A Cat's Blog

” There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.”

~ Jules Champfleury ~

My name’s Lancelot
Like my distant cousin the ocelot
I want to be king of the sandlot
I like my foster home alot
But I want my own Camelot
Won’t you please plot
To adopt your very own Sir Lancelot?

©L. Kupfer
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Lancelot is available for adoption!  Check out Lancelot’s page here.

And yes, that is him featured in the Quote of the Day – 08/05/09

Rusty Rusty
Sweet little Rusty
Never ever dusty
Doesn’t smell musty
Can be a little crusty
And slightly mistrusty
Rusty Rusty
Sweet little Rusty

©S. Ranea Wright-Noha
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Thanks to Ranea for coming up with this rhyme for Rusty!

View Rusty’s page here

“Cats look beyond appearances–beyond species entirely, it seems–to peer into the heart.”

~ Barbara L. Diamond ~

“Don’t let anyone tell you loving a cat is silly. Love, in any form, is a precious commodity.”

~ Barbara L. Diamond ~

From KLFY-Channel 10 news in Lafayette, Louisiana:

Vermilion Animal Shelter Concerns
Posted: Aug 6, 2009 07:49 PM CDT

Animal advocates around Acadiana are sharing their concerns about conditions at the Vermilion Parish Animal Control Center.

Those concerns are focused on what animal rescue advocates say is the lack of an ongoing adoption program, which has led to an extremely high euthanasia rate, and the method used to perform that euthanasia.

One of the major allegations being leveled by animal advocates is that Vermilion Parish Animal Control, whose headquarters are actually known as Vermilion Rabies Control, makes little effort to find homes for adoptable animals, and as a result, as many as 200 animals are euthanized each month in a gas chamber that witnesses say is malfunctioning, and allegedly requires two cycles to leave the animals lifeless.

After months of concern, animal advocates are finally speaking out.

“The main situation is that the public does not know that it is a strictly kill shelter, it’s a high kill shelter, it’s one of the highest kill shelters in the United States, they do not have an adoption program, animal aid rescues the dogs when we have room….that’s our main goal is to notify people that after four days, if you don’t reclaim your pet and we can’t find a home, it will be put down in the gas chamber” says Vermilion Animal Aid’s Darline LaBry

LaBry and her fellow volunteers say they want the public to be realistic about the situation, and as a community, to take action.

“We just would like to see people understand that this is a strictly kill shelter and we can only do so much, and we need everyone to band together to help out.”

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“Cats are creatures that express a multitude of moods and attitudes.”

~ Karen Brademeyer ~

 This handsome little guy is the same one found in the Quote Of The Day – 05/26/09 post. Somebody found him abandoned on the side of the road as a tiny kitten, with a slightly sprained hind leg. We named him Breaux, because he was found near Breaux Bridge, about 10 minutes away on I-10 from Lafayette. Wasn’t he such a cute little baby?  Breaux definitely had quite the purrr-sonality and cat-titude to match!  We fostered him until he was about 4 months old, and he was successfully adopted.

“To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality.”

~ Lilian Jackson Braun ~

“Each one of our cats is a distinct, four-footed little person with an individual personality.”

~ Ira B. Rubin ~

“The constant challenge to decipher feline behavior is perhaps one of the most fascinating qualities of owning a cat.”

Carole Wilbourn ~