• Introduction
• Adoption Figure
• Foster Care Highlight
• Individual Donations
• Finances
• News Update
  • SCAA Animal Photo Contest Begins!!
• Project Updates
• Upcoming Fundraising Events
  • April Talent Quest Fundraiser: Talent Needed!
  • SCAA March Happy Hour Planned
• Upcoming SCAA Community Events
• Media/Website News
  • "Little Ones We Lost" Section added to Website
  • Monthly Video Clip Awards
• Products
  • SCAA canvas bags and other new products now available!
  • 2007 calendars need to be sold!
  • vip-Pet online store promotions
• Animal Thought for the Month

Introduction:

A huge thank you to all our dedicated members for making our 23 January meeting and dvd launch party a fantastic success. I think I continue to be the most blubbering person when it comes to watching the moving SCAA documentary produced by Beth Lennon and Michael Beets of Nice Shot Productions.  Apologies about that folks….all I have to do is hear the first three notes of music and the tears start falling!. If you haven’t seen the dvd yet, it’s on our website homepage or watch it here. Also, the production company idcreations (www.idcreations.com.cn ) generously created 100 dvds combining the SCAA documentary and the idcreations’ Xmas gala video which we gave to each guest at the party. If you have not received one, please contact me to get yours! (director@scaashanghai.org). It was a truly fun evening at O’Malleys which netted over RMB 7,000 for rescue medical care.  SCAA thanks Sean McIlroy and the entire O’Malley’s team.

There are many upcoming SCAA events to look forward to, including our animal photo contest, March Happy Hour, April Talent Quest, and a change in venue for our next meeting!! For a change of pace and flavor, Heena and Depak Dharamdasani, owners of Indian Vintage (and long-time SCAA supporters) have offered the same generous package of RMB 100 for two drinks and plentiful Indian snacks (with RMB 70 donated per person to SCAA).  Plus we’ll have our usual one raffle ticket included. No doubt many of us will order additional food as it’s all delicious! The date is 13 February, so please bring as many people as you can to show our thanks to all at Indian Vintage.  Remember, this is our main form of fundraising!

On a separate note, our U.S. Director Cat Brandell, has recently had a serious operation on her hand to help relieve her severe arthritis. She may not be able to reply for awhile, but if you have time, please drop her a note to say get well and that we all miss her!! (brandejl@gmail.com)

Finally, SCAA is growing so quickly.  Those of you coming along to adoption days might notice what a “zoo” it has become…we average well over 60 people each time, from foster parents with our wards, to potential adopters, adopted pets and parents coming for reunions, students doing community service, families with children just to pet some little ones, and animal lovers in general…it’s such a party!  We are now in the process of registering SCAA as a Hong Kong-registered charity (for logistics and professional reasons) and creating several executive committees to oversee animal operations, medical services, business/website, fundraising, sponsorship, treasurer and administration/volunteering.

Hoping you all stay warm and cuddled up with your favorite furry loved ones! Look forward to seeing you at Indian Vintage on 13 February!

Warmest regards,

Carol Wolfson

Founder/Executive Director
SCAA

p.s. Last Sunday was one of the first Sundays off ever from SCAA-related events and I planned to sleep in and luxuriate in laziness. However, sometime in the middle of the night, I had two nightmares—not one, but two! The first was that although we already have a hotline, people do continue to call me on my personal cell phone and this was a call from an irate man. He asked me when I would be coming to pick up the three kittens he found in an alley and brought home. He said that the SCAA director he spoke to on the hotline promised that I would come get them in an hour or two. I told the guy that our directors would never offer to come pick up strays as that is not what we do but he kept getting angrier and angrier at me. I then woke up, thinking, “Phew, so glad that wasn’t a real call.”  I went back to sleep and the next nightmare was that I was overseas in a theater, watching a performance. I was sitting in an aisle seat with my laptop at my feet (because, of course, we all take our notebooks with us to live concerts….). Suddenly it was gone and I saw the people walking away with my laptop! By the time I reached them, they were sitting at a restaurant table and denied taking the laptop…all I could think of was the various documents and emails I had to write for SCAA and I was screaming and calling to the police to come help me…I jolted up in bed after this one. So much for my restful Sunday morning. Do y’all think it’s time to find a beach somewhere?!!

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Foster Care Highlight

SCAA’s Adorable Adult Cats

Loyal, friendly, affectionate, playful, keeps feet warm in winter, fetches toys, purrs on eye contact…these are just some of the qualities you can find in SCAA great adult foster cats.

SCAA is giving our cats an opportunity to shine in our Newsletter. We’ll be regularly profiling an SCAA cat who would love to be someone’s pet – sometimes for the second time after being abandoned to SCAA.

Meet Sassy. Sassy is a gorgeous ginger female – speyed and vaccinated. Don’t let her “diamond” collar fool you…she melts at the first sign you want to pick her up. Sassy loves hugs and is happy to watch the world go by at Adoption Day from her perch on someone’s shoulder. At home, she insists on belly rubs from foster dad Michael.

Sassy is around 1.5 years old. She has been in foster care since April 2006. She was a pregnant foster cat last Spring when SCAA took her in and her kitten, Boris, was adopted out quickly.

Although foster parents Beth and Micheal would miss having Sassy around, they would be thrilled to see her find the great permanent home that she deserves. For more information about adopting Sassy, please contact foster@scaashanghai.org for more details.

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• Oliver and William from Qian Jin College: RMB 1,000
• Cat Brandell: US$ 100 (paypal)
• The Walds: RMB 1,000
• Carol Didick Nicolas: US$ 50 (paypal)

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Finances

Incoming donations for medical care in January includes (not including individual donations/fundraisers):

• RMB 1,000 from vip-Pet (commission was RMB 280 but partner Tony Hsieh increased donation to RMB 1,000!)
• RMB 12,800 from Adoption Day donations/meeting

Expenses include:

• RMB 14,659 PAW check-ups/meds to 26 January.
• RMB 2,000 donation to Cat King (cash RMB 1,500 and cat food RMB 500)
• RMB 3,000 for 74-cat woman’s yearly vaccinations

• SCAA Animal Photo Contest Begins!! Get that camera out and start taking photos of your SCAA animals (foster care, adopted or your own pets as SCAA members) for our first annual photo contest! There are two categories: Best Overall Photo and Funniest Photo. Prizes for each category are generously sponsored by vip-Pet (www.vip-pet.com): First prize voucher RMB 500, Second Prize RMB 400 and Third Prize RMB 300. Deadline is 31 March 2007. Winners will be announced at our Talent Quest Fundraising Event in April (date/venue pending!). Remember, YOU must take these photos and not use photos downloaded off internet sites! Send your great SCAA animal photos to director@scaashanghai.org
  
  
• SCIS Fifth Graders Present RMB 10,000 check to SCAA. Go here to see more
  

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Project Updates

There are no new project updates in January. SCAA may have an opportunity to support a local project by the summer so stay tuned

SCAA Upcoming Fundraising Events

• April Talent Quest Fundraiser: Talent Needed!  We are planning our SCAA First Annual Talent Quest Fundraising Event for April 2007! Book Tuesday 24 April and bring us YOUR talent (or the talent of someone you know!). We are seeking 10-15 divinely talented (well, even mildly talented will do!) performers for what should be one wild, fun-filled evening at great new destination ENO on Changle Lu! If you are interested, or know someone you can sucker into (umm, we mean ask…) performing, please contact director@scaashanghai.org. More details in February newsletter! To support our new SCAA sponsor, come along to eno's new product launch party this Friday!! View party invite

• SCAA March Happy Hour: Our first SCAA Happy Hour will be on Thursday 1 March, also at ENO (No.139 - 23 Changle Lu). It’s a cool venue with custom-designed clothing and a bar and DJ for chilling with friends. This will be a relaxed opportunity for SCAA members and animal lovers to get together socially without an SCAA meeting!!

Upcoming SCAA Community Events

None in February. Rest! Stay Warm!