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^^Aaw so cute.

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Shere Khan and China Doll were rescued as cubs and got a chance to a better life
 
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Cat House on the Kings
Cats,cats and cats

 
Legislating Our Way to No Kill

In 2010, the state of Delaware passed a modified version of the Companion Animal Protection Act (CAPA), a shelter reform law written by my organization, the No Kill Advocacy Center.
Recently released statistics indicate that since that time, killing in Delaware shelters has declined 78%.
Yes, you read that right, an astounding 78%.
How can one law have such a profound and unprecedented effect reducing the death rate in shelters statewide?
Because the law drives a stake into the heart of the central reason so many animals are dying in our nation’s shelters: convenience killing.

And Delaware is not alone.
Recently, the head of the animal control shelter in St. Paul, Minnesota, stated that by putting in place the programs and policies of CAPA, she’s been able to save 90% of the animals, working in earnest to return the term “euthanasia” to its dictionary definition.
The same occurred in Austin, Texas after it passed a local ordinance modeled on CAPA.
And in California, similar legislative reforms are saving tens of thousands of animals previously killed for lack of the changes mandated by progressive shelter reform laws.
As a result of a provision similar to CAPA mandating that shelters must transfer animals they are planning to kill to other non-profits which want to save them, the number of animals transferred to rescue groups rather than killed in California went from 12,526 to 58,939–a 370%, all at no cost to taxpayers.*

What does the success of laws targeting shelter policies prove?
Despite decades of assurances from groups like HSUS, the ASPCA and PETA that the reason animals are dying in shelters is because shelters are doing the “dirty work” of an uncaring American public, laws such as Delaware CAPA prove that, in fact, quite the opposite is true.
Animals are dying in shelters not because of the choices made by people outside of shelters, but because of the choices made by the people inside them.
To end the killing, we need to regulate shelters and mandate how they operate in the same way we regulate hospitals and other agencies which hold the power over life and death.

Today, an animal entering a shelter in this country has a one in two chance of being killed, with millions of animals—the vast majority of whom are healthy or treatable—losing their lives every year.
The reason for this statistic is as shocking as the statistic itself: in the typical American animal shelter, animals are killed out of habit and convenience, even when there are empty cages, sometimes within minutes of being walked in the door, with rescue groups ready, willing and able to save them, and despite a whole host of programs and services that would provide those shelters alternatives to killing if only shelters would implement them.

Unfortunately, most now simply refuse to do so.
Many animals entering our nation’s shelters are immediately taken from the front counter to a back room and injected with a lethal dose of poison, without ever being offered for adoption. Other animals find themselves at shelters which afford them far too little time to find a new home or lack the most basic programs to respond to their individual needs such as foster care, medical and behavior rehabilitation or, in the case of community cats, neuter and release.

In most American shelters today, killing is easy, killing is convenient, and killing has therefore become the default.
To change this, we must regulate how shelters operate through laws that ensure procedures and standards that in most American shelters are essentially non-existent.

This is precisely what CAPA does and why it has proven so breathtakingly successful.
By mandating that shelters in that state embrace the programs and services which have already proved successful at hundreds of shelters across the country which have implemented them, CAPA provides a lifesaving infrastructure to replace one based on killing.
The bill sets minimum standards for shelters, including a modest holding period, a ban on the gas chamber, a ban on heart sticking, a ban on killing with empty cages, a ban on killing when rescue groups are willing to save those animals and an end to the practice of killing “owner surrendered” animals within minutes without ever giving them a chance at adoption.
By doing so, it seeks to change the culture of killing in American shelters by forcing them to operate in a humane, life-affirming way.

This approach and its lifesaving results are nothing short of revolutionary. And we should be working fervently to pass CAPA in every state in the country to move our nation one giant step forward toward ending the needless killing of millions of shelter animals every year.
Tragically, the opposite is occurring.

Since its passage in Delaware in 2010, several other states have attempted to pass their own versions of CAPA, only to find their efforts thwarted by the large, national non-profits, HSUS, the ASPCA and PETA.
Alarmed at the passage of Delaware CAPA because it seeks to regulate shelter directors, increase accountability, set performance standards and raise the bar of public expectations, these organizations have gone on the attack, successfully defeating the efforts of animal lovers and legislators in states across the nation to pass their own versions of CAPA.
Over the last few years in Texas, Georgia, New York, Florida, Virginia and elsewhere, the large, national non-profits have lobbied against these bills and have, in each instance, successfully defeated them, condemning to death hundreds of thousands of animals who would otherwise be alive today had those laws succeeded, as in Delaware.
In fact, the only reason Delaware CAPA succeeded and its vast lifesaving potential could be realized was the lack of opposition to the bill by these very groups.
This occurred not because they supported the bill, but because they had no knowledge it had been introduced. Wisely, the bill’s proponents knew that to announce its progress through the legislature would be to invite opposition from those out of state groups, and so they did not.
As a result, the bill sailed effortlessly and unanimously through the Delaware legislature and was signed into law by the Governor all without a single vote in opposition.

Nor are these lobbying organizations for kill shelters alone in their efforts to derail shelter reform in other states as well.
Naysayers working to malign Delaware CAPA as a “divisive” and “dangerous” bill despite its resounding success are spreading several misleading and deceitful claims about the law and its results.
These concerns will be addressed in a subsequent article later this week.

Of course, CAPA in general and Delaware’s version specifically, are not without their limitations But it is in not going far enough to protect animals, rather than going too far, that the only valid criticism of the law can be made. Nonetheless, by the most important measure of shelter performance—saving lives—CAPA is clearly a success
With a decline in killing of 78%, Delaware is on the verge of a monumental and historic achievement in the annals of the animal protection movement: ending the systematic killing of healthy and treatable shelter animals statewide.

The No Kill Advocacy Center will continue to seek these laws nationwide until their vital protections are extended to every animal in every shelter in America. To achieve this goal, we are partnering with animal lovers across the country to help ensure the passage of these laws against powerful, kill shelter lobbying organizations such as HSUS, the ASPCA and PETA, and we have put together the tools to help others do precisely that.

Are you interested in working to pass one of the most effective animal protection laws ever introduced in this country in your state?
Download free guides to passing humane legislation and a copy of our model legislation upon which Delaware CAPA is based.

No Kill Advocacy Center attorneys are available to provide expert advice and guidance to assist you.
Together, we will bring an end to the systematic killing of animals by forcing our shelters, by law, to do their jobs with compassion, dedication, and integrity.

For a copy of CAPA, click here.http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/CAPA.pdf

For a guide on how to pass humane legislation, click here http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/lobbying.pdf

Next Up, Part II: Publically, HSUS has stated that it is against the gas chamber, against heart sticking, for rescue rights, believes in transparency, supports bifurcated holding periods, and that all animals should be held for a period of time. But does that mean that HSUS practices those beliefs or will fight for them in order to protect animals? No. In addition to fighting these laws in the past, HSUS has demanded that CAPA, which is currently pending in Minnesota, be tabled even though it mandates all of these things for no other reason than it was asked to do so by a regressive shelter that wants to be able to continue killing with impunity.

Finally, Part III: Delaware is on the verge of ending the systematic killing of animals in all its shelters. But not everyone is happy. Delaware Naysayers are claiming CAPA is a failure despite the massive reduction in the kill rate. Why? One of their primary arguments is that shelters are no longer able to round up and kill cats. Yes, again, you read that right. I will explain why this and other criticisms of CAPA misrepresent the provisions of the bill and its outcomes.

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* In fact, it resulted in a potential cost savings of $1,856,520 statewide for killing and destruction of remains (these savings do not include additional savings relative to cost of care). In addition, partnering with rescue groups potentially brings in millions of dollars in additional adoption revenues.

http://www.nathanwinograd.com/?p=13912
 
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Publicerad den 5 mar 2014

Lions are not currently listed as endangered, but their numbers are falling dramatically... Viable and enforced conservation plans are needed in order to protect this amazing species from extinction in the wild.

GLOBAL MARCH FOR LIONS! - MARCH 15TH, 2014.
Sign up here! - http://bigcatrescue.org/march-lions/

This is a global event (15 countries and 44 cities with 191 organizers of lion marches) to raise awareness about:

Cub handling, posing with cubs for photos, petting cubs and why that is always abuse.
Walking with lions (walking lions on leashes and letting people walk out into groups of sub adult lions, so the lions get used to people walking up within shooting distance)
Canned hunting (where lions are shot for a fee in cages)
Lion meat issues (all of these are connected)

We are offering a family day "march" through Big Cat Rescue to meet our lions and other wild cats for $5 to people who will take action to save lions by paw-sing at the end to be taped asking their lawmakers to "march the Big Cat & Public Safety Protection Act through Congress." For more information about this bill go to: https://www.votervoice.net/BCR/Campai...

This event is to help people understand the link between paying to play with a cub in this country and lions being slaughtered for their fur, bones and meat, here and in the wild.

 
TNR,it works

Trap-Neuter-Return at Texas A&M University Effectively Stabilizes Feral Cat Colonies
In a 2002 study published in the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, Kathy Hughes and Margaret R. Slater document the success of a Trap-Neuter-Return program on the campus of Texas A&M University, looking at the changes between the implementation year and the following year. In the first year, 123 cats were trapped, compared with 35 in the second year.

Over the course of the program, 32 cats and kittens were adopted. In the second year, no litters or nursing mothers were seen. While the study did not measure the change in the total number of cats on campus over the two-year period, the researchers noted: the decrease in cats needing to be trapped from the previous year; the adoption of socialized campus cats and kittens into homes; and a decrease in the number of calls concerning cats on college property.

Findings: TNR can stabilize large feral cat colonies quickly—often in as little as a year
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Trap-Neuter-Return Significantly Reduces North Carolina Cat Colony Size After Two Years
In a 2004 study in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, researchers observed neutered feral cat colonies and intact feral cat colonies in North Carolina and found that TNR stabilizes colonies and causes population decline over time. All six neutered feral cat colonies in the study decreased in population during the first two years of study, with a mean decrease of 36%, and continue to decline. During the same two years, the three control colonies significantly increased in size, with a mean increase of 47%.3

Findings: Feral cat colonies that go through TNR decrease in size, while colonies that are left unneutered increase in size.

Neutering Significantly Impacts Populations in South African University Colonies
A 2011 study in Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science looks at the populations of feral cats at eight sites across five campuses of a South African university. The study provides a snapshot of colonies with different levels of sterilization and colony management, showing what managed colonies look like at one moment in time. Based on their observations, the researchers provide projections as to what would happen to the population over the course of the next five years, depending on the percentage of the cats who are neutered. At 0% neutering, the population would double. At 100% neutering, the population would be cut in half. The population would stabilize with 55% neutering. This shows how different percentages of cats neutered effect a population.

Contrary to the figure often quoted, it is not necessary to have a 75% or higher level of neutering. In this study’s population, having 60% of the cats neutered shows a decline.

Findings: Even if you can’t spay/neuter every feral cat right away, you can make a difference by spaying/neutering as many as possible
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Washington, D.C. Cat Colony Stabilized and Eventually Reduced to Zero
A colony of feral cats in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C. was eventually reduced to zero as a result of a Trap-Neuter-Return program. This colony was the reason Alley Cat Allies was formed as an organization in 1990, just a few months after the co-founders began helping the caregivers carry out a formal program to help the 54 cats.

Caregivers and newly recruited volunteers implemented TNR for the colony, taming kittens and placing them in adoptive homes, and returning adult cats back to the colony after they were spayed/neutered and vaccinated. In addition to stabilizing the population, spaying/neutering the cats ended behaviors associated with mating including fighting and roaming, making the cats less noticeable. The health of the cats also improved. By November 1997, just seven years after the TNR program started, only six cats remained in the alley. The last cat from the colony died in 2007 at age 17.

Findings: TNR allows cats to live out their natural, long lives content and healthy in their outdoor homes, and can eventually reduce colonies to zero through adoption of socialized cats and kittens and natural attrition.


Trap-Neuter-Return Humanely Stabilized and Reduced in Size the Merrimack River Colony
More than 300 stray and feral cats lived along the Merrimack River in Newburyport, Mass. in 1990. The city brought a private trapping company in to trap and kill some of the cats. Thirty cats were killed, but within two years, those cats had been replaced by 30 more cats who joined the colony. When cats are removed from an area, there is a vacuum effect—other cats quickly move in to take advantage of newly available resources, and they breed back to capacity.

In 1992, the Merrimack River Feline Rescue Society started a Trap-Neuter-Return program for the cats on the waterfront. The TNR program stabilized the colony and resulted in a decline in population.5 Zorro, the last remaining cat from the colony, passed away in 2009 at age 16. Natural attrition is the normal evolution of TNR.

Findings :Catching and killing cats creates a vacuum and the population rebounds quickly. TNR is the only effective method for stabilizing and eventually reducing feral cat colonies, even for large, long-standing colonies
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Bay Area Colony Reduced by More than Half Through Trap-Neuter-Return
In 2004, approximately 175 feral cats were living along a popular hiking and biking trail in Foster City, Calif. in the San Francisco Bay Area. The City of Foster City, the Homeless Cat Network, and the community decided to join forces to humanely stabilize this colony of cats, and Project Bay Cat was formed. The Homeless Cat Network’s volunteers undertook an intensive TNR effort, with two private veterinary hospitals providing spay/neuter and vaccinations for the cats.

As of 2013, 95% of the cats living along the trail were spayed/neutered, and the colony size had reduced by 53% through natural attrition and adoption of socialized stray cats and kittens.6

Findings: When communities come together to support TNR, cats are protected and colonies are effectively stabilized.

Trap-Neuter-Return at Atlantic City Boardwalk Reduces Colony Size Over Time
In 2000, Alley Cat Allies launched the Boardwalk Cats Project, a Trap-Neuter-Return program for the cats living around the boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J. Alley Cat Allies teamed up with Atlantic City’s Health Department, the Humane Society of Atlantic City, and local advocates to begin the highly successful TNR program that stabilized the colonies of feral cats living at the boardwalk. Many of the cats trapped were young kittens or cats socialized enough to be put up for adoption. The rest were returned to the boardwalk sporting eartips indicating that they were neutered and vaccinated. As TNR took effect, births of new kittens at the boardwalk gradually ceased. When the program started, there were approximately 275 cats living around the boardwalk. As a result of the program, no kittens have been born at the boardwalk in over a decade and the population size has significantly decreased through natural attrition and adoption. Alley Cat Allies’ recent census reports that the number of cats living at the boardwalk has decreased to 127.

The Boardwalk Cats Project receives outspoken support from Atlantic City’s local government, as well as many local businesses along the boardwalk. The public has also responded positively to the program, which attracts tourists year-round.

Findings: When people learn how positive TNR programs are for cats and communities, the programs receive widespread support and community members are willing to volunteer or donate to support the program.

Trap-Neuter-Return Decreases a Chicago Neighborhood’s Cat Population by More Than Half
In 2007, a group in Chicago called Cats In My Yard starting carefully tracking its Trap-Neuter-Return efforts and the number of cats living in 19 colonies. The colonies are all close together and contained within one large city block bordered by busy main streets. Between 2007 and 2013, 153 cats in the 19 colonies went through TNR. In 2013, a total of 70 cats remained in these colonies. In seven years, the cat population in this neighborhood decreased by 55%.7

Findings: TNR programs effectively stabilize feral cat colonies and reduce them in size over time—from small groups of volunteers to large-scale, citywide TNR programs

Rome Trap-Neuter-Return Program Consistently Decreases Colony Size
A 2006 study in Preventative Veterinary Medicine that documents the cat population over 10 years in a well-established Trap-Neuter-Return program in Rome, Italy determines that the long-term program significantly reduced feral cat colony size. From 1991 to 2000, nearly 8,000 cats were neutered and returned to their colony locations. The study spanned 103 colonies of outdoor cats. Colony size consistently decreased over the time period, ranging from a 16% decline in population in colonies three years into the program, to a 32% decrease in colony size after six years.

Findings: Large-scale, scientific studies show that TNR consistently decreases colony size.

Chicago’s Large-scale Trap-Neuter-Return Program Significantly Reduces Colony Size in 23 Zip Codes
A countywide TNR program in Cook County, Ill., which includes Chicago, reduced the size of feral cat colonies in 23 zip codes by 41% in just five years. A coalition of private nonprofits that carries out TNR in Cook County compared the number of cats in 23 zip codes before they started TNR and the number approximately five years after. In November 2007, there were 1,329 in the 23 zip codes. At the end of 2012, there were only 788.9 The colonies were stabilized through TNR, and reduced in size through adoption of socialized cats and kittens and natural attrition. In 2007, Cook County passed legislation that created a formal structure for a countywide TNR program, with private nonprofit organizations assuming the responsibility for managing feral cat colonies. From 2008 to 2012, more than 17,538 feral cats in Cook County were spayed/neutered, vaccinated, eartipped, and returned to their outdoor homes through this program.10 The nonprofit coalition estimates that the program has prevented the births of tens of thousands of kittens.

Findings: Even in large-scale TNR programs that span multiple zip codes, colonies, and neighborhoods, TNR effectively reduces colony size across the board.

http://www.alleycat.org/page.aspx?pid=1612
 
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There are three steps to running a successful No Kill shelter:
1. Do good things for animals,
2. Tell people about it, and
3. Ask for their help.

A number of years ago when I ran the shelter in Tompkins County NY, our humane officers seize...d dozens of neglected cats from a filthy home, five of whom were blind.
Some of their eyes were so infected that they had to be surgically removed in order to save the lives of the cats.

We named one of the older ones “Justine.” We put the call out to the public, in the form of Justine’s plea for a home:
"What does it mean to be lovable? What makes us worthy of compassion? These are the questions I ponder as I wait for someone to find me lovable. I am not looking for philosophy. I am looking for something real and tangible. For me, that truth is a loving home. I am blind. I also had to have one eye removed. My last home didn’t take care of me and I lost my sight. But I am very lovable and every bit as worthy of compassion as the hundreds of little kittens who get adopted in a day, while I sit and wait… and wait… and wait."

The response was overwhelming.
Not only did Justine and her four blind brothers and sisters get adopted the afternoon, but we raised enough money to pay for all their veterinary care.
Nor was Justine an isolated instance.
The same year, we also impounded 59 dogs from a “backyard breeder.”
Every dog had medical problems: rotten teeth, blindness, neurological damage, or tumors.
Once again, a public call for help was issued. Once again, every one found a home, including Foxfire, a nine-year-old blind dog who had lived inside a crate his entire life.

It is a tragic truth that there will always be some people who do not live up to their responsibilities to animals.
But the vast majority does.
The vast majority of people love animals and will help you help animals if you give them the opportunity to do so.
We never used “public irresponsibility” as an excuse to kill, because that is what it would have been: an excuse.
In fact, we could not have done it without the public’s help.
Each and every time we appealed to the people we served for help, the people rallied.
There is enough love and compassion for animals in every community to overcome the irresponsibility of the few.

Remember this: a little over a decade ago, there was not a single community saving upwards of 99% of the animals. Today, hundreds of cities and towns across America do. That’s progress. And that is good news! A No Kill nation is within our reach and it is within our reach because of people; people who care very deeply.

https://www.facebook.com/nathanwinograd
 
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The global march for lions

In another place in the world 4 healthy lions were killed in a zoo
They are reported to have killed a family of four lions, two adults and two young cubs, in order to make way for the arrival of a new male lion, whom they hope will breed with female lions in their zoo
The zoo killed a young giraffe recently

Tell Copenhagen Zoo now that the ongoing policy of killing healthy animals in their care is not acceptable and that it is time to review and change their breeding policies and procedures, to allow for the accommodation of healthy animals for as long as they require care.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/684/789/994/tell-copenhagen-zoo-to-stop-killing-healthy-animals/
 
[video=youtube_share;g6ZlgB3TwfY]http://youtu.be/g6ZlgB3TwfY[/video]

If you find skinny kittens don´t give them much to eat every time, but feed them often.
They can get some tummy problems otherwise
 
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Publicerad den 1 apr 2014

It is estimated that there are 10,000 to 20,000 big cats currently held in private ownership in the U.S., although the exact number remains a mystery. In the past 21 years, U.S. incidents involving captive big cats—including tigers, lions, cougars, leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and lion/tiger hybrids—have resulted in the deaths of 22 humans, 248 maulings, 260 escapes, 144 big cats deaths and 141 confiscations.

The Big Cats and Public Safety Protection Act has been reintroduced as HR 1998 in the House and S 1381 in the Senate. Please ask your member of Congress to sign on as a Co Sponsor so that this bill can be passed this year! Thank You!


https://www.votervoice.net/BCR/Campaigns/30111/Respond

It´s not safe to have big cats as pets, at zoos, circuses etc

http://bigcatrescue.org/big-cat-attacks/

A study about tigers in captivity , they are not pet they are dangerous animals
http://bigcatrescue.org/4-year-study-shows-tigers-500-times-more-deadly-than-dogs-in-us/

In the wild we turn their kingdom to dust

What about animals
(What about it)
Turned kingdoms to dust
(What about us)
 
Bubs;3986336 said:
Animals are amazing creatures. You would think that cat would eat that little chick but no:)
If cats grow up with birds, rats etc since they are kittens they usually don´t kill them but they can kill other animals they aren´t familiar with.

[video=youtube_share;7ikm3o5hDks]http://youtu.be/7ikm3o5hDks[/video]
 
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Attention please
He just talks about Sophia and pats her, but the other cat wants attention too

 
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So cute! Other cats wanted to be on the film too and the one on his shoulder was the cutest thing :wub:
I would have house full of cats, but unfortunately my only (rescue) cat is very timid and old so I cannot have other cats as she is scared of absolutely everything and I don't want to stress her in her old age.

Mist, do you have cat(s)?
 
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