We’d like to give you an update on our coalition efforts to help the animals in the Tohoku region. A small rescue team went out from Niigata’s Animal Friends on March 15, and they are out again today on the 17th. The experience has been a tough one for those on the ground, as the [...]
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We are all greatly saddened and have been continually horrified by news of the devastation, following the recent earthquake here in Japan. We, the kitties at the JCN Kansai shelter, and the shelter itself, are all fine. We’d like to thank everyone who has written to check on us, for their concern! We felt the [...]
We had a great time at the spay/neuter flier pass-out events, thanks to the fine volunteers who came out to join in! We handed out fliers to people passing through the Hikone and Kusatsu JR train stations, and even met some folks that JCN has helped with stray cat issues in the past. Wanting to [...]
…and join us! We’ll be heading out to two stations this year, to hand out spay/neuter informational fliers, in celebration of International Spay Day (February 22). Initial scheduling difficulties have us going out a bit later than planned, but please come out to lend your support, if at all possible. At least one of us [...]
It’s time to get the New Year off to a picture-perfect start by entering photos of your pets in the Humane Society’s Spay Day Photo Contest, which runs from January 19 through February 25 (voting extends through March 3). Last year we eventually received around $400 for spay/neuter projects from participation in the photo contest, [...]