3367 days ago

Help Neega go Home!

Rafael from Mount Maunganui

Hi guys

My name is Neega and I'm Rafael's daughter(some people will say pet, cat, but it doesn't matter). Raf adopted me year and a half ago and since then I've been the happiest cast on earth and I couldn't ask for a better father :)

He feeds me every morning, no matter what time I wake up and start screaming for food, it can be 5,6 or 7pm, he will come to the garage, fill up my bowl with some delicious food and go back to sleep. And he does the same when he gets back from work.

We love to play together, but I gotta tell you, I don't like much that red dot that he flashes on the wall and on the floor. I can't never catch it :/

Enought, about me and let Raf talk a bit about him too.

Hey everyone

I'm Rafael, from Brazil and I've been living here in NZ, specially in the Mount for almost 7 years working as a graphic designer, but after all this year is time for me to go back home and spend some time with my family, and talking about family I'm having a dilemma in my hands,

Neega is my adorable cat and I would love to take her with me but the problems it that would cost me around $4000, double of the price of a human return flight ticket.

I really don't want to give here for adoption and I don't thing would be fair with her. So my idea was to create a fundraise campaign to see if together we can get enough money to pay for her ticket.

I know there are so many other more important causes than getting a flight ticket for a cat, like helping the people of Kaikoura, which I encourage you to do so as I did, but I'm not asking much.

I can see that there are more then 7000 neighbours around me right now, which means that if everyone could donate a $0.50 or even a $1, together we would reach the goal easily and make me and Neega very happy :)

I've create a online campaign on Give a Little website when you can access on the link bellow and donate any amount you want.

givealittle.co.nz...

If the campaign goes over the amount needed, all the extra money will be donated to the SPCA Tauranga, a institution that aims to prevent cruelty to animals and advocate a community where all animals are cared for appropriately at all times.

Every help count and me and Neega appreciate it very much :)


Thanks a lot and God bless you!
Raf and Neega


PS: I had to cancel the other campaign on GoGetFunding as people were having problems donating via Paypal.
PS2: Sorry for my bad English.

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