Maine Coon Adoptions, the adoption division of Preventing Euthanasia Through Rescue [PET Rescue], a nonprofit organization

November 2014

Do your heart a favor -- adopt a Maine Coon Cat!

650 &

counting

60,000

Get 14 months of MCA kitties and their unique rescue stories -- Elliott Smith (the famous kitty on

TV!), Jameson (the victim of a cruelty case in Bakersfield), Scamper (rescued from a home with

100 cats in cages)….now all of them are safe, loved and thriving!

Read about Marty & Simon,

our March 2015 calendar cats.

58 Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) improves the lives of

neighborhood cats and the people who live near

them by stopping the breeding cycle, saving

adoptable cats and drastically reducing the size of

colonies. Kelly Perry has gotten over 10,000 cats fixed

in the 16 years she’s been doing TNR work in Contra

Costa County. She joined our Maine Coon Adoptions

team last year. Our goal is to help the public resolve

cat overpopulation problems by fixing neighborhood

cats while saving adoptable cats and finding homes

for them. Kelly particularly loves assisting older folks

who have too many yard cats but lack the mobility or

the means to get them to a vet for spaying or

neutering. Currently, she’s helping a gentleman with

polio who is trying to care for 120 neighborhood cats.

Many cats Kelly traps are adoptable. For example,

she recently found 5 pretty Russian blue babies living

underground in a sewer system. MCA found homes

for two of them, and three (Kesa, Kirby & Kiwi --

pictured) are still available.

Denver & Dallas, two handsome buff-colored boys,

were discovered in 3’ high grass by someone mowing.

They were only about 30 days old, so Kelly hand fed

them a baby mash formula she makes herself. Now

they’re healthy and looking for their forever home. So,

too, is adorable Dottie, peeking out from the sheets.

She had a broken leg when Kelly found her, but

MCA’s vet fixed the leg & she’s all “set” to go.

TRAP, NEUTER, RETURN: THE EFFECTIVE, HUMANE WAY TO CONTROL OVERPOPULATION

That’s how many neighborhood

cats MCA trapped and spayed

or neutered this year to date.

Multiply that by 60,000!

That’s how many kittens one un-spayed

female and her offspring can produce in

one year, according to the Humane

Society of the United States.

That’s the number of neighborhood

cats MCA found homes for so far this

year because they were adoptable.

Here are 2 of them -- Jack & Jill.

MCA makes sure every cat it adopts out is spayed/neutered. An $85 donation covers a normal spay

procedure at our rescue vet’s discounted rates. $55 covers normal neutering. Please consider making a

donation to cover spaying or neutering one of our cats. If you’d like your donations to go specifically to

MCA’s TNR work, check “apply my donation to the Kelly Fund” on the donation slip on the back page.

Check out March 2015

kitties, Marty & Simon.

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Maine Coon Adoptions, a division of Preventing Euthanasia Through Rescue 2527 Carmel St. Oakland, CA 94602 ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED

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Mr. Fergus, the Advice Cat, says farewell….

Before succumbing to lymphoma, Mr. Fergus posted one more bit of advice for his

readers. He said, “Love, love, love those kitties of yours -- and donate to help cats

who haven’t found a loving home yet. I’m off to give Kitty Heaven the benefit of my

wise and wonderful advice. How have they managed without me?” (For those who are

new to the newsletter, Mr. Fergus wrote the MCA advice column for many years.)

You might have noticed that our

usual list of cats adopted and

their adoptive families is missing

from this newsletter. There’s a

wonderful reason for that. There

were so many adoptions, we just

didn’t have room for the list.

May it ever be so!

Meanwhile, we hope you’ll

enjoy a couple of happy tails

from those adoptions.

>>> Elaine Lyford-Nojima,

Director, MCA

198 kitties found loving

homes since our last

newsletter!!

When MCA foster Lori’s daughter saw darling

Minnie being thrown out of a car, she ran over

and scooped her up. Amazingly, Minnie

wasn’t hurt and purred throughout her bath –

a harbinger of her incredible personality.

She’s now happy as a clam with her forever

mom Jennifer.

Tina came out of a tough situation, and we could

not touch her when we got her. But thanks to our

fabulous kitty cuddler team, who come in to

socialize our shy kitties, Tina learned that people

can be kind, fun and loving. She found perfect

adopters in Nicole & Cory.

Lovely 8-year-old Kendra, came from a shelter

in the Central Valley where she certainly would

have been euthanized. Josie & Steve took her

into their hearts and their home.

Please apply my donation to the Kelly Fund. NL

Yes, I want to help the kitties!

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Please make checks payable to PET Rescue* and mail to:

Maine Coon Adoptions 2527 Carmel Street Oakland, CA 94602

*Certified by Independent Charities of America as

one of the Best In America

Maine Coon Adoptions is the adoption division of Preventing Euthanasia Through Rescue (PET Rescue)

PET Rescue is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, tax

ID No. 27-0225418.

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