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LOST YOUR CAT?
It’s a myth that most cats will find their way home.
The most significant findings of a recent study were that a thorough physical search is likely to increase the chances of finding cats alive and most cats are found within a 500 m (1/3 mile) radius of their point of escape. Cats that were indoor-outdoor and allowed outside unsupervised traveled longer distances compared with indoor cats that…
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You See a Dog or Cat on the Side of the Road-Sensible ways to help without getting in over your head
(From Humane Society of the United States) You’re driving your car when you see a dog or cat on the side of the road. With a sinking feeling, you realize they are alone. What should you do?
This is a wrenching scenario for all who care about animals. After all, what if your own pet were standing there? Use our guidelines for providing safe and effective help.
Don’t cause an accident
You can’t…
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World Spay Day
Initiated by Doris Day and her Animal League as Spay Day USA in 1995, when the estimated euthanasia rate in overcrowded shelters was between 14 and 17 million dogs and cats each year, this annual event has grown to global proportions in 74 countries, resulting in the spay/neuter of millions of animals since its inception. The Doris Day Animal Foundation provides annual grants for World Spay Day,…
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Ollie & Spuds - Chapter 7
An Expanse of Dusky Sky
Over the many days since Ollie and Spuds arrived in the country, they have found there’s much they like. The air is warm. The stream provides easy access to water. Their nest under the rocks is dry and protected. There’s plentiful wildlife that they hunt together. Spuds is the more talented hunter of the two, but she’s generous. There was one occasion, however, when she…
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Letter from a Feral Cat
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Ollie & Spuds - Chapter 6
Chapter 6
Think, Think, Think
Spuds wakes up and sniffs the air. It’s warm-cool and carries the smell of green growing things. Feeling hopeful, Spuds stretches and then gently paws Ollie’s cheek to wake him.
Ollie twitches and opens one eye as a warning to Spuds. Spuds pointedly turns away and looks upward, as though the sky is suddenly interesting. Then she leaps onto Ollie’s back. This sends…
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The Tidying Mouse
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Every Animal Needs Access to Water in Winter
Once the cold weather sets in, water freezes and feral cats and wildlife lose access to unfrozen water, and suffer. Here is a plug-in water heater: http://bit.ly/48A4TGB
Here is an inexpensive bird bath dish: https://amzn.to/3tzkKqh for the plug-in heater.
On behalf of the animals, thank you.
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Cats Need a Warm Santuary Too
Free Shipping • Shelter for Outdoor Cats • https://clawsable.com/
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Ollie & Spuds - Chapter 5
The Morning Sun on Her Fur
It’s been three days since the cat appeared in his alley. Ollie watches her. She appears to be sleeping, but her ears are angled toward him. Ollie has seen other cats: skinny, scared, hissing cats in other allies, and the cat next door to where he used to live, perched on the wall between the backyards, the tip of her striped tail twitching. Thinking of his backyard,…
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Ollie & Spuds - Chapter 4
With That Picture in Mind, She Could Sleep
Spuds returned to the alley where she had lived with her kittens and sniffed the air, smelling their scents. She walked out the alley and never returned.
She spent her nights wandering, half-heartedly hunting for food, nibbling at tidbits in dumpsters. Spuds slept during the day wherever she felt reasonably safe, tucking herself behind boxes and…
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Ollie & Spuds - Chapter 3
Holding the Gaze of Each One
Spuds hunted by night and slept by day. She moved every few days, eventually coming to the city where she was able to augment hunting with cast-off food in garbage bins.
Spuds came across a band of other cats in a city park and tried to live with them, but they were as prone to fighting as they were to grooming each other. She left and eventually made her home in a…
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Even a few dollars is helpful. 100% goes to helping the animals.
Help Rescue 600 Starving Dogs in Greece
Help Rescue 600 Starving Dogs in Greece
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Ollie & Spuds - Chapter 2
This is Chapter 2 of Ollie & Spuds - a novella by Carolyn Cott about two animals (both abandoned) who join forces.
A Well-Shod Foot
The cat’s name is Spuds. The old man who’d found her thought she looked like the color of Yellow Finn potatoes. He’d pulled the mewing, trembling kitten out from under a bramble on a roadside. He stroked her fur with work-rough hands, looked into her gold-green eyes, and took her home.
Spuds had a good life with the old man: She curled up on the rug by the wood stove in winter,…
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Ollie & Spuds
This is chapter 1 of a story, Ollie & Spuds. Additional chapters will follow
By Carolyn Cott ©2023
Chapter 1 – The Alley
It’s been three days now since the cat appeared in Ollie’s alley. He thinks of it as his alley because he’s been there how long now? Two months, maybe four. He remembers arriving there. There was snow.
The man had unchained him, pulled him into the car, and drove away. Ollie wanted to enjoy the car ride, but something was very wrong. The man hunched…
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No animal deserves to die in war. Together, we will fight for the life of every abandoned pet.
Abandoned cities across Ukraine are rife with lonely, stray cats and dogs that were once loved pets. Many have died. Many are injured. Many are starving. Many more will die if they do not get help.
https://rescue-team.rolda.org/
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