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Neighbors | Jessica Harker.Over 130 cats are available for day of adoptions at Angels for Animals in Canfield.
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Neighbors | Jessica Harker.Over 20 cats slept in small beds in a cat room at Angels for Animals Oct. 2 that are ready for adoption.
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Neighbors | Jessica Harker.Angels for Animals has a 24 hour stray drop off at their location in Canfield where over 130 cats are currently available for adoption.
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Neighbors | Jessica Harker.Volunteers looked after cats in one of the many cat rooms at Angels for Animals Oct. 2, all of which are capable of day of adoptions.
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Neighbors | Jessica Harker.Arlo is an all black long hair cat that is available for adoption at Angels for Animals. He is one of over 130 cats that are available for day of adoption at the location in Canfield.
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Neighbors | Jessica Harker.Angels for Animals currently houses over 130 cats that are ready for adoption. The center is open Tuesday through Saturday.
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Neighbors | Jessica Harker.Two cats slept in one of the many cats rooms at Angels for Animals Oct. 2. The facility currently houses over 130 cats in need of adoption or fostering.
By JESSICA HARKER
Angels for Animals is looking for community members to help the vast number of strays by adopting and fostering cats.
“Most of the days we have at least 20-30 cats come in. In the low days we always congratulate each other when we only get like 10 cats in,” said Cassidy Piskorick, the kennel manager at Angels for Animals.
The facility currently houses 130 cats ready for adoption with another 75-100 waiting in medical holding.
Piskorick said that its not unusual for the facility to take in about 400 cats in a month, and only have around 100 adopted.
“These past couple months have been very, very bad,” Piskorick said.
To battle these numbers, Angels for Animals is always looking for community members to serve as foster parents for these cats.
She said that anyone interested in fostering these animals is able to fill out an application online and submit it to the organization.
Angels for Animals handles all of the cats medical needs, including paying for fixing the animals and flea and tick medication, as well as anything else they may require.
“We do our best to get them all out to foster homes, which is why we are always so desperate for fosters,” Piskorick said.
She explained that Angels for Animals is one of the only shelters in the area that actively takes in stray cats, due largely to the fact that many shelters that are no kill have month long waiting lists.
“We always need fosters, and even if you can’t foster if you are looking to adopt, we need you too,” Piskorick said.
Piskorick said that the best way to go about the adoption process is to come into the shelter.
“We do same day adoptions, so usually if you come in to the shelter we can get your application processed that day,” Piskorick said.
For the last two months Angels for Animals hosted a buy one, get one free special on cat adoption, hoping to battle the high numbers of cats being brought in.
“It’s been kitten season,” Piskorick said. “They say its May to October, so it’s been a lot.”
For more information about fostering or adopting cats at Angels for Animals, go to www.angelsforanimals.org.