What affects us affects cats
VANCOUVER: Veterinarians and scientists have decided that a brand-new feline disease has become evident at the SPCA’s animal centre in Vancouver. They say that it is a virus and that it affected 43 cats in British Columbia. The story goes back to 2018, apparently, when eight cats fell ill with it suffering from symptoms …
Note from Elisa: This article is ‘written’ by a shelter cat with only hours left to live before being killed at the Cabarrus County Animal Shelter in Concord, North Carolina. It represents the sadness and loss felt by pets who are carelessly abandoned by their owners or who have lost their way. Thankfully, he …
We don’t have the name of the animal shelter except that it is a “humane group” in the state of Louisiana. It appears that they were sending live animals to the LSU Veterinary School for testing and ultimately euthanasia but on their books they were recording these animals as “live outcomes”. In other words …
Ginger tabby shelter cat creams his audition to be adopted by a shelter worker who fell in love with him and asked her partner if she could adopt him in two brilliant photos.
The San Bernadino City Animal Shelter has been accused of mislabelling many cats at their facility as either ‘fearful’ of ‘feral’. You can see in the photograph that two lines of yellow tape have been placed across all the cages in this part of a room. The word “CAUTION” is written on the tapes. …
Caution tape surrounds the cats in a room at a California shelter. ‘Are these cats really ‘feral’ or are they just scared? This is an absolute travesty and misrepresentation of cats that are usually just scared’ (comment taken from Laurel Tarbis on the Facebook post)? Brittany Place reached out to cat advocates on Wednesday …
The Los Angeles Unified School District is on strike for improved student conditions, better resources and more pay. The strike left many students bored in class. The ones who didn’t play hooky, that is. Los Angeles Animal Services came up with a plan for students who needed a place to go this week and …
We have all been indoctrinated into believing that black cats are overlooked at shelters. The reason given is superstition or because black cats are difficult to see at shelters. Also it is more difficult to photograph black cats successfully and therefore their images are less often clicked on the Petfinder website. PETA So we …
