Our Special Thanks
DONORS: William & Lynn Ader, Virginia Andrews, Lee & Loretta Armbruster, Linda Atkins & Thomas Kenney, Apotheke, Lucinda Baker, Barbara Bassett, June Bedwell, Carol Blotter & John Deikis, Joan Borik, Margaret & William Brudon, Paul Buisch, Dorothy Burlingame, Joseph Burman, Mary Cervas, James Robert Collins, Jane & Robert Cooch, Courtyard Shops, Ruth Curtis, Rochelle Danjuma, Rodkangyil Danjuma, Judy DuPuis, Mary DeWan, Barton Todd Dixon, Alice & Jack Dobson, David & Krislynn Dudley, Wendy Everett, Jean Finkbeiner, Roger Frederick, John Friedlander & Pamela Moss, Michelle Gerry, Laura Gemellaro, Barbara Gleason, Happy Hearts Pet Care, Matthew & Molly Henry, Yoshiko Hamano, Heidi Herrell, Sue & Robert Johe, Kay Kadlec, Gayle Koan, Thomas & Laurette Kizer, Joan Lawrence, Linda Liston, Carol McKendry, Angie Merkel, Cecil & Sue Miskel, Nancy Page, Ed & Elaine Palmer, Phyllis Ponvert, Pat & Lloyd Randall, Sue Ransom, Karen Roberts, Edna & Maury Robbins, Dean Rockwell, Peggy Rogers, Lee Rome & Sherri Hansen, Rita Rozell, Carol Rugg, Terri Sarris, Joan Secrest, Bruce & Susan Sharer, Robert & Maria Sharp, Virginia Shew, William & Wilma Smith, Jennifer Striker, Rebecca Super, Nancy Szabo, Don Todd & Cindy Mallery, Janet & Gordon VandenHout, Judy VonBoncel & John Holmes, Pat & Susan Waters, Vicki Weber, Alan & Marlene Weintraub, Al & Sarah Wiener, West Hawk Industries, Willowtree Cat Co-Op, Sue & Tom Wisely, Dennis & Linda Zimmer, Kristine Zvirbulis.
IN MEMORY OF: Groucho... Beloved cat of Cheryl Blackwell by Michelle Gerry
In Memory Of Betty Schumacher by Country Kennel Pet Care

TLC Web Site Updates
Our Washtenaw County Cat Guide is now online. We've included listings for cat-friendly housing, pet sitters, boarding kennels and veterinarians. We hope you find the information useful in caring for your cats. Visit us at TLConline.org. for this information plus a virtual tour of our cat farm and complete program information.

Dear Friends,
There have always been compassionate invidviduals that took in homeless cats and then began the daunting task of placing them in homes -- but their ability to take in cats always outstripped their ability to place them. Why? Because they had no good way of marketing them. Now, thanks to the Internet, home fostering groups are on a more level playing field with major shelters. Web sites like Petfinder.com give them the visibility that only large shelters previously enjoyed. At home, you can scan photos of all the homeless cats in your area, sorting by sex, breed, age and personality without regard to where they are sheltered. For homeless cats, this is a major breakthrough. Home fostering is a low-stress way to shelter -- in many ways superior to caging them. This is especially true for adults that take more than a few weeks to be adopted. In addition, community-based groups can add foster homes to handle intake spikes much easier than a conventional shelter can add cages and at far less cost. Euthanizing for space is replaced with recruiting more foster parents. Use of the adoption web sites, coupled with bringing rescue cats to public places when foot traffic is highest, gives small rescues the tools they need to place their homeless cats. Add to this the use of aggressive spay/neuter programs for unowned outdoor cats and you have the formula for no more homeless cats in Washtenaw County. Increased adoption rate + decreased birth rate = a community that cats can live for!
Kitty Zimmer