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Norm

Norm is over the hump of his URI and he is ready to go home – in fact, I need to get him out of the vets by tomorrow as they are full for the holidays…Can ANYONE take him, even short term until the first week in January?  He will still need to be isoed from other cats as he is still recovering – only needs one pill a day though (antibiotic).  Need someone who is ok with shy cats and can of course ISO him – nothing big, but he is recovering from an Upper Respiratory.  Vet says he is a little hissy when they medicate him but it is all talk and he is sweet once you know you aren’t going to hurt him.

I am leaving Wednesday to go back east for 2 weeks so I can not take him – thus, he has no where to go… 

Also, donations are still needed to take care of his vetting which has been $600 +… 

Please contact me if you can help at cdzacko@gmail.com or 310-721-5802

Cat and Kitten Adoptions – The Peter Zippi Fund for Animals

When:
Every Thursday And Sunday

Time:
5pm to 6:30pm on Thursday…. 1pm to 3pm on Sunday

Location:
VCA Coast Animal Hospital 1560 Pacific Coast Highway Hermosa Beach CA 90254 Info: (310) 379-1264

Description:
Beautiful, loving cats and kittens looking for forever homes!
The Peter Zippi Memorial Fund for Animals is a registered 501c3 charity dedicated to finding homes for cats and kittens. Founded by Dr. Alice Villalobos, they have placed over 11,500 animals (mostly cats and kittens) since 1979.

Website:
www.peterzippifund.com

"Poet" The Russian Blue

Poet is available for adoption at Peter Zippi. http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=15345948

DNA – Janny Tran – Los Angeles area 

Adopted a cat earlier this year. Lost her job and is “moving back home” so can’t take the cat because the cat “goes through cabinets, scratches things, etc.”  

She has no phone at this time because she did not pay her phone bill. 

E-mail: tko@xxxx.com 

She might be looking for another cat some time down the road.

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Los Angeles, CA – Conservation groups win suit to force city to conduct required environmental review of feral cat program.

Six conservation groups won a lawsuit on Friday against the City of Los Angeles and its Department of Animal Services to stop the practice of encouraging feral cat colonies until the legally required environmental impact reviews are performed.

The Los Angeles Superior Court found that the City of Los Angeles had been “secretly and unofficially” promoting “Trap-Neuter-Return,” a controversial program to allow feral cats to run free, even while the Department of Animal Services promised to conduct an environmental review of the program.

The Court ordered the City to stop implementing TNR.

The plaintiffs, The Urban Wildlands Group, Endangered Habitats League, Los Angeles Audubon Society, Palos Verdes/South Bay Audubon Society, Santa Monica Bay Audubon Society, and the American Bird Conservancy, sued the City in June 2008 to ensure that the controversial program to sanction and maintain feral cat colonies was not implemented before a full and public environmental analysis.

The groups decided legal action was necessary after their investigation revealed that the City had been unofficially implementing a so-called “Trap-Neuter-Return” program and the City repeatedly declined their request to stop implementing the program until environmental review was performed.

Although the City insisted that no such program existed, the Court concurred with the conservation groups and concluded in its Friday ruling that, “implementation of the program is pervasive, albeit ‘informal and unspoken.’”

“Our goal was to see that the City follows the California Environmental Quality Act by thoroughly assessing the program’s impacts on the environment and considering alternatives and mitigation measures before making specific programmatic decisions,” said Babak Naficy, attorney for plaintiffs.

“Feral cats have a range of impacts to wildlife, human health, and water quality in our cities. The impacts of institutionalizing the maintenance of feral cat colonies through TNR should be discussed in an open, public process before any such program is implemented,” Naficy said.

In June 2005, the Los Angeles Board of Animal Services Commissioners adopted TNR as the “preferred method of dealing with feral cat populations as its official policy.” Thereafter, the Board directed the General Manager to prepare an analysis of the program under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

This analysis was never completed but the Department implemented major portions of the program anyway.

The Department issued coupons for free or discounted spay/neuter procedures for feral cats being returned to neighborhoods and open spaces, including parks and wildlife areas. It also began refusing to accept trapped feral cats or to issue permits to residents to trap feral cats. The Department assisted outside organizations that performed TNR by donating public space, advertising their services, and referring the public to their TNR programs. The Department even encouraged and assisted in establishing new feral cat colonies at City-owned properties. The Superior Court recognized these actions as illegal implementation of the TNR program that could have an impact on the environment and enjoined the City from further pursuing the program until it complied with CEQA.

Dr. Travis Longcore, Science Director of The Urban Wildlands Group, said, “Feral cats are documented predators of native wildlife. We support spaying and neutering all cats in Los Angeles, which is the law, but do not support release of this non-native predator into our open spaces and neighborhoods where they kill birds and other wildlife.”

Even when fed by humans, cats instinctively hunt prey, including birds, lizards and small mammals. Colonies of feral cats, often thriving with the aid of handouts from humans, harm native wildlife and contaminate water bodies with fecal bacteria.

Longcore continued, “TNR is promoted as a way to reduce feral cat populations but scientific research shows that 70–90% of cats must be sterilized for cat populations to decline. This is virtually impossible to achieve in practice, but population reduction can be achieved with only 50% removal.”

The City must now stop its TNR program and any further proposal to implement such a program must undergo objective scientific review as part of the CEQA process. This will ensure that the public has adequate opportunity to comment and that significant impacts on parks, wildlife, water quality, and human health are avoided.

For further information about Trap-Neuter-Return see:

• Longcore, T., C. Rich, and L. M. Sullivan. 2009. Critical assessment of claims regarding management of feral cats by trap–neuter–return. Conservation Biology 23(4):887–894. http://www.ca.audubon.org/chapter_assets/Longcoreetal2009ConBio.pdf
• Williams, T. 2009. Felines fatales. Audubon Magazine. Sept-Oct, pp. 30–38. http://audubonmagazine.org/incite/incite0909.html
• Hat Tip: http://tnrrealitycheck.com/legalert.asp

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The Urban Wildlands Group is dedicated to the conservation of species, habitats, and ecological processes in urban and urbanizing areas.

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Snowflake at East Valley

UPDATE: 12/11 Snowflake was rescued today! Thank you everyone who networked him!

SNOWFLAKE is a loving, outgoing 10-month-old white male kitty. He’s so wonderful that they’ve kept him at East Valley since October 24th! When I visited him he just rubbed again the cage bars and wanted me to pet him. This amazing boy has a very slight cold and is in medical and on the Red List. With a little Clavamox (oral antibiotic), he will be in perfect health! Impound # A1072776. A rescue group was supposed to save him Sunday, but never showed up. Urgent situation.

VIDEO of Snowflake (need to use IE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVXYI9pi9lE

East Valley Shelter, IMPOUND # A1072776
14409 Vanowen Street, Van Nuys 91405
Ask for Veronica – New Hope Coordinator
818-756-9323

Hi Everyone!

I just wanted to let you know that you can now register and/or receive updates on my website/blog www.lifesapet.com  which is a animal rescue site for Los Angeles County. You now can post your rescue/shelter cats or dogs, adoption events, news articles, DNA’s, Lost and found, and rescued animals directly to the site absolutely FREE.

*This site is open to all rescuers, not just 501(c) groups. It is dedicated to all homeless animals* 

Your posts will then be automatically shown on twitter and facebook for more exposure! You can also opt in to receive updates in your email whenever there is a new post on the site.

To register: Under the title “Register And Post” in the left sidebar, click on register and sign up. It’s fast and easy! Your email is never given out to anyone.

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Please email me if you have any questions or suggestions-

Thank you for your support and saving lives of homeless animals! We are all in this together!

Caryn Klein-Administrator cklein@lifesapet.com

CLICK HERE TO SEE THEIR CATS & KITTENS

PACT does not do ‘long distance’ adoptions. 

 You must come in person to adopt from them, so please come in for a visit.