cats need robot love too

cats and robots.  they go together like R2-D2 & jam.  and we just happen to heart them.

now you can love them, too, with an oregon humane society's clever "play with cat over internet via robot toys" idea.  warning:  the wait-time is pretty long and the cats are about as interested in the toys as lucy is in moving and not eating donuts.  maybe they need roombas?

but still deserving of props for finding a novel way to bring attention to sheltering and adoption.  (and robots!)

the cat and the wheelie bin

it's everywhere.  the story of the woman who  put a cat in a wheelie bin (that's fancy brit talk for garbage can) and all of the outrage that followed is hard to miss.  there's even a facebook group.

but why is this story so big?  the cat is ok.  the woman did a horrible thing, yes, but it was not a crime.  and isn't that what we should be more outraged about?  that it's so easy to throw a cat away and not be prosecuted for it?

i suppose what i hope to see come out of this is a new way of thinking about cats and an end to their status as "disposable" pets; ones that can be tossed to the shelter whenever we tire of them.  so if nothing else, let lola's story outrage you.  but focus that anger on the real crime - the deaths of shelter cats every day, everywhere.