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Which do you prefer a dog or a cat?
Cheryl came to Animal Lovers looking for help. She works at Oneida Middle School in Schenectady and had recently seen a cat walking near the outside of the school. She said she believed the cat was pregnant and was concerned for her welfare. Cheryl asked if there was any way we could help. I told her that if she could catch the cat, AnimaLovers would provide her with whatever care was needed. Cheryl spent the weekend walking around the school and the neighborhood looking for the cat, but was unable to find her.
The next day I decided to take a drive over there and help with the search. I walked around the school and the neighborhood, and looked in every place I could think of. Finally, I walked in between two fences which were covered with weeds (I thought it was poison ivy, but went in anyway). Lo and behold, there she was - just sitting there as if to say "What took you so long? I took her to the vet and learned that she was very healthy (except for fleas) and very pregnant. I took her home with me and gave her food (and lots of it), warmed her up and gave her a box and blankets to have her babies in. I named her Oneida after the place where she was found. Only four days after I met Oneida, she gave birth to 4 kittens.
I've been sending pictures of Oneida and her kittens to Cheryl, who then shared them with the school staff. Everyone at school was excited at this successful rescue effort. The school has decided to collect donations there to help AnimaLovers help others like Oneida and her kittens and we thank them so much for that.
Cats
Why cats
-Of course we all know just how crazy a cat can be. Tabetha is our little "tiger cub", she loves the hunting games and her sense of fun and frolics has us in stiches of laughter. The funniest moments are when, all of a sudden, she will glance at you with her big wide mad eyes, and then like a flash of lightening, she suddenly makes a made dash at high speed across the room, claws digging deep into the carpet for grip and then, as her traction is undermined by a change of surface, she is sent skidding sideways on a laminate floor!! Once she has regained control she thunders up the stairs and races around the bedrooms. Tabetha is only a small cat, but she sounds like an elephant thundering across the floor from downstairs!
Affectionate? Actually that's slightly wrong. A dog has owners and a cat has staff. I think that's what I find so fascinating about cats, they always know their own mind - so it seems. Mind you Tabetha follows us around like a little dog most of the time! She just loves the company of her family, and doesn't like being left alone.I think that's spot on. You can see Tabetha on the right, she gets utterly spoiled - she expects no less. As we're so completely mad about cats that she gets anything she wants, well almost everything - sometimes I misunderstand what she has asked for, and then she goes off in a huff, but that's not very often. She is a very good tempered cat, incredibly friendly and playful and very vocal. Tabetha is constantly 'talking' she has a huge vocabulary of 'words', noises, squeeks, and chirrups and the occasional mad growl when she is playing (which is often). We normally know exactly what she wants when she asks.
-Her favourite game is playing with a toy called a 'Cat Dancer'. A simple toy: A piece of thin springy wire about 1m long with several pieces of twisted fibre-like material at the end. She loves jumping around trying to swat it, or endlessly chasing it around in circles, especially in the garden.
She can be resting, queen-like, on her bed (I mean our bed!) and I can quietly enter the room say "do you
Dogs
Why Dogs
-Not too long ago, were considered a tad exotic. In the 1950s, the sporty mid-size breed was a suburban rarity, popular mainly among upper-crust Anglophiles who liked the idea of owning a dignified hunting dog. Today, however, Labs are the Levi's jeans of purebred dogs. They've topped the American Kennel Club's for 12 years straight. And not just topped, but dominated: The number of registered Labs is nearly three times the number of the second most popular dog on the list.
So how did the affable, otter-tailed Lab become the nation'sNo. 1purebred dog? Its ascent may have something to do with the supersizing of the American home. Prior to the Labrador's reign, the held the AKC's top spot for eight years; before that, the was;No. 1for a remarkable quarter-century. Labs, which can weigh more than 80 pounds and measure 25 inches from paw to shoulder, are Goliaths compared to these breeds.
-Even the standard poodle, which is bigger than the miniature or toy poodle and can be almost as tall as a Lab, usually weighs 15 to 20 pounds less. And Labs are an infamously rambunctious breed; they need more space to frolic and flourish than poodles or cocker spaniels.Which is why the Labrador's increasing popularity may be tied to the advent of exurbs and Since 1971, the average size of an American home has risen 55 percent, to 2,320 square feet. Families aren't having more children to fill up the extra space, so there's plenty of room for a Labrador to romp around. In Manhattan, meanwhile, where space is at a premium, tiny are the most popular breed; the four-legged sausages are No. 6 on the AKC's nationwide list, with 40,770 registrants compared to 146,692 Labs.