Hey y’all. We’ve got a great image for you today, and a great cat looking for her forever home. Many thanks to our artist for the week, Emma Lazauski, for taking the time to make this beautiful drawing. Also, more and more thanks to Chelsea for continuing to pull artists together for this project. Did you guys know that she does rescue transports every weekend? Yeah, pretty awesome! Great job, Chelsea, keep it up!

Meet Francesca

Francesca is a domestic short hair black and white. She was born in 2004. With a little TLC, Francesca is engaging, playful and fun. All Cat Depot cats are spayed/neutered, micro chipped, given shots (including rabies), worm and flea preventatives, and tested for FIV/FeLV. We are open 7 days a week (except major holidays), from 11-7 p.m. daily, and 11-5 p.m. on weekends. For more info, visit our website, catdepot.org. Francesca is up-to-date with routine shots, house trained and spayed/neutered.

Contact Info
Cat Depot
Sarasota, FL
941-366-2404
info@catdepot.org

Find out more about Francesca and watch a video over at her petfinder page.

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Emma is a painter/illustrator living in Sarasota, Florida. She makes messes with watercolor and tea whenever her cat doesn’t, finding inspiration for her work in fiction and in the natural world. She’s in the process of redoing her website at the moment, but you can still find her at her blog and on deviantart.

Already? Yes! It’s another installment of

The Truth Behind TFM: Fluff-Bucket!

Fluff-Bucket

This week, we are giving you an inside look on our youngest pup’s childhood. Considering he’s only a year and a half, this wasn’t that long ago. ^_~ You see, Snarf, well he suffered from that horrible habit that most puppies have: he chewed. He chewed on socks. He chewed on stuffed animals. He chewed on shoes, on wires, on plastic bottles, he chewed on anything he could get his teeth on. And that brings us to the most recent The Family Menagerie comic.

Alright, so sometimes we may indulge a little in the comics, but this isn’t that far off. There have been a few chewing incidents that have left shreds of tissue throughout the bathroom and all over the kitchen. Cottonballs in the hallway. Shirt scraps under the couch, a jacket in the kennel full of holes. Pieces of cardboard ripped into millions of tiny pieces all over the bedroom. It happens. Fortunately, he hasn’t had a die-hard urge to chew in awhile and this is something we feel he’s finally grown out of.

Thank goodness.

Blog The Change!

Hey everyone! It’s Blog The Change for Animals Day!

That means pet lovers everywhere are blogging to do their part to improve the lives of animals all over the world. We here at ILRA would like to take this opportunity to get our Last Chance Pets twitter project going again. Last Chance Pets is a sub-account of RescueAnimals and was started because we saw how the real time interchange of twitter was actually saving lives and we wanted to be able to harness that power to help even more animals on death row. It soon became apparent to me, however, that one account could never cover the vast scope of animals in need. And so it began – we put a call out for people who wanted to tweet about urgent animals in a specific state. Breaking it down into smaller areas means that it is not only more manageable for the person running the account but that other twitter folks can follow an account for their own area – one which they are more likely to be able to make an impact in. So, for instance, people in and around Connecticut can follow LastChanceCT and either look for animals that they can personally save, or retweet it to their own followers, many of whom are also likely to live in that general area. Thus the probability of it reaching someone who can actually step up and rescue the animals is increased.

Anyway, we had several people take on the challenge and thus our list of states began to grow. As time went on, however, we stopped getting new volunteers and some of the accounts became inactive. So here we are, relying on the amazing hearts & spirit behind the Be The Change movement to get the Last Chance Pets project going again. Below you’ll find lists of those states already covered as well as those needing to be taken over. We are also hoping people in the states not represented will want to join the cause. All you have to do is let us know and we’ll get everything set up for you, both an email account and a twitter account. From there it’s up to you to find animals in urgent need and post them. You won’t be alone, however, because you can always ask the established accounts for help (LastChanceCT is a plethora of knowledge on how to gain followers, find shelters & humane officers you can work with, etc.) There are also several ways to find animals in need, even purely searching the internet.

Here are the Last Chance accounts we have that are currently in action:

LastChancePets (Main)
LastChanceCT
LastChanceMI
LastChanceNC

Last Chance accounts created but have since died:

LastChanceCA
LastChanceKY
LastChanceNY
LastChanceMN
LastChanceMD
LastChanceNJ

And we will make one for any other state! As of this moment, all LastChance state twitter names are open except for Indiana (LastChanceIN) which we are going to try and work on. We are also desperately trying to snatch up all those names so that we can have consistency across the board making our accounts easy for anyone to find. We can also set up accounts for the different provinces in Canada or anywhere abroad you’d like! If there’s someplace you’d like to cover, let us know and we’ll make it happen! We really believe in this cause and I know if we all join together, we can make a huge difference! All that a lot of these animals and shelters need is more exposure. There is always someone out there willing to help – we just need to reach them. Wouldn’t you love to be able to make that happen? Then please join us! Comment below telling us which area you’re interested in. And if more than one person is interested in the same state, we can always work something out where you can both tweet for the same account. Don’t be shy! Let’s start saving more animals today!

Hey all! This week’s Pet Parent File gives advice on what to do when you find a baby bird. What prompted this video was me finding a baby dove in the yard at a house I was petsitting at and not really knowing what to do. The video I posted on that day, which also has some tips on setting up a new nest for baby birds, can be found below. I hope you enjoy them both! Also, if you have more advice to add, please comment below or, better yet, make your own video & upload it as a response to ours then tell us where to find it! Let’s grow our knowledge base together!

If you noticed, last weekend we did not have a Shelter Sketch. Don’t worry – we have a good reason! As I was putting it up, I realized that Dudley, the chosen pup, was no longer on the website up for adoption. Chelsea took it upon herself to call up the shelter and we found out that Dudley was adopted! So it’s good news we didn’t have one! Don’t worry, you can still see the cute picture of Dudley (drawn by the fabulous Gaëlle) up in our new Shelter Sketches gallery. Keep up the good work artists!

Meet Eeyore!

Eeyore is a 6 year old male, domestic short haired, with a grey and white coat. He was abandoned by his previous owner. Eeyore is a very sweet cat and loves to be around people. And his artist, Rhionna, says, “He’s very, very affectionate and likes to purr a lot.”

Contact Info
Scottsville Animal Hospital Shelter
3750 Scottsville Rd.
Scottsville, NY 14546
(585)889-8340
scottsvillevetadoptions@msn.com

Meet Eeyore

You can find more about Eeyore and other animals at this page!

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Rhionna lives in Tampa FL as a tattoo artist and is a former wildlife rehab worker. She very much enjoys coffee and long walks on the beach. She’s also a writer and creates custom artwork on shoes. You can find more about Rhi and her art on deviantart and twitter.