Do your heart a favor -- adopt a Maine Coon Cat! November 2014...colonies. Kelly Perry has gotten...
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Maine Coon Adoptions, the adoption division of Preventing Euthanasia Through Rescue [PET Rescue], a nonprofit organization
November 2014
Do your heart a favor -- adopt a Maine Coon Cat!
650 &
counting
60,000
Get 14 months of MCA kitties and their unique rescue stories -- Elliott Smith (the famous kitty on
TV!), Jameson (the victim of a cruelty case in Bakersfield), Scamper (rescued from a home with
100 cats in cages)….now all of them are safe, loved and thriving!
Read about Marty & Simon,
our March 2015 calendar cats.
58 Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) improves the lives of
neighborhood cats and the people who live near
them by stopping the breeding cycle, saving
adoptable cats and drastically reducing the size of
colonies. Kelly Perry has gotten over 10,000 cats fixed
in the 16 years she’s been doing TNR work in Contra
Costa County. She joined our Maine Coon Adoptions
team last year. Our goal is to help the public resolve
cat overpopulation problems by fixing neighborhood
cats while saving adoptable cats and finding homes
for them. Kelly particularly loves assisting older folks
who have too many yard cats but lack the mobility or
the means to get them to a vet for spaying or
neutering. Currently, she’s helping a gentleman with
polio who is trying to care for 120 neighborhood cats.
Many cats Kelly traps are adoptable. For example,
she recently found 5 pretty Russian blue babies living
underground in a sewer system. MCA found homes
for two of them, and three (Kesa, Kirby & Kiwi --
pictured) are still available.
Denver & Dallas, two handsome buff-colored boys,
were discovered in 3’ high grass by someone mowing.
They were only about 30 days old, so Kelly hand fed
them a baby mash formula she makes herself. Now
they’re healthy and looking for their forever home. So,
too, is adorable Dottie, peeking out from the sheets.
She had a broken leg when Kelly found her, but
MCA’s vet fixed the leg & she’s all “set” to go.
TRAP, NEUTER, RETURN: THE EFFECTIVE, HUMANE WAY TO CONTROL OVERPOPULATION
That’s how many neighborhood
cats MCA trapped and spayed
or neutered this year to date.
Multiply that by 60,000!
That’s how many kittens one un-spayed
female and her offspring can produce in
one year, according to the Humane
Society of the United States.
That’s the number of neighborhood
cats MCA found homes for so far this
year because they were adoptable.
Here are 2 of them -- Jack & Jill.
MCA makes sure every cat it adopts out is spayed/neutered. An $85 donation covers a normal spay
procedure at our rescue vet’s discounted rates. $55 covers normal neutering. Please consider making a
donation to cover spaying or neutering one of our cats. If you’d like your donations to go specifically to
MCA’s TNR work, check “apply my donation to the Kelly Fund” on the donation slip on the back page.
Check out March 2015
kitties, Marty & Simon.
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Mr. Fergus, the Advice Cat, says farewell….
Before succumbing to lymphoma, Mr. Fergus posted one more bit of advice for his
readers. He said, “Love, love, love those kitties of yours -- and donate to help cats
who haven’t found a loving home yet. I’m off to give Kitty Heaven the benefit of my
wise and wonderful advice. How have they managed without me?” (For those who are
new to the newsletter, Mr. Fergus wrote the MCA advice column for many years.)
You might have noticed that our
usual list of cats adopted and
their adoptive families is missing
from this newsletter. There’s a
wonderful reason for that. There
were so many adoptions, we just
didn’t have room for the list.
May it ever be so!
Meanwhile, we hope you’ll
enjoy a couple of happy tails
from those adoptions.
>>> Elaine Lyford-Nojima,
Director, MCA
198 kitties found loving
homes since our last
newsletter!!
When MCA foster Lori’s daughter saw darling
Minnie being thrown out of a car, she ran over
and scooped her up. Amazingly, Minnie
wasn’t hurt and purred throughout her bath –
a harbinger of her incredible personality.
She’s now happy as a clam with her forever
mom Jennifer.
Tina came out of a tough situation, and we could
not touch her when we got her. But thanks to our
fabulous kitty cuddler team, who come in to
socialize our shy kitties, Tina learned that people
can be kind, fun and loving. She found perfect
adopters in Nicole & Cory.
Lovely 8-year-old Kendra, came from a shelter
in the Central Valley where she certainly would
have been euthanized. Josie & Steve took her
into their hearts and their home.
Please apply my donation to the Kelly Fund. NL
Yes, I want to help the kitties!
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Maine Coon Adoptions is the adoption division of Preventing Euthanasia Through Rescue (PET Rescue)
PET Rescue is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, tax
ID No. 27-0225418.
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