EVERYCAT HEALTH FOUNDATION INC

Our goal is to continue our mission of benefiting the health and welfare of cats every day worldwide. There are many diseases that have no treatment and cats succumb to their disease. This is distressing to those who include cats in their households and love them. Winn's goal is to improve prevention and treatment of such diseases where more cats can live longer, healthier and enriched lives.

Winn Feline Foundation collaborates with a number of feline-centric organizations to spread a message of hope and "cures for cats" through cat health studies.
Winn plans to increase the level of donation support so more studies can be awarded grants, especially on particularly deadly diseases such as feline infectious peritonitis or FIP as one example. The information derived from the health studies is shared with our collaborators and through our website (www.winnfelinefoundation.org), monthly electronic newsletter, social media and future planned educational webinars.

We already have a strong foundation of people and technology to achieve our goals. Winn Feline Foundation has been around almost 50 years and funded almost $6 million in grants for cat health studies. We have established protocols for a financial reporting and our programs.

Winn leverages its resources: dedicated people and funds to create the best impact we can have along with promoting the best science to achieve these improvements. Our grant review process is outstanding and Winn has an excellent reputation in the animal community. Individuals have measured the impact Winn has had over time and concluded that Winn has had more impact for the money spent than many larger and comparable nonprofits.

We haven't achieved the level of recognition among the cat loving public and veterinary profession we should have.

We have not solved (yet) how to prevent and cure more cats who have:
feline infectious peritonitis (FIP)
hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)
lymphoma
squamous cell carcinoma
other cancers and chronic diseases.

We have saved innumerable cats' lives or improved their health by:

-decreasing the incidence of dilated cardiomyopathy to almost zero in cats by proving more taurine is needed in cat foods
-improving the understanding of nutrition for diabetic cats (and all cats) to feed more protein and less carbohydrates in their diet
-improved the delivery of oral medication in pill or capsule form to include a water chaser after administration of medications
-through improved genomic studies, Winn had helped researchers locate mutations that cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in Maine Coon and Ragdoll cats so a screening test for carriers was developed. Similar work also found the mutation for a form of PKD in Persian cats and related breeds and a screening test was developed.
- Winn has many other important milestones demonstrating progress for cat health which would fill up this text box and fill a book (which we will in our 50th anniversary book due out in October 2017.