Cats are best friends, too.
I know, dogs follow you around. They let you know with their unconditional love that they would die for you. I love dogs.
I love cats more. When a cat chooses to align with you, despite hundreds of years of NOT being bred to serve us, it makes their love all the more rewarding when they choose to give it to you. Pets make a house a home. A place you truly want to come home to and just 'be'. Cats are so good at that. Just 'being'. They know what they like. They will turn their tail up at what they don't like. They will go where they want to go when they want to go there. Sometimes suddenly in a burst of energy at 3am in the morning. But even if I don't appreciate it in the moment, you realize that is the kind of pure joy you wish you had as part of your everyday life. |
There are too many cats.It is a difficult thing to say but it is true. Cats can have multiple litters in a single year. And they can start producing those litters before they turn 1 year old.
We have to reduce the number of kittens, not by killing them, but by preventing so many litters from happening in the first place. Trap, Neuter. Return. Meanwhile, let's stop thinking of cats in shelters as homeless or in need of rescue. These are delightful little personalites just waiting to be matched with the right human. Perhaps not to save the cat but to save the human! Life is stressful. We are always way too busy. We worry way too much about way too many things. And we don't spend enough time truly relaxing and just being us. Some of us aren't sure what that even is. We don't spend enough time just gazing out the window. Laying in the sunshine. And following our whims right there in the moment. Adopt a cat -- or two or three. Then watch and learn how it's done. |
90% Live Release Project in Frederick County, MD
Live Release Rate Tracker
May 2018 Cats 58% - Kittens 65% - Combined 61%
May 2018 Cats 58% - Kittens 65% - Combined 61%
It all centers on the Frederick County Animal Shelter, the only shelter facility in the entire county. Thankfully they are not in it alone. There are many cat (and dog and bunny and . . .) rescue groups in it with them. Each has its own unique niche within the animal rescue, welfare, and adoption world.
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You can volunteer and donate to any of these organizations to help make 90% live relaease a reality for Frederick County. But your dollars will do the most good when they go to Tip Me Frederick as that is the only organization focused on preventing new kittens from being born by humanely trapping then spaying & neutering the cats that produce the most litters -- community cats.
The 90% Project is sponsored by Bethany Blakey of Moxie & Momentum.
Email [email protected] if you wish to sponsor an event, support cats & kittens in the Kit Kat Klub, adopt a Kit Kat Klub kitty,
or reserve Kitten Time for you and a small group of friends or family.
Email [email protected] if you wish to sponsor an event, support cats & kittens in the Kit Kat Klub, adopt a Kit Kat Klub kitty,
or reserve Kitten Time for you and a small group of friends or family.