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From donators 3 924 089 €
From Swedbank 1 510 434 €
Saaremaa Pet Shelter: Notice, care and help

Saaremaa Pet Shelter: Notice, care and help

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Kui lähedal oleme eesmärgi saavutamisele?

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43 338.70 €
1365 donations
60 000.00 €

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How does your donation help?

How does your donation help?

Not every home needs an animal, but every animal needs a home.

There are homeless, abandoned and abused animals in every corner of Estonia, including Saaremaa. The cat colonies that have emerged as a result of the uncontrolled breeding of cats, where diseases are spreading and members are in urgent need of medical care, are also a major problem.

The main activity of our organisation is to help solve these problems. Our goal is to help all animals in need by providing them with a safe temporary shelter and finding them a warm and loving forever home. We also carry out small and big sterilisation campaigns to reduce the emergence of potential new cat colonies.

The number of cats waiting for their forever homes at our Cat Home and temporary homes is stable at 250-300. Every year, 100-150 cats move to their new homes.  Every animal in the shelter receives all the necessary procedures for rehoming – they are spayed/neutered, microchipped, vaccinated and given anti-parasitic treatment. Animals from the streets often have many health problems and all of them are given a thorough health check and treatment, if necessary. No animal is euthanised without a medical indication and without good reason.

The NGO also supports the development of animal welfare in society as a whole and does its utmost to solve animal-related concerns.

All of this requires a lot of money and work. Starting from 2024, we operate ONLY on donations. Apart from three full-time employees and a part-time supervisor, we are all volunteers; all the money collected from donations goes to the animals. Your donation will help us save more animals in need – the injured, the starving, the abused. The more money we have, the more we can do, and the more animals have a chance of finding a warm and loving home through us.

For 10 euros, we can buy 3 kg of chicken hearts.

For 25 euros, we can buy 7 bags of pellets or 5 kg of dry food or 2 spot-on treatments.

For 75 euros, we can buy 14 kg of kitten dry food.

For more information check our  website or our  Facebook page.

The organisation is included on the list of non-profit organisations eligible for income tax incentives. Read more about taxes here: Donations and taxes.

Donation Action Day 2025 – will you help us make history again?

15.11.2025

On 2 December 2025, the next Donation Action Day will take place, and this is a good moment to look back at last year and our phenomenal result — something that still makes our hearts flutter ???? https://www.facebook.com/saareloomad/posts/pfbid02WfHCfkggWRimLifDdUCVmToJ33nWK2Cd3J7j6qyQQU9QJ1Jm8jVWNw3oPDX29zJsl?rdid=bdwg6kJRRkjvh5ak#

The 2025 Donation Action Day will already be the seventh, and throughout all these years, our small NGO has consistently remained in the top three among all organizations in the “I Love to Help” donation environment — and for the past three years we have held a solid first place ❤

But see for yourselves ????
2019: €3295 + Swedbank €3295 = €6590 — 3rd place
2020: €3672 + Swedbank €2645 = €6317 — 3rd place
2021: €4555 + Swedbank €3364 = €7919 — 2nd place
2022: €7136 + Swedbank €4039.79 = €11,175.79 — 1st place ❤
2023: €7252.50 + Swedbank €5980.50 = €13,233 — 1st place ❤
2024: €14,529.71 + Swedbank €6818.80 = €21,348.51 — 1st place ❤
2025: ❓

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE, WHEN THE BAR IS ALREADY AT A WORLD-CHAMPIONSHIP HEIGHT? ????
Dare we dream big enough to surpass it again, or should we humbly admit early on that this time we might simply walk under the bar with straight backs?

“A phenomenal result” — that’s what the “I Love to Help” platform called it in their press release. This year, we were invited to the pre-campaign workshop to share our tips and strategies on how to achieve such results.
If only we knew ????

We have no tricks and no strategies — we simply work honestly, and we have years of real work to show, always putting animal welfare first.
We do not select, label, or attach price tags to lives — if medicine can help, then we help.

This may be why we have earned trust both here and across the strait, and people know us even abroad.

Yes, we make our own lives harder — euthanasia is many times cheaper and easier than treatment or socialisation — but experience shows that if there’s no way, there’s still always a way ????

Money comes and money goes — that is inevitable.
It usually goes faster than it comes, but as the saying goes: we don’t lack money, only gaps appear between it ????

Right now, unfortunately, there are only “gaps”, and that’s why we await these donation days like a blessing — something that would allow us to breathe easier again for a moment and maybe even enter the new year without debt ????

THE BAR IS NOW SET AT €14,529.71, AND IT IS UP TO YOU — OUR DEAR FOLLOWERS AND SUPPORTERS — WHETHER AFTER 2 December 2025 our NGO will have hands in gold or our bottoms in the mud ????

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