Monday, April 2, 2012
If awards were given for "cats who give the best performance acting like puppies," Cassie and DeSoto would win, paws down.
They're both a little clumsy, especially for cats. They both come running when they see you and one or the other might hurl themselves into your arms. They are friendly, they are cuddly and they never seem to meet a stranger. Cassie and DeSoto, sibling cats who reside in LifeLine Animal Project's no-kill Kitty Motel, almost seem to be two puppies living in the bodies of two sibling cats. They are waiting for adoption. They approach every person who visits them as a potential pet parent, running to meet visitors and, given a chance, climbing on their shoulder and riding around. The friendly twosome came to LifeLine as kittens when they were picked up by DeKalb County Animal Control. They were about 6 weeks old, sick and living on the …
Monday, March 12, 2012
One of 40 cats saved from an animal hoarding situation, playful Blossom is now itching to go from a rescue to a residence.
This spring, Blossom is hoping that someone with a kind heart will spring her from the Kitty Motel at LifeLine Animal Project. She is safe at the Avondale no-kill rescue. She recieves healthy food and daily care and attention from volunteers and staff. Yet some days Blossom will sit and paw at the window of LifeLine's Kitty Motel. "She really wants a home," says Mickie Blair, LifeLine's field coordinator who oversees almost everything concerning the cats at the shelter. Blossom is 3 years old and has a lovely black and white pattern on her longish fur. "People are always commenting on how pretty she is," Blair continues "and she's so playful and sweet, but she's also very much a typical cat in that you can tell when she's not happy. She's …
Monday, September 12, 2011
Black cats are adopted at a slower rate from animal shelters than any other color of cat. Why?
If a black cat crosses your path you are probably standing in the Kitty Motel at LifeLine Animal Project. The Kitty Motel is a cage-free, feline-friendly area where LifeLine houses homeless cats who are up for adoption at their Avondale Estates rescue. You can see the cats through the glass doors and window of the "motel" while sitting in the reception area of LifeLine's low-cost community spay and neuter clinic. The cats can see you, too. There are cats of every size and color playing, eating and napping, but there seems to be a surplus of mostly black, or all-black, cats and kittens. This is not unusual, according to Mickie Blair, who serves as LifeLine's field coordinator and cat adoption counselor. "Black cats get adopted at a slower …
Monday, July 11, 2011
At LifeLine Animal Project, the rescued cats who are up for adoption do not live in cages. They have their own motel.
This time of year the Kitty Motel at LifeLine Animal Project is as crowded as a beach town during spring break. It’s “kitten season” in Georgia and, like shelters across the country, LifeLine is finding their resources stretched and their space limited due to an overflow of kittens being born, abandoned and often abused in the Atlanta area. LifeLine rescues and rehabilitates homeless cats and kittens, mostly pulling them off the euthanasia list from county shelters and housing them in the Kitty Motel until they are adopted. The motel is a cage-free area where felines are free to socialize, roam, climb and play. It’s a group living situation and allows some freedom. It also allows potential adopters to see them in a more cat-natural …
Monday, June 27, 2011
It was a case of the homeless helping the homeless when a family living in their van saved a stray kitten from teens who were trying to harm him.
Big city streets are not the safest of playgrounds for homeless kittens. The dangers are legion for a population of urban cats who have to contend with traffic, pollution, lack of food and humans who sometimes want to hurt them. A family of three was living in their vehicle in a downtown Atlanta parking last year when they noticed a group of teenagers taunting a stray kitten and tossing him through the air. They’d seen the black and white kitten before, drinking from puddles and playing with trash that blew through the lot. They rescued the young cat from his tormentors, and moved him into their van with them, feeding him and keeping him out of harm’s way. They made a place for his litter box behind the driver’s seat. Moving from parking …
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Therra C. Gwyn
9:10 am on Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Cynthia, you are right! The Kitty Motel cats are so sweet and so varied in looks and personalities, it's hard to choose....there's a strong feeling of wanting to take them all home with you! Melissa, I have a rescued black cat too! Hooray for the black cat mamas! Thanks for your comments. more ›