What affects us affects cats
A reminder of old policies that meant a horrible as well as frightening death to the unwanted shelter pets will soon be gone at Columbus County Animal Control, located in Whiteville, North Carolina. One goal of this rural facility is to take the word “kill” out of the description, which killed an average of …
This article touches on a subject that has divided animal shelters and animal advocates for quite some time now. It’s the argument on how much the public should know about what goes on behind animal shelter walls concerning the fate of a particular dog or cat. Since this is a cat website, I’ll refer to …
This is an update on the animal shelter neglect situation taking place at Bennettsville Animal Shelter located in Marlboro County, South Carolina. Please read the October 28 PoC article that tells how the outcry on social media brought this rural shelter into the spotlight. Thanks to the quick action of animal advocates, a gas …
Thanks to the quick thinking of two sisters and the actions of an “army” of animal advocates, a South Carolina shelter is being forced to clean up its act, with more improvements to come, after being exposed using social media. Jessica Reed Kulas of Moore, South Carolina was traveling through Bennettsville on Saturday with …
Brynnan Grimes was a new student at a school in Virginia, USA. She was pleased to find out that she could attend an anatomy class but then quickly discovered that she had to skin and cut up a cat. So strongly did she object to this that she left the school, started a petition …
Hundreds of kittens and cats that have passed through the Central California SPCA (some to PetSmart) are at risk of contracting deadly panleukopenia. Central California SPCA have an outbreak of panleuk (Feline panleukopenia or feline distemper) and they have 30,000 cats passing through their facility annually. They use PetSmart as an outlet for adoptions …
An animal adoption centre failed on this occasion to vaccinate the cats at their centre. They imported, from a rural shelter, cats that they were told were healthy. They took them in good faith on the basis that there were no signs of disease. You can guess what happened. The 38 cats that they …
The No Kill Advocacy Center has just completed a review of nationwide statistics regarding the intake and disposition of animals in American shelters. Nathan is, as far as I’m concerned, America’s foremost advocate of rescue cats and dogs fighting to eliminate euthanasia at shelters nationwide through better and innovative management. In an email to …
