Archive for the ‘Feral Cats’ Category

Shea Stadium’s Feral Felines and the Curse on the Cubs

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

"The Cubs ain't gonna win no more. The Cubs will never win a World Series so long as the goat is not allowed in Wrigley Field." Those were the words spoken by diehard Cubs fan William Sianis, owner of Chicago's "Billy Goat Tavern" as he and his pet goat Murphy ...

Beijing’s Olympic Cat Cruelty

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Perhaps it is a macabre expression of progress for a communist nation ruled by a one-party dictatorship that their death camps are filled with cats. For China, gearing up for the 2008 Beijing Olympics includes rounding up tens of thousands of cats and warehousing them in pitiful conditions. When a ...

Cape May Cats in the Plover

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Cape May is the peninsula located at the southern tip of New Jersey between the Atlantic Ocean and the Delaware Bay. Settled by whalers in the 1600's, Cape May's 30 miles of white sand beaches are paradise to fishermen and birdwatchers. It is also home to the endangered piping plover ...

LAPD Goes to the Cats

Friday, January 4th, 2008

The Los Angeles Police Department's Wilshire Division was the first unit in the city to employ feral cats on rat patrol in their parking lot, nearly six years ago. Rats burrowed in equipment bags and mice scampered across desks. "Once we got the cats, problem solved," said Commander Kirk Albanese, ...

A Message About Feral Cats: T-N-R

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Animal control systems in our communities are based on the premise that stray and/or unwanted animals were once owned. The mission of these organizations is to return lost animals to their owners or to find new adoptive homes for unclaimed or unwanted pets. Many dogs and cats are euthanized when ...

Steve Wozniak Raises Awareness on Feral Cats

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Steve Wozniak, aka Woz, co-founded Apple Computers with Steve Jobs in 1976. He was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Ronald Reagan in 1985, the highest honor bestowed upon America's leading innovators. For the past three decades, Woz has been a Silicon Valley philanthropist, with a passion for ...

Facts About Stray Cats

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Did you know: The stray animal population in this country today is largely made up of cats. The majority of the millions of cats in shelters are unowned. More than 70% will be euthanized. 25,000 healthy cats are euthanized in shelters each day. Euthanasia in shelters is now the number one cause of cat death ...