Tag: cats

The first time I wandered into Intown Hardware in Virginia-Highland was by accident. Suffering from dreary winter blues, I had decided to brighten my apartment with some indoor plants, and happened to drive past the store. They might have plants there, I thought. The easy parking won me over, beating congested big-box parking lots by a landslide.

The Georgia Tech Green is one of 14 stations that 280 members of the Georgia Tech Campus Cats club maintain, servicing about 50 community cats. With an app created by computer science students to record and share observations, they track the cats’ whereabouts and coordinate veterinary care and daily feedings.

Excitement filled the air of Duluth’s Gas South Convention Center one sunny Sunday morning this spring—as did the plaintive mewling of a Bengal cat named Wigglebutt Wanna Build a Snowman, as did a series of facts delivered by Steven Meserve, who has long blond hair and lives in a pink mansion in Portugal with his partner and 25 feline companions.

Atlantan Normer Adams on cat rescue and conquering fears (and starlings)

Sheltering in place can get lonely. Atlantans fostered pets in record numbers last year, and we adopted dogs, cats, reptiles, birds, and all sorts of creatures to keep us company. It was the start of many beautiful relationships.

A dog lover struggles to understand felines’ attachment to teleconferencing.

Sterling Davis talks trap-neuter-return, with style: "People ask me, What is TNR? Is it a dance? Is it a drug? I’ve got a lot of work to do."

"People see the cat and they see me on the bike, and they get happy. It makes me feel like I have some influence in my life with other people to make them feel happy and maybe even feel a little bit of peace, rather than just negativity."

In a month-long period ending April 13, LifeLine had tallied 925 adoptions and 946 foster placements (1,871 animals total) at its three facilities, trouncing the tally for the entirety of March and April last year by about 200 pets.