Katie in her foster home

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Cats

An overwhelming majority of U.S. animal control agencies and shelters keep a firm grip on outdated animal damage control laws and species-inappropriate policies that result in the killing of over 71 percent of all cats—pet, stray, and feral—that enter their facilities. Virtually every feral cat that animal control traps or that enters a shelter dies. - Alley Cat Allies

Learn Your ABCs - Animal Birth Control

Every animal purchased from a breeder or a pet shop fills a home that could have taken in a dog or a cat dying for a home at a local shelter. Each year in the United States, animal shelters are forced to put to death roughly half of the estimated 8 million unwanted dogs and cats who pour into their overwhelmed facilities.

Healthy, social, loveable animals lose their lives because of simple math: too many animals and not enough homes.

(-from PETA.org)

Anti-Cruelty Spay/Neuter Discount Programs

Low Income Clinic

The Anti-Cruelty Society also operates a low income clinic for people who may not otherwise be able to afford proper veterinary care. Please call (312) 644-8338 to speak with a clinic receptionist for details on services and qualification criteria.

Pit Pals & Feral Cat Programs

If you own a pit bull or a pit bull mix, you may qualify for participation in our Pit Pals Program, which means you can have your pet spayed or neutered for free. Feral cats, too, can be spayed or neutered for free. For more information, please call (312) 644-8338.

The Animal Welfare League offers $15 micro chipping for pets on the last Saturday of each month between 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm.

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LINKS

• Animals Deserving of Proper Treatment (ADOPT): A Naperville-based shelter for abandoned cats and dogs.
• Chicago Canine Rescue
• Tree House Animal Foundation: Tree House is the largest cageless, no-kill shelter for injured, sick and abandoned cats in the Chicagoland area.
• Animal Protection Institute
• PETA
• Click to Give: The Animal Rescue Site
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• Cute Overload!
• Daily Coyote: An inspiring young woman takes an abandoned baby coyote into her home. She is a writer and photographer and posts gorgeous photos daily.

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This is a blog dedicated to animals; narratives and pictures of my own menagerie and from the out in the field of rescue. One of my goals is to post at least 1 animal a day from the rescues I work with, and to help them find homes. These dogs and cats, puppies and kittens, are all on the brink of euthanasia due to being strays or turned in to animal control by their own "families." I hope to bring some enlightenment to the world about the plight of animals in general, and specifically these domesticated ones.

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