Hey, yall! We need to be honest with our community right now. 
We know this is long, but we want to explain.
Texas Critter Crusaders is in a very difficult financial position.
For the first time in a long time, we’ve had to seriously discuss limiting or closing intake because we simply don’t have the funds to keep saying yes at the pace that local animals need us.
It’s essential to understand TCC is a separate entity from the City Of Taylor, Texas Animal Shelter. We receive *no funding* from the city, yet we regularly up for foster needs, emergency medical care, TNR efforts, and other lifesaving support for *both* shelter and community animals. We don’t just “help” the the shelter. When we agree to take animals from the shelter into our foster program, we fully pay for their care. Food, litter, medical, you name it. It’s all on us! Our efforts also help keep animals out of the shelter in the first place.
This support is part of how our community continues keeping Taylor no-kill. When the shelter runs out of options, we’re often the safety net helping make one more “yes” possible.
But right now, funds are stretched dangerously thin.
These photos show just a small glimpse of the animals we’ve stepped up for recently. Their costs are listed with each photo because we want our community to truly understand the reality of our work. Medical emergencies, bottle babies, injured strays, parvo puppies, foster supplies, TNR, owner assistance cases — it adds up fast. And sometimes the costs can suddenly grow! For instance, we went in agreeing to a $3600 leg repair and spay surgery for shelter dog Luna, but after complications requiring in leg amputation, we’re facing an additional $6000 bill. Remember, this is only a sample of some recent animals to give you an example of the kinds of costs we encounter. There’s way more recent ones we don’t have space to include!
Everything we do at Texas Critter Crusaders is entirely volunteer-run and we rely on the support of our community to keep showing up for animals. 
We’re just a small group of volunteers with regular full-time jobs trying to do what we can.
We never want money to be the reason an animal suffers or dies. We never want to look at an injured, sick, abandoned, or orphaned animal and have to say we can’t help.
But we can’t continue without support!
Every donation, no matter the amount, truly matters right now. Even if we were just able to get enough donated supplies to cover the amount we spend every two weeks in our foster homes, it would make a huge difference in helping us conserve our resources!
We hold Supply Saturdays every two weeks where our volunteers hand out pet supplies to our foster homes and we’ve always got to make sure there’s enough to go around.
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Please help us continue being there for local animals when they need us most. 
If you can’t donate, please share to help us spread the word. We appreciate you taking the time to read this. It’s a lot, but we deeply care about our community so we want that community to understand. 
And we deeply appreciate all of you who step up time and again — your efforts do not go unnoticed.
Zumbathon Fundraiser for the Texas Critter Crusaders, Benefiting the Animals at the Taylor, Texas, Animal Shelter