What affects us affects cats
A female vet tech telephoned PAWS Chicago, an animal shelter, and made an enquiry about adopting the pet who’d been at the shelter the longest. The eligible feline was 16-year-old Pierre who has diabetes and who had been at PAWS Chicago for four years. He needs 2 jabs daily. Actually he was three days …
This is an excellent idea, which has proved successful in a previous promotional campaign in which local firefighters posed for pictures with shelter dogs in fire stations across Waco, Texas. The same idea works well with police officers. The Humane Society of Central Texas is bursting at the seams so imaginative promotions are welcome …
The modern imagine obsessed society driven by social media platforms such as Instagram (owned by Facebook) has had a negative impact on the adoption of companion animals, in one way. It is worth adding, however, that there are positive aspects to social media in the area of companion animal adoption so it is not …
A new law pertaining to stray cats in Erie County, New York was adopted as local law on Thursday by the Legislature. A stray cat will be able to go to a new home faster, the time being cut from five days in an animal shelter to three. This article is a discussion on …
Arguably other countries should follow Germany’s example in banning adoptions from animal shelters in the run-up to Christmas to stop unwanted dogs and cats being dumped after the holidays. Is this a good idea? I think it is but others might disagree (see poster below). We all know that some people buy pets at …
I have described Debbie Heller as a Mother Earth figure because what she does is so positive and bountiful it its generosity. I guess she is just an ‘ordinary’ woman but she is also special and by no means unique. I am sure that there are very many ladies like her doing their bit …
This is another question on the Quora.com website, which I’d like to answer here. The article is targeted at unexperienced cat owners or potential cat owners. Millions of people adopt stray cats from the street and the relationship works out very well. There is a mutual benefit to the process but make sure the …
Overridingly, one would normally assume that free animal shelter adoptions are a good idea because a lot of people respond to this sort of incentive and adopt a cat or dog from a shelter when they would otherwise have put it off. It seems that a lot of people are very sensitive to the …
