10/21/2024
*****Correction/update: This page is not run by a rescue or a business. This page is run by a group of individuals who volunteer for various organizations and see the desperate need we have in our area for more rescue resources. When you see organizations in videos, doing happy animal things, we are only sharing their post, their stories and events. We share posts of upcoming events, current events and any fun local/Chautauqua County activities. As long as you don't regularly ship in animals from other states while charging a fee to help the local ones, we are happy to share your stories too****
It’s that time of year again and sadly we are missing a few of the local rescues at this adoption week event. We wish all of the animals at the local pet store a happy and healthy life. We want nothing more than to see ALL animals get their happily ever after. Sadly, for many in Chautauqua County, that happy ending will never come.
Today we are asking you to please consider supporting our very own Chautauqua County rescues. We need you. Please do your research. When you adopt from larger organizations that ship cats in from other areas, you are taking a home away from a Chautauqua County animal in need. Our shelters and rescues here can’t take animals in if all our residents are adopting cats from organizations in other counties. Helping adjacent counties is honorable. Shipping in hundreds of cats from other States, is sealing the fate of many Chautauqua County cats.
During this quarterly adoption week, tell your friends to adopt from local rescues. Remind them of the fate of the cats in our area right now. They are being killed and the truth is, just because they are not being ‘euthanized’ does not mean they aren’t dying when shelters/rescues have to say no because the organizations with the most resources, the most followers and the most support, are shipping cats in from other places to keep up with demand but refuse to help local cats without a donation that most of our community cannot afford.
This week's showcase. Please stop by and meet some of the beautiful cats and kittens from Finn's Furever Feline Rescue. You can learn more details in the video on his page.
Other Chautauqua County rescues with many cats/kittens available.
Lakeshore Humane Society, Inc
Lakewood Kitten Rescue
Chautauqua County Humane Society
Small Town Shelter, Inc
Westfield Stray Cat Rescue