Emergency Cat Adoption

Starting a new topic so this gets some attention

Please see the link below regarding emergency adoption this weekend because of the rescue of 64 abandoned cats. If you know anyone thinking of getting a cat, now would be a great time

http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=27&id=23824

I'm going to make this global over the weekend to get as much attention as possible for the cause.

Yer doing it wrong. Linkwise.

Rounded-Up Stray Cats Need Homes, Say Bay Ridge Pet Advocates

An emergency stray cat adoption event is set for this Saturday (October 18) from 12 noon to 6 p.m. at Happy Pets, 9818 Fourth Avenue, in partnership with In Our Hands Rescue, K9 Kastle. Happy Pets will have 15 foster cats up for adoption, said Jennifer Lamb of In Our Hands.

Mamacita, thanks...and daver, thanks for fixing the link

Are they spayed?

I think this emergency adoption is for cats that are already being fostered (if they're of the right age, I'm sure they're spayed and neutered). I believe this emergency adoption is to give the rescue organizations room so that they can get these poor abandoned cats out of Animal Care & Control.
There is a phone number to call in the link for specific questions.

How was the event?

And why round up strays (some who really aren't indoor kitties at ALL) if there is no room? I must be mixing up animal control and the shelters perhaps?

thanks for the link, we will be looking to get another cat when we move in the early part of 2009.

The story is slightly confusing. I saw this as it was going down. There was a U-Haul parked at the end of Sixth Avenue between 23rd and 24th streets (by the power station). It appeared a woman had somehow discovered that the U-Haul was full of cats in cages and crates, and she was furiously calling the authorities.

When I walked back past later, they had taken the poor kitties out of the truck and placed their cages on the sidewalk, and Animal Care people were tending to them. It smelled horrifically bad and the cats did not look good. So sad!

So it wasn't really a "round-up" so much as a discovery. I have no idea what someone was doing with 64 cats in a truck.

I live in the immediate area. I came across the discarded cages, food, litter last weekend. It was a sorry sight and smelled to high heaven even a block away. I knew something aweful had gone down and the people responsible should be taken down. However, why were the cages left on the street like that?

Love the Heights, The ASPCA handles cruelty cases, and the Animal Care & Control handles strays.

I heard the person responsible for abandoning these poor kitties was arrested (hope that's true and not a rumor).

I have 2 old cats so I am not in the market to adopt right now...I posted the event in case anyone was looking to adopt a cat. I was not there...hope the kitties taht were there were adopted.