Hawaii Humane Society promotes cat adoptions during a high-birth month

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sat Jun 28, 2008 4:42 PM EDT

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home-garden, pets, cats, hawaii, humane-society, meow-madness

To counter the stigma sometimes assigned to felines, Yim and Baurile [at the Hawaiian Humane Society] came up with the idea of Sunday's "Meow Madness."

"It's really to celebrate cats in our community," said Yim. "We want to boost the profile of cats - and not just think about them as those feral cats who rummage through garbage. Those are different cats - and they've become feral because of the way we've (discarded) them ... we want effective cat ownership throughout the community."

The first "Meow Madness" is appropriately set for June, which is Love-A-Cat Month, but is also a statistically high month for cat births.

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Groups: Reigning Cats & Dogs
Regions: Honolulu

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Highlights of 'Meow Madness' include a cat costume contest, training demos, a pet show, and sales of fundraiser tee shirts.

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#1 - Sat Jun 28, 2008 4:44 PM EDT

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Alpha Dog

What a specatular idea! :-)

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#2 - Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:22 PM EDT

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MinnieApolis

Hi, Alpha, What a surprise that you could stop by!! Glad you liked the story.
Am sure that lots of Humane Societies do tee or calendar sales etc. for fundraisers. I was at a pet show a couple times in Wisconsin (not a pedigreed cat or dog show but a pet-care or pet-lover trade-show-like thing) -- and there were several humane societies with everything from tees, calendars, note cards, greeting cards, etc.
Some had small plush dogs or cats that were sold as fundraisers -- similar to the popular Ty pets.
But this was a little different in that the Hawaii h.s. combined several types of events and features and called it Meow Madness -- a bit of inspired naming, I'd say.
Now if we can get rottlady to stop by...
Have a great weekend, Alpha Dog.

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#2.1 - Sun Jun 29, 2008 6:24 PM EDT

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