↓
 
  • CAT CHIT CHAT
  • Animal-human relationship
  • Norwegian FC
  • TKA
  • MAU MEW
  • Maine Coon
  • Tiger

PoC

Cat Welfare at Heart - seen in 86% of the world's countries (168/195)


Seen in 86% of the world's countries
  • CAT CHIT CHAT
    • Mau Mew
    • Maine Coon
    • Tiger
    • Animal-human rel
    • Kitteh antidote
  • RECENT ARTICLES/HOME
    • PRIVACY POLICY
    • GLOSSARY – CAT TERMS
  • ESSAYS
  • CAT BREEDS
    • CAT BREEDS 2
    • CAT BREEDS 3
    • Unusual Cat Breeds A-E
    • Unusual Cat Breeds F-U
    • Video of 104 Breeds
    • Largest Cat Breeds
    • Rare Cat Breeds
    • Cartoon Cats
    • Breed Selector
    • Cat Breeds Archives
  • WILD CAT SPECIES
    • Wild Cat Facts For Kids
    • Bengal Tiger Reserves Map
    • Wild Cats of Africa (for kids)
    • Wild Cats of Asia (for kids)
  • HISTORY
    • Maine Coon History
    • Cats and Women (an essay)
    • Domestic Cat History
    • Cat History Archives
  • Timeline of the Cat
    • Cat History For Kids
      • Cartoon Cats
  • BEHAVIOR
    • Understanding cat behavior
    • Cat Behavior Facts For Kids
    • Behavior Archives
    • Cat Behavior 2
      • Cat Aggression
    • Essay on Cat Behavior
      • Cat Ear Positions
    • Cat Sounds
      • Articles on Sounds
    • Feral Cats
      • The Feral Cat
  • ANATOMY
    • Cat Anatomy Facts For Kids
      • Cat Skin Gland Facts For Kids
      • Cat Claw Anatomy (for kids)
    • Cat Breed Size
    • Cat Body Types
    • Cat Head Shape
    • Cat Eye Colour
    • Cat Ear Size & Shape
    • World’s Biggest Cat
    • Declawing Cats
    • Teeth
  • CONTACT ME
Home→Categories Animal Rescue - Page 2 << 1 2 3 4 … 74 75 >>

Category Archives: Animal Rescue

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →
Blind cat Nado rescued from tornado damaged animal shelter in Texas

Blind cat ‘Nado’ rescued from the rubble of Texas animal shelter destroyed by a tornado (picture)

PoC avatarPosted on March 24, 2022 by Michael BroadMarch 24, 2022

This is such a tender, sad, compelling photograph of a blind cat who was rescued from the Jacksboro Animal Shelter in Texas. The shelter was destroyed by a tornado. It seems that Texas has been affected by tornadoes recently. Perhaps …

Posted in disasters | Tagged animal shelter, blind cat, Cat News, cat rescue, cats in emergencies, disasters, natural disaster, Texas | Leave a reply
Ginger cat in underground shelter in Ukraine during Putin's invasion

Ukrainian citizens flee or shelter with their cats (many pictures)

PoC avatarPosted on February 26, 2022 by Michael BroadMarch 8, 2022

We must not forget the animals in this unnecessary war caused by the blatant and wanton invasion of a democratic country by that madman Putin. He is determined to turn the clock back to the old USSR. And he knows …

Posted in cats in emergencies | Tagged cats in emergencies, human to cat relationship, human to human relationship, pets, pictures of cats | Leave a reply
Ginger tabby senior cat in a shelter cage watching out as potential adopters reject him

Video: POV-what a senior cat at a shelter sees and hears as adopters walk by

PoC avatarPosted on February 9, 2022 by Michael BroadFebruary 9, 2022

This is a TikTok video from photographer Albert Harris. It’s a neat idea. He has put a small video camera in an animal shelter cage with an elderly ginger tabby cat. You see potential adopters walking by looking at the …

Posted in animal sanctuary | Tagged animal shelter, cat adoption, cat shelter, cat video, elderly cat, ginger cats, senior cat, senior cat adoption | 7 Replies
Lord Harrowby and Henry Bergh

Lord Harrowby – the man who inspired Henry Bergh

PoC avatarPosted on February 7, 2022 by Michael BroadFebruary 7, 2022

Henry Bergh is known as the person who perhaps did more than any other in America to improve animal welfare as he founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) in April 1866. It was three …

Posted in ASPCA | Tagged animal welfare, ASPCA, Henry Bergh, history, Lord Harrowby, rspca
286 cats and dogs on the Russian Ilyushin Il-76 about to be flown to Vancouver from Kabul Afghanistan

286 cats and dogs airlifted from Kabul, Afghanistan to Vancouver, Canada on Russian aircraft

PoC avatarPosted on February 2, 2022 by Michael BroadFebruary 2, 2022

OPINION ARTICLE-NEWS: This is the story of a wonderfully successful evacuation of 286 cats and dogs on a Russian transport plane from Kabul, Afghanistan to Vancouver, Canada in which the organisers, Kabul Small Animal Rescue and other organisations, surmounted numerous …

Posted in Animal Rescue | Tagged Afghanistan, aircraft travel, animal rescue, canada, Cat News, cat rescue, cats in aircraft, dog news, dog rescue | Leave a reply
Battersea Dogs and Cats Home

Cat rescue centres in London, UK – mapped to facilitate finding them

PoC avatarPosted on January 20, 2022 by Michael BroadJanuary 20, 2022

This is a page dedicated to cat rescue centres in London. There are a number of very well-known rehoming centres in London. I have, by the way, listed one that is near Watford, just north of London. Some of the …

Posted in Animal Rescue | Tagged animal rescue, battersea dogs and cats home, cat rescue centres in london, rehoming rescue cats | Leave a reply
This is Mistletoe at the RSPCA. The photograph is by the RSPCA.

Family moved into a new home and found a cat in the kitchen cupboard

PoC avatarPosted on January 8, 2022 by Michael BroadJanuary 8, 2022

NEWS AND COMMENT-NORWICH UK: This is a very strange story. A family moved into a new home and were surprised to find a young black cat tucked away in a kitchen cupboard. They were unable to keep the cat and …

Posted in rescue cat | Tagged abandoned cat, black cat, Cat News, cat rescued, lost cat, rspca | Leave a reply
Emily Blenkinsop (believed) of Paw Rescue Qatar

British charity has rescued hundreds of cats and dogs abandoned in Qatar’s killer 50°C heat

PoC avatarPosted on December 26, 2021 by Michael BroadDecember 26, 2021

NEWS AND VIEWS – QATAR: Qatar’s behaviour appears to be very harsh in respect of a British charity, Paws Rescue Qatar (RQ), which is saving the lives of hundreds of abandoned dogs and cats. The authorities or a landowner has …

Posted in animal sanctuary | Tagged abandoned cats, animal rescue, cats coping with heat, dogs abandoned, Qatar | Leave a reply

45% reduction in cat euthanasia in Humane Canada shelters over 27 years

PoC avatarPosted on December 20, 2021 by Michael BroadDecember 20, 2021

HUMANE CANADA, the Federation of SPCAs and Humane Societies, has provided us with a very useful chart. It tells us that with respect to cats at their shelters there has been a 45% reduction in euthanasia rates over the period …

Posted in statistics | Tagged animal shelters, cat euthanasia, cat reunited with family, cat shelters usa, euthanasia, fostering, statistics | Leave a reply

Should people with certain illnesses or backgrounds be prevented from adopting shelter cats?

PoC avatarPosted on December 16, 2021 by Elisa Black-TaylorDecember 16, 2021

This is a discussion on whether certain human diseases, health conditions or backgrounds should determine whether a cat should be adopted out to that person. As we get older, most of us suffer from one condition or another. Some are …

Posted in shelter contracts | Tagged The Articles of Elisa Black-Taylor | 21 Replies
Cat stuck behind dry wall emerges with eyes blazing through hole hacked open by owner

Cat stuck behind drywall emerges with eyes blazing through hole hacked open by owner

PoC avatarPosted on December 10, 2021 by Michael BroadDecember 10, 2021

The female, family cat whose name is Ronnie somehow became trapped in a large space behind a plasterboard wall. It’s not clear what had gone on to make that huge space and it is not clear why Ronnie found herself …

Posted in cats in emergencies | Tagged cat eyes, cat rescue, cat video, cats in emergencies, tiktok | 2 Replies
Rescue kitten

Picture of a foster kitten

PoC avatarPosted on December 7, 2021 by Michael BroadDecember 7, 2021

Why publish a picture of a foster kitten? Firstly, I think he’s an incredibly cute foster kitten. He has an unusual coat and appearance generally which is reason enough to publish a picture of him on this website. But secondly, …

Posted in fostering | Tagged battersea dogs and cats home, cat foster care, cat fostering, fostering cats and kittens, volunteers | Leave a reply
Nathan Winograd and rescue cat

6 reasons for the 90% drop in pound killings of US dogs and cats since the 1970s

PoC avatarPosted on November 30, 2021 by Michael BroadNovember 30, 2021

Despite the fact that the number of domestic cats and dogs in America has doubled since the 1970s, the number of these animals that have been killed (‘euthanized’) at shelters since then has decreased from 16 million to as low …

Posted in no-kill | Tagged cat facts, cat shelters, cat shelters usa, feral cat shelters, human behavior, Nathan Winograd, no-kill, no-kill shelter, TNR, volunteers | Leave a reply
Woman takes immediate action to adopt a stray cat in Walmart

Woman sees stray kitten in Walmart, buys cat food and a carrier and adopts him on the spot

PoC avatarPosted on November 7, 2021 by Michael BroadNovember 7, 2021

This is a cool video. So immediate. So instant and so correct. A woman is shopping in a huge Walmart. She spots a crying kitten with a heart-shaped pattern on his back (she named him Wally). The woman says something …

Posted in cat rescuer | Tagged befriending a stray cat, cat adoption, cat rescue, cat rescue adoptions, cat rescuer, stray cat, stray cats, Van pattern | Leave a reply

The higher an animal shelter’s live release rate the higher the rates of burnout in shelter staff?

PoC avatarPosted on November 4, 2021 by Michael BroadNovember 4, 2021

There is a study online published on Jan 17th 2020 which, as I understand it, essentially looks at the mental health of animal shelter employees under two opposing circumstances, namely when animals are euthanized and when the live release rate …

Posted in burnout and compassion fatigue | Tagged animal shelter, burnout, cat shelter, cat shelters, cat study, compassion, compassion fatigue, human behavior, science | Leave a reply

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →
©2022 - PoC - Weaver Xtreme Theme Privacy Policy PoC
↑