While a dog license is expected, cat licensing is not nearly as standard. When the town of Belmont, MA, last year greatly increased it’s cat licensing fees, it raised some concern from the local citizens. Only a handful of cities and towns in Massachusetts have cat-licensing bylaws, and the registration fees for keeping a feline [...]
Seattle’s NPR station recently ran a story about the closing down of King County’s animal shelters. King County At Loss To Fund Animal Shelters For months King County has been planning to leave the animal shelter business. But there’s still no plan for where to place the county’s stray and abused animals. Cities are accused [...]
My husband & I have fostered several kittens for North Shore Animal League America. We currently have one kitten that is recovering from some medical complications. Many fosters only need a temporary place to stay while they receive medication and gain enough weight to be spayed or neutered. In the process, each kitten is socialized [...]
(Pictured above: Penny. She is a Sponsor Cat. Picture courtesy of North Shore Animal League America) October the First, or “Catober the First” as it has been named by North Shore Animal League America, is a day to celebrate the universal birthday of all rescue cats, everywhere. As you can imagine, most animals come into [...]
As many stories here on Take of Your Cat have detailed over the past month, this is a very tough time for animal shelters. From the OC Register: “It’s a bad year for all shelters in America because of foreclosures and the bad economy,” Franco said. Numbers are also up at OC Animal Care, the [...]
After Ashley’s post on preparing your pet for a disaster, unfortunately Hurricane Gustav is heading right for New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. I am hopeful that both people and pets will be able to evacuate and that those who do not or can not fair better than last time. However, I am also doubtful [...]
Just in case you wondered what this no kill, no cage facility looks like, here is a youtube video of it: Looks like heaven to me.
Image is from the The Cat House on the Kings website. Kitten 013 is available for adoption right now! If I lived in California, this would be a place I would love to volunteer at, or just visit. From The Christian Science Monitor, A sanctuary that’s 600 cats’ meows: The Cat House on the Kings, [...]
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