Quintinha Abc intends to raise support to cover medical and veterinary expenses that already total more than €4,500, resulting from more than 20 rescues of elderly and newborn animals at risk of life, carried out this year.
A brief story of growing debt
Quintinha Abc - Associação Protetora dos Animais, has more than 100 domestic and farm animals in its care; distributed between our shelter, temporary foster families and permanent foster families.
Although all Quintinha Abc spaces are constantly overcrowded, among the dozens of requests for help that the Association receives daily, there are more and more emerging situations that make it impossible to deny our assistance in situations of clear urgency.
These animals are often in very fragile states and almost always require emergency veterinary care, often with surgical interventions.
The animals in the care of Quintinha Abc are, in large numbers, elderly and/or sick animals, which require daily medication, veterinary monitoring, examinations and treatments.
Healthy animals also need frequent veterinary care, with microchipping, sterilization and vaccinations and deworming up to date being essential.
But how do you get to this point?
Quintinha Abc practically depends on donations from individuals, one-off or through monthly payments of our. Animal sponsors or Partner quotas.
There is occasional help from local entities, but the reality is that this support is a drop in the ocean considering the expenses that we need to cover on a monthly basis.
Some annual events/projects have allowed us to raise funds: the sale of merchandise on our website, the production and sale of annual table calendars, and more recently the promotion of the Quintinha Abc Open Day.
The sum of these amounts, and the direct impact that Portugal's economic situation has on them, does not even come close to the real value of the medical and veterinary expenses that the Association incurs.
2023
Since the beginning of 2023, Quintinha Abc has taken in over 160 animals, of which a considerable amount required expensive medical care.
Between the months of March and August, the Association reached a veterinary medical debt of €4,392.
An accumulated amount that helped around 20 animals have the opportunity to continue fighting, many of which were rescued from situations of abandonment and extreme neglect.
It would not make sense not to talk about some of the cases that have most marked these last few months, and that have inevitably impacted the amounts that are needed today to pay off the debt.
The Meow 🌈
Sancho
The Castro 🌈
We also have Lili, who after being diagnosed with Cushing's, already has a debt of €68, the cat Eusébio who couldn't resist his injuries and whose bill is €192, Dona Esperança who after visibly losing weight, among all the complementary exams You now have a bill for €90.
And then we have those who are still waiting for Quintinha Abc to have the space to deal with them, like the cat Cereja whose budget of €300 for a TAC is something that is currently not possible, given all the current expenses and remaining debts.
It was possible to continue listing all the special animals that needed and continue to need veterinary procedures, some of which the Quintinha Abc community never got to know because they left us too soon.
If the 100 newborn kittens that have passed through Quintinha Abc so far are added to the account, and an average cost per healthy kitten that exceeds €200, the urgency of the situation in which the Association finds itself becomes clear.
Paying this debt, more than anything, means being able to continue helping.
