Everyone these days seems to have an opinion on how we can lower the numbers of homeless pets that are lingering in shelters, euthanized due to competition for space, and begging for forever homes from rescues. I truly believe there is no magic elixir, no one perfect potion that would end our pet overpopulation challenges. There […]
What Better Way to Get Your Kitten Fix?
Every Spring, like clockwork (or the movie Groundhog Day), the same thing happens. Year after year, unspayed cats give birth to litters of kittens that have no homes. And every Spring, rescues try their darnedest to do everything they can for the most kittens (and mamas) possible. But it ain’t easy, folks. There are mainly […]
Calling All Bloggers: Help Promote World Spay Day 2013
February is Spay/Neuter month, a time to spread awareness about the importance of neutering our pets. Be the Change for Animals is hosting a blog hop, encouraging all bloggers to join in promoting spay/neuter and educating the general public about the benefits of doing so. In honor of World Spay Day, February 26th, the BTC4A […]
Top Ten Reasons to Spay/Neuter Your Pet
February is National Spay/Neuter Month – a reminder that there’s no better time than the present to ensure your pet is taken care of in the best way you can! Photo courtesy of Purr Photography Collectively, with more spay/neuters, a community will have less stray pets, less disturbance and damage caused by them, and lower tax […]
TNR: A Day With The Cat Man
I had the pleasure again recently of tagging along with Kurt Meyer, a Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) expert, on one of his many missions. TNR is a practice whereby feral cats are humanely trapped, spayed or neutered, marked for future identification by a procedure called eartipping, then returned to their original location. It has been gaining widespread […]