Cat Housing in Shelters
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- 2. Cat Housing: San Francisco SPCA
- 3. Cat Housing: Nebraska Humane Society
- 4. Cat Housing: UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program
- 5. Cat Housing: Animal Humane New Mexico
- 6. Cat Housing: Animal Friends, Inc.
- 7. Cat Housing: Cat Care Society
- 8. Cat Housing: SPCA of Central Florida
- 9. Cat Housing: Humane Society of Sedona
Cat Housing: Cat Care Society
The following is from the Summer 2010 issue of Protecting Animals, American Humane's quarterly journal for animal welfare professionals. Used by permission. To learn more, visit www.AmericanHumane.org.
By Abbi Collins, Adoption Manager of Cat Care Society, Lakewood, CO
All of our cats are housed in colony rooms, and
we have been doing it this way since 1981. (You can find
pictures on our website under "Virtual Tour" at
www.catcaresociety.org.) Enrichment consists of
volunteers who come in weekly and visit the cats to play,
groom and cuddle.
We have an internal program called
"Love-A-Cat" where our vet tech selects new or older cats
who need extra attention for socialization, easing the
transition into the shelter and/or maintaining a healthy
attitude. Staff members are encouraged to pick one of the
cats on the list to spend time with on a daily basis. Every
colony room contains lots of toys, a water fountain, one
or more scratching posts or pads, windows and shelves.
We also provide various types of bedding arrangements,
including open beds, hooded beds and rugs. Four of
the colony rooms have outdoor enclosures that we call
"Habicats." The cats have access to them when the
weather is nice, via a cat door, and each Habicat has
chairs for visitors.
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