Cats!

This past weekend the Edmonton Humane Society had a Groovy Cat adoption event which drastically cut the costs to adopt a cat or kitten.  They were over capacity again and every so often need to do this to try and get some room at the shelter.  Well the good news is they adopted out over 200 felines, what a relief.  However just in the last few days they have had another 200 cats and kittens brought in, mostly strays. 

They do such amazing work at the Edmonton Humane Society and now have a wonderful new facility for cats, dogs and other animals in need.  It boggles my mind though that in a rich province like Alberta we have such a problem.  Why won't people spay or neuter their cats?  They let them run around outside unfixed, and often treat them as disposable.  People move and leave them behind even in the harsh winter months. 

 It is good that some people are surrendering their animals to the shelter if they can no longer keep them, it is the responsible thing to do.  There will just not be enough homes to go around at some point if we don't help control the population.  Some day when I am no longer working full time I hope to volunteer there and help out how I can.    I have lots of cat and dog petting abilities that I would be all to happy to use : )