Butch and Sundance need a new home

The Food Source here, trying to help a couple more kitties who could use a break.

From inkandchocolate's Journal site

I can't keep my kitties any longer. For many long and complex reasons, there is no way we can continue to keep our boys in the house. I can't take them to the SPCA as they are too old for the SPCA to keep around even though they are gorgeous, sweet and wonderful kitties. Butch and Sundance are brothers, neutered and litter box trained. They are wonderfully affectionate and love people, petting and cuddling.

They are brothers, and I have had them since they were born. Some of you might even remember when they were born in 2003, back in the day when I was under the old LJ name and I posted about the event. 

I need someone to take my boys, someone who will love them and keep them together. I am willing to drive pretty far to deliver them to you or to someone you know who will love them and care for them.

Will you help me spread the word? I will have them checked out by their vet and given any shots they are due for and a clean bill of health to whoever takes them in.

Butch and Sundance.

The cats live in Pennsylvania, south of Philadelphia.  They are about eight years old, and as you can see, are gorgeous.

If you know of anyone who can help them, please contact me, or inkandchocolate directly.


NOTE: Getting into her journal to contact her is something of a hassle, unfortunately.  She writes and posts a lot of fan flick, and apparently some of it is a bit racy.  So you might see a button asking "Are you over 14 years old" (or something similar).  Just hit the button and keep going -- this post at least is rated G.

If you want to contact her, I think you will have to either set up a Live Journal account, or use an OpenID account to access Live Journal.  Supposedly, all Blogger accounts also are OpenID accounts, but I've never tried that myself, so you results may vary.

She does respond to posts on her journal and to messages sent via the Send Message , but sometimes it takes a day or two to hear from her.  So don't panic if you don't hear from her for a while.

A smile, perhaps

Food Source here.  I saw this the other day, and thought it might bring a smile to the Cat Blogosphere.  We could kind of us one after the last week or so.

As always, clicking on the image will take you to a larger version.

The Worst Shelter In North America (At Least)

It is doubtful that we reach anyone that isn't already fairly active in the Cat Blogosphere, but we really gotta try to do something to help with this.  This film is from the 'shelter' for Animal Control somewhere in the area of Woodstock, Ontario.

To quote Beth:

There are two employees that rotate shifts and are on call 24 hours per day. They do what they can. It can't be an easy job.

House of the Discarded :has more information here and here and a couple more posts along the way.

A Rough Couple Days on the Cat Blogosphere

All in all, a rough couple days around the Cat Blogosphere.

.....Update.....

It got worse...

UPDATE TWO

Just a note: Each of these images is linked to a post about that cat on their own blog.

Sprout Day

Today is Sprout Day, in honor of a beautiful baby girl who was with us for only a short time, but touched so many hearts.

The Grayson Eleven

Hi all, The Clowder's Food Source here. I have been in contact (email) with the folks (one folk, anyway) at the Grayson Shelter. I just thought I ought to let you all know what their last email said.

We do have sponsorship for Rosemary. However, when one gets sponsorship, it
just forces us to consider another cat when we are out of space. We did
have 3 leave this weekend and have rescue for a couple more which will leave
on Thursday.
We do not kill lightly and have not killed a cat for space for several years
now, however cat rescues are few and far between and one that pulled a lot
from us had to stop due to a grant agreement in her community (long story).

We are all volunteers and the email comes to my home address as we do not
have internet access at the shelter.

We are at the shelter cleaning every morning regardless of the holiday. The
animals need care and don't understand that people take holidays from work.

Thanks for caring.

Donna White
Grayson County Humane Society
Leitchfield Animal Shelter
213 William Thomason Byway
Leitchfield, KY 42754
270-230-8839
www.graysonhumane.org
www.graysoncountyhumanesociety.petfinder.org
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/friendsofgraysoncohumanesoc/

The good news, maybe, is that with donations from Mom Laure, me, and probably others, the original eleven are looking at a little more time. The bad news may be that by doing that, we may have doomed some other cat, although we fervently hope not.

We do what we can, I guess.

Another hairs breath rescue would be nice

Hi, all. Allie here with just a quick note.

Not sure if anyone is working on this or not, but it looks like there is an entire cat family that has a PTS date of Monday, July 5. (apparently, putting down kittens does not take time off for holidays)

We heard about them from The Misadventures of Me. We're not sure how much could be done over a holiday weekend, but we thought we ought to mention this, just in case someone is close enough to rescue at least one or two of them.

On a happier note, for folks in the USA, Happy Independence Day. For the rest of you, happy July 4.