End Euthanasia of Healthy and Treatable Animals!

End Euthanasia of Healthy and Treatable Animals!
Every year, an estimated four to six million dogs and cats are euthanized in animal care and control facilities in the United States. This problem is pervasive, and it remains a source of shame for our country.
The American Humane Association’s Getting to Zero� Initiative is a national undertaking based [...]

annie

I pet Annie for about 10 minutes today! I opened one side of her cage and reached in to pet her. She has a little cat cube and I reached inside, SLOWLY, and eventually made it to her paw. She let me pet under her chin (of course no cat could refuse that!), her face, [...]

annie

Annie let me pet her today! She let me pet her nose and a little around her ears. I pet her for about a minute until she let me know that she had had enough. I didn’t try to pet her the rest of the night.

annie

Annie ate a treat out of my hand! She has started purring around me, too. She curls up into a loose “ball” and sleeps and purrs while I am sitting next to her cage.

Cats at the shelter I volunteer at

Feral Cat

Surprisingly her cage was clean still. I gave her baby food off a spoon this time and got my hand really close to her. I saw her smell my hand while she was eating off the spoon. Then, I tried something I wasn’t sure of. I put some baby food on my finger and she [...]

Feral Cat

I went in this morning to find a messy cage. I got her a larger litter box so she wasn’t able to knock it over but she still somehow spilled some litter. She is soooo messy! She made some noises and meowed at me, while looking at me. I think she was trying to communicate [...]

feral cat

I talked to a friend of mine who volunteers at the shelter with me about what I could do to show the cat I was not a threat. She reminded me of something I already do with my own cats, blink at them. Slowly blinking at them shows them that you are not a threat [...]

Feral Cat

I started sitting next to her cage today, reading or watching something on my ipod, while talking to her a bit. I am not sitting there for very long-at the most, 20 minutes. She is very cautious and if I get too close to the cage, she lets me know with a hiss or swat [...]

feral cat

I noticed that after I would leave the room, I could hear the cat moving around and shredding the newspaper that I put in the bottom of it’s cage. I was curious to see what it was doing so I videotaped it. I saw it playing a bit and trying to get out. It was [...]