Six to eight million cats and dogs enter shelters in the United States every year, and approximately half of them are euthanised. Many are not spayed or neutered, and some lack basic socialisation, which makes them even more unadoptable. Animals with unknown temperaments are harder to adopt out, as are those who are shy, hesitant, …
Tag Archives: cats
A Visit to the Humane Society
Over the weekend, I went to the local humane society to meet cats. It was kind of a spur of the moment thing. I didn’t tell anyone I was going, or that I went, because I didn’t want to deal with the pressure. The inevitable questions. People mean well, they do, but there is a …
A Shadow, A Memory
A funny story, about Mr. Shadow, that came to mind for me this morning. When we were living in Caspar, he used to love curling up next to the woodstove. He had a neat little woven mat he’d lie on, and he was always very protective of it. Mr. Bell would be banished if he …
Mr. Bell
1993-2011 What can I tell you about Mr. Bell? He was one of my oldest friends. I adopted him because out of all the cats at the shelter, he was the one who seemed to have the most hope, determination, and conviction that no way in hell was he getting stuck in there. No how. …
Mr. Shadow
1997-2010
Splashing Hammers
Tomokazu Kosuga at Vice: MEOW MEOW MEOW Cat cafés are huge in Japan right now. Trevor Scott Howell at Fast Forward Weekly: Prostitutes peddle co-operative brothels to protect sex workers Since establishing the West Coast Co-operative of Sex Industry Professionals in 2007, Davis has been pushing for wide-sweeping reform of Canada’s prostitution laws. Nina Shapiro …
On the Cats
I used to write about the cats a fair amount, and then I realized that it was probably kind of boring to hear about them all the time, so I haven’t written about them much lately. But, I have a fair number of new readers, so I feel justified in writing a fluff post about …
Toasty Knuckles
Racialicious: Dr. King Said More Than “I Have A Dream” It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important. Consumerist: Why Does The Word “Baby” Make The Same Product More Expensive? …the “baby” version of her son’s …
