Posts Tagged ‘animal rescue’

Happy 2012 – Visit Your Shelter and Adopt!

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012

Happy New Year to all!  May the 2012 be a better for you and your human and pet family!

Now that all the presents have been opened and the holiday celebrations have passed, it is now time to turn to helping our pets once again.  As usual, the holiday’s are a time when people buy pets as gifts, only to return  them when they realize they’re not prepared to care for them.

As we know after adopting Simon, pets are traumatized when when they return to shelter cages, but  they can adapt to new home.   So, if you have been planning to bring a new pet into your home, this is the best time ever…and you’ll be helping to save a pet.

Happy New Year!

Quincy and Simon

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We Ask YOU – Donations or Gifts for Christmas?

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

I have been thinking lately about the real meaning of Christmas — the Season of Giving.  I also have been attending a lot of funerals lately, as our family has aged, where the family has requested that a donation be made instead of flowers being sent.  So, it struck me that perhaps we should be allocating more of the Christmas budget for donations that help others (animals and humans), rather than on gifts in this season of giving..What do you think?

Quincy and Simon

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National Cat Day – October 29, 2010

Friday, October 29th, 2010

National Cat Day was founded by Pet Lifestyle Expert & Animal Behaviorist, Colleen Paige to help galvanize the public to recognize the number of cats that need to be rescued each year and also to encourage cat lovers to celebrate the cat(s) in their life for the unconditional love and companionship they bestow upon us.  Estimates reveal that there are approximately 4 million cats entering shelters every year with 1-2 million being euthanized. Often cats are overlooked and under-appreciated because they don’t usually have jobs like dogs. But cats still lower blood pressure, offer unconditional love and companionship and alert their owner of danger.

Here is the link to http://www.nationalcatday.com/about.htm to see what festivities will be happening.

Quincy and Simon

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Meow Monday – 60 – 80 million Olfactory Cells

Monday, October 25th, 2010

Ever wonder why your cats can find odors you can’t?  Cats have about 60 – 80 million olfactory cells, while we humans have between 5 and 20 million cells.  

And…cats have a special scent organ found in the roof of their mouths called the Jacobson’s organ that analyzes smells — and is the reason why cats may seem to “sneer” (called flehmening) when they come across a strong odor.  When ‘Flehmening’, cats (and other animals with this organ) appear to sneer as they curl their upper lip to better expose the twin vomeronasal organs for chemical sensing. In cats (and other mammals), Jacobson’s organ is used not simply to identify minute quantities of chemicals, but also for subtle communication between other members of the same species, through the emission and reception of chemical signals called pheromones.

So, now if you have cleaned your litter box, but you see your cats ”sneer” when they come near it, you’ll know more cleaning is needed before they will use the litter box.

Quincy

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We ask YOU: How did you know your pet was “the one”?

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

When our family went to adopt a dog, we had a whole list of qualities we wanted in a dog:  medium size, short hair so no shedding in the house, good with children were just some of the check off points.  Well, Simon came home with us;  a large, long hair (lot’s of shedding) dog who grew another 60 pounds within 6 months.  Why?  He just wouldn’t let us go home without him, and we fell in love.   I believe Simon chose us rather than we chose him.

What is your story?

Quincy and Simon

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National Feral Cat Day

Saturday, October 16th, 2010

Today is National Feral Cat Day (NFCD), October 16, 2010  marks the 10 year anniversary.  See whats going on at http://www.alleycat.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=388

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Grass Roots Animal Rescues

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

 

Ever see ads or receive requests for contributions that tug at your heart… only to ask yourself how much of your contribution is going to marketing or administration expenses versus the work that you want to fund?

And, have you ever wanted to support grass roots non-profits because they are doing the work without getting the limelight and the funding?

Well, we do at SeaYu (Simon, our 6th child is a rescue dog) and we were able to connect with Romeo the Cat whose objective is to raise funds for local animal rescues by creating a forum where people (like us) can nominate and help our local non-profit organizations to receive donations.  This is a win-win solution for donors and pet rescues.  Not only do animal rescues receive 100% of the donations, but they also get exposure for the hard work they do for animals!

SeaYu is proud to be a corporate sponsor for Romeo the Cat!  Congratulations to the Spay Neuter Action Project of San Diego as the July Furpower recipient.

 For more information, go out our home page www.sea-yu.com and learn more about Romeo the Cat.

Quincy and Simon

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