What affects us affects cats
March 22 was a big day for the animals at the Medina County (Ohio) Animal Shelter, where a “destruction ceremony” was held in the parking lot of the Medina County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Cleveland.com News, powered by The Plain Dealer, was on-scene, along with more than 40 people who …
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 United States shelter is a white, neutered, purebred, pedigree male Persian kitten (or another white pedigree cat)….read on. There are …
In general, cats in conventional animal shelters are living through a stressful and hazardous time. It is probably the most hazardous and stressful time of their lives (depending on the individual shelter and cat). We don’t have to go over the same ground to conclude that, in the USA, shelter cats in a typical …
“It was like the sun had been behind a cloud for years and it came out.” (shelter worker/manager above who changed how they did things) I visited the ASPCA website to see what they were discussing and noticed that they had appointed a long term senior employee Matthew E. Bershadker as their new President …
by Michael The figure in the title relates to 2010. It is an extraordinarily high figure but probably not exceptional. I suppose if we look on the bright side 20% of cats were adopted. The Jackson County Animal Control Shelter had a bit of a shock to their system recently (Dec 2011) when a …
