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5-Month-Old Tiger Being Sold Online Recovering at Gladys Porter Zoo
BROWNSVILLE – A Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game warden said his office alongside the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office acted quickly to ensure the safety of a tiger being sold online.
Robin Zayas is a passionate member of The Animal Advocates of Edinburg. One of the group's major tasks is alerting Facebook and Craigslist of illegal animal sales on their websites.
She said the group red flags approximately 100 prohibited sales a day. On Tuesday, she found an exotic animal for sale on one of Facebook’s online pulga page.
"It raised a lot of red flags with us. It was a tiger, a five-month-old tiger," Zayas said.
She explained she contacted the man selling the tiger. He claimed to have all of the correct paperwork to own a tiger, but Zayas knew something wasn't right so she began making calls to multiple agencies in the county.
"We started receiving phone calls and a bunch of stuff through social media, and we were advised that there was a tiger in someone's possession in the Edinburg area," Texas Parks and Wildlife Cpt. James Dunks told CHANNEL 5 NEWS.
Dunks said his office immediately opened an investigation.
We learned that Hidalgo County has an order in accordance with the Texas Health and Safety Code 822 prohibiting wild animals. As a result, TPWD seized the tiger and transported it to the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville.
"Right now, they are holding the tiger for safe keeping, for the tiger's own good and the community's public safety," Dunks said.
He explained the tiger will remain at the zoo until the investigation is complete.
Dr. Thomas Demaar is the veterinarian at the zoo and is currently in charge of the tiger’s well-being. He said this isn't the first time the zoo has taken in a tiger that was confiscated from the public.
"In the last 10 years, this will be our 11th tiger that we have accepted in an official capacity," Demaar explained.
He said the tiger is currently recovering from its trip. He added while the tiger may look cute at its young age, it will one day grow to about 500 pounds and develop deadly instincts.
Zayas said she is relieved that the tiger found a safe home.
CHANNEL 5 NEWS reached out to the owner of the tiger. He declined an on-camera interview.
Count on us to continue tracking the TPWD investigation.
http://www.krgv.com/story/37062836/...g-sold-online-recovering-at-gladys-porter-zoo
BROWNSVILLE – A Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game warden said his office alongside the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office acted quickly to ensure the safety of a tiger being sold online.
Robin Zayas is a passionate member of The Animal Advocates of Edinburg. One of the group's major tasks is alerting Facebook and Craigslist of illegal animal sales on their websites.
She said the group red flags approximately 100 prohibited sales a day. On Tuesday, she found an exotic animal for sale on one of Facebook’s online pulga page.
"It raised a lot of red flags with us. It was a tiger, a five-month-old tiger," Zayas said.
She explained she contacted the man selling the tiger. He claimed to have all of the correct paperwork to own a tiger, but Zayas knew something wasn't right so she began making calls to multiple agencies in the county.
"We started receiving phone calls and a bunch of stuff through social media, and we were advised that there was a tiger in someone's possession in the Edinburg area," Texas Parks and Wildlife Cpt. James Dunks told CHANNEL 5 NEWS.
Dunks said his office immediately opened an investigation.
We learned that Hidalgo County has an order in accordance with the Texas Health and Safety Code 822 prohibiting wild animals. As a result, TPWD seized the tiger and transported it to the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville.
"Right now, they are holding the tiger for safe keeping, for the tiger's own good and the community's public safety," Dunks said.
He explained the tiger will remain at the zoo until the investigation is complete.
Dr. Thomas Demaar is the veterinarian at the zoo and is currently in charge of the tiger’s well-being. He said this isn't the first time the zoo has taken in a tiger that was confiscated from the public.
"In the last 10 years, this will be our 11th tiger that we have accepted in an official capacity," Demaar explained.
He said the tiger is currently recovering from its trip. He added while the tiger may look cute at its young age, it will one day grow to about 500 pounds and develop deadly instincts.
Zayas said she is relieved that the tiger found a safe home.
CHANNEL 5 NEWS reached out to the owner of the tiger. He declined an on-camera interview.
Count on us to continue tracking the TPWD investigation.
http://www.krgv.com/story/37062836/...g-sold-online-recovering-at-gladys-porter-zoo
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Born free-roaming
Return-to-field programs reassess ‘the right thing’ for community cats
At Miami-Dade County Animal Services in 2010, staffers had so little room to spare and so few program alternatives that they euthanized 11,454 cats that year, many directly in their traps or carriers, without ever checking if they were feral or friendly. The sole public shelter in the most populous county in Florida simply received far, far more cats than it could hold—and it still does.
Yet Miami-Dade’s live-release rate soared from 43 percent in 2010 to 90 percent in 2015. The solution was relatively simple: Along with new nonprofit partnerships and community outreach efforts, the shelter simply stopped accepting and euthanizing stray cats in July 2012. Staff veterinarians vaccinate, sterilize and distinguish healthy community cats—snipping off the tip of an ear and tattooing a small mark during surgery—and the trapper or a volunteer puts them back where they were found.
The program was originally implemented on a case-by-case basis. Anyone attempting to surrender a stray cat or complaining of a “nuisance” cat was offered an alternative to euthanasia: Certify that he was found outside and provide the location, and the shelter would vet him and give him back.
“Between 30 to 40 percent of the people did not want the cat euthanized. … They wanted the cat back,” says director Alex Muñoz. At the time, the shelter didn’t have the spay/neuter capacity to sterilize all the community cats it received, but by offering this option, Muñoz says, staffers were able “to feel our way—to see what it was going to take.”
With the backing of the mayor and the Board of County Commissioners, who approved a significant increase in Animal Services funding that helped fund both community outreach efforts and a new facility, the program is now county policy. In five years, and with additional support from Florida Animal Friends and ASPCA grants, Muñoz has added five full-time staff veterinarians, partnerships with over 30 private vets who provide spay/neuter services for a $10 to $20 co-pay, six drivers to assist with the trapping and returning of cats and a program coordinator. The county fixes community cats for free and loans out traps in return for a refundable deposit, so in addition to staffers’ own trapping efforts in response to complaints, the shelter and its partners receive and return strays from the general public, as well as hundreds of strays a year from cat advocates involved in grassroots sterilization efforts, says Muñoz.
Miami-Dade County calls the program trap-treat-and-return or trap-neuter-give back, and as the name suggests, it’s similar to trap-neuter-return (TNR), an approach that specifically targets and humanely reduces community cat colonies. A 2015 study published in Wildlife Research suggests that, outside of island colonies, euthanizing outdoor cats is not an effective approach to reducing community cat colonies. Colony numbers stabilize, and sometimes even increase, within 12 months as other cats fill the void—meaning Miami-Dade’s previous approach was not addressing and may have been exacerbating the overpopulation problem.
In regions where friendly cats and kittens have high adoption chances, many TNR programs focus on feral cats. In Miami-Dade, however, staffers treat and return almost all healthy cats brought to the shelter in a trap, allowing them to limit cat admission to shelter capacity. The approach doesn’t add more cats to the community; it simply returns existing community cats—vetted, better-behaved and sterile—to their outdoor homes. Since 2010, staffers have adopted out roughly 9,000, mostly owner-surrendered, cats a year, but now they also return around 10,000 free-roaming cats a year back into the community.
More commonly known as return-to-field, the program is equal-opportunity TNR. And at Miami-Dade County Animal Services in 2017, return-to-field prevents the euthanasia of 27 cats a day.
One size fits (almost) all
In an ideal world, shelters provide a safe spot for lost pets until their owners can retrieve them. But research and experience have led many to question if this model actually serves the best interests of cats, whether they’re lost escapees, owned pets allowed to roam the neighborhood, loosely owned strays or part of a feral colony. The ASPCA estimates that the national return-to-owner rate for cats in shelters is less than 5 percent. And a 2006 study published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association found that cats and owners are 13 times more likely to be reunited by nonshelter means, like “lost pet” signs in the surrounding neighborhood, and that 60 percent of roaming cats return home on their own.
“People wait a lot longer to look for their cats, because they’re used to their cats kind of wandering off for a while,” says Julie Levy, professor of shelter medicine at the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine and medical director at Operation Catnip, which operates community cat spay/neuter clinics in Gainesville, Florida. “Many times, it’s too late when they finally go look at a shelter.
“We’ve [also] spent decades training the public to think of the shelter as the first resort for dealing with a concern about animals, so whether that’s … an animal that’s a nuisance, or an animal that you see in the neighborhood, we’ve very much [ingrained] the concept of taking that animal to an animal shelter,” says Levy. “That’s disconnected from the reality that many animal shelters are underfunded, overcrowded and often a place where healthy and treatable animals either suffer a stressful incarceration or even lose their lives because the shelters are so overextended.”
When the alternative is euthanasia, any cat found outside in “thriving” condition—indicating he has one or several caretakers, or is simply a free-roaming owned cat—can and should be returned to where he was found, she says, with a few exceptions that may differ from shelter to shelter and from cat to cat.
“Everybody who’s doing this is trying to help shelters do a better job, but not at the price of the welfare of the cats involved,” she says. “It’s very important for shelters to do a self-analysis of what they can offer cats to make sure that when cats are admitted to the shelter, it’s not to a place of greater harm. … We need to keep finding ways to serve those special populations like small kittens or older cats or debilitated cats better than return-to-field. Sometimes the shelter is a better place for those cats, and sometimes it’s not.”
So at shelters where cats are at high risk of contracting a disease or being euthanized, staffers might develop a return-to-field program that includes friendly cats and older kittens brought in as strays, but shelters that have more space, foster care partnerships or adoption opportunities might exclude friendly cats and kittens from the program. At Miami-Dade, staffers take both approaches: They’ll return unowned, friendly cats if the shelter is overcrowded, but keep the cats when they have the space.
Before Jacksonville, Florida, embraced a large-scale return-to-field program in 2008, the city’s live-release rate for cats was just 10 percent. Feral cats were leaving alive in traps as part of a TNR program, but friendly cats were being euthanized because there were so few adoption options. “Staff actually started putting their favorite friendly cats in traps on the loading dock to be transferred to the TNR program,” says Levy. “And so that irony of ‘God help you if you purr’ was very blatant.”
Pussyfooting around
Originally, Miami-Dade didn’t call its program anything, “because TNR could be a controversial issue,” explains Muñoz. Return-to-field was simply a quiet alternative offered to community members bringing in outdoor cats. By adding the new option without fanfare, the shelter was able to assess its impact with minimal interference or controversy before making a more public case for return-to-field—and before actively trapping cats for the program, as well, instead of only passively returning cats brought to the shelter.
“It’s always helpful to start with a pilot program, rather than committing to a full-scale, permanent policy change,” says Levy, suggesting a six-month trial focused in an area that generates a lot of community cat complaints. “Getting a few people on board to kick it off is a way to get some experience with it without causing too much fear about bad outcomes. And my experience is once people start doing it, they get addicted to it, and they love it, and those fears that they have just don’t materialize.”
In some cities, return-to-field and TNR programs are hindered by abandonment laws or stray hold requirements—requirements that assume animals are lost pets with the unintentional side effect of requiring shelters to hold unowned cats for a period of time, waiting for a nonexistent owner. In Miami-Dade County, the abandonment law is specific—releasing cats in a new location is considered abandonment and against county law, but returning cats to their original location is not.
However, abandonment laws and stray hold requirements are often unspecific or nonexistent, meaning cat advocates may be on more solid legal ground than they realize and can work with policymakers to exclude community cats from the laws; in tougher cases, some shelters outsource returning the cats to local rescues or volunteers to avoid directly flouting the law.
Other shelters might struggle with community members who consider cat colonies unpleasant or those concerned about the detrimental effects of cats on birds and wildlife. The latter concern is one shared by The HSUS, according to Bernard Unti, senior policy adviser. “Cat predation upon birds and wildlife is a serious matter to us,” he says. “That’s why we’re aggressive in promoting spaying and neutering of all cats and unequivocal in educating the public about the necessity of keeping pet cats indoors. We can minimize the impacts through intelligent management and long-term community education approaches.”
It can also be useful to remind people that, paradoxically, euthanizing outdoor cats doesn’t reduce the number of outdoor cats over time, but sterilization does—and return-to-field only returns already existing outdoor cats, minus annoying urine marking and breeding behaviors. “It’s really the same population of cats, and they’re being brought here from the field,” says Muñoz. “The overwhelming difference is that they’re just not being euthanized.”
“It’s important to remember that return-to-field programs have specific goals: To reduce euthanasia and free up overburdened shelters,” says Katie Lisnik, HSUS director of cat protection and policy. “Return-to-field programs can free up resources that are better spent on targeted TNR programs, which not only prevent euthanasia, but help reduce unowned cat populations in the community, leading to less wildlife predation and fewer public health and cat welfare risks.”
At Jacksonville Animal Care & Protective Services, where the city started returning all trapped cats to the field in 2008, former director Scott Trebatoski found success by compromising with birders, providing cat netting and banning feeding around protected areas. The city also doesn’t rule out relocating the largest “nuisance” colonies into smaller colonies. “Don’t let those large colonies make the public not want [return-to-field],” Trebatoski advised in a 2015 Maddie’s Institute webcast, adding that once return-to-field is implemented, “the number of nuisance calls also falls dramatically,” which saves the city money long-term and allows animal control officers to focus on larger issues.
Complaints usually happen where there’s a homeowner’s association, says Muñoz, and sometimes community members will take matters into their own hands—luckily, “there’s always a cat advocate around.” “What we’ve done repeatedly is we go in, we offer our services and in every case we’ve ended up doing TNR as opposed to having the cats [euthanized],” he says. Miami-Dade sometimes has a cat advocate serve as an intermediary in that community moving forward. “We’ve found that residents in the community tend to accept this change readily when it’s explained to them,” says Levy.
In the beginning, a minority of staffers had safety concerns about handling potentially feral cats, says Muñoz. “It’s a lot more work and skills to save [cats] than to euthanize them, [but] nobody signs up to work at the animal shelter to euthanize animals. They’re definitely happier.”
https://www.animalsheltering.org/magazine/articles/born-free-roaming?utm_source=FB20171229
Return-to-field programs reassess ‘the right thing’ for community cats
At Miami-Dade County Animal Services in 2010, staffers had so little room to spare and so few program alternatives that they euthanized 11,454 cats that year, many directly in their traps or carriers, without ever checking if they were feral or friendly. The sole public shelter in the most populous county in Florida simply received far, far more cats than it could hold—and it still does.
Yet Miami-Dade’s live-release rate soared from 43 percent in 2010 to 90 percent in 2015. The solution was relatively simple: Along with new nonprofit partnerships and community outreach efforts, the shelter simply stopped accepting and euthanizing stray cats in July 2012. Staff veterinarians vaccinate, sterilize and distinguish healthy community cats—snipping off the tip of an ear and tattooing a small mark during surgery—and the trapper or a volunteer puts them back where they were found.
The program was originally implemented on a case-by-case basis. Anyone attempting to surrender a stray cat or complaining of a “nuisance” cat was offered an alternative to euthanasia: Certify that he was found outside and provide the location, and the shelter would vet him and give him back.
“Between 30 to 40 percent of the people did not want the cat euthanized. … They wanted the cat back,” says director Alex Muñoz. At the time, the shelter didn’t have the spay/neuter capacity to sterilize all the community cats it received, but by offering this option, Muñoz says, staffers were able “to feel our way—to see what it was going to take.”
With the backing of the mayor and the Board of County Commissioners, who approved a significant increase in Animal Services funding that helped fund both community outreach efforts and a new facility, the program is now county policy. In five years, and with additional support from Florida Animal Friends and ASPCA grants, Muñoz has added five full-time staff veterinarians, partnerships with over 30 private vets who provide spay/neuter services for a $10 to $20 co-pay, six drivers to assist with the trapping and returning of cats and a program coordinator. The county fixes community cats for free and loans out traps in return for a refundable deposit, so in addition to staffers’ own trapping efforts in response to complaints, the shelter and its partners receive and return strays from the general public, as well as hundreds of strays a year from cat advocates involved in grassroots sterilization efforts, says Muñoz.
Miami-Dade County calls the program trap-treat-and-return or trap-neuter-give back, and as the name suggests, it’s similar to trap-neuter-return (TNR), an approach that specifically targets and humanely reduces community cat colonies. A 2015 study published in Wildlife Research suggests that, outside of island colonies, euthanizing outdoor cats is not an effective approach to reducing community cat colonies. Colony numbers stabilize, and sometimes even increase, within 12 months as other cats fill the void—meaning Miami-Dade’s previous approach was not addressing and may have been exacerbating the overpopulation problem.
In regions where friendly cats and kittens have high adoption chances, many TNR programs focus on feral cats. In Miami-Dade, however, staffers treat and return almost all healthy cats brought to the shelter in a trap, allowing them to limit cat admission to shelter capacity. The approach doesn’t add more cats to the community; it simply returns existing community cats—vetted, better-behaved and sterile—to their outdoor homes. Since 2010, staffers have adopted out roughly 9,000, mostly owner-surrendered, cats a year, but now they also return around 10,000 free-roaming cats a year back into the community.
More commonly known as return-to-field, the program is equal-opportunity TNR. And at Miami-Dade County Animal Services in 2017, return-to-field prevents the euthanasia of 27 cats a day.
One size fits (almost) all
In an ideal world, shelters provide a safe spot for lost pets until their owners can retrieve them. But research and experience have led many to question if this model actually serves the best interests of cats, whether they’re lost escapees, owned pets allowed to roam the neighborhood, loosely owned strays or part of a feral colony. The ASPCA estimates that the national return-to-owner rate for cats in shelters is less than 5 percent. And a 2006 study published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association found that cats and owners are 13 times more likely to be reunited by nonshelter means, like “lost pet” signs in the surrounding neighborhood, and that 60 percent of roaming cats return home on their own.
“People wait a lot longer to look for their cats, because they’re used to their cats kind of wandering off for a while,” says Julie Levy, professor of shelter medicine at the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine and medical director at Operation Catnip, which operates community cat spay/neuter clinics in Gainesville, Florida. “Many times, it’s too late when they finally go look at a shelter.
“We’ve [also] spent decades training the public to think of the shelter as the first resort for dealing with a concern about animals, so whether that’s … an animal that’s a nuisance, or an animal that you see in the neighborhood, we’ve very much [ingrained] the concept of taking that animal to an animal shelter,” says Levy. “That’s disconnected from the reality that many animal shelters are underfunded, overcrowded and often a place where healthy and treatable animals either suffer a stressful incarceration or even lose their lives because the shelters are so overextended.”
When the alternative is euthanasia, any cat found outside in “thriving” condition—indicating he has one or several caretakers, or is simply a free-roaming owned cat—can and should be returned to where he was found, she says, with a few exceptions that may differ from shelter to shelter and from cat to cat.
“Everybody who’s doing this is trying to help shelters do a better job, but not at the price of the welfare of the cats involved,” she says. “It’s very important for shelters to do a self-analysis of what they can offer cats to make sure that when cats are admitted to the shelter, it’s not to a place of greater harm. … We need to keep finding ways to serve those special populations like small kittens or older cats or debilitated cats better than return-to-field. Sometimes the shelter is a better place for those cats, and sometimes it’s not.”
So at shelters where cats are at high risk of contracting a disease or being euthanized, staffers might develop a return-to-field program that includes friendly cats and older kittens brought in as strays, but shelters that have more space, foster care partnerships or adoption opportunities might exclude friendly cats and kittens from the program. At Miami-Dade, staffers take both approaches: They’ll return unowned, friendly cats if the shelter is overcrowded, but keep the cats when they have the space.
Before Jacksonville, Florida, embraced a large-scale return-to-field program in 2008, the city’s live-release rate for cats was just 10 percent. Feral cats were leaving alive in traps as part of a TNR program, but friendly cats were being euthanized because there were so few adoption options. “Staff actually started putting their favorite friendly cats in traps on the loading dock to be transferred to the TNR program,” says Levy. “And so that irony of ‘God help you if you purr’ was very blatant.”
Pussyfooting around
Originally, Miami-Dade didn’t call its program anything, “because TNR could be a controversial issue,” explains Muñoz. Return-to-field was simply a quiet alternative offered to community members bringing in outdoor cats. By adding the new option without fanfare, the shelter was able to assess its impact with minimal interference or controversy before making a more public case for return-to-field—and before actively trapping cats for the program, as well, instead of only passively returning cats brought to the shelter.
“It’s always helpful to start with a pilot program, rather than committing to a full-scale, permanent policy change,” says Levy, suggesting a six-month trial focused in an area that generates a lot of community cat complaints. “Getting a few people on board to kick it off is a way to get some experience with it without causing too much fear about bad outcomes. And my experience is once people start doing it, they get addicted to it, and they love it, and those fears that they have just don’t materialize.”
In some cities, return-to-field and TNR programs are hindered by abandonment laws or stray hold requirements—requirements that assume animals are lost pets with the unintentional side effect of requiring shelters to hold unowned cats for a period of time, waiting for a nonexistent owner. In Miami-Dade County, the abandonment law is specific—releasing cats in a new location is considered abandonment and against county law, but returning cats to their original location is not.
However, abandonment laws and stray hold requirements are often unspecific or nonexistent, meaning cat advocates may be on more solid legal ground than they realize and can work with policymakers to exclude community cats from the laws; in tougher cases, some shelters outsource returning the cats to local rescues or volunteers to avoid directly flouting the law.
Other shelters might struggle with community members who consider cat colonies unpleasant or those concerned about the detrimental effects of cats on birds and wildlife. The latter concern is one shared by The HSUS, according to Bernard Unti, senior policy adviser. “Cat predation upon birds and wildlife is a serious matter to us,” he says. “That’s why we’re aggressive in promoting spaying and neutering of all cats and unequivocal in educating the public about the necessity of keeping pet cats indoors. We can minimize the impacts through intelligent management and long-term community education approaches.”
It can also be useful to remind people that, paradoxically, euthanizing outdoor cats doesn’t reduce the number of outdoor cats over time, but sterilization does—and return-to-field only returns already existing outdoor cats, minus annoying urine marking and breeding behaviors. “It’s really the same population of cats, and they’re being brought here from the field,” says Muñoz. “The overwhelming difference is that they’re just not being euthanized.”
“It’s important to remember that return-to-field programs have specific goals: To reduce euthanasia and free up overburdened shelters,” says Katie Lisnik, HSUS director of cat protection and policy. “Return-to-field programs can free up resources that are better spent on targeted TNR programs, which not only prevent euthanasia, but help reduce unowned cat populations in the community, leading to less wildlife predation and fewer public health and cat welfare risks.”
At Jacksonville Animal Care & Protective Services, where the city started returning all trapped cats to the field in 2008, former director Scott Trebatoski found success by compromising with birders, providing cat netting and banning feeding around protected areas. The city also doesn’t rule out relocating the largest “nuisance” colonies into smaller colonies. “Don’t let those large colonies make the public not want [return-to-field],” Trebatoski advised in a 2015 Maddie’s Institute webcast, adding that once return-to-field is implemented, “the number of nuisance calls also falls dramatically,” which saves the city money long-term and allows animal control officers to focus on larger issues.
Complaints usually happen where there’s a homeowner’s association, says Muñoz, and sometimes community members will take matters into their own hands—luckily, “there’s always a cat advocate around.” “What we’ve done repeatedly is we go in, we offer our services and in every case we’ve ended up doing TNR as opposed to having the cats [euthanized],” he says. Miami-Dade sometimes has a cat advocate serve as an intermediary in that community moving forward. “We’ve found that residents in the community tend to accept this change readily when it’s explained to them,” says Levy.
In the beginning, a minority of staffers had safety concerns about handling potentially feral cats, says Muñoz. “It’s a lot more work and skills to save [cats] than to euthanize them, [but] nobody signs up to work at the animal shelter to euthanize animals. They’re definitely happier.”
https://www.animalsheltering.org/magazine/articles/born-free-roaming?utm_source=FB20171229
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UPDATE 18th January: We would like to thank everyone who has supported us since the traumatic events of Tuesday 9th January when a pack of uncontrolled fox hounds in full cry got into our Sanctuary in pursuit of a fox and a deer forcing our resident cats who live in our grounds to flee for their lives. This has been the most unimaginably distressing event for our charity.
Six cats are still missing. Three elderly brothers - The Doctor, Sam and Ted never wandered far and we fear that the worst has happened to them. Three others - Bagheera, Peter Pan and Nutmeg are younger, more robust cats so some small hope remains for these three but it is now nine days since they went missing and we are so worried for their safety. Our
searches continue and missing cats posters have been distributed throughout the village. The loss of these cats is agonising. The Sanctuary staff and volunteers are distraught over what has happened to the cats that they knew, loved and have cared for on a daily basis.
Your response to this tragedy - your sympathy, outrage, highlighting of what has occurred and demands for action have not gone unheard - your reaction has been immense. On our Facebook page alone this has generated over a million views. Sussex Police are now investigating and we will bring you updates as to their progress with this as and when we have news to share. We have also sought legal advice.
We are extremely anxious to ensure that such an event will not ever happen again. Over the last 30 years our Sanctuary has provided a permanent home for our unhomeable cats - mainly elderly semi-ferals and domestic cats with a variety of temperament and health issues who have enjoyed the freedom of a peaceful life safe from harm.
Many of you asked to donate to help the Sanctuary cats and we are really grateful to everyone who has supported our cats via a Just Giving page. We are reviewing our security arrangements. We have nearly 100 acres of land a mixture of woodland much of which is dense and pasture. The central part of the Sanctuary of several acres is already fully fenced but unfortunately there isn't much that will keep out a pack of hounds in full cry.
We are receiving expert advice and estimates on how best the perimeter of the land can be protected.
The Hunt have been informed in writing that they are forbidden to enter the Trust's land.
The events of the last week have severely disrupted the usual cat rescue and homing work of the Sanctuary and we would like to apologise to those of you who have been waiting to hear from our Sanctuary team. Staff from around the charity have also assisted with the aftermath of this disaster and this has delayed some responses from our London Branches and Head Office to our usual homing and rescue enquiries. We are attempting to catch up with these enquiries as soon as possible.
The investigations and enquiries will take some time, alongside these we must continue our usual rescue and rehoming work for which there is as always a huge need.
We will keep you updated and knowing that you are all behind us is more helpful that you can know.
1 tim ·
UPDATE 18th January: We would like to thank everyone who has supported us since the traumatic events of Tuesday 9th January when a pack of uncontrolled fox hounds in full cry got into our Sanctuary in pursuit of a fox and a deer forcing our resident cats who live in our grounds to flee for their lives. This has been the most unimaginably distressing event for our charity.
Six cats are still missing. Three elderly brothers - The Doctor, Sam and Ted never wandered far and we fear that the worst has happened to them. Three others - Bagheera, Peter Pan and Nutmeg are younger, more robust cats so some small hope remains for these three but it is now nine days since they went missing and we are so worried for their safety. Our
searches continue and missing cats posters have been distributed throughout the village. The loss of these cats is agonising. The Sanctuary staff and volunteers are distraught over what has happened to the cats that they knew, loved and have cared for on a daily basis.
Your response to this tragedy - your sympathy, outrage, highlighting of what has occurred and demands for action have not gone unheard - your reaction has been immense. On our Facebook page alone this has generated over a million views. Sussex Police are now investigating and we will bring you updates as to their progress with this as and when we have news to share. We have also sought legal advice.
We are extremely anxious to ensure that such an event will not ever happen again. Over the last 30 years our Sanctuary has provided a permanent home for our unhomeable cats - mainly elderly semi-ferals and domestic cats with a variety of temperament and health issues who have enjoyed the freedom of a peaceful life safe from harm.
Many of you asked to donate to help the Sanctuary cats and we are really grateful to everyone who has supported our cats via a Just Giving page. We are reviewing our security arrangements. We have nearly 100 acres of land a mixture of woodland much of which is dense and pasture. The central part of the Sanctuary of several acres is already fully fenced but unfortunately there isn't much that will keep out a pack of hounds in full cry.
We are receiving expert advice and estimates on how best the perimeter of the land can be protected.
The Hunt have been informed in writing that they are forbidden to enter the Trust's land.
The events of the last week have severely disrupted the usual cat rescue and homing work of the Sanctuary and we would like to apologise to those of you who have been waiting to hear from our Sanctuary team. Staff from around the charity have also assisted with the aftermath of this disaster and this has delayed some responses from our London Branches and Head Office to our usual homing and rescue enquiries. We are attempting to catch up with these enquiries as soon as possible.
The investigations and enquiries will take some time, alongside these we must continue our usual rescue and rehoming work for which there is as always a huge need.
We will keep you updated and knowing that you are all behind us is more helpful that you can know.
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A cat with tetanus. he was lucky that the whole body wasn´t affected so he could eat and drink, and he was lucky he was taken care of by vetclinic in Gambia
[video=youtube;iHS4jKGUwPk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHS4jKGUwPk&t=30s[/video]
11 days later
[video=youtube;8OEc4H-9hgQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OEc4H-9hgQ[/video]
[video=youtube;iHS4jKGUwPk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHS4jKGUwPk&t=30s[/video]
11 days later
[video=youtube;8OEc4H-9hgQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OEc4H-9hgQ[/video]
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I have five cats myself and I'm a really big cat lover.
I have five cats myself and I'm a really big cat lover.
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One of our cats. He likes the winter with snow but he is not a big fan of the cold weather.
One of our cats. He likes the winter with snow but he is not a big fan of the cold weather.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/05/...s&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=2
It´s a long article about tiger farms in Asia. sad to read.
In the end they write
It´s a long article about tiger farms in Asia. sad to read.
In the end they write
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Here is an other pic of one of my babies. It's an Norwegian Forest cat (Norsk Skaukatt in Norwegian or Norsk Skogkatt in Swedish).
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Man Risks His Life To Care For Cats Trapped In Middle Of War
“I feel the danger all around me, but the cats give me the courage to stay. I could not leave them.”
t’s been nearly a year since Mohammad Alaa Jaleel, known as Alaa, rebuilt Il Gattaro D'Aleppo, a famous cat sanctuary in war-torn Syria, after the original sanctuary got bombed. Since then, Alaa and his team have worked tirelessly to create a new refuge for the surviving cats in his care — but sadly, the fighting is getting close again.
Last May, Il Gattaro D'Aleppo was rebuilt on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, in a neighborhood relatively sheltered from the fighting. The original sanctuary, which was called the House of Cats Ernesto in honor of Alaa’s cat Ernesto, had been destroyed by bombs. Two of the cats and a resident dog named Hope died.
Now, the new sanctuary is home to more than 60 cats, four rescued monkeys, a few rabbits, doves and dogs. Alaa also takes care of around 30 neighborhood cats. But in the past few weeks, there have been gunshots and explosions on the streets, putting everyone’s safety at risk.
“The streets are littered with shell cases and our wall was hit,” Alaa, who is often called Aleppo’s “Cat Man,” told The Dodo. “There are heavy artillery and snipers. Our gattaro [cat rescue] team were unable to get into work some days and stayed barricaded in their houses. Dr. Youssef, our vet, made a very dangerous journey to get from his home and into [the sanctuary] one day, dodging behind trees and buildings to avoid being seen and shot.”
Alaa and the sanctuary team risk their lives every time they leave the shelter to get supplies like food or gasoline. And Alaa, who also works as an ambulance driver, regularly drives into the most dangerous parts of Aleppo to help bombing victims.
Some of the cats have gotten used to the sounds of fighting, Alaa explains, but others are understandably frightened.
“[They] try to hide or they stay inside, especially when the fighting is very close and the sounds are deafeningly loud,” Alaa said. “Sometimes they ... do not eat their food. They need lots of love and attention at such times.”
Neighborhood cats also take refuge at Il Gattaro D'Aleppo, even though they don’t normally live there. “They seem to follow our cats back to the safety of the sanctuary,” Alaa said. “They do not come down into the sanctuary though — they remain up high on the walls and the roofs so I offer them food up there. They eat and then go away again.”
Ernesto, Alaa’s cat and the sanctuary’s mascot, went missing for an entire week during the fighting, and Alaa was worried sick. Thankfully, Ernesto returned, but Alaa is constantly worried about everyone’s safety.
“In the days of the fighting, we found several cats dead outside,” Alaa said. “They were not sanctuary cats, but sometimes when our cats are too frightened they will run away.”
“I cannot know which areas will be safe, and I can’t forecast where we would be able to go,” Alaa said. “Lots of borders within Syria are closed. Freedom of movement is not something I can take for granted.”Despite the dangers, Alaa and his team spend their days making sure the sanctuary cats are happy and healthy. With donations coming in from supporters, the team has built a magical indoor cat village with individual houses for each cat. They also built a veterinary clinic where Dr. Youssef, the resident vet, offers free vet care, including spaying and neutering, to all local animals.
In the sanctuary’s courtyard, there are photographs of the original sanctuary, which Alaa said helps remind the team of happier times. There’s also a flower garden.
“The garden at the sanctuary is important,” Alaa said. “The flowers remind us that spring is here, but even in the Syrian winter it is a place for the cats to scratch and dig and play. There is always grass growing there which they like to eat and trees to climb and places to hide. The cats love the garden.”
In the past, Alaa brought school kids to the sanctuary to visit the cats, although this has become impossible recently with all the fighting.
During this difficult period of war, Alaa finds joy simply by spending time with the cats he loves. “These cats are everything to me,” Alaa said. “They are my children. I spend more time with cats than I do with humans, so yes, I am their father.”
Alaa hopes that the cats and the sanctuary team will remain safe where they are. But if violence forces them to move again, Alaa won’t leave one cat behind.
“Of course I am always a little afraid,” Alaa said. “We are living in a war zone with all the risks that that brings — through a war that has raged for seven long years, and which has claimed the lives of over 465,000 people. But we try to carry on our lives as normally as we can. I feel the danger all around me, but the cats give me the courage to stay. I could not leave them.”
pictures in the link
https://www.thedodo.com/close-to-home/rebuilt-cat-sanctuary-aleppo-under-threat
I´m happy to see a sanctuary still exists for the cats, I hope for peace in Syria soon
“I feel the danger all around me, but the cats give me the courage to stay. I could not leave them.”
t’s been nearly a year since Mohammad Alaa Jaleel, known as Alaa, rebuilt Il Gattaro D'Aleppo, a famous cat sanctuary in war-torn Syria, after the original sanctuary got bombed. Since then, Alaa and his team have worked tirelessly to create a new refuge for the surviving cats in his care — but sadly, the fighting is getting close again.
Last May, Il Gattaro D'Aleppo was rebuilt on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, in a neighborhood relatively sheltered from the fighting. The original sanctuary, which was called the House of Cats Ernesto in honor of Alaa’s cat Ernesto, had been destroyed by bombs. Two of the cats and a resident dog named Hope died.
Now, the new sanctuary is home to more than 60 cats, four rescued monkeys, a few rabbits, doves and dogs. Alaa also takes care of around 30 neighborhood cats. But in the past few weeks, there have been gunshots and explosions on the streets, putting everyone’s safety at risk.
“The streets are littered with shell cases and our wall was hit,” Alaa, who is often called Aleppo’s “Cat Man,” told The Dodo. “There are heavy artillery and snipers. Our gattaro [cat rescue] team were unable to get into work some days and stayed barricaded in their houses. Dr. Youssef, our vet, made a very dangerous journey to get from his home and into [the sanctuary] one day, dodging behind trees and buildings to avoid being seen and shot.”
Alaa and the sanctuary team risk their lives every time they leave the shelter to get supplies like food or gasoline. And Alaa, who also works as an ambulance driver, regularly drives into the most dangerous parts of Aleppo to help bombing victims.
Some of the cats have gotten used to the sounds of fighting, Alaa explains, but others are understandably frightened.
“[They] try to hide or they stay inside, especially when the fighting is very close and the sounds are deafeningly loud,” Alaa said. “Sometimes they ... do not eat their food. They need lots of love and attention at such times.”
Neighborhood cats also take refuge at Il Gattaro D'Aleppo, even though they don’t normally live there. “They seem to follow our cats back to the safety of the sanctuary,” Alaa said. “They do not come down into the sanctuary though — they remain up high on the walls and the roofs so I offer them food up there. They eat and then go away again.”
Ernesto, Alaa’s cat and the sanctuary’s mascot, went missing for an entire week during the fighting, and Alaa was worried sick. Thankfully, Ernesto returned, but Alaa is constantly worried about everyone’s safety.
“In the days of the fighting, we found several cats dead outside,” Alaa said. “They were not sanctuary cats, but sometimes when our cats are too frightened they will run away.”
“I cannot know which areas will be safe, and I can’t forecast where we would be able to go,” Alaa said. “Lots of borders within Syria are closed. Freedom of movement is not something I can take for granted.”Despite the dangers, Alaa and his team spend their days making sure the sanctuary cats are happy and healthy. With donations coming in from supporters, the team has built a magical indoor cat village with individual houses for each cat. They also built a veterinary clinic where Dr. Youssef, the resident vet, offers free vet care, including spaying and neutering, to all local animals.
In the sanctuary’s courtyard, there are photographs of the original sanctuary, which Alaa said helps remind the team of happier times. There’s also a flower garden.
“The garden at the sanctuary is important,” Alaa said. “The flowers remind us that spring is here, but even in the Syrian winter it is a place for the cats to scratch and dig and play. There is always grass growing there which they like to eat and trees to climb and places to hide. The cats love the garden.”
In the past, Alaa brought school kids to the sanctuary to visit the cats, although this has become impossible recently with all the fighting.
During this difficult period of war, Alaa finds joy simply by spending time with the cats he loves. “These cats are everything to me,” Alaa said. “They are my children. I spend more time with cats than I do with humans, so yes, I am their father.”
Alaa hopes that the cats and the sanctuary team will remain safe where they are. But if violence forces them to move again, Alaa won’t leave one cat behind.
“Of course I am always a little afraid,” Alaa said. “We are living in a war zone with all the risks that that brings — through a war that has raged for seven long years, and which has claimed the lives of over 465,000 people. But we try to carry on our lives as normally as we can. I feel the danger all around me, but the cats give me the courage to stay. I could not leave them.”
pictures in the link
https://www.thedodo.com/close-to-home/rebuilt-cat-sanctuary-aleppo-under-threat
I´m happy to see a sanctuary still exists for the cats, I hope for peace in Syria soon
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Help NOT Wanted: people with a “can do” attitude, who love animals, and have a passion for saving lives.
Hannah Daignault says she took a shelter job to help animals and thought she was doing the right thing by trying to adopt a cat who was going to be killed for being old and needing fluids: https://goo.gl/oXtXJm
“I said I didn't mean to bother anyone or to turn into a huge ordeal, I just didn't want her to die. Upon hiring, I was told they exhaust every option before euthanizing so I thought I was contributing solutions for this precious little soul who loved to be held and cuddled”: https://goo.gl/3AaBYk
Her solution: adopting the cat. But the shelter had a policy of not allowing new employees to adopt for three months. Her dad offered to adopt. He was told the cat was not available. Even though the cat was not suffering and had a place to go, they killed the cat anyway. They also fired Hannah. And then the family whose cat it was who had posted flyers throughout their neighborhood turned up looking for her. It was too late.
Snuggles is dead, a family is heartbroken, the employee who tried to save the cat has been fired, and a cover up by the organization has been alleged.
We call them “humane” societies, societies for the “prevention of cruelty to animals,” “animal protection” leagues, and animal “shelters” (a shelter is a refuge). But too often they are those things in name only. They don’t exhaust every option, aren’t interested in solutions, and find killing easier than doing what is necessary to stop it.
That is why we need to pass legislation making it illegal for them to kill when animals have a place to go. We need to pass legislation making it illegal to kill healthy and treatable animals: https://goo.gl/qhZvn4
Like Muncie, IN, did: https://goo.gl/bCbvgQ
Like Pueblo, CO, just did: https://goo.gl/SYhmxC
And tragedy upon tragedy, if legislation we introduced in NYS had passed, rather than been defeated by the ASPCA and its allies, not only would Snuggles be alive today, but so would over 150,000 other animals: https://goo.gl/veQ69U
And people like Hannah would still be helping animals.
And a family with three little girls would be celebrating the return of their cat, rather than mourning her death.
https://www.facebook.com/nathanwinograd/
Hannah Daignault says she took a shelter job to help animals and thought she was doing the right thing by trying to adopt a cat who was going to be killed for being old and needing fluids: https://goo.gl/oXtXJm
“I said I didn't mean to bother anyone or to turn into a huge ordeal, I just didn't want her to die. Upon hiring, I was told they exhaust every option before euthanizing so I thought I was contributing solutions for this precious little soul who loved to be held and cuddled”: https://goo.gl/3AaBYk
Her solution: adopting the cat. But the shelter had a policy of not allowing new employees to adopt for three months. Her dad offered to adopt. He was told the cat was not available. Even though the cat was not suffering and had a place to go, they killed the cat anyway. They also fired Hannah. And then the family whose cat it was who had posted flyers throughout their neighborhood turned up looking for her. It was too late.
Snuggles is dead, a family is heartbroken, the employee who tried to save the cat has been fired, and a cover up by the organization has been alleged.
We call them “humane” societies, societies for the “prevention of cruelty to animals,” “animal protection” leagues, and animal “shelters” (a shelter is a refuge). But too often they are those things in name only. They don’t exhaust every option, aren’t interested in solutions, and find killing easier than doing what is necessary to stop it.
That is why we need to pass legislation making it illegal for them to kill when animals have a place to go. We need to pass legislation making it illegal to kill healthy and treatable animals: https://goo.gl/qhZvn4
Like Muncie, IN, did: https://goo.gl/bCbvgQ
Like Pueblo, CO, just did: https://goo.gl/SYhmxC
And tragedy upon tragedy, if legislation we introduced in NYS had passed, rather than been defeated by the ASPCA and its allies, not only would Snuggles be alive today, but so would over 150,000 other animals: https://goo.gl/veQ69U
And people like Hannah would still be helping animals.
And a family with three little girls would be celebrating the return of their cat, rather than mourning her death.
https://www.facebook.com/nathanwinograd/
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The Wildcat Sanctuary’s vision of a future with No More Wild Pets
Whether it’s divorce, relocation, expecting a baby, loss of job, pets that don’t get along, loss of homeowners insurance, change in zoning laws….we hear all the same stories that most rescue organizations and shelters do. The difference is that, if it were a domestic cat we were talking about, at least there might be some hope of finding an appropriate adopter.
But, with a wild cat, that’s not the case.
Typical story we hear over and over
1PCML 3 JUNE 2014_127_LR
I recently got married and now I have a baby due soon. My husband hates my serval and has threatened to shoot him since my cat’s become aggressive. He’s an unneutered male with all his claws. He used to be easy for me to care for and handle. He loved going for walks and to butt heads. But, once he became sexually mature, his behavior drastically changed. He’ll appear to be nice one minute, and the next he raises his chin, makes strange noises and lunges at me. I’ve become very scared of him.
He’s lived with other Bengal cats and dogs. When he was less than a year old, he suffered a compound fracture when he got scared and tried to jump out a window. He still limps from that, even seven years later.
He’s fearful of strangers and it’s taken a year for him to tolerate my husband. If someone strange comes over he starts bouncing off the cage walls, hurting himself trying to escape, or he hides while salivating and his eyes glaze over like he’s in shock. We feed him chicken every day and he’s kenneled outside now with a heated house and an outdoor area. Can you take him?
This isn’t an unusual story. A person bought a wild pet, thinking what an adventure it would be and they’d live happily ever after together. But, it rarely works out – for the cat or the person. And sadly, almost every sanctuary in the country is full.
So, what’s the answer?
Education.
The more we educate – the more people we can we reach with our NO MORE WILD PETS campaign – the sooner the number of rescue calls like this will diminish.
In all honesty, our goal is that there be no need for us in the future, no calls like this to answer. And, we’re so thankful supporters are helping educate as many as they possibly can, making that day come sooner than later. Together, we truly can make stories like this a thing of the past.
Please take a few moments to read the stories of over 100 wild cats living at our sanctuary now. You’ll see a common reason why most are here. Someone thought it would be “cool” to own something exotic and different. But, who pays the ultimate price? Sadly, these cats who must live their lives now in captivity.
https://www.wildcatsanctuary.org/residents/
Read why they can’t be set free HERE.https://www.wildcatsanctuary.org/why-the-wildcat-sanctuary-cant-set-them-free/
Whether it’s divorce, relocation, expecting a baby, loss of job, pets that don’t get along, loss of homeowners insurance, change in zoning laws….we hear all the same stories that most rescue organizations and shelters do. The difference is that, if it were a domestic cat we were talking about, at least there might be some hope of finding an appropriate adopter.
But, with a wild cat, that’s not the case.
Typical story we hear over and over
1PCML 3 JUNE 2014_127_LR
I recently got married and now I have a baby due soon. My husband hates my serval and has threatened to shoot him since my cat’s become aggressive. He’s an unneutered male with all his claws. He used to be easy for me to care for and handle. He loved going for walks and to butt heads. But, once he became sexually mature, his behavior drastically changed. He’ll appear to be nice one minute, and the next he raises his chin, makes strange noises and lunges at me. I’ve become very scared of him.
He’s lived with other Bengal cats and dogs. When he was less than a year old, he suffered a compound fracture when he got scared and tried to jump out a window. He still limps from that, even seven years later.
He’s fearful of strangers and it’s taken a year for him to tolerate my husband. If someone strange comes over he starts bouncing off the cage walls, hurting himself trying to escape, or he hides while salivating and his eyes glaze over like he’s in shock. We feed him chicken every day and he’s kenneled outside now with a heated house and an outdoor area. Can you take him?
This isn’t an unusual story. A person bought a wild pet, thinking what an adventure it would be and they’d live happily ever after together. But, it rarely works out – for the cat or the person. And sadly, almost every sanctuary in the country is full.
So, what’s the answer?
Education.
The more we educate – the more people we can we reach with our NO MORE WILD PETS campaign – the sooner the number of rescue calls like this will diminish.
In all honesty, our goal is that there be no need for us in the future, no calls like this to answer. And, we’re so thankful supporters are helping educate as many as they possibly can, making that day come sooner than later. Together, we truly can make stories like this a thing of the past.
Please take a few moments to read the stories of over 100 wild cats living at our sanctuary now. You’ll see a common reason why most are here. Someone thought it would be “cool” to own something exotic and different. But, who pays the ultimate price? Sadly, these cats who must live their lives now in captivity.
https://www.wildcatsanctuary.org/residents/
Read why they can’t be set free HERE.https://www.wildcatsanctuary.org/why-the-wildcat-sanctuary-cant-set-them-free/
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den 17 maj kl. 19:02 ·
Over 50 cats and kittens with multiple health problems were just taken in by the open-admission Humane Society of Fremont County from a hoarding situation: https://goo.gl/1SwYVp
At many shelters, the muni-shelter would have killed the cats and blamed the hoarder, but Fremont isn't like those shelters.
Not only are they all safe, but director Doug Rae is glad to have them. He was asked by a news reporter if getting this many cats hurts the shelter. His response, “Hardly, I’m glad all 51 cats are safe in our care and being treated as we speak.”
As to the cost to care for them, the community stepped up with food, supplies, and donations, including a woman and her husband who drove to the shelter and wrote a check for $200, saying she has $70 left in her checking and she and her husband can live on $70 until they get paid again.
Do good things for animals, tell people about it, ask for their help. That's a recipe for No Kill success. And it shows: the shelter finished 2017 with a 98% live release rate for dogs, 93% for cats, and 100% for rabbits, birds, and small mammals.
den 17 maj kl. 19:02 ·
Over 50 cats and kittens with multiple health problems were just taken in by the open-admission Humane Society of Fremont County from a hoarding situation: https://goo.gl/1SwYVp
At many shelters, the muni-shelter would have killed the cats and blamed the hoarder, but Fremont isn't like those shelters.
Not only are they all safe, but director Doug Rae is glad to have them. He was asked by a news reporter if getting this many cats hurts the shelter. His response, “Hardly, I’m glad all 51 cats are safe in our care and being treated as we speak.”
As to the cost to care for them, the community stepped up with food, supplies, and donations, including a woman and her husband who drove to the shelter and wrote a check for $200, saying she has $70 left in her checking and she and her husband can live on $70 until they get paid again.
Do good things for animals, tell people about it, ask for their help. That's a recipe for No Kill success. And it shows: the shelter finished 2017 with a 98% live release rate for dogs, 93% for cats, and 100% for rabbits, birds, and small mammals.
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