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DifferentKindOfLady
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Cat's are the cutest thing ever! Everytime Im with a cat I just want to squeeze him and kiss them. Im a Crazy cat lady 
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[video=youtube;zSdO36Tcg6g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSdO36Tcg6g[/video]
It´s nice to have a nice bed to sleep on even if you have to share it with some dogs
[video=youtube;HsVin3c4OZE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsVin3c4OZE[/video]
There are more than 300 dogs who lives at Takis shelter and there are cats and some goats too.
It´s in Greece and people don´t spay and neuter their cats and dogs. No one knows how many homeless animals there are but it´s probably about millions.
Takis devotes his life to the rescued animals.
I don´t know if all of them are available for adoption but I think most are.
It´s nice to have a nice bed to sleep on even if you have to share it with some dogs
[video=youtube;HsVin3c4OZE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsVin3c4OZE[/video]
There are more than 300 dogs who lives at Takis shelter and there are cats and some goats too.
It´s in Greece and people don´t spay and neuter their cats and dogs. No one knows how many homeless animals there are but it´s probably about millions.
Takis devotes his life to the rescued animals.
I don´t know if all of them are available for adoption but I think most are.
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The Orphan Pet
för 13 timmar sedan
Sorry for the graphic image. This kitten passed away today, after it was ripped open by three kids who wanted to see "if it has babies" in the port of the island of Lesvos, in Greece. Unfortunately this is what happens to friendly animals that live on the streets, they become easy prey, and the truth is that fearful and feral dogs and cats survive longer on the streets for that reason. If you live in a country where there are strays, like in Greece, and you are feeding or caring for strays, try not to make them over friendly to humans, unless you are in the process of taming and rescuing them. Being human friendly usually costs them their lives.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQGiJ9mf0Tbl-HVF1DgIruQ/community?lb=UgzRj542KDNAJJj_O7F4AaABCQ
för 13 timmar sedan
Sorry for the graphic image. This kitten passed away today, after it was ripped open by three kids who wanted to see "if it has babies" in the port of the island of Lesvos, in Greece. Unfortunately this is what happens to friendly animals that live on the streets, they become easy prey, and the truth is that fearful and feral dogs and cats survive longer on the streets for that reason. If you live in a country where there are strays, like in Greece, and you are feeding or caring for strays, try not to make them over friendly to humans, unless you are in the process of taming and rescuing them. Being human friendly usually costs them their lives.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQGiJ9mf0Tbl-HVF1DgIruQ/community?lb=UgzRj542KDNAJJj_O7F4AaABCQ
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Refurbished cat and dog shelters make a world of difference to the lives of strays in China
In 2019 Animals Asia offered financial and technical support to around 50 NGOs and government shelters in 38 cities, which has benefited over 14,000 of our animal friends. This support has included food, vaccinations, shelter refurbishment and much much more.
Financial support provided by Animals Asia has helped seven NGOs in Guangxi area and one in Hebei province refurbish and refit their shelters, vastly improving the welfare and environment for the animals in their care. These shelters are:
Cat and Dog Welfare House in Wuzhou
Bao Bei You Jia Stray Animal Station in Guilin
Yi Shan Tong Xing Animal Care Centre in Nanning
Chong Ai You Jia Stray Animal Station in Nanning
You Ai You Jia in Hechi
Stray Cats Rescue in Nanning
Zhen Ai You Jia in Yulin
Small Animal Protection Association in Handan (Hebei)
We have helped to improve these facilities with:
Shelter refurbishment, including lighting, flooring etc.
Shower and bath facilities for the resident dogs/cats.
Cages and fences.
Mats and cushions.
Enrichment (toys, cat trees etc.)
Ventilation and air conditioning
We’ve had incredibly positive feedback from the projects we’ve supported.
A volunteer from the Stray Cats Rescue shelter in Nanning said:
“The construction lasted for more than a month, and now it’s finally done! Thanks to those who have been supporting us, and of course, our volunteers too, as they have taken on most of the refurbishment job! Thank you Animals Asia for the funding. Now we have a more secure door, windows, and electrical system, we can even monitor the cats whenever we need to, that’s a whole new level of security!”
A volunteer from the Cat and Dog Welfare House in Wuzhou said:
“Thanks to Animals Asia, we could finally realize the refurbishment that we have planned for so many years. Our old shelter was located in a shop that’s just by a main road, there was little space for the animals, and dogs were living in cages. Now that we’ve moved to a new building in a suburban area, we could finally improve the space! To save on costs, volunteers donated materials, and helped with the move in their spare time. Now the dogs are no longer constrained to small cages, cats can play wherever they want in their room. We have air conditioning and ventilation to cope with scorching summer and chilly winter, animals are living in a much better environment now!”
A miniature pinscher who had been sheltered in the old shelter in Wuzhou had serious skin problems due to the humid environment. No matter how often she was treated with a specially medicated bath, the problem just kept returning. After moving into the new facility the pinscher’s skin dramatically improved and she has since been rehomed!
Thousands of cats and dogs are now being protected from a harsh life on the streets, they’re beautifully cared for while volunteers try to find them forever homes. All this is thanks to the generosity of Animals Asia supporters from all around the world!
I the link you van see picture too.
https://www.animalsasia.org/intl/me...fference-to-the-lives-of-strays-in-china.html
In 2019 Animals Asia offered financial and technical support to around 50 NGOs and government shelters in 38 cities, which has benefited over 14,000 of our animal friends. This support has included food, vaccinations, shelter refurbishment and much much more.
Financial support provided by Animals Asia has helped seven NGOs in Guangxi area and one in Hebei province refurbish and refit their shelters, vastly improving the welfare and environment for the animals in their care. These shelters are:
Cat and Dog Welfare House in Wuzhou
Bao Bei You Jia Stray Animal Station in Guilin
Yi Shan Tong Xing Animal Care Centre in Nanning
Chong Ai You Jia Stray Animal Station in Nanning
You Ai You Jia in Hechi
Stray Cats Rescue in Nanning
Zhen Ai You Jia in Yulin
Small Animal Protection Association in Handan (Hebei)
We have helped to improve these facilities with:
Shelter refurbishment, including lighting, flooring etc.
Shower and bath facilities for the resident dogs/cats.
Cages and fences.
Mats and cushions.
Enrichment (toys, cat trees etc.)
Ventilation and air conditioning
We’ve had incredibly positive feedback from the projects we’ve supported.
A volunteer from the Stray Cats Rescue shelter in Nanning said:
“The construction lasted for more than a month, and now it’s finally done! Thanks to those who have been supporting us, and of course, our volunteers too, as they have taken on most of the refurbishment job! Thank you Animals Asia for the funding. Now we have a more secure door, windows, and electrical system, we can even monitor the cats whenever we need to, that’s a whole new level of security!”
A volunteer from the Cat and Dog Welfare House in Wuzhou said:
“Thanks to Animals Asia, we could finally realize the refurbishment that we have planned for so many years. Our old shelter was located in a shop that’s just by a main road, there was little space for the animals, and dogs were living in cages. Now that we’ve moved to a new building in a suburban area, we could finally improve the space! To save on costs, volunteers donated materials, and helped with the move in their spare time. Now the dogs are no longer constrained to small cages, cats can play wherever they want in their room. We have air conditioning and ventilation to cope with scorching summer and chilly winter, animals are living in a much better environment now!”
A miniature pinscher who had been sheltered in the old shelter in Wuzhou had serious skin problems due to the humid environment. No matter how often she was treated with a specially medicated bath, the problem just kept returning. After moving into the new facility the pinscher’s skin dramatically improved and she has since been rehomed!
Thousands of cats and dogs are now being protected from a harsh life on the streets, they’re beautifully cared for while volunteers try to find them forever homes. All this is thanks to the generosity of Animals Asia supporters from all around the world!
I the link you van see picture too.
https://www.animalsasia.org/intl/me...fference-to-the-lives-of-strays-in-china.html
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These cat and kittens live in Bulgaria. Like so many other countries there are many stray cats and few people who want to help them. Or maybe struggle to get money for themselves.BUt there is a couple who have a dream to build a shelter. You know; Go for your dreams..........
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Nathan Winograd
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Last year, Julian Castro – former Mayor, Cabinet Secretary, and then-candidate for the President of the United States – promised the creation of a No Kill nation if elected: http://bit.ly/2Z135Eg. I noted then that when a cause becomes so popular that those running for the highest office in the land begin to incorporate promises about it into their campaign platform, that cause has arrived.
Yesterday, we truly became a potent force for change. At a press conference, Gavin Newsom – the Governor of the nation’s most populous state, the new center of its wealth, and the economic engine of the country (if California was its own nation, it would be the fifth largest economy in the world) – unveiled a $50,000,000 grant to help California end killing. “We want to be a no-kill state,” he said: http://bit.ly/37YeyI0.
The plan calls for helping communities “achieve the state’s policy goal that no adoptable or treatable dog or cat should be euthanized,” citing language of the 1998 Animal Shelter Law; a law I was intimately involved with: http://bit.ly/2R4VoJu.
Last March, I wrote the Governor on behalf of the No Kill Advocacy Center: http://bit.ly/2uFin6s. I told him that California kills more animals than almost every other U.S. state and we don’t have to. It’s uncivilized and inhumane, it wastes taxpayer dollars, provides no public safety benefit or value, and it is absolute, irreversible, and irreparable.
I explained that for far too many years, this killing has been done in the name of pet overpopulation and under the false premise that alternatives to killing were not feasible, practical, or affordable. In other words, the killing has proceeded under the false belief that the problem of shelter killing was not solvable.
The problem of shelter killing – a problem that not only robs animals of their lives but breaks the hearts of compassionate Californians – has a fix: change how shelters are run. We know how to end the killing: http://bit.ly/2Koq4Do. And experience proves we can: http://bit.ly/33kzbwq. I closed by asking him to stand up for the 166,000 animals slated to lose their lives in a California kill shelter this year. Yesterday, he did.
Unfortunately, the "solution" proposed by Governor Newsom is at odds with the nature of the problem. Although a better use of the budgetary allocation would have been to fund the 1998 Animal Shelter Law, which his two predecessors refused to do: http://bit.ly/2Tes31T, a one time grant isn’t going to get us to the goal line, because animals in California shelters are not dying because of lack of money: http://bit.ly/2FGibpW.
They are dying because many local municipalities continue to run their shelters on a failed, flawed, reactive, anachronistic 19th Century model that seeks to impound and kill animals at the lowest possible cost, without regard for long-term costs, broader economic benefits, or ethics. They have historically fought any effort to modernize operations, choosing to hide behind worn out cliches about “public irresponsibility” and the need to kill. And they hide behind out of state organizations such as PETA: http://bit.ly/2t82hSn, the ASPCA: http://bit.ly/2FHYWME, and the Humane Society of the United States: http://bit.ly/36L7YEs, which, though large, wealthy, and influential, continue to champion outdated, ineffective models to those in positions of decision-making authority.
As such, what is still needed is comprehensive shelter reform legislation: http://bit.ly/2OjsxTM. I hope to convince him of that in the coming weeks and months as we meet with his point staff on this issue. I am not naive, but I am cautiously optimistic. Since taking office, the Governor has signed numerous pro-animal bills into law. He has allocated millions of dollars to provide free veterinary care for the pets of homeless people: http://bit.ly/2NgSIaq. And he has now signaled his willingness to look at ways to get shelters to live up to their dictionary definition as a haven; a refuge.
Governor Newsom may not know it yet, but the road that leads to that brighter future is paved not with dollars, but shelter reform legislation.
An end to (pet) housing discrimination, an issue he is already passionate about, couldn’t hurt, either: http://bit.ly/30ds2g0.
Stay tuned.
10 tim ·
Last year, Julian Castro – former Mayor, Cabinet Secretary, and then-candidate for the President of the United States – promised the creation of a No Kill nation if elected: http://bit.ly/2Z135Eg. I noted then that when a cause becomes so popular that those running for the highest office in the land begin to incorporate promises about it into their campaign platform, that cause has arrived.
Yesterday, we truly became a potent force for change. At a press conference, Gavin Newsom – the Governor of the nation’s most populous state, the new center of its wealth, and the economic engine of the country (if California was its own nation, it would be the fifth largest economy in the world) – unveiled a $50,000,000 grant to help California end killing. “We want to be a no-kill state,” he said: http://bit.ly/37YeyI0.
The plan calls for helping communities “achieve the state’s policy goal that no adoptable or treatable dog or cat should be euthanized,” citing language of the 1998 Animal Shelter Law; a law I was intimately involved with: http://bit.ly/2R4VoJu.
Last March, I wrote the Governor on behalf of the No Kill Advocacy Center: http://bit.ly/2uFin6s. I told him that California kills more animals than almost every other U.S. state and we don’t have to. It’s uncivilized and inhumane, it wastes taxpayer dollars, provides no public safety benefit or value, and it is absolute, irreversible, and irreparable.
I explained that for far too many years, this killing has been done in the name of pet overpopulation and under the false premise that alternatives to killing were not feasible, practical, or affordable. In other words, the killing has proceeded under the false belief that the problem of shelter killing was not solvable.
The problem of shelter killing – a problem that not only robs animals of their lives but breaks the hearts of compassionate Californians – has a fix: change how shelters are run. We know how to end the killing: http://bit.ly/2Koq4Do. And experience proves we can: http://bit.ly/33kzbwq. I closed by asking him to stand up for the 166,000 animals slated to lose their lives in a California kill shelter this year. Yesterday, he did.
Unfortunately, the "solution" proposed by Governor Newsom is at odds with the nature of the problem. Although a better use of the budgetary allocation would have been to fund the 1998 Animal Shelter Law, which his two predecessors refused to do: http://bit.ly/2Tes31T, a one time grant isn’t going to get us to the goal line, because animals in California shelters are not dying because of lack of money: http://bit.ly/2FGibpW.
They are dying because many local municipalities continue to run their shelters on a failed, flawed, reactive, anachronistic 19th Century model that seeks to impound and kill animals at the lowest possible cost, without regard for long-term costs, broader economic benefits, or ethics. They have historically fought any effort to modernize operations, choosing to hide behind worn out cliches about “public irresponsibility” and the need to kill. And they hide behind out of state organizations such as PETA: http://bit.ly/2t82hSn, the ASPCA: http://bit.ly/2FHYWME, and the Humane Society of the United States: http://bit.ly/36L7YEs, which, though large, wealthy, and influential, continue to champion outdated, ineffective models to those in positions of decision-making authority.
As such, what is still needed is comprehensive shelter reform legislation: http://bit.ly/2OjsxTM. I hope to convince him of that in the coming weeks and months as we meet with his point staff on this issue. I am not naive, but I am cautiously optimistic. Since taking office, the Governor has signed numerous pro-animal bills into law. He has allocated millions of dollars to provide free veterinary care for the pets of homeless people: http://bit.ly/2NgSIaq. And he has now signaled his willingness to look at ways to get shelters to live up to their dictionary definition as a haven; a refuge.
Governor Newsom may not know it yet, but the road that leads to that brighter future is paved not with dollars, but shelter reform legislation.
An end to (pet) housing discrimination, an issue he is already passionate about, couldn’t hurt, either: http://bit.ly/30ds2g0.
Stay tuned.
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Last year, California’s ban on the sale of commercially-bred animals in pet stores became law. On January 1 of this year, Maryland’s ban took effect. Now, lawmakers in New York are trying to do the same: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/s593.
S593 would ban the retail sale of commercially-bred dogs, cats, and rabbits in pet stores. If they want to offer animals for adoption, the bill allows them to to partner with rescue groups and shelters.
Pet store bans work. “Nebraska Department of Agriculture records show that half of the state’s commercial dog and cat breeders have left the business,” with a breeder there admitting that “Midwest breeders were hurt by a California law that banned pet stores from selling commercially bred puppies, kittens and rabbits”: http://bit.ly/2SDGexb. In addition to hundreds of cities that have done the same, that should intensify because of the second statewide ban in Maryland.
If New York is successful, and then other states do the same, we can not only curtail even more abuse, we can ensure that more people turn to rescue and adoption.
A No Kill nation is within our reach...
No Kill Advocacy Center
S593 would ban the retail sale of commercially-bred dogs, cats, and rabbits in pet stores. If they want to offer animals for adoption, the bill allows them to to partner with rescue groups and shelters.
Pet store bans work. “Nebraska Department of Agriculture records show that half of the state’s commercial dog and cat breeders have left the business,” with a breeder there admitting that “Midwest breeders were hurt by a California law that banned pet stores from selling commercially bred puppies, kittens and rabbits”: http://bit.ly/2SDGexb. In addition to hundreds of cities that have done the same, that should intensify because of the second statewide ban in Maryland.
If New York is successful, and then other states do the same, we can not only curtail even more abuse, we can ensure that more people turn to rescue and adoption.
A No Kill nation is within our reach...
No Kill Advocacy Center
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The story of "wildcat" and Takis shelter
Cans are dangerous for animals
[video=youtube;cZj6aMmP6oQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZj6aMmP6oQ&list=PLLU1bSBz0-CJvzsYGy6wgO2-nn5i387yP&index=60&t=0s[/video]
Maybe he had hears of how good it was at Takis shelter.He didn´t want to leave
[video=youtube;A1aVZAthIoU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1aVZAthIoU&list=PLLU1bSBz0-CJvzsYGy6wgO2-nn5i387yP&index=60[/video]
He lost something on the way to the shelter
[video=youtube;F-0yBP0MSsU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-0yBP0MSsU&list=PLLU1bSBz0-CJvzsYGy6wgO2-nn5i387yP&index=61[/video]
[video=youtube;L4sfdWohudg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4sfdWohudg&t=41s[/video]
Cans are dangerous for animals
[video=youtube;cZj6aMmP6oQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZj6aMmP6oQ&list=PLLU1bSBz0-CJvzsYGy6wgO2-nn5i387yP&index=60&t=0s[/video]
Maybe he had hears of how good it was at Takis shelter.He didn´t want to leave
[video=youtube;A1aVZAthIoU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1aVZAthIoU&list=PLLU1bSBz0-CJvzsYGy6wgO2-nn5i387yP&index=60[/video]
He lost something on the way to the shelter
[video=youtube;F-0yBP0MSsU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-0yBP0MSsU&list=PLLU1bSBz0-CJvzsYGy6wgO2-nn5i387yP&index=61[/video]
[video=youtube;L4sfdWohudg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4sfdWohudg&t=41s[/video]