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‘Time spent
with cats is never wasted.’
Sigmund Freud
Cat Haven is a non-profit Baton Rouge organization established to rescue and find homes for cats and kit-tens – more than 5,000 so far.
It finds homes primarily by hosting adoption events every Saturday.
All cats adopted through Cat Haven have been spayed or neutered, vacci-nated, and tested for feline leukemia and feline immu-nodeficiency virus.
In addition to finding good homes for felines, Cat Haven has a program
to reduce the number of feral cats in the area.
Cat Haven has trapped, neutered, and released almost 4,500 feral cats. Through neutering, the po-tential for more unwanted cats is reduced.
Cat Haven has no paid
staff and depends com-pletely on volunteers and donors.
The organization also relies on veterinarians who provide it with health care at reduced rates and are al-ways available to provide help and answer questions.
Caught by Cat Haven volunteer Kristina Shapiro the night before at Celtic Me-dia Center, Celtic Kitty arrives at the vet school Sunday morning.
Kristina (left) registers Celtic Kitty with Spay Day Coordinator Jason Stagg. Student volunteer Brittany Chappell registers her cat also.
The caged cats are lined up to be weighed and “prepped” by volunteer vet students waiting on the right. The cats will be returned here after surgery.
Vet students prepare the pre-op table for the large number of cats, each of which must be anesthetized and shaved.
Vet student Peter Armstrong puts lu-bricating drops into Celtic Kitty’s eyes since she is unable to blink while anes-thetized.
Dr. Martha Littlefield performs the operation on Celtic Kitty. Spaying fe-males takes more time than neutering males.
Celtic Kitty is carried from the operating table to the clipping table where the tip of one ear will be clipped for future identification.
Dr. Gregg Griffenhagen clips the tip of one ear of each feral cat, so that if re-caught, it can be identified as already having been neutered.
After a night of recovery, Celtic Kitty is released by Kristina to resume rodent patrol at Celtic Media Center, where she is re-named Audrey Hepburn.
Cat Haven’s monthly Spay Day is a day when volunteer veterinarians and students from the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine work with Cat Haven, Capital Area Animal Welfare Society (CAAWS), and
other organizations to spay or neuter up to 130 feral and domestic cats.
This is the story of one feral cat, Celtic Kitty, who makes her home at Celtic Media Center.
Cat Haven is always in need of volunteers to help care for the cats in residence or to just spend a little time petting and playing with them. If interested in spending a little time helping friendly felines, email [email protected], call 636-2680, or visit www.cathaven.org. Email us at [email protected].
Spay Day – The Saga of ‘Celtic Kitty’
A LOOK AT OUR PAST, PLACES, AND PEOPLE
Created by the Educational Services Department of The Advocate
