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2025 Calendar Orders NOW OPEN!

TIME TO GET YOUR 2025 DCIN CALENDAR!! Now through December 8, 2024 (HARD DEADLINE), DCIN is accepting orders for the 2025 8.5″ x 11″ full-color twelve-month DCIN Extra-Sweet Kitties wall calendar! The prices listed below include mailing costs. NOTE: This year we are offering the option to order a JOPLIN cover or a JACK cover–or one of each!

To order via PayPal (paypal.com):

  • Log into your PayPal account.
  • Choose the “Send and Request” button in the menu across the top of the page.
  • Enter calendar@dcin.info in the “Send Money” field that asks for name, username, email, or mobile. Click “Next” (it might advance automatically instead).
  • Add the correct payment amount for the number of calendars you want to order in the box (e.g., $33.00 for one calendar to a US address). See below for prices. We’d greatly appreciate it if you’d consider adding 2.5% to your total to cover the fees PayPal now charges us!
  • In the “What’s this for?” field, type in the number of calendars you’re ordering with cover type wanted (Joplin or Jack), your name, mailing address, and your email address. Click “Next.” NOTE: This year we are offering the option to order a JOPLIN cover or a JACK cover – or one of each! Please also include WHICH COVER YOU WANT in the “What’s this for?” field. Click “Next”.
  • Choose your method of payment, verify your shipping info, and click “Send”.

If you do not use PayPal, please email calendar @ dcin.info with your intent to pay by check and include the number of calendars you’re ordering WITH COVER CHOICE (Joplin or Jack) and your/your recipient’s mailing address. Then send your full payment to:

Diabetic Cats in Need 109 Valley Park Dr. Knightdale, NC 27545

Please note new mailing address!

Pricing (includes postage):

  • US mailings — $33 per calendar
  • Canadian mailings — $38 per calendar – please pay in US$!
  • Other international mailings – $45 per calendar – please pay in US$!

The higher costs for Canada and other international locations are because of the higher mailing costs to those places.

DCIN is accepting orders for the 2025 calendar through December 8, 2024 (HARD DEADLINE). We will make every effort to mail these so you’ll receive them in time for the holidays, but we can’t make any promises, as we must rely on the printing company to get them to us for distribution and the USPS, always overloaded this time of year, to deliver them.

Thank you all so much for supporting DCIN’s 2025 Extra-Sweet Kitties Calendar!

If you have questions, please contact Amy@diabeticcats.org .

PS: Here is the link to order DCIN gear!

2025 Calendar Contest!

IT’S FINALLY HERE!! The moment you wait for all year…the launch of DCIN’s annual Extra-Sweet Kitties Calendar Contest!!!!! Now through November 3rd, you can enter your extra-sweet kitty, vote for all the sweet babies, and even buy a reserved date in the calendar for your kitty! $5 to enter the contest, $1 per vote (must buy $5 votes minimum at a time, but you can give them to as many cats as you like), $10 per reserve-a-date.

Please remember that this is DCIN’s main fundraiser every year! This year, we’ve set our goal at the highest it’s ever been: $10,000. We’re still operating at a massive $17,000+ deficit, and we’re counting on your help to close that gap!! So enter all your sugar babies, then vote early and vote often!

Please also read the rules of entry: https://www.gogophotocontest.com/diabeticcatsinneed2025

Tell everyone you know that the DCIN Calendar Contest is ON!!!

Mother’s Day Memorial Post for Venita Wood

DCIN Friends: We are honoring our Founder Venita Wood, who recently crossed the Rainbow Bridge to join the innumerable kitties she loved, on this Mother’s Day by launching a fundraiser in her memory. Venita was the extra mom so many extra-sweet kitties needed. She didn’t just run DCIN, she loved each kitty she helped as if he or she were her own. And – when she found she could no longer manage DCIN on her own – she was willing to do something few founders are: She let a new team step up and continue her life-saving work.

We remain grateful for everything Venita did and hope that our Friends will help her legacy continue by giving to our Compassionate Assistance Program (CAP), the flagship program Venita built DCIN around. Through it, we provide caregivers of extra-sweet kitties who are experiencing limited-income situations with the diabetic testing supplies they need, as well as access to the medicine they need with a current prescription. We provide up to $500 in diabetic-related vet care per year. As you might imagine, this is an expensive program to run! It costs us about $1,000 per year to support one CAP client. Every dollar counts!

If you’d like to join us in honoring Venita’s memory and legacy, please click the PayPal Donate button at the bottom of this post.

We’ve brought out DCIN’s initial logo for this one event – Do you remember it?? 😻

Thank you so very much for caring and for helping Venita see how much she is still appreciated as she watches over us all from the Bridge. ~Amy

In Memory of Venita Wood

DCIN Friends: It is with the heaviest of hearts that we announce our Founder, the inimitable Venita Wood, has crossed the Rainbow Bridge to join all the kitties who were waiting for her. 😿 We mourn the loss of an amazing person whose love for kitties – hers and others’ – knew no bounds.

Thousands of diabetic kitties owe their lives and renewed health to Venita, without whom DCIN would not exist. She ran this organization almost single-handedly from its founding in 2009 until the end of 2014, when we needed five new volunteers just to take over the core duties she had been performing. (We’ve added even more volunteers since then and are always willing to welcome more!)

When Venita founded DCIN in 2009, she had joined an online message board for diabetic cat caregivers after one of her precious furbabies received that terrifying Feline Diabetes diagnosis. She quickly realized that there was a need for an organization that could provide financial assistance to low-income caregivers: She saw on a daily basis people making the heart-wrenching decision to surrender their precious companions to shelters (and hoping they would make it out alive) or simply putting the kitty to sleep – all because treating Feline Diabetes is extremely expensive and people were having to choose between keeping their cat and paying rent or utilities. No one should have to make that decision! Venita founded DCIN upon that principle. To this day, DCIN holds as its mission the twin goals of providing financial support for those in need and education for our clients and the broader FD community.

Though we do not want to turn this tragedy into a fundraiser, we did want to share with you requests from the dear friend who let us know of Venita’s passing. Venita was charitable through and through, so we think she would be okay with this request to support two of her favorite organizations: “One of the charities she recently supported helped homeless people with pets: https://petsofthehomeless.org/ . Or just help a cat through DCIN at https://dcin.dreamhosters.com/donate/ or another charity. Or tip your hat and give extra love to your kitties today.”

Everyone in the US and Canadian Feline Diabetes worlds owes Venita a major debt of gratitude. I haven’t mentioned the numerous other ways in which she helped us all (like performing the first test of Levemir in kitties, leading to a whole new class of insulin for us to use), but each and every one of us experiences the ripple effect of Venita’s amazing work every single day.

Please join us in sending up a massive THANK YOU to Venita Wood, who made such a difference to so many kitties and their people. Because Venita was such a private person, we have chosen to include only her FB profile picture – a cat joyously riding a bicycle – instead of a photo of her. We think this image embodies her spirit.

As Venita would say, “Thank you for caring.” ~Amy