Cat heaven

After attending the candlelight vigil for the departed and missing felines that were lovingly cared for at the Cat Ladies' Society we walked around the two floors and many rooms - never such a wrong and grievous thing to see as all those empty beds.

714 CLS cats found forever homes last year alone

note the clever means of egress from room to room from above

upstairs in one of the Eat Play Sleep rooms

 The many ingenuous constructions looked as close to cat heaven as I've seen, and all was clean, shiny, spotless and/or freshly painted. 
The Cat Ladies Society blog can be read here.
Listed are many photographs and stories of The Disappeared cats.
Some news coverage here.     And here WKBN news article Sept. 22, 11 pm
Vindy newspaper article here

the cat tunnel doors from the other side

so many nifty shelves for prowling

more modular shelves and ramps

the only cat about was this stone guardian over the stairway

From PETA's own webpage ( http://www.peta.org/features/gandhi.aspx )   "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." They and most others wholey attribute this to Mahatma Gandhi.

But from someone who did the research at http://www.ivu.org/history/gandhi/ :: :

"However.... way back in 1883 Howard Williams published 'The Ethics of Diet - a Catena' a collection of articles by ethical writers. Williams was a friend of Gandhi at the London Vegetarian Society, and Gandhi clearly states in his autobiography that he read the book in the early 1890s. In the section on Schopenhauer, p.287, Williams quotes Dr. David Strauss (Die Alte und die Neue Glaube) "The manner in which a nation, in the aggregate, treats the other species, is one chief measure of its real civilisation." - so wherever Gandhi might have used his variation of the quote, he did not entirely originate it."

Very good video from WFMJ showing the bright-eyed bushy-tailed perky kitties and interview with the veterinarian tech: (okay, sorry folks, correction, blogger doesn't even seem to be allowing a video embedded right now with the other photos...? dunnno, whatever, check Post Below:  )



Contrast this with recent Colorado rescue scene on Sep 21, 2010 - http://cbs4denver.com/local/cats.seized.Greeley.2.1924909.html AND http://cbs4denver.com/news/cats.seized.Greeley.2.1922772.html
I was struck with how different that situation was handled compared to our gritty Valley here -- number 1 was that many of the kitties they took from the old guy's home had "upper respiratory" ailments which is the "kitty cold" !! AND there is no mention of having to put them down for their mere colds! in fact many of the cats would be up for adoption in a few days -- faster than all the time it took Charities to execute their despicable deed. Different area [income, class?] of the country, different attitude.

Second earlier WFMJ video of what it looked like with statement from Borosky: ((blogger seems to be not letting 2 videos be posted in one Post, so please see POST below (or at the link)))