What affects us affects cats
Many of you know I do very little news writing at this point, as I focus more on getting death row cats and dogs out of the shelter before their time runs out. Not a day goes by when I don’t receive several messages asking for help from individuals stating their shelter is having …
In the USA, the Board of County Commissioners is a group of elected officials who administer the county government in some of the states. There are basically the local government of a county in the USA. They have what I would describe as open days when the public can have their say directly to …
There’s a lot of secrecy and misinformation in how animal shelters in the U.S. operate. This may come as a surprise to many of you who believe a shelter is there to find a home for stray and unwanted animals. While this is the goal we all wish for, the reality is that shelters …
In adversity people pull together. They always have. Natural disasters create social cohesion. People need each other. Animals need people. When people need each other they help each other and this is exactly what is happening in Texas at this moment in time. The world is aware of the devastating storms over the past …
This is another good example of intelligent, enlightened thinking by shelter management to dramatically improve cat adoption rates. The new program is called “Revision” and entails a three-pronged approach… The outcome? No cats at the Capital Area Humane Society have been euthanised since October 2014. “The transformation is remarkable,” Executive Director Rachel Finney said. For …
I am going to make the bold statement that Facebook and other online social media websites are making a substantial impact on the number of cats adopted from rescue centers and shelters throughout the United States. I wonder if things are genuinely being turned around and the mass annual slaughter of rescue cats will …
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 the prisoners. It has been running since 2010. I like the term: “correctional institute” but I wonder how much correcting …
By Sandy Murphey I first started volunteering at my local city shelter as a “cat cuddler” at the suggestion of a therapist that I was seeing for depression. I’d been isolating myself, and this was one of the suggestions she made. There were about 25 of us at the training session, where the director …
