Greetings Y’all and
Happy Catober! Hillshire the clinic cat here and I’m so excited they gave me
the chance to tell you all about Feline month here at Animal Medical Clinic of
Goose Creek.
I was so excited
when I heard the team talking about feline month here at AMC. Finally, a month
that’s all about me and what I want…sadly I soon found out that it was not
“Hilly-tober”, but I was okay with that after I heard a little of what they
were all talking about. I lead a life of
luxury here, what with a full team to attend to filling my dishes, rubbing my
back, and keeping my catnip toys full, but what you may not know is that back
when I was a young tom, before I became part of the AMC family, I was an
indoor/outdoor cat. That’s right folks; I roamed the grassy neighborhood lawns,
climbed trees, and was a hunter-extraordinaire! I know all about how tough life
can be for a kitty, especially homeless kitties with no staff…ahem…I mean
family.
Outdoor cats and
feral/free roaming cats are exposed to a lot of scary things. They are at risk
for attacks by other animals, being hit by cars, infections caused by
parasites, poisons/toxins, and a bunch of diseases that are passed from cat to
cat in the outdoor cat population. The really sad thing is that there are so
many cats that aren’t spayed or neutered and they keep making kittens that
don’t have homes and aren’t part of a family. Those kittens then become part of
the outdoor cat population and are at risk for all those same dangerous things
and the cycle just keeps repeating itself.
The team here at
Animal Medical Clinic wanted to offer help to some of those feral or
“neighborhood” cats here in our area. You know the ones…everyone feeds them,
but they really don’t have their own family to take care of them. The team says
we are doing a TNR (trap-neuter-release) day on October the 16th. If
you don’t know much about that, the idea is to spay or neuter the stray/feral
or neighborhood cats then rerelease them back to their territory. They won’t be
able to make more kittens and they will be less likely to fight with their
friends. They are even going to vaccinate them for Rabies before they let them
go again. Rabies is super scary and unvaccinated outdoor cats are at a high
risk for this disease.
I was able to get you some Intel on the costs and info if
you know of a feral or outdoor unowned cat who might need to come take
advantage of TNR day here at AMC:
Feline Spay: $60.00
Feline Neuter $ 50.00
Rabies 1 year vaccination $10.00
If you give them a
call, the team can even give you some hints and tips about how to coax that
stray kitty into a carrier or trap(They’re a sneaky bunch) and get them safely
over here to the clinic and then back home again.
Check out the links I found online to learn more about this
whole, outdoor kitty love thing:
Don’t fret my feline friends; if you are a pampered indoor
cat like me they have some great things for you too…
This month there is a lot of cool stuff going on here if you
are a cat….send your staff…I mean family, down to pick up your Revolution for
the month and have them “spin it to win it” with the feline prize wheel and
bring you home a treat. If you are due for your annual exam, there is a 10%
discount on wellness visits (felines only…tell them it’s cause we’re cooler),
and on October 29th, National Cat day, all cat owners should stop by
and pick up a treat for their feline friends….but not too many because I’m
hoping to take all the leftovers back to the cat room with me!
Purrs and tummy-rubs,
Hilly
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