Help! Hurricane Spares Cats, Nothing Else
On August 28th, Catskill Creek burst its banks with great force. Katrin Hecker’s house – home to the cat rescuer extraordinaire, her dogs and 35 mostly special needs cats and kittens - was consumed by torrents of flood waters from Hurricane Irene. As currents rose to levels five feet high and rushed into her living and dining room, friends hurried to the scene with their cars and cat carriers to rescue the animals. All escaped with their lives, but nothing more. Katrin lost everything, from her home and computer to precious personal keepsakes and all else in between.
Win $1000 or 3,000+ Cat Food Cans for Favorite Non-profit
You could win $1000 cash donation or more than 3,000 cans of cat food for your favorite pet-related non profit! Just help Caroline Golon from Romeo The Cat’s Blog spread the word about Royal Canin and PETCO™’s “Get One, Give One” promotion taking place this weekend. (See below for details.)
GET ONE, GIVE ONE (GOGO)
This weekend, July 8-10, 2011, PETCO is offering every customer (while supplies last) two FREE cans of Adult Instinctive or Ultra Light Royal Canin adult feline wet formula for their cats – no purchase necessary. For each can given away to you, Royal Canin will donate an additional can to the PETCO Foundation, which helps support approximately 7,000 local animal welfare groups across the country to help find homes for more than 200,000 adoptable animals every year.
Found Animals: Stars of the Week
FOUND ANIMALS STARS OF THE WEEK:
JACKSON AND JED!
Found Animals, a Los Angeles based non-profit, deemed our New York cats “Stars of the Week” in celebration of their first birthdays! You’re invited every day from now through Sunday for fun daily photos, videos and stories on the Stars of the Week page and Found Animals’ Facebook page. While you’re there, join in the fun! Submit your own rescue story and you could become a Star of the Week too!
FOUND ANIMALS: AN ADMIRABLE MISSION
The fine folks at Found Animals work hard to minimize the senseless deaths of perfectly adoptable shelter pets put down due to lack of space.
While not a rescue, Found Animals supports animal care facilities in the LA area by offering sterilization programs, adoption events, micro-chipping and public education. Once their business model to curb overpopulation proves sustainable in LA, it will be applied in other communities as well.
Kittens!
A RESCUE CATTERY LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN
Yesterday, we visited an amazing rescue organization called Animalkind, Inc. in Hudson, NY. Katrin, the woman behind Animalkind, Inc., and her devoted staff pull cats from death row, manage feral cat colonies and rehabilitate injured cats to adopt out every furry soul they can. This shelter is unique. A house rather than a facility, every amenity is provided for the cats, the majority of whom roam free. Let me just say, being surrounded by more than 100 free-roaming felines in one room is quite an experience, one you have to see to believe.
What I found most special about AnimalKind, Inc. is the way the cats’ relationships and emotional health were considered and preserved. If a cat came from an irresponsible barn situation, Animalkind, Inc. requests that a responsible barn situation be provided. If two cats have bonded at the house or prior to rescue, they adopt the pair together. Impressed by the sensitivity to cat relationships especially, I bought an extra cat carrier and went with an open mind. Two were certainly a possibility if both were a fit. Continue reading
Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down
Kringle found me when he was just 3 months old. He came in one frigid night in December 1984 while I brought in an armload of wood. He laid in front of the Christmas Tree undetected for some time only to be discovered like a present from Santa. Too cold and dark to find his home that night, we curled into the chair by the fire and napped on and off. The next day, I canvassed several blocks for his owner but to no avail. Al, my closest neighbor, said the little guy had been living under his porch for a week but he had no idea where the kitten had come from.
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