It’s been a week since the event and we’ve spent the time catching up on sleep, catching up on the shelter day to day and catching up on the event itself. Whew! It was a doozy and we are thrilled by the outcome!
312 feral cats in traps, 34 pets
325 cats, 21 dogs
Thank you to Visiting Vets International. Their professionalism and dedication are staggering. They all took the time from their own lives and schedules to help our community.
To Karen Granitz for all the planning and organization. Without her this would not have happened. She reached out to them and set up this whole event.
To Gifft Hill School and Liz Kinsella for allowing us to use your facility. Having a more centralized location on island was perfect and you could not have been more gracious hosts.
To Pam and Craig Holmes for coordinating all the trapping on the Coral Bay side of the island. They put in just as many hours and miles on their truck as we did.
To Cinnamon Bay for allowing us to store traps before the event, hosting the Vets for a day of fun and for helping us get through the loads and loads of towels.
Thank you to all the restaurants that welcomed and took care of the Vets while they were here. They mentioned that St John has been the most hospitable place they’ve been. They were being thanked by residents everywhere they went. They felt like celebrities.
To all the local business that donated financially and the private donors. The vets donated their time but there is always a cost. Thank you for helping to make this possible.
And last but certainly not least, thank you to our fantastic volunteers!
This is amazing!! Fantastic work and care to help the animals!
I’m so happy this went well. I wish I could’ve helped. Thank you thank you to every single person who put in any amount of work. I hope we can do this again ❤️❤️
Congrats & many thanks to the many contributors that made this possible! Special Hugs to Karen for producing & directing! Your our Star! Great contribution to our island!
Amazing event! Thanks to the ACC staff for all you did - hard work! Wonderful working with the great team from Visiting Vets!
Well done! We just had our clinic with the Tufts Vet Team!!
Such hard work and thank you to everyone involved!❤️
Great job! Thank you guys so much…🥰
Great event!
Incredible teamwork !!!
Well done!!
So very important.
Thank you all very much!
💕❤️🙏☺️🥳🎉🩷LOVE IN ACTION….THANK YOU….🫶🏻👍🩷
Wow. Awesome!
The ACC is looking for 6-8 volunteers to help us at the Turkey Trot, Thursday the 28th Thanksgiving morning. It is a early start, as we would like to be out there by 7AM to help Peter and the team get organized.
It is a very fun morning, and a healthy way to start off Thanksgiving until we sit down to some delicious food. If you are interested in volunteering with us please email info@stjacc.org of PM our page.
If you would like to participate in the race, registration begins at 715AM out in the Annaberg parking lot. The registration fee is a donation of dog/cat food or treats. There is a 3 mile and 1 mile portion of the race. The race begins at 8AM rain or shine!
We do encourage folks to car pool as parking is very limited.
Due to circumstances beyond our control our food delivery which was supposed to arrive yesterday has been delayed till this weekend.
If anyone is in need of cat food to feed the free roaming groups across the island we apologize as we are completely out till our delivery arrives. We should be getting our delivery sometime this weekend. Again we do apologize, and we thank everyone for caring for the island cats.
If anyone is completely out of food and your kitties aren't getting fed, I just got in 32 pounds of dry cat food from Walmart today. I have enough at home to last until I can get more shipped in. Please come get whatever you need from our store, St. John Sailsack Co., at Mongoose Junction. I should be here til about 5:00 tonight.
About us
The Animal Care Center (ACC) of St. John is located in Cruz Bay. The ACC addresses the problems of cruelty to, neglect and abuse of island animals. The shelter provides kennels for homeless dogs and inside cages for a limited number of homeless cats.
The ACC is a stable resource for the community, providing a no-kill shelter for homeless animals, a resource for animal lovers to find perfect pets, programs for island needs, and a community educational component.
