Don’t worry about Snickers’ eye. It’s fine, she just ALWAYS closes at least one eye when you try to take her picture. She is a pretty muted calico tortie with an impish personality. She’ll play with people, just not “up close” – so laser pointers and fishing pole type toys are her favorites. She happily sleeps with the other cats in her foster home and plays with them, too.
We love the ASPCA. They do such good work on a national level on all kinds of animal issues, but the one part of their work that we love the most is the information they provide to pet owners. We rely on that for the technical information in many of these columns. And, here we go again.
For a variety to reasons – sometimes because we have taken in a mother and her kittens and the mother was trying to survive on her own and was never well-socialized, sometimes because we take in kittens that are just a little too old to socialize easily, we end up with cats in foster care who will probably never be happy as house cats.
Persistence pays off. Where it really pays off is when you, as animal advocates make your voice heard about local and federal legislation that either benefits or harms animals.
Gemma was found in Central Square and rescued by a kind lady who already had a houseful of kitties of her own. She was nervous in her foster home at first with its other cats, but has now settled down. She likes to be petted, you can pick her up and when she has the run of the house, she wanders about to check out the area, plays with cat toys, and investigates the bird cage!
I took my three-month-old puppy, Leo, in for his first vet visit yesterday and my vet told me that he could be neutered at five months with no problem. Bur when I checked on the internet I found all kinds of warnings about neutering your dog too early and the health problems it can cause. What do you think?
When Ally was found under a porch she was so thin that her rescuers thought she was a kitten. She was at least a year old but only weighed 4 pounds. Think about it. She was also scared and had no idea how to play.
February is Spay and Neuter Awareness Month, so we thought we would remind you of the important health and behavioral benefits of spaying and neutering pets. If this sounds like another lecture . . . it is. And we hope you will memorize this information and nag and/or irritate your neighbors until they get all their pets spayed and neutered just as you have!
We’ve talked about Cher before, but she still doesn’t have a home of her own. She likes other cats once she gets to know them. She loves, loves, loves the huge dogs in her foster home. She’s not one of those cats who follows you around stroking your ego. She is quiet and independent and likes to nap in any comfortable spot.
Someone just told me that over the course of six years, one female dog and her offspring can produce 67,000 dogs, and over the course of seven years, one female cat and her offspring can produce 420,000 cats. She was trying to persuade me to have my cat spayed before she has any kittens. But honestly, if those figures were true, wouldn’t we be up to our elbows in cats and dogs?
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