Hi, everyone! I stumbled onto this site a few weeks back and I have really enjoyed reading the posts here. I am not a cat owner, but I love the little critters. My boyfriend had a black cat - Cato lived to be almost 21 years old before he succumbed to kidney disease. I loved him and doted on him and cried my eyes out when he passed.
In the last three years or so, I have been dedicated to volunteering with a local animal rescue- focused on cat care. These days, I look after the cats we have in our rescue's PetSmart store front - I am the Friday night pooper-scooper!!!
Actually much more than that - I play with them, try to socialize the shy ones, comfort the scared ones, give them a wet food treat when I am done cleaning. The ones who have been there even for a couple of weeks know- they charge the cage door or go thundering through the cage portholes to the spot where I feed them. So cute! We give each adult cat two cages, so they are not squeezed into those pitiful little cubes.
I have found this site to be extremely helpful in my attempt to better understand the behavior of my temporary fur-babies and thus, take better care of them.
If I remember - and these days it's a challenge for my middle-age brain - I will take some pics of our most current "guests" and post them here.
Regards,
AddieBee
In the last three years or so, I have been dedicated to volunteering with a local animal rescue- focused on cat care. These days, I look after the cats we have in our rescue's PetSmart store front - I am the Friday night pooper-scooper!!!
Actually much more than that - I play with them, try to socialize the shy ones, comfort the scared ones, give them a wet food treat when I am done cleaning. The ones who have been there even for a couple of weeks know- they charge the cage door or go thundering through the cage portholes to the spot where I feed them. So cute! We give each adult cat two cages, so they are not squeezed into those pitiful little cubes.
I have found this site to be extremely helpful in my attempt to better understand the behavior of my temporary fur-babies and thus, take better care of them.
If I remember - and these days it's a challenge for my middle-age brain - I will take some pics of our most current "guests" and post them here.
Regards,
AddieBee