By Ashley on September 28, 2008
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 [...]
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By Ashley on September 28, 2008
(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 shelters [...]
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By Chris on September 21, 2008
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 county-run [...]
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By Chris on September 2, 2008
Take Care of Your Cat has another update in the story of Prince Chunk (see Prince Chunk’s Adoption Follow-up and Prince(ss) Chunk and the Issue of Cat Weight. One of our contributors, Jenn, emailed a complaint to the the Camden County Animal Shelter about the contact and custody issues that surrounded the cat’s adoption [...]
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By Chris on August 31, 2008
You may remember the story that we highlighted a few weeks ago on Prince Chunk, a the 44 pound cat from Camden, New Jersey. I mentioned at the time that the cat had found a home and a family to adopt him.
But apparently there have been complications in the adoption of Prince Chunk, as [...]
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By Chris on August 2, 2008
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, a [...]
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