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11/11/2023

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10/31/2022

https://cuddly.com/donate/4914546/feline-panleukopenia-virus-outbreak

Help Feline Panleukopenia Virus Outbreak, and show CAAT Friends that they are not alone in their quest to save animals. CAAT Friends is a rescue located in Pacific Palisades, CA. They are a 501 (c)(3) non-profit, verified by CUDDLY. Feline panleukopenia (FP) is a highly contagious viral disease of c...

10/21/2022

10/08/2022

Watch our interview segment airing this Saturday (10/8/22) morning at 6am on Channel 13 KCOP on Animal Rescue.

Thank you to all our fosters, volunteers, and donors who have helped us pave this path thus far and continue to support us as we grow.

2 segments from the TV show Animal Rescue

07/05/2022

4th of July weekend ! Liberty Holiday, as he came named, came to starving to death and being eaten alive - covered in fleas, gums white, flea anemia, dehydrated, uri, skin and bone, not ambulatory, and unable to maintain body temperature.

03/04/2022

In a move endorsed by Maddie's Fund and featured in a nationwide zoom webcast by Austin Pets Alive, HSUS and other groups want “shelters” to start breeding puppies.

Specifically, they are arguing that “shelters in high-demand areas” should “start[ ] their own breeding programs”; a proposal Time magazine calls, “a shocking idea, like a cocktail hour at rehab.” But it is more than “shocking.”

Asking “shelters” to breed puppies for sale in one part of the shelter while juvenile and adult dogs are put to death in another is a betrayal of the highest magnitude and it threatens the health, welfare, and lives of animals. It is also based on a series of lies: that we are in the midst of a severe dog shortage, that breeding is the only way to meet demand, that purposely-bred dogs make better family pets than shelter dogs, and that shelters should be beholden to “consumer choice,” rather than shape that choice given their mission of animal protection.

My Substack article, “Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory,” explains why: https://bit.ly/3C6scsy.

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09/16/2021

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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