Matt The Cat Guy's Pet Related, Care, Supplies, And Detective Services

08/30/2024

Stray Paws Animal Haven gave out some big bags of cat food and some cool Baby Yoda Cat Beds to cat helpers/colony caretakers. I made 3 deliveries. I had planned to charge the main recipient my delivery fee but Stray Paws Joe gave me 2 Baby Yoda Crib beds and a bag of food to give to the kids I drive to school, in the carpool, I participate in, who care for neighborhood cats, with their families. So free delivery this time for the person who sent me there to pick up and the 2 other lucky homes.
Remember to Spay and Neuter your pets, There is such a thing as too much of a good thing, including too many cats, dogs, other cool animals, all in one place. Their health can suffer if there are more than can be cared for nicely in one place. Mainly flea problems, more cats= more money needed for flea drops/treatments. Too much doodoo ane urine. Better to slow down their repriduction a bit. Consider donating to Stray Paws on richer days, they do alot of good for the community. Straypawsanimalhaven.org

06/26/2024

06/02/2024

https://theconversation.com/how-to-cut-stray-cat-numbers-in-a-way-that-works-better-for-everyone-229291

Traditional methods based on trap, adopt or euthanise have failed to control cat numbers. An eight-year trial of a more supportive community cat desexing program has been a resounding success.

04/14/2024

https://youtu.be/mC5hkaTChMI?si=qX7kURC-Az0YS8dF
Here's my thought on solving the problem. We need plenty of veterinarians in our society. Veterinarians should team up and start practices together, as partners. Do 3 shifts, with 1 or 2 veterinarians on duty and present at all times. Do spay and neuters, at cost, or as close to at cost as possible. Then, you'll hopefully have a long term customer, for the life of the pet and owner, who likely will have several pets throughout their life. Maybe there's a better way to combat fleas than we currently have available to us, maybe there will be new simpler, cheaper, less intrusive, maybe less permanent, ways invented to stop animals from reproducing, when society already has their hands full with too many to appreciate and care for as deserved?
You can sell flea meds, collect office visit fees. Sell food, cat nip, animal teeth cleaning stuff, leashes, collars, harnesses, microchips, tracking devices, nail clippers, brushes. Teach people how to take care of their pets at the office visits, encourage yearly check ups. If vaccines are truly a good idea, those can be recommended and given. You have a team on duty to help sick pets 24 hours a day, for a fair price. Working people need help at all hours and sicknesses and emergencies arise. Pets pass of old age at all hours, persons need to arrange cremation services, at all hours, and not be hanging out with a lifeless beloved pet body laying there all night. They need to talk to someone and get the cremation set up right away, it's healthier psychologically. People worried about their pets could use help right away. Often quick intervention can make a big difference with some health issues. Do spay/neuters right away, 24 hours a day. Have reasonable prices a fast food worker, or Doordash driver, like me, even, could afford without going deep into debt. You could offer payment plans to customers. Help us take care of our animals.
The County Shelters could do all this, as well as independent busines people/ veterinarians. The County already has the buildings, 7 of them, a good deal of equipment, a great website. Staff already trained and ready to go and learn new skills. The County could charge, but charge pet owners/ animal lovers needing help as low a price, as possible, considering they get many of their expenses and overhead covered with tax dollars. They could be centers of public education, cooperation, and finding ways to exist peacefully and enjoyably and rewardingly with living creatures in our world. Cities and schools might want to open similar centers and services to train their students at and help them earn money at, while helping their communities.
Private veterinarians will be needed, and could be cheaper and more convenient, because they might be next door to you, or around the corner, or even on the groundfloor of your retail/,residential building you live in and you walk your pet in all the time and buy treats and dog/cat outfits, collars, name tags all the time and know the veterinarian there.
This is actually my gameplan for my business. I'm a little far from being a veterinarian, education wise, one Biology course and one Animal Nutrition course, some Automotive training, which I suspect vehicle systems somewhat relate to how biological creatures organs work and getting a little old, but who knows. I will keep learning more and building my skills and doing as much of this as I can. I encourage others to consider this gameplan for themselves, if interested. Petco and Petsmart could pull this off easily. We need a variety of participants, and directions of approaching and solving this need, this is America.
Maybe 6 hour shifts for veterinarians? Why work anyone to death? You always end up staying later than planned, filling in for someone sick, on vacation, or with family who needs them, at any job or business. Stay fresh and not burned out, stay patient and uplifting to the public. If on the night shift, then you'll still have energy to go take a walk or bike ride, or run errands in the daylight before or after your shift and stay healthy. Teamwork makes the Dreamwork. It rhymes, a little too well, it's catchy and likely true ! Dr. Tremazi, at the Garvey Pet Hospital, is an example of a great neighborhood vet. He is hopefully teaming up and sharing his knowledge and experience with some youngsters who can build off and continue his work and help to the people and animals in our neighborhood ! Hopefully his clients learned a few things from their visits to him, with their pets, I learned quite a bit, visiting his practice, with my pets, over the years. https://youtu.be/mC5hkaTChMI?si=qX7kURC-Az0YS8dF

Healthy, adoptable dogs are being euthanized at animal shelters in Los Angeles Counties due to overcrowding. Kathy Vara reports for the NBC4 News on April 11...

02/25/2024

This was great to see! Great idea these folks have! Comics, as in comic books. They have One Piece and Pokemon cards, I saw, for starters. All rescued cats, who found themselves with no home, needing adopters.
Right next to Fika Fika Coffee, in the H-Mart grocery shopping center. On Huntington Dr., between Sunset Blvd. and Michillinda Ave./ 1127 W. Huntington Dr., in Arcadia. The girl Sarah, sitting in the cat tent, told me they are not professional comics, as in comedians, but she did tell me a great joke. Here it goes:
Joke: What did the fish say when he swam into the wall?
Answer: Dam !!!!!
I would say Sarah could likely have a great career, as a comedian, ahead of her, in my opinion. Could be the next Dave Chapppelle, only with less controversy. Sarah told me, tbey are there on Sundays, on Sunday, Sunday, Suuuuundayyyyy !!!!!!!!

01/02/2024

Baker Commodities failed to keep its facility clean and enclose portions of its facility where they processed animal material, according to the South Coast Air Quality Management District.

01/02/2024

Since the self-crowned “exclusively industrial” city was nearly abolished 12 years ago as too corrupt, an LAist review found good government improvements, persistent environmental problems and a plan to dramatically grow a residential population.

10/25/2023

If you're in El Monte zipcode 91732, help your neighborhood cats and your neighborhood by becoming a cat trapper !!
Trap, fix, and release really is a great option. It seems that in our urban environment cats have alot of protection against predators and find plenty of food. Coyotes do kill some and car collisions as well kill some. We can quickly end up with a large number of cats, because they reproduce quickly (short gestation periods, about 62 days only,) and they have large litters.
Then with lots of animals around you can end up with fleas and fleas cause problems. It becomes more cats than the average person can help or appreciate. The cats often are not in the best of health, when there are many in a small area. It seems there's a certain amount of cats per square something that work great, but if it gets exceeded their health drops. That is why trap, neuter, and return is likely the best way we can obtain the healthy amount of cats that lets the cats be healthy, generally appreciated by the neighborhood people, and the neighborhood is brightened by the healthy loved cats there.

10/07/2023

This is great news that there may be a helpful treatment for Parvo. I need to learn more about those monoclonal antibodies. I have a fear Parvo may be a lab made virus tested on dogs. I really think this is something we should suspect whenever a new virus emerges.
From what I hear, Parvovirus suddenly appeared in the 1970's and caused countless deaths of dogs. I have a fear, that biolabs, run by pharmaceutical companies and the military industrial complexes, of the world, alter viruses in certain animals. They may be doing research in order to truly obtain scientific knowledge that may advance health and medicine but they are also likely developing bioweapons and attempting to find antidotes to bioweapons ,they fear, potential enemies may be developing or may have created.
The immediate danger is that the animals can escape the lab, the viruses can escape the lab and then the trouble starts. I don't think viruses really care to stick to only infecting one species. They are good at making the jump, sooner or later. The longterm problem is that they may be used and some almost cetainly have been used on soldiers, people involved in immediate infrastructure operation or just anyone a potential enemy wants to harm, or to just create commotion and panic and infighting in a population. The viruses don't only cause problems for the, "enemy." They go where not intended, as well.
The citizens have to be all over this issue. It's our tax dollars funding these programs. It's best to make peace and get along. I fear there is truly ugly stuff out there. Worse than we've already likely seen already.

California puppy Cookie recently received Elanco Animal Health Incorporated's new treatment for canine parvovirus and recovered quickly from the condition

06/18/2023

https://youtu.be/XN6Cy1WcaJg

Stray Paws Animal Haven is proud to announce the launch of our brand-new Spay Shuttle! With the capacity to spay up to 35 cats at once, we're excited to make...

03/25/2023

https://www.straypawsanimalhaven.org/

Stray Paws Animal Haven is reducing street animal population through TNR education and training (TRAP NEUTER RETURN), medical rehab, transport, relocation and networking.