For all the childless cat ladies a little ray of sunshine. It’s from last January but it illustrates that humans aren’t all bad:
BLASDELL, N.Y. — Ten Lives Club has now received over $270,000 in donations in support of Buffalo Bills kicker Tyler Bass, and the organization shared that every dollar will be going right back to saving more cats.
“I was crying on the phone today, I just can’t believe it,” said Ten Lives Club Public Relations Manager, Kimberly LaRussa. “I’m just so happy for the cats.”
These kittens were born the day before the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills playoff game and have never known a day without Tyler Bass helping them out.
These three kittens have now watched over $270,000 in donations come in since Monday night.
“We are all speechless at Ten Lives Club and can’t believe this is happening,” Kimberly said.
“I hope it brings him a smile to know how many cats he is saving right now,” Kimberly said.
Kimberly shared this has been their largest amount ever received by far, topping even their largest fundraiser ten times over.
“It’s not a fundraiser, this is just the community saying they want to donate and they’re doing that, the Bills Mafia.”
It went up to alomst half a million dollars:
What prompted this dedication is the $400,000 in donations Ten Lives Club received in support of Bass, who saw Bills fans rally around him days after his missed field-goal attempt would have tied the AFC divisional game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
In the aftermath of the missed kick, Bass receive threats and abuse on social media. When fans learned about Bass’ connection with Ten Lives Club, they called the group wanting to pledge $22 in his name. Within days nearly $30,000 was raised.
Bass was a part of Ten Lives Club’s Show Your Soft Side campaign, and while other athletes who were involved chose to support dog shelters, Bass was all about cats.
Good man.