What affects us affects cats
Kitten alone, scared and available for adoption in new Mexico shelter. Can anyone help him? This is about as sad a photo as you’ll see of a cat in an animal shelter awaiting adoption or death. The picture was posted on Jennifer Weldon’s FB page. The shelter is: Roswell Urgent Animals at Animal Control, …
An orange 1-year-old tabby found searching for food in a feral colony near Hempstead, Long Island is the newest member of Midtown’s historic Algonquin Hotel. Appropriately named Hamlet, this friendly feral kitty is the 12th Algonquin cat ambassador and the first male to fill the position in more than 40 years. The Algonquin has …
It’s rare that I report on ‘old news’ unless the story is extremely interesting. I came across this YouTube video posted April 18 and felt the need to share with the readers here at PoC. On December 16, 2016, the Humane Animal Rescue League in Pittsburgh posted photos of a 14-year-old cat rescued after …
By Margaret Gunning Hello! I was delighted to find your cat site, which has more cat lore in it than anything I’ve seen. I look forward to further exploration. Can a cat lose the ability to purr? I have a lovely cat named Bentley, and though he is affectionate and a lap-sitter, I have …
I hope this catches on. I’m guessing (although I have not been inside one – yet) that police stations are rather soulless, forbidding places where macho men deal with the day-to-day difficulties of maintaining law and order. Is not the sort of place where you would expect to see a resident cat. I think …
This is the story of a big-hearted stray cat. He had no human caretaker. He had no microchip. He was starving. He was noticed by estate agents outside their office in Rochester Kent, UK. He was asking to be fed. He persisted. His appearance and his behaviour caught the eye of the estate agents …
This is a triple whammy. The girl benefits, her mother benefits, and the cat is a rescue cat, so the cat benefits as well. It really is a classic case of how a rescue cat can do something special for a family. At 12 years of age, Kylie was diagnosed with metastatic bone cancer. …
Today, Booker is a happy cat. It even took some medication (I guess tranquillisers) to make him happy which is sad. But the overriding ‘treatment’ was, and still is, tons of love and gentle care from a really good woman, Julia. This cat story is really about rehabilitation and the two extremes of cat …
