kitties.  The dog area has large kennels with caring volunteers that walk the dogs every day and an on-site dog trainer that offers dog training classes to the public.

The Adoption center gave us a wish list of things that they can use for the shelter.  The best way to collect the items is to either drop them off at our house, or we can come to you and pick up, or if some people wish to take the donations directly to the shelter on behalf of our drive that would be great.  Please mention our project name.

The project name is M&M F.I.R.S.T. Donation Drive.  Please let the shelter know if you are donating on behalf of our project.

The list of items needed are as follows:

Dogs

blankets

treats

dog shampoo

grooming brushes

hard rubber toy balls (no tennis or stuffed animals) Nylabones, Kong toys

dog food - any brand

stainless steel food dishes

Merchant gift cards

chicken broth

Microwave rice packets

Cats

cat treats

grooming brushes and combs

scoopable cat litter

cat furniture - 2 story or 3 story

empty clean cardboard shoe boxes

cloth catnip mice - no furry mice

teaser wand cat toys - no feathers
Purina One dry kitten and cat food

If you have any questions, or want us to pick any local items up, you can contact us at:
Replace (at) with @ when using the email addresses:  horsereiki (at) gmail.com  or socksacat (at) yahoo.com

Contact Phone:
949-525-2488