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Cats: Adoption Extravaganza

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The kittens and I went to Belton yesterday for the 4th Annual Pet Adoption Extravaganza, sponsored by Rescue Magazine. This was a marvelous event. Milam Touch of Love’s booth was back-to-back with the Rockdale ACO’s booth, so we worked together. Rockdale brought six dogs, and they were adopted within the first hour. We encouraged her to bring more animals, so she made the trek and returned with five more dogs. One of those got adopted, so she had seven adoptions yesterday. (For anyone not local to me, Rockdale is a city in Milam County, so it’s an area Milam Touch of Love is committed to supporting.)

Milam Touch of Love brought my four foster kittens, a fostered lab mix, a mama lab mix with four of her puppies, and a boxer mix. Everyone but the kittens was neutered or spayed, current on vaccinations and heartworm/flea preventative, and microchipped. The kittens are current on their vaccinations and flea preventative but not spayed or neutered yet (old enough by some standards but not mine). Mama lab mix and her four puppies all got adopted. Our other two dogs got some serious looks but their right people weren’t at the event, I guess. The kittens got a lot of attention in the afternoon but no takers. I was thankful a couple of the lookers didn’t develop — the kittens were tense and concerned throughout most of the event, but they were distinctly uncomfortable for one or two of the people looking at them.

This adoption event was well-run and attendees were generally knowledgeable about what it takes to own a pet and were very receptive to our suggested adoption donation. It helped that all our dogs were fully vetted. We had five volunteers at the event plus the Rockdale ACO. Our volunteers worked in both booths as needed, helping with questions, paperwork, and generally watching over things. We had a wire pen set up for visitation. This allowed people to interact with the dogs before deciding if they wanted to adopt them, and I believe this was helpful. People and pups could spend quality time in a more relaxed situation to have a chance to get to know one another better. We’re looking forward to participating in this event next year.

Cats: Friday Night Drama and a PSA

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We had a little excitement at the house last night. Ajax began attacking Jase for no apparent reason, and we had to protect Jase to make sure nobody got hurt.

In recent weeks, Ajax has been spending more time in the kitchen, and he’s been allowing Jase to nuzzle him. We’ve watched Jase carefully to ensure he wasn’t doing anything to hurt Ajax, and he wasn’t. As near as we can figure, Ajax got tired of being nuzzled and decided to take action. Jase tried to take refuge in his crate, and Ajax tried to follow Jase into his crate. We got them separated and closed Jase’s crate door a few times for his own protection (and Ajax’s, too, because if Jase gave even one nip back, he could kill Ajax).

This morning, so far, everyone seems to be minding their own business, which I hope was Ajax’s intent in attacking last night. We’ve seen Ajax attack other cats (that’s why he and Sneaky are separated), but it was surprising to see him go after Jase who is seven times his size.

In Public Service Announcement mode for a minute. Please, please, please spay and neuter your dogs and cats. Shelters everywhere are filled to the brim with unwanted animals. It’s kitten dumping season, and that’s heartbreaking to see. Someone in town found four kittens in the dumpster at a local car wash this morning. One of our directors is fostering four kittens found dumped in a box in the rain a week or so ago. You think spaying and neutering is expensive, but allowing them to procreate is expensive, too.

And if you’re looking for an animal, please adopt from a shelter or a rescue organization. Consider being a foster to a shelter or rescue animal. We do our best to socialize all our animals, and I know other shelters and rescues do, too, but there’s nothing like a home environment for these fur babies.

Cats: We Have An Announcement

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Our human is doing something we’re pretty puffed about, so we decided to take over the blog today to let you know about it. Back in March, a group of local folks talked about ways they could support the local pound. Those discussions expanded to discuss how they could help cats and dogs and their owners in the county. This group of people decided to honor the local animal control officer’s “Touch of Love” Facebook Page by expanding on the name just a little bit and Milam Touch of Love was born. During this group’s meeting, they also selected a Board of Directors and vision and mission statements. As part of their integration, the group adopted the Facebook Group.

The Board of Directors took it from there — our human was chosen to be one of the board members. They did a bunch of paperwork and are now legal in the State of Texas. They’re accepting donations now (we understand donations of money, dog food (even cat food and cat litter), supplies, and other things are very important to what they do).  Oh, and other donations are important too — time, transportation to get an animal from one place to another (we don’t drive, you understand), or even temporary housing while we’re waiting for our forever family to find us. Sometimes just sharing information about us (well, not US — we have our home, but for the dogs and cats that are still looking) can make all the difference. They have filed paperwork with the IRS asking for determinationa as a (we hope we get this right, it’s supposed to be important) 501(c)(3) entity.

How do you find out more?

Go to our Facebook Group and join in — this is where people share about dogs and cats and sometimes other animals lost from home or looking for homes.

Check out our new website.  This is where you can learn more about us, join us, or ask for more information.