What affects us affects cats
This is a great idea from a Pennsylvania rescue center: Animal Rescue League of Berks County. It places together children between the ages of 6 to 13 and rescue cats. The children read aloud to themselves and to the rescue cats and their voices and their company help the cats. The rescue cats have …
The advantages of adopting an adult cat are listed below together with the pluses and minuses of adopting kittens and adult cats. I think that you will find that there are slightly more pluses/positives for the adult cat compared to the kitten but I leave it to individual visitors to decide for themselves. If …
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 …
Unless he is adopted in the meantime, Rocky, a tabby cat, has four days to live from the date of this post (Nov 20th 2013). He is likely to be euthanized at 6:45pm on 24 Nov. at Hillsborough County Animal Services, 440 N Falkenburg Rd., Tampa, FL 33619, (813) 744-5660. That is what we are …
By Elisa Black-Taylor Does the news media prefer to cover dog stories rather than cat stories? I always thought the media would be unbiased, until many of my rescue friends clued me in that cats get less publicity in times of emergency than do dogs. There’s a situation going on right now at the …
Criminal domestic violence most likely plays a big part in the number of pets turned into shelters in South Carolina (SC), where I live. When Michael did the article Domestic Arguments Make Cats Anxious, I knew I had to do a follow up. A September article by The State newspaper stated SC is second …
“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 …
Caveat: I know animal rescue saves lives but… I am always shocked that in the USA even the experts have to guess the number of cats and dogs that are “euthanised” each year. The figure is somewhere between 2 and 5 million cats a year as far as I can tell. But I don’t …
