New Tags for Homeless Pets

09/03/2024

04/02/2024

😹😹 love it!

12/08/2023

Dog people just won’t understand

20/04/2023

10/10/2022

Please help if you can

Cat Hospice Devastated By Hurricane Ian In Englewood, Florida. … Rick Kingston needs your support for Cat Hospice Devastated By Hurricane Ian

03/10/2022

It happens

16/08/2022

Landscaping your backyard is a great way to increase your property’s value and give it a more attractive view. You can do a lot with the available space in your garden. Another benefit of having a yard is stimulating your pet’s brains, developing your bond with them, and working on behavior trai...

10/08/2022

🥲

He wanted a family.

08/04/2022

So sweet ❤️

30/03/2022

The power of love and rescue

11/03/2022

And so cute! Look at his little teefs!

04/03/2022

🥰

08/02/2022

love!!! 🥰

30/01/2022

So unbelievably cute 😍

26/01/2022

Glorious!

Nothing says I love something forever like permanent ink, right? Well, whether you're a cat lady or a gent, there's something special to us cat folks when it comes to cat tattoos, or "cattoos" if you want to get technical! Do you have a cattoo to share with us?

28/12/2021

Ban declawing! It’s mutilating your cat

You can see here, cats walk on their toes. When a cat is declawed it’s an amputation to the first joint. Basically the toes are amputated. This changes the way a cat walks and over time causes arthritis to multiple areas of the cats body. Declawed cats often avoid the cat box because of pain in the feet and arthritis in the body….. Please do not declaw your cat 🐾

20/12/2021

💊💊💊💊 ☺️☺️😁🥰🥰

12/12/2021

11/12/2021

Pool time! Sort of….

09/12/2021

Much better, thank you

25/11/2021

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

PSA

15/11/2021

So very true! She could go on about GSDs and hip dysplasia and those “cute” munchkin cats that don’t have fully formed the legs. 😥😥. Think before you buy or breed hereditary issues into your “purebred” pets

06/11/2021

Based on Herndon's personality, I would have to say he used to be someone's pet. After that, who knows what happened. 🤷‍♀️ Did he slip out one night and get lost? Was he left behind by someone who moved and couldn't take him? Did his person pass away? Was he a stray cat that someone started feeding and when they left they didn't take him because he was "just a stray"?

We will never know his past or how long he was outside and alone. How many times was he cold and shivering at night? 🥶 How many days did he go without something to eat. 🙀 How many fights and injuries did he have to endure? 🤕

All we know, is when a Good Samaritan brought him into the Clinic, his leg was so badly infected, it had to be amputated. His ears were dirty and one infected. This ear has turned chronic. Estimated to be around 9 years old, he was never neutered. And through the Good Samaritan, we have learned that Herndon was a recent daddy before she took him in (she kept one of his kittens 😻).

We only have guesses and what if's about Herndon's past, but we know his future. He will never be on his own again. He will be warm and his belly will always be full.

Not every cat can end up quite as lucky as Herndon. There are not enough indoor homes to house all the cats that so desperately need them. So what do we do?

😺 We can spay and neuter, meaning Trap-Neuter-Return for cats that are not handleable.

😸 We can encourage our friends and family to spay and neuter.

😻 If you must rehome a cat/kitten for any reason, you can have it spayed or neutered first to be sure it will get done.

😽 Shelters, rescues and sanctuaries can only do so much. We, the collective cat-loving community, can help by making sure every cat we can possibly fix, gets fixed. This includes friendly, feral, male, female, indoor, outdoor, kitten, senior.

😺 EVERY. SINGLE. CAT. can benefit from being spayed or neutered.

Let's spay or neuter all that are out there, so that others don't have to suffer like sweet Herndon did. 🖤

26/10/2021

26/09/2021

Awesome idea!!!

18/09/2021

Studies show that declawed cats were at significantly greater risk for back pain, not using the litter box, aggression (scratching/biting), and excessive grooming (barbering). They are at even greater risk for pain if bone fragments were left in as a result of “poor or inappropriate surgical techniques.” That’s a diplomatic way of saying the veterinarians were incompetent, which occurred in a whopping 63% of the cases.

Studies have also concluded that “the ongoing practice of declawing cats in North America should be further questioned.” Once again, that’s a diplomatic way of saying it should be banned: https://goo.gl/9BKKWN

One reason some are hesitant to ban the procedure is the claim, made by even shelter directors, that doing so will lead to an increase in the number of cats who are relinquished to pounds and kill “shelters” and that is worse for cats. “However, there is no peer-reviewed study that examines the effect on shelter admissions or outcomes in communities where a [declaw] ban has been enacted.”

Now there is.

British Columbia in Canada banned the procedure in 2018. A new study looked at cat intakes before and after and found “there was no statistically significant increase in cats relinquished to the provincial shelter system for destructive scratching behavior following the implementation of the ban.”

The authors of the study concluded that “most owners who declawed their cat did so for prevention of, rather than in response to, destructive scratching behavior.” Not only did overall intakes not increase, but “Destructive scratching behavior was also shown to be an infrequent reason for surrender…” As such, the authors concluded that “owners are able to manage normal scratching behavior and retain cats in their homes without needing to resort to onychectomy [declawing].”

Let’s ban the mutilation of cats.

The study, “Effect of a provincial feline onychectomy ban on cat intake and euthanasia in a British Columbia animal shelter system,” is here: https://bit.ly/2VJMV4K.

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