PETA makes suspended Verizon worker ‘Hero to Animals Award’ recipient

Maurice German

Do you remember the Philadelphia Verizon employee, Maurice German, who used the company’s cherry picker to rescue a cat stuck atop a telephone pole for 15 hours? Elisa wrote about him. Well, his employer wasn’t happy with what he did because he did something outside of his contract of employment using company equipment. They …

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Incredible journey of 1,100 miles and 8 years later: Thanks to a microchip, a ‘stray cat’ is going home

Thanks to a microchip, a stray cat found in Wilmington, Pennsylvania will be reunited with her family. Barley went missing eight years ago and somehow managed to travel almost 1,100 miles from her Tampa, Florida home. The distances cats are being found after they go missing is yet another reason to have a cat …

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Another cat microchipping happy ending: The story of siblings Cookie and Star who were reunited with their owner

This is the happy ending story of TWO cats who were reunited with their owner after they went missing from the backyard of their Blackpool, England home in late 2016. Karen Wiley, 35, was always afraid her cats Cookie and Star (they’re siblings) had been stolen from their home for breeding purposes since they both …

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Frightened nine-week-old kitten at shelter scheduled for euthanasia because he was too feral

Kitten deemed too feral in shelter and scheduled to die

This handsome, nine-week-old, long-haired, ginger tabby-and-white kitten was at a local shelter (I don’t have the name of the shelter), in a cage and he was flea infested and scared to death. He hid at the back of his cage. Sigh… You would have thought that almost any nine week-old kitten would be frightened …

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A Montana animal shelter director used ‘cold calls’ to find homes for over 120 feral cats in a bit over a year’s time

Classic barn cats

Cold calling is to make an unsolicited call on (someone), by telephone or in person, in an attempt to sell goods or services. A Montana animal shelter director used ‘cold calls’ to find homes for over 120 feral working cats in a bit over a year’s time. Cliff Bennett is the director of Flathead …

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PETA pressure Cincinnati Children’s Hospital into stopping cats being used for training

Pediatric Advanced Life Support Course dummy

You may know that domestic cats have been and still are used to train doctors to insert intubation tubes into babies. It is part of their paediatric medicine training. I suppose, domestic cats have a similar anatomy to babies in this respect and it is a 20-year-old tradition. According to PETA up to 15 …

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David Bowie: Finding a rare male calico is a bit like finding a unicorn

Finding a rare male calico is a bit like finding a unicorn, according to Humane Society of St. Joseph County. Only one in 3,000 calico cats turns out to be male. The Humane Society described ‘David Bowie,’ who is a front declawed stray they believe is around four years old “David Bowie is a …

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