Video “Covid-19 & TNR for cats” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_AWoreQQ_I&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3wEMorrwskWhz6am72-SEkUQYzEeFXynGOO9kQyNZ0_HbSS1alKlTfAd0 Reviewed by Merritt & Beth Clifton Edward Gibbon, in authoring the 1776 six-volume tome The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, said nothing of feral cats, but a parallel plot outline may be developing––just out of sight and out of mind––in and around the […]
Puppies & kittens everywhere, but none in shelters to adopt
Suspension of spay/neuter & intake services due to COVID-19 cuts adoptions by a third from 2019 NEW YORK CITY––Celebrating rehoming every dog and cat in custody soon after COVID-19 shutdowns began, animal shelters from coast to coast are suddenly––and predictably––weeping, wailing, and tearing hair about having no adoptable animals to offer in response to […]
$5 for a cat head: True stories of animal welfare, with hands-on tips for helping animals
by Linda Chitwood Director, The Homeless Animals Relief Project 200 pages, $29.00, c/o HARP, POB 371, Senatobia, MS 38668; https://homelessanimalsreliefproject.org/index.html. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Describing herself as “eighty percent of the way to dead,” longtime Memphis nurse anesthetist Linda Chitwood relocated forty miles south to Senatobia, Mississippi in 1996, apparently expecting to spend a lot […]