Does anyone know what’s going on with pregnant cats brought to Upstate kill shelter?

Update: Response from GCACS at the bottom of the article. Their defense is spaying a pregnant cat is much safer for the cat than carrying a litter to full term at the shelter or in foster care. A personal message conversation between a member of the cat advocacy community and Greenville County Animal Care …

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Cats and Kids Exposed To Flame Retardants Years After They Have Been Banned

Flame retardants are extremely persistent. Years after they have been banned they are still leaching out of old products. Both children and cats are particularly vulnerable to flame retardants. Cats sit and spend time lying on furniture and other household items which have been treated with flame retardants. Kids are more likely than adults …

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How I Decide What To Write About on PoC

It may be useful for people to understand how I choose the content for articles on PoC. This short post explains things. My options for deciding the subject matter of articles is limited. To a certain extent it is dictated by circumstance. This is because there are around 12,000 pages on PoC and ancillary …

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How many dogs and cats die each year?

The concluding numbers on this page are based on the following estimates and the figures are rounded for ease of calculations and because you will never get a truly accurate figure because we don’t know how many cats and dogs there are in the world or the USA. We guess but we don’t have …

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