Blog 08/24/15 to 08/30/15  

Relocations and In Take

Our Cats after Release

Bad Calls/Emails:  Barn Cat Website Hacked

BMG (Bitch/Moan/Groan):  List of Organizations

OMG (Oh My God):  Rudy:  It’s an Old Injury

Relocations and In Take:   Placed 13 this week.  

3          Barn in Cleburne (Heidi, Toby, Little Girl)

3          Barn in Roanoke (Joe, Houston, Olivia)

4          Barn/Garage in Celina (Fric, Kolby, Lilly, Gilbert)

3          Barn in Farmersville (Primrose, Stripe, Cleo)

While I was out of town, the organization we support in Bonham did 15 spays/neuters – GREAT JOB – STOP THE BREEDING!  

Our Cats after Release:  

1.     Ennis – Placed Charlotte, a cat from an SPCA hoarder rescue, in this barn in Ennis.  She is doing GREAT – even letting the barn owner pick her up!  WOW!            

Bad Calls/EMAILS:  Barn Cat Website Hacked

YES – someone has hacked our website since April.  Why does anyone HACK a non-profit website?  We are not selling anything.  There is no personal info there.  I don’t get it.  Plus as we get “under the covers”, there are entries in FRENCH!  WHAT?  How our web resources will be spending many hours cleaning up this mess.  I apologize to anyone that sees the “This website may have been hacked” message if they use a Google browser.  It does not show up if you use FireFox…which is what I use.  A volunteer with the Humane Society of Lewisville noticed this and let us know.  Hope our guys can get it fixed soon.  We are getting into our BUSY SEASON and need those references.  BUMMER! 

           

BMG:  List of Organizations

When an individual goes to some local no-kill shelters and they cannot help the person, they hand out a list of other organizations to contact.  Those poor people start calling and get constant message boxes that say “We are full”.  That message never changes and often the groups never return any phone messages.  SO – that list thing is not the way to really FIND AN ADOPTION GROUP!  Other that the SPCA of Texas, Dog and Kitty City, Operations Kindness, and the DFW Humane Society, the other 200-400 adoptions groups in the DFW area do not have “shelters”.  They do foster homing which means that the animals are all in their homes during the week.  These groups are all volunteer and they rarely return phone messages.  But they all have to go somewhere to show their cats and dogs to get them adopted.  They all go to PetsMart and Petco locations each Saturday and Sunday.  THAT IS WHERE YOU FIND THEM!  You need to call all those stores within a reasonable driving distance, ask a store manager what groups go there each day on each weekend and what times they are there, then GO TO THE STORE when the group is there.  They cannot get away from you because you are standing in front of them, they have to be nice because you are in the store, and you can take the animal to show.  That is how you “Play the Game!” – not with a series of phone messages.

      

OMG:     Rudy:  It’s an Old Injury!

Received Rudy before I left on vacation.  Volunteers noticed that he was limping on a front foot.  So – took him to the vet, they knocked him out and took x-rays.  The foot/leg was broken some time back and it has healed incorrectly.  Now he will limp forever.  Looks like we have another permanent resident in the cat room.

 

Thanks for following the Barn Cats Blog.  See you all next week.      Peg