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Former business exec spends hours trapping feral cats
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Since 2012, Phillips, a Northville resident, has caught more than 100 “community cats” — the feral animals and abandoned pets that roam neighborhoods and often live in outdoor colonies. Working in conjunction with the Humane Society of Huron Valley’s TNR (trap-neuter-release) program, Phillips often spends weekends trapping cats and transporting them to HSHV where they are spayed or neutered, given rabies vaccinations and are micro-chipped.
The Basics of Fostering a Pet
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The Petco Foundation named June National Foster a Pet Month. Foster a Pet Month is a partnership between the Petco Foundation, Skechers, and its charitable collection BOBS from Skechers to “inspire pet lovers to join together to create a lifesaving nation through fostering, adoption, volunteering, and making monetary donations.” GG’s Foundation is joining its fellow pet lovers in the month-long holiday by sharing the basics of fostering a pet. 1. What is fostering a pet? Fostering a pet means taking an animal into your home to provide love, patience, and training for a pre-determined amount of time or until the pet finds...