13 'hoarder cats' now up for adoption
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WINCHESTER, Ore. -- Saving Grace officials say that they are now adopting out the cats that were confiscated in a hoarding case in September.
Of the 68 cats taken to the shelter, 13 are now available for adoption.
Though some have found new homes, officials say that not every cat made it. Wendy Kang, the Executive Director of the facility, says that unfortunately, they had some that just couldn't be adopted. "Animals that are not made available for adoption are humanely euthanized," she said. "For ones that are very sick or are simply very unsocial, it is the most humane thing to do."
Kang says that, including the cats that were confiscated, they had 300 new felines dropped off at the shelter in September.
With only a few dozen getting adopted, Kang says that meant that some cats had to be put down. "We receive far more cats and kittens than we are able to adopt at, and at some point, that decision simply has to be made," Kang said. "During the height of kitten season, it is possible that we could receive 400-500 cats in a month."
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She did point out that there is a way that you can help. "Spay and neuter is the best thing that people can do, encourage others to spay and neuter," she said.
Kang says that the shelter received overwhelming support from the community with donations of food and cleaning supplies, but what Saving Grace needs now is for people to take the adoptable cats home.
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 @Fancy Jack you obviously have some sort of mental condition for you to fabricate a story like that about saving grace. i suggest you do your fact checking rather than come up with crap like this!
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@petlover Take the annual number of cats the come to saving Grace, subtract the number of cats successfully adopted, take the number left and divide it by the total number of cat collected annually, move the decimal point two places to the right and add a percentage symbol. If the collection rate is 300 cats a month average, that is 3600 cats a year, there is 2080 hours in a work year with no vacation, this means that 1.7 cats an hour have to be adopted, or 13.6 a day, or 68 cats a week (5 day week) to break even, now call and ask Saving Grace how many cats they place a week. Remember this article mentioned ironically 68 cats, or which only 13 are available for adoption, 80% at this time are unaccounted for and are presumed (by me) to be dead, of the 13 left, they will need to adopt out 7 cats in a single day to get their kill rate below 90%. The math does not lie, I am not so sure about Saving Grace.
 @Fancy Jack I would love to know where you get your so called "information" from? Do you work there? Are you part of the board? Please do say!