I'm Famous *g*

[shakatany]

Pammy over at The Way of Cats has just posted the first of my 3-part essay on working at PAAWS this summer *does happy dance* (the icon is of Allie one of the kittens I met there).

BTW Zoo Too is having a shelter makeover contest and PAAWS has been entered. If PAAWs gets enough points to be in the top 20, then it might be chosen to get money from them. Right now it's 75th, but it was at about 1500 a week ago so that's quite a jump! PAAWS gets points for having people join then choosing PAAWS as their shelter as I did. I still haven't chosen a Rescue so if anyone wants to trade a PAAWS Shelter for their Rescue I'm willing - a win win situation especially for the animals.

ETA: the zip code for Fargo is 58102
 

Comments

[dolnmoon.livejournal.com]

I just read your essay part one and can't wait to read part2 and 3. Nice job and really PAAWS sounds like great organization. We have laws for paws here in my town and they rescue abused and abandoned animals, find them new homes and spay and neuter them to keep the cat population under control. We have tons of abandoned homeless or street cats wandering around.

2 years ago they did a revitalization of the town and started Condemning blighted homes in the city. They found many of the blighted empty homes contained prides of Cats living in the homes as if they owned them. One house was home to over 120 stray cats. I know when you would drive by there would always be cats in the windows or on the porch in the summer time just sitting there looking out at the passing cars. It took 3 days and 25 volunteers to capture the cats before the wrecking ball was taken to the house. Most of the cats were saved but some were old and sickly and had to be put down as no one would adopt them for their age and physical problems due to the length of their homelessness. There were many wild cats who had to go through rehabilitation so that they could be adopted out but all in all 72 cats were placed in new loving homes.

These types of organizations make your heart feel good.

Hugs

[stretfordditto.livejournal.com]

No time to read so I posted it to my Facebook to read later...