Help Cat Rescuer's Dog Recover from Attack

Jonlyn Freeman is organizing this fundraiser on behalf of Clelia Ramos.

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Hi, my name's Jonlyn and I want to introduce you to my friend Clelia Ramos. She's a cat rescuer in Jamaica, Queens, which has one of the worst cat overpopulation problems in the borough and also the fewest resources to address the problem.

But I'm not here to ask you to support her rescue efforts! Something awful happened to Clelia last week. She was walking her dog when he was attacked by an offleash pit bull. The emergency vet bill came to $3,123.85. She went to the police to report the incident, but they said they don't pursue dog attacks unless a person is bitten. She looked into suing the dog owner in civil court, but the man has fled the area.

Clelia has a low-wage job and is constantly drained financially by rescue projects. Unfortunately NYC does not have a department of animal welfare or any resources to address cat overpopulation and pet abandonment, which means that private citizens like Clelia pick up the slack, even when they can't afford it. She feeds about 50 cats a day that she has gotten spayed and neutered, and she has a never-ending queue of trapping projects to spay & neuter cats and improve her community.

Clelia is very traumatized by the attack on her dog, Bruno, and it seems incredibly unfair that someone who does so much for animals is going through this. I hope that if you're in a position to help her out, we can alleviate her burden so that she can focus on Bruno healing without the financial stress of getting into debt.

In the ring video below you can see the offleash dog and owner enter from left and then Clelia and her dog enter from bottom right. TW - the attack itself is obscured but the screams are disturbing.