Animal Turn Over

When collecting a head count for day 2 blogger, I accidentally counted through all four cat rooms and received a number of approximately 40 news cats. More shocking than that this week was the number of empty cages I decided to count. A volunteer informed me that there had been an outbreak of feline leukemia earlier this week and they were forced to euthanize over 30 cats because the disease spread so quickly. Even a set of adopted kittens had to be called back, tested, and euthanized. It really puts a lot into perspective about how important it is to follow all dress guidelines so that we do not assist in these outbreaks. I became nervous after a while when a group of teenagers strolled in and wanted to take the cats out of the cages and play with them. It wasn’t long after I had asked two girls to put on gloves and gown that the cat next door to the kitten they were just handling proceeded to get sick. About an hour later a whole box of kittens (5) were assigned a temporary cage. Then when I was leaving the shelter there were three animals waiting in line to be vaccinated and replaced in their designated rooms. Cats especially are so overpopulated and they all have the potential to be loved. It is hard to grasp that such a sweet girl like Chole here could be the next because of her age and the demand for more cages and fast.

Meet Diana a social photogenic orange tabby that has been at the WCAS since May 9^th. There could be a couple reasons why Diana has not found a home including that she is a orange tabby and most tabbys tend to be looked over for a tuxedo or calico. Another could be because her online photo does not show how much personality she really has.