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This year, we shall refrain from the begging, the cajoling, and the making of a YouTube video depicting orphaned kittens crying tears of abandonment while Cold Play seeps into your brain’s guilt receptors.
Instead, we celebrate your good intentions and invite you to do something that any normal, busy person can pull off. If this small act leads to you spending 10 hours per week socializing kittens, only to end up directing your own YouTube adoption video, it’s not our fault.
Without further ado, here are 5 extremely easy ways to make shelter cats’ lives better, from our friends at the ASPCA and Petfinder.com:
1. Donate Your Facebook Status
You're on Facebook right now, so just do this one. Donate your status to Petfinder's efforts!
Paste this message into the “What’s on your mind?" box at the top of your page: “June is Adopt-A-Shelter-Cat Month. Save a life: Adopt a cat! http://www.petfinder.com” Done.
2. "Like" Fresh Step's Facebook Page
For each "Like," Fresh Step will donate $1 to the ASPCA.
3. Clear Some Clutter
Old towels, crates, blankets and pillows are junk to you. But they're comfy, wonderful beds to homeless cats. Call your local shelter, ask what they need, then go give your stuff a new life!
4. Throw a Party
You were looking for an excuse to throw a party anyway, right?
Turn your next get together into a mini-fundraiser by making it shelter cat-themed and including a donation jar. You do have to drop the money off at your local shelter though. Giving it to the guest that lives closest to the shelter and guilting them into dropping it off for you is also acceptable.
5. Email the Media
Shoot an email to your local news blogger, newspaper, TV or radio station and give them a head's up about Shelter Cat Month. Even better: Invite them to your party.
...You're thinking about adopting a cat now, aren't you? In case you are, we've compile a slideshow of Adoptable Cats You'll Love! But this one really is for lifelong commitment types.
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This is a good article. I have several times raised money just to buy supplies for my local shelter. It's so rewarding to see the appreciation on the faces of the staff. And it makes me feel good that I am doing something for the animals, since my house is full with 8 cats and a large dog, all strays or shelter pets.
i have been fostering kitties for deployed soldiers for over 2 years now. its called operation noble foster. i have met some wonderful people and have had the opportunity to care for their kitties they would have lost otherwise. i have 2 kitties of my own and they are used to having foster kitties in the house.
me and my friend LOVE :) this kitten!!!!!!!!!!!!