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I have ordered “The Expanse, Season 1” because a few people on my f-list/dwircle recommended it. Now I just have to find the time to watch it. Um, after it arrives, that is.
I have ordered $465 in gift cards from Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association. The deal is you pay for the face value of the gift cards, and the participating retailer gives a cut of the gift card to VOKRA, anywhere from 2% to 10%, but usually around 5%. Most of the gift cards are to Safeway, because I get most of my groceries and all my prescriptions there, so I can use the gift cards to pay for them and benefit VOKRA in the process. My co-pay on medication is $110 a month at the moment (my employer’s extended health benefits provider makes NO money off me), so I can go through a few hundred dollars in gift cards pretty easily.
My joy at helping them out, though, was tempered when I realized that, assuming VOKRA gets approximately a 5% cut, they’ve made a grand total of $23.25 off me. That buys you, what, 3 boxes of cat litter? I’m sure they wouldn’t bother to do it if they didn’t make money at it, though. Cactus Club gives 10%, a lot more than any of the other restaurants on the list, so even though I’m not 100% crazy about their food, I ordered a gift card. Brother likes their food, and I’ve promised to take him out for dinner in May prior to him leaving for Back East, so I’ll use it then. Someone in management at Cactus Club must be a cat person.
Full list of gift cards you can purchase and what percentage the company gives to VOKRA here. Thought it might be helpful for any greater Vancouver based cat lovers, and who would like to help out a worthy organization without actually donating money. I mean, if you're going to be shopping at these retailers anyway, and you're getting the gift cards at face value, you can help feral cats and kittens at no cost to yourself just by buying groceries or a coffee.
I have a lot of time for VOKRA. They trap kittens at feral colonies, tame them and make them into house cats suitable for adoption. They also do a trap/neuter/release program for healthy adult ferals they manage to trap, and a trap/euthanize program for the ones who are suffering. And yes, I realize Young Miss Weaver may not be the best advertisement ever for their services, but she was trapped as quite a big kitten, and then spent a bunch of time in a large cage in a VOKRA volunteer's garage, because she had a recurrent eye infection and couldn't be exposed to other cats, so her socialization process was interrupted. And she's delightful with me. It's just the rest of the humans in the world she's still scared of.
I have ordered “The Expanse, Season 1” because a few people on my f-list/dwircle recommended it. Now I just have to find the time to watch it. Um, after it arrives, that is.
I have ordered $465 in gift cards from Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association. The deal is you pay for the face value of the gift cards, and the participating retailer gives a cut of the gift card to VOKRA, anywhere from 2% to 10%, but usually around 5%. Most of the gift cards are to Safeway, because I get most of my groceries and all my prescriptions there, so I can use the gift cards to pay for them and benefit VOKRA in the process. My co-pay on medication is $110 a month at the moment (my employer’s extended health benefits provider makes NO money off me), so I can go through a few hundred dollars in gift cards pretty easily.
My joy at helping them out, though, was tempered when I realized that, assuming VOKRA gets approximately a 5% cut, they’ve made a grand total of $23.25 off me. That buys you, what, 3 boxes of cat litter? I’m sure they wouldn’t bother to do it if they didn’t make money at it, though. Cactus Club gives 10%, a lot more than any of the other restaurants on the list, so even though I’m not 100% crazy about their food, I ordered a gift card. Brother likes their food, and I’ve promised to take him out for dinner in May prior to him leaving for Back East, so I’ll use it then. Someone in management at Cactus Club must be a cat person.
Full list of gift cards you can purchase and what percentage the company gives to VOKRA here. Thought it might be helpful for any greater Vancouver based cat lovers, and who would like to help out a worthy organization without actually donating money. I mean, if you're going to be shopping at these retailers anyway, and you're getting the gift cards at face value, you can help feral cats and kittens at no cost to yourself just by buying groceries or a coffee.
I have a lot of time for VOKRA. They trap kittens at feral colonies, tame them and make them into house cats suitable for adoption. They also do a trap/neuter/release program for healthy adult ferals they manage to trap, and a trap/euthanize program for the ones who are suffering. And yes, I realize Young Miss Weaver may not be the best advertisement ever for their services, but she was trapped as quite a big kitten, and then spent a bunch of time in a large cage in a VOKRA volunteer's garage, because she had a recurrent eye infection and couldn't be exposed to other cats, so her socialization process was interrupted. And she's delightful with me. It's just the rest of the humans in the world she's still scared of.
