Helping Community Paws and Claws Inc.

02/13/2025

02/13/2025

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02/13/2025

February is national Spay/Neuter Awareness Month. What better way to celebrate than by getting your companion animals spayed/neutered!

We are begging you to please get your animals spayed or neutered. If you have a household cat, talk to your veterinarian about getting them MICROCHIPPED too, in case they ever slip out of the house and end up lost! Prevent unwanted litters and lessen the amount of homeless animals entering the shelter. If you need financial assistance, check out:

-Companion Animal Assistance Program (CAAP), caapok.org

OR

- https://okvma.org/low-income-sterilization-program/

📣 Both programs can help with the cost of the surgery. Check them out, call them if you have questions. Do not wait, SPAY AND NEUTER YOUR PETS TODAY! 📣

Need help filling out forms? Call us or stop by the shelter. We would be happy to assist in anyway we can to help you get your animals altered!

02/11/2025

We cordially invite you to attend our monthly meeting on February 23rd at 1:00. Everyone is welcome to join.
We will be talking about our upcoming low cost spay clinic the 27th , and our famous garage sale May 13-17-2025
We need volunteers for both events, you can sign up at our meeting.

02/09/2025

Listen to them!







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02/08/2025

02/08/2025

Note: If you're thinking about starting the argument against ear tipping, just don't. For months I've been out of patience defending the best way those of us doing TNR have of knowing a cat has been previously S/N. Please keep scrolling, thank you.

"Someone cared enough…
That’s what the corner of that cat’s ear being tipped (cut off) means. Someone cared enough. Enough to take time out of their day for that wild cat. To load up trapping supplies, go to the trapping location, set traps, monitor traps, and wait hours in most cases to fill traps. Then to bring them home in the traps and get them set up somewhere overnight and care for them. To drive them to the vet the next day, wait in line, and check them in for surgery. To pay (or get vouchers) for them to be spayed/neutered and vaccinated. If they are extra nice, they pay extra for flea meds and dewormer, knowing it will only last a month, but knowing that might be the only month of reprieve they have in their whole life from being eating alive. They care enough to drive back the next day and pick them up from the vet and in most cases house them for a day or two for recovery. In that time they care for them and make sure they are healing from surgery well. Then they drive them back to the trapping location and release them back to their outdoor home. From there, back home to clean and wash the traps and supplies to be ready for next time. This takes HOURS. Hours for a feral street cat that so many people hate.
So that feral cat you see out there with an ear tip, someone cared enough to take the time to give them a better life. To stop the cycle. To try to tackle the overpopulation and suffering. To help curb the testosterone driven territorial fights and spraying. To help that female not get pyometria from having litter after litter until she dies. To try to keep the numbers down so less people threaten their lives.
That indoor cat with the ear tip…someone cared a little extra. They saw that cat had potential to thrive in a life off the streets and they gave them that chance. They worked with them to overcome their fears so they wouldn’t live that harsh street life with a much shorter life expectancy than indoor cats.
That ear tip is how us trappers identify a cat that has already been spayed/neutered. It is a quick way to look at a feral cat and know if they have been fixed or not. This helps us not trap the same cats and send them through the stress of transport to the vet repeatedly, because we can see they have already been fixed. If a cat with an ear tip ends up in the trap, we can just release them immediately and keep trying until we get a cat that is not ear tipped.
Some people don’t like how the ear tip looks, or how painful it might be (it’s done under anesthesia during their spay/neuter surgery)… But that ear tip is a badge of honor. Someone cared enough."

Written by:
Amanda Rumble
Community Cat Care

02/08/2025

It's broken my Heart 💔😢







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02/08/2025

LAST ONE!











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