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Good Mews
Finding good homes for good kitties…
Happenings
For volunteers only!
Hey, did you hear the news!
Please check out our new section, the Volunteer Information Center, to see helpful reminders and happenings going on at Good Mews!
Be the first to spread the word to all of your fellow volunteers!
Click here to read all about it: Volunteer-Info-Center!
Or find it under the tab, Volunteer.
Meet Your Match
Good Mews is very excited to announce we will be the first shelter in Georgia to roll out the ASPCA®’s Meet Your Match Feline-ality™ Program. We plan to have it up and running by late summer!
Meet your Match for felines was introduced by the ASPCA® in 2007. The launch of Feline-ality™ in 2007 is the latest addition to the ASPCA®’s Meet Your Match™ constellation of adoption programs that include research-based animal behavior assessments—all aimed at increasing adoption rates, and reducing return rates at shelters, thus combating the problem of pet overpopulation in shelters today.
According to the ASPCA®, “the key to developing successful adoptions lies in making good matches between adopters and pets, thus creating lasting bonds,” said Dr. Emily Weiss, the ASPCA’s senior director of shelter behavior programs, and researcher of ASPCA®’s Meet Your Match™. “Feline-ality™ is a tool that does precisely this; and everyone—adopters, shelter staff, and most of all, the cats—benefits from the program.”
Miss Potter and her kittens!
Here they are......
Miss Potter and her family…
Samuel Whiskers, Johnny Townmouse, Tom Kitten, Flopsy, Mopsy, Moppet and the best mother around….Miss Potter!
They will be arriving from foster care into the shelter by the last week of May.
Introducing Camp O.P.P.!!
Good Mews is pleased to announce a joint venture with Our Pal’s Place by assisting with their Youth Summer Camp program! Targeting children in grades 5-8, this camp will focus on how learning kindness and practicing compassion begins with animals.
One day will be spent at Good Mews to educate them to safely interact with cats, basic cat care and the importance of spay and neutering. One day will also be spent with the Horse Rescue, Relief and Retirement Fund location. The remaining 3 days will be spent on location at Our Pal’s Place.
For more information on this camp, click on Camp O.P.P. or download the brochure.
Cali’s Happy Ending!
Did you see the follow up story in AJC’s Pet Dish column today?
Our very own Cali is featured again along with the other homeless pets who found their forever home from the article by Sandra Eckstein several weeks ago.
In case you missed it, click Pet Dish to read all about it!!
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Catistics
Adopted This Year: 141
Adopted Last Year: 263
Total Cats Adopted: 4,946+
Years Running: 20
Featured Kitty
Amanda
Hi, I’m Amanda and I am one gorgeous senior. The youngsters have nothing on me. I am affectionate and independent, and at my age I deserve to be exactly that way! I am looking for quiet homelife, preferably with adults and maybe another cat, and no noisy dogs please!
Petsmart Charities
Good Mews has been awarded a $6,000 grant for the support and expansion of our foster care program.
Our Grant Committee applied for it last November and just received notification of the award.
This sum will go a long way toward caring for more abandoned and abused kitties in the coming year and we are grateful to the Petsmart Charities Foundation for their generosity and to our Grant Committee for their continuing efforts to secure funding for Good Mews.
This grant will enable us to rescue more cats and kittens from death row in animal control, and bring them to our Good Mews foster homes as space allows.
To learn more about Petsmart Charities, click Charities.
To donate to help the kitties of Good Mews, click Help-Our-Kitties.