What affects us affects cats
Communities who don’t support trap-neuter-return (TNR) are part of the problem of the cat overpopulation issue. Here’s why. I’ll use “Susan” as an example in both cases. Susan lives in a non-TNR community Susan came to her local shelter with a feral who has been living in her yard. She wanted to do the …
Edna the San Francisco Fire Department cat whose story went viral has been adopted by a member of the Ambulance Deployment Facility (AKA the fire department). After being evicted a member stepped up to adopt her as a house cat where she’ll be well cared for. Over the past few days, ABC7 News has …
Please share: 14 cats needing pledges rescue as a result of a woman hoarding 90 cats in one home in North Carolina, USA. This is a call for help on Facebook for pledges to donate to help these rescue cats. Below is an extract from Fay DeAvignon’s post: These cats’ lives are depending on …
Not long ago Patty Cuteler was driving to the Simply Cats Adoption Center in Boise, Idaho where she’s the Executive Director. As fate would have it (as it often does with cat lovers), Patty came across a small cat lying on the side of the road. Patty believed the cat was dead and was …
What is something people do with their cats that they should absolutely not be doing? There is more than one thing and therefore, in order of importance, I would highlight the following things which should not be done to domestic cats. The first and most important point is going to upset millions of Americans …
Sometimes it is too limiting to simply refer to domestic cats because some events are so big that they affect us all profoundly including our cat companions. A catastrophe has been predicted as the world heads for an extinction of insects. An analysis published in the journal Biological Conservation concludes that insects could be …
This is a cat-to-human friendly nose touch greeting. Cats who are friendly with each do it a lot combined with the tail up and scent exchange rubbing including head butting. It’s very hard for a domestic cat to greet us with the classic feline ‘nose touch greeting’ for the obvious reason that we are …
A campaign to save a San Francisco fire station cat is underway today and there’s not much time to prevent her eviction. ‘Edna’ is known as the ‘station angel’ and those who work at the station have asked the public to help. Cat advocates are quickly answering the plea for help using social media …
