Wednesday night, January 27 th around 5:15 pm a white car with two occupants’ was parked outside our surrender entrance at the SPCA.  At this same time, while driving out of the parking lot, Patt saw movement by the surrender door and went to investigate.  Although they did leave their car the occupants’ did not make contact with an SPCA representative and chose instead to release a black, male cat on our property before leaving.

We were able to catch the cat and take him safely inside where he was treated to a private suite complete with food and water, and then named Binky.  He is a very loving male cat with big green eyes.

This type of ‘surrender’ happens more often than you would think and some times we are not as successful at catching them, in fact it may be weeks before we even know there is someone roaming the campus and by then they may be in trouble.    The fate of these pets, until someone rescues them, is to live their life on their own in an unfamiliar and unfriendly environment.  We don’t know the circumstance from which this pet came, we don’t know their name or if their owners are looking for them.  Have they been tested and vaccinated?  We have no history and this can be a disadvantage to the pet. 

If you need to surrender your pet because you can’t care for it or your landlord won’t allow it, please give your pet a second chance at life and do it the right way.  If you see an employee before or after hours on campus talk to us, we are not heartless, we will not judge and we won’t turn our back on you or your pet.  We will do our best to find them new homes. Every one of us who work at the SPCA care about the well being of a pet we don’t even know because we have devoted our lives to this cause.  We save lives…won’t you help us?

Pets are not disposable