My Cat, Mitzy, Escaped A Death Sentence Twice
By Sandra When I began living as a low income senior, I decided that it wasn’t practical to get another cat. The expense of regular and unexpected vet care, and the fact that most...
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Failures at Columbus County Animal Control Forces Retirement of Director
Following a fine (see details below) by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Veterinary Services (“the Services”) the director of Columbus County Animal Control, Rossie Hayes (a man, incidentally) will retire in...
Cat surrendered to shelter because he became too big for his litter box
This is novel. To surrender a cat to a shelter in Los Angeles because he has become too big to get into his litter box is either an act of madness or an act...
World’s only animal shelter located in the grounds of a prison
It is called a “correct(ional) approach to animal sheltering”. I like that. This is an animal shelter within the medium security Dixon Correctional Institute, run by a prison warden and staffed by some of...
No cats euthanized in this shelter using Facebook networking and excellent transportation
We know that some shelters euthanise many more cats than other shelters even when they are in roughly the same place operating under similar circumstances. The difference can come down to management methods and...
Cat Repossessed by Florida Rescue Returns Home
I’m sure those of you who follow PoC articles on a daily basis recall the story of Midnight, a black cat who became ill back in August. When Midnight’s owner, Laurel Queen-Havens, of Venice...
Clarifications on policy to end NC animal shelter euthanasia by gassing
News broke this past week from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture Animal Welfare Section, where an announcement was made that carbon monoxide gassing will no longer be an accepted form of euthanasia in...
Have you been banned from an animal shelter for speaking out about conditions or policy?
This is going to be an in-depth article, but I’ll try to condense it as much as possible. Today I’d like to talk about Section 1983 as it pertains to volunteers, staff, fosters and...
Shelter fosters given responsibility to market cats and find adopters
This article deals with a new approach in finding homes for the unwanted shelter pets at Greenville County Animal Care Services, a high-kill shelter in upstate South Carolina. Please read over their new system,...
Fostering Cats Versus Sheltering Cats
This is a quick note to raise a question about whether the cat shelter system in America should be shifted towards a universal fostering system. In a cat or animal shelter the cats live...
Kittens Born Under 100 Grams In Weight Are Killed At Shelter
A new policy of euthanizing (in this instance better described as killing) newborn kittens that weigh less than 100 grams has been implemented at Greenville County Care Services (GCACS). This page analyses the policy...
USA: How people make choices when adapting shelter cats (and why they give them back)
This page contains information on how rescue cat adopters make their choices when selecting a cat and briefly looks at why they give them back. The cat most likely to be adopted at a...
Shelter Cat Dead Because Of A Lie
By Elisa Black-Taylor On July 25th, 2013, a beautiful 6-year-old calico named Bella (shelter ID-HCAS #1556521) was surrendered unlawfully to Hillsborough County (Florida) Animal Services by the daughter of the actual owners without their...
The Dilemma Faced by No Kill Animal Shelters
By Elisa Black-Taylor For those of you who don’t know, Greenville County Animal Care Services (GCACS) is the facility where my daughter Laura and I used to do rescue and fostering out of. This...
Temperament Testing Of Cats
Animal Rescue of Anderson Valley — Photo by MendocinoAnimalCare It appears that there is no standardised temperament testing of cats at animal shelters. Am I incorrect? There should be. Accurate temperament testing of cats...
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