Kitten less than 24 hours old dumped in trash can by teenagers

Newborn kitten dumped in trash can by teenagers

I don’t want to write about this stuff. It’s too horrible. It’s too callous. And it’s about teenagers. Young people who have a life ahead of them. What’s their life going to be like if they start out like this? Chucking a newborn cat into a trash can and thinking that it’s funny. The …

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The greatest way a shelter can save kittens is to develop an active foster program

Hannah Shaw

This page is to (a) celebrate Hannah Shaw, a high profile rescue kitten advocate and rescuer and (b) to promote her desire that animal shelters expand or develop an active foster program to save the lives of rescue kittens who are particularly vulnerable at shelters. She says that shelters often don’t have the resources …

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Animal rescue organisation accused of stealing owned cats and rehoming them because they go outside

Accusations have been levelled at Laurie Wheeler, who runs Homeless Animal Rescue Team, that she steals outside cats which are domesticated and owned by an individual and then re-homes them without telling the new “owner” the background story. It appears that Wheeler justifies her actions by saying: “Some call it stealing cats, call it …

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Man who rescued neglected Persian dragging 5 pounds of matted fur has died aged 68

Bill Caprio

You might remember the well-publicised story of the white Persian cat (Persian-mix?) who was seen dragging around behind him 5 pounds of filthy, matted fur. The photograph is memorable. I doubt whether anybody has seen anything quite like it. The neglect of this cat was extreme. It looked as if the cat was dragging …

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Senior cat rescue organisation accused of allowing cats to freeze to death in move

Senior cat rescue accused of allowing cats to freeze to death

Accusations have been levelled at Melissa Anne Greene of SERENITY FOR SENIORS CAT RESCUE PROJECT for allowing cats to freeze to death in the back of a removals truck (U-Haul) during a move into her new place. Update: the phrase ‘freeze to death’ is apparently too harsh. The elderly cats allegedly died because of …

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