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Happy Tails:
Click here to see our cats who've been adopted!
*** Rescue
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Emmie
and Emmit
would love a home together!!
Our May 17, 2008 Craft
Fair and Flea Market is a first for Stray Cat Blues, Inc.
We need vendors and flea marketers to purchase table space for this fabulously
feline fun event. $35 pays for one 10x10 space. If you are an artist, craft
person or just have stuff in your attic or garage you want to sell -- this
is the purrfect venue for you! It only costs the table fee -- you keep all
your profits from the event. You can reserve your table using this form.
May 17, 2008 seems like a long way off -- but it will be here before we
know it. So get your table space early and mark your calendar. All proceeds
benefit the Stray Cat Blues, Inc. Shelter Fund.
Click on the Art
for Critters logo
above and shop for wonderful art that benefits SCBI
Artists from around the world, with a desire to help animals in need,
have committed to donating a portion of their art sales to help animal
charities.
THANK YOU!
Help Stray Cat Blues Inc.
by shopping for some wonderful art!
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Welcome to Stray Cat Blues' home page! We are working hard and growing in our efforts to help as many homeless
cats as possible. We have
adoption cages at five locations, the largest being the PetsMart store on Route 309 in Montgomeryville where 12-15
of our cats are on display
at all times. We also have adoption cage(s) at Green Lane Veterinary Hospital on
Route 63 in Green Lane, Pet Supplies "Plus" in Souderton and Petco in
Montgomeryville. Please visit our adoption cages to
see who is looking for a home and to fill out an adoption
application. Our house cat and barn cat adoption applications
are also both online and can be filled out and submitted
instantly. We have many wonderful barn, house cats and kittens
anxious
to be adopted, so please also browse through the descriptions
listed here to find your perfect cat (or cats!). We always
have
additional cats available who are not yet listed, so contact
us
to tell us about the cat of your dreams. There is a very good
chance that he or she is at Stray Cat Blues, ready and waiting
just for you!
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Who We Are
Officially, Stray Cat Blues, Inc. is a no-kill, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization providing
rescue and placement to stray and feral cats. Personally, SCB is a small group of dedicated
volunteers who work tirelessly to find loving, life-long homes for abandoned cats. We are
professional in our practices, but we are emotional on the subject of homeless cats, and the ways in
which we humans can work to prevent this epidemic of strays.
Stray Cat Blues actively works to recruit permanent homes for the stray cats in our program. All
the animals are screened for feline leukemia, inoculated, sterilized and wormed when they
first come to us. Healthy, adoptable cats are then housed
through
our network of foster homes. Our kittens and cats are exposed
to
the pet-loving public at our 5 different adoption cage
locations
to facilitate adoptions and to provide visibility for the
organization.
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In addition to placement of sociable cats and kittens, a
major
focus of Stray Cat Blues is to place feral and unsociable cats
in
qualified barn homes. Like our house cats, our barn cats are
delivered to their new homes by a Stray Cat Blues volunteer.
We
provide our barn cats with a cozy "cat condominium" to live in
for the first few weeks of life in their new location. The
crate
allows the cats to acclimate to their new home without the
danger
of having them run away in search of their old stomping
grounds.
We are willing to go to great lengths for our cats - quite
literally! We will gladly travel to approved barn homes
within
an approximate 125 mile radius of the Lansdale/Montgomeryville
area to deliver our helpful mousers.
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Most of our cats are strays and their offspring that are
rescued from area locations. Many of these strays are more
than
willing to be helped by our volunteers. But for those animals
that are more wary of humans, especially the feral cats, we
utilize humane traps. And many of our kittens are born to
mother
cats that we have rescued.
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Adopting a Friend
If you are interested in adopting, the first step is to
file
an application. Once we have that in hand, we will be better
able
to respond to your questions about particular cats or kittens.
As
stated above, we do not have a public shelter but many of our
adoptable cats can be seen at our adoption cage locations.
Other
cats still in foster homes can be seen through special
arrangements with the foster caretakers. We are happy to
respond
to requests for information via phone or e-mail and will
provide
as much information as we can about the personalities and
backgrounds of cats in which a potential adopter has interest.
However, please remember to submit your application first.
Also, please note that our primary
adoption efforts are focused in Montgomery and Bucks counties
(Pennsylvania); but we will
occasionally and on a case-by-case basis, make placements in
Chester, Delaware and Philadelphia
counties.
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Interested parties are required to complete a brief adoption application.
This application serves us twofold. First, it allows us to assess the sincerity
of the applicant through the fact that they took the time to complete the
inquiry. Second, the application provides us with a veterinary referral and
other pertinent background information. We require a $85.00 fee for adoptions.
There is no charge for barn cats but a donation is very much appreciated.
Donations assist in defraying the considerable costs of neutering, veterinary
care and supplies such as food and litter. Donations are tax deductible. Upon
adoption of a Stray Cat Blues cat, the new mom or dad must sign an adoption
agreement, which includes a clause stating the cat must be returned to SCB
should any problems arise with the adoptive home. We also conduct follow-up
assessment to ensure that everything is going smoothly with the placement.
Stray Cat Blues morally opposes declawing and prohibits the
declawing of cats adopted through our organization.
Occasionally, we acquire a cat that has already been declawed
for
which we seek a qualified indoor home. We advocate behavioral
training as an alternative to declawing and urge anyone
considering this traumatic procedure to reconsider. We
welcome
the opportunity to discuss this often controversial subject -
please contact us.
Stray Cat Blues is dedicated to helping cats in need whenever
possible. Although space and financial limitations may
prevent
us from taking in every stray about which we are contacted, we
will gladly offer advice and assistance to anyone seeking to
trap
a stray in their area for the purpose of helping the cat.
Trapping in an inhumane and irresponsible manner is abhorrent
to
us and certainly not condoned.
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Volunteering and Donations
Stray Cat Blues welcomes interested volunteers. We have many
areas in which volunteers can help, including caring for cats
in
our adoption cages, staffing the adoption center at PetsMart,
fund raising, phone calls, fostering, rescuing strays, etc.
Please contact us to discuss your specific interests and our
needs. We are also grateful for all donations, regardless of
size. We have no paid staff so all donations go directly
towards
the care of our cats. Donations are fully tax deductible and
can
be mailed to us at Stray Cat Blues, Inc., PO Box 8, Colmar, PA
18915. Thank you for any help you are able to provide!
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Come Visit Us!
Please contact us if you need directions to any of our
adoption
cage locations, or would like more information about any of
our
cats.
Stray Cat Blues, Inc.
PO Box 8
Colmar, PA 18915
Phone: (215) 631-1851
Email:
savingstrays@yahoo.com
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If you are
able to foster the kitten(s)/cat(s) in your own home for a short period of time,
you will have a better chance of helping them
and getting them into one of our foster homes or possibly adopted within a
month. Currently our foster homes are inundated due to kitten season.
We are only able to house a small number at PetsMart and rely on our
volunteers fostering the rest in their own homes. Contact us and we can
work with you until space becomes available. At this time it's impossible
to accommodate every request. We need more foster homes!
We will also send you a list of shelters that you can contact. As always a
donation is very much appreciated to help offset vet bills.
Foster Intake Request Form
Click
here for a list of pets at this shelter
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