Summer may be long over, but at Cat Town, Summer School is still in session! Seeing the enormous influx of cats at Oakland Animal Services earlier this year, we strategized with their staff to find a way to help the greatest number of at-risk cats and kittens. Summer School was our solution.
The day after I first met 8-year-old Laszlo at the shelter, all the cats in his section of the shelter went into quarantine for two weeks. I couldn’t visit him, but I couldn’t get him off my mind. I’d peek in the window to his room — and he’d see me and meow with everything he had. He couldn’t understand why I wouldn’t just come in to say hi.
This year, Cat Town has helped 139 scared, stressed, and undersocialized shelter cats and kittens. Before the year ends, I hope to get that number even higher, so we can help Poe. This tiny tuxedo hisses and growls whenever people approach him. But he’s not mean — he’s just telling us that he’s afraid.
