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Seven claims that circulate in rescue appeals and volunteer chats, each audited against published data. Five are false, two depend on what you count. Inflated numbers cost a rescue credibility it needs, the honest figures still make the case, and the evidence says to stop treating the adoption fee as a screening tool.
MedicalBetween now and mid-December, fewer than one female cat in thirty arriving at a TNR clinic is pregnant, compared with a third to over half in March and April. Groups that wind trapping down for winter are giving up their most productive surgery window. Trap through it, hold cats longer instead of stopping, drop the December gift-adoption ban, and rewrite the year-end appeal around a tax change most small donors have not heard of.
General · GuidesA donor to a Spanish rescue can only deduct the gift from their income tax if the association has been declared de utilidad pública, and only reaches the 80 per cent rate if the association has also opted into the Ley 49/2002 regime. Those are two separate applications.
General · GuidesA UK rescue recognised by HMRC can reclaim 25p on every £1 an individual donates, but adoption fees, event tickets and company gifts are all outside the scheme. The money most small rescues leave behind is reimbursed foster expenses and cash in the collection tin.
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