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Our community as most others, has focused primarily on sheltering homeless cats. This model, however, works only when the number of misplaced cats is in line with the number of availible homes for them.
With an estimated 21,000 cats in Lenawee County and several hundred relinquished pet cats this year, the system breaks down. The shelters soon overflow and are forced into euthanizing or warehousing the surplus. Being knee-deep in cats, the shelters can barely handle the ones that come to them and have no time left over to address the root problems.
We believe that breaking this cycle is paramount. Only by increasing the cat adoption rate while decreasing the cat birth rate can all companion cats find loving homes and all feral cats live in managed outdoor colonies.
So rather than operating as a shelter, we've chosen to supplement the valuable services of the existing local shelters with aggressive community outreach programs to reduce their intake.
This shifts our focus from saving individual cats to improving the lot of all cats. Our actions are trageted at solving the root problems of too many cats and too few homes. This is what causes the suffering of the individual cats and until it's addressed, all cats are at risk.
P.O. Box 576
Tecumseh, MI 49286-0576
