What affects us affects cats
Marley is a handsome black cat from Clitheroe, UK who has already used up a few of his nine lives. In August 2018 he ran away from home after being allowed outside, then he suffered a broken leg after being run over and left to die. Thanks to a microchip, Marley was recently reunited with …
A proposal to make the village of Omaui, Southland in New Zealand ‘cat-free’ has been postponed until February 18 and February 19. A plan being discussed is to neuter the cats already there and to ban any cats that die in Omaui from being replaced with another cat. The topic drew criticism in 2018 when …
The most recent update on San Francisco Fire Station 49 cat Edna tells us even the San Francisco Fire Department Commissioner is fighting to get Edna back to the only home she’s ever known. Edna’s heartbreaking move has been covered in several articles for PoC. Links can be found following this update. She’s definitely …
Experts say one in three cats will go missing. Microchipping will give a missing cat a 2,000 percent higher chance at being returned to the owner. In the case of Abby, it took 13 years for the lost cat to be reunited with her owner. Abby ended up in the care of Augusta Animal …
More information about Edna, the fire station cat who was recently evicted from the only home she’s ever known has come to light. Edna was a comforting presence at San Francisco Fire Department #49 until her eviction on Monday. The complaint came from within According to a February 11 article by KPIX5, “KPIX has …
I’ll keep this article short because I mainly wanted to show off this photo of two cats trapped together for TNR. Trapping is step #1 in a successful TNR venture. Vince Sands is pretty good at TNR, as the photo proves. Vince says he’s part of a group caring for a small colony. The 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 …
