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Book Review by Judi Singleton of Redemption: The Myth of Pet Overpopulation and the No Kill Revolution in America Paperback – June 16, 2009 by Nathan J. Winograd (Author)

Redemption: The Myth of Pet Overpopulation and the No Kill Revolution in America Paperback – June 16, 2009
by Nathan J. Winograd (Author)

Editorial Reviews
Review
Don’t miss this book! It’s a must read for anyone who cares about animals
or about creating a more compassionate society. (Bonney Brown, Executive Director, Nevada Humane Society.)

For anyone who has ever loved an animal, this book, like no other non-fiction,
 takes you through the full spectrum of emotions: from sadness to anger, from
 fear to hope. But redemption? That is ultimately left up to each and every
 one of us... This book deserves your immediate attention and our beloved
 animals deserve your immediate action. (Lee Rayburn, Editor, Willy Street
 Media; Guest Host, Air America Radio)

Powerful and inspirational...[this book will] have a truly transformative
effect. (Taimie Bryant, UCLA Professor of Law and Author of the 1998 California
 Animal Shelter Law)

A rational voice in a field where mediocrity and incompetence is the norm.
This is the book that will wake people up much in the way that John Robbins
did with Diet for a New America in the late 1980's. (Susan Cosby,
Chief Operating Officer, Philadelphia Animal Care & Control Association)

Redemption is one of the most important books about animals to appear

in the last decade. (Kenneth Ayers, Esq, of Counsel, San Francisco SPCA,
retired.) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of
this title.
From the Publisher
Silver Medal, Best Book (Animals & Pets) by Independent Book Publishers Association
USA Book News Best Book (Animals & Pets)

Certificate of Excellence, Cat Writers Association of America

Best Book Nominee, Dog Writers Association of America --This text refers to
an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author
Nathan is the director of the No Kill Advocacy Center. He is a graduate of Stanford Law School, and a former criminal prosecutor as well as corporate attorney. He has written animal protection legislation at the state and national levels, has spoken nationally and internationally on animal issues and has created successful No Kill programs in both urban and rural communities. Under his leade




Judi Singleton's Review
Though things are changing somewhat since Redemption was written, a lot more change hadto be made.
Citing the wonderful changes that have been made by some facilities is not enough. Thoughit was through
education of the public that these changes have taken place. Books like this one have
to be written in my estimation so that people become aware of the dark secrets that
to on behind closed doors and under the legitamacy of sheltering our animals that well as humans
should be responsible for.

In Redemption, the myth of pet over populization Author, Nathan Winograd, makes the
 point that the killing of animals which numbers in the millions every year across this
 nation, was not necessary as the so called shelters led the public to believe. With the iplications
 of shelter programs, in 1990, 27,930 dogs and cats were put to sleep. When these same healthy
 animals could have been found homes. It was just a matter of educating the public and
 the shelters themselves to change their kill policies to no kill. By using private foster homes until
 the animals could find forever homes, by using neuter and release programs for cats. ]By transfering animals
 to other shelters where the animal might have a better chance at adoption. Even though
 the programs were demonstrated to work, the kill policy went on claiming that it
 was the only humane way to handle homeless animals.
 My own experience with shelters, is that they pick up the animal from the owner or off the
 streets and the animal is stressed beyond belief. They are away from their families, they
 find themselves in strange surroundings, they are scared and sometimes sick or become sick
 diseases that come from putting all those animals together in cages. When the animal
 strikes out against these strangers who would handle them with familarity. they are
 labeled as agressive and put down.  I took three really healthy strays to the Portland,
 Oregon, Humanine Society, I had had them nuetered and spayed. They had all their shots,
 and the vet had pronounced them healthy. I just could not keep that many animals. They
 found two of them homes and the third was put down. I had asked if I could be notified
 if they were not adoptable and I would come and get them. They said that if I paid this
 enourmous amount of board, which was about $10. dau per animal they could call me. I did
 not have the money but called everyday inquiring about them. They told me on the third day
 they had put down the third animal. I had spent around $300. per animal to have them be
 healthy, have their shots, and get forever homes. But because one of the animals was
 scared and scratched he was deemed unadoptable. The agency could not even call me though I
 offered foster care for the animals as long as they needed. They simply put the  animal down.

 Low cost spay and nueter clinics aimed at poor people being able to spay and nueter their pets
 threatened the profits of vets then these programs were discouraged though they would cost
 the shelters and tax payers millions of dollars by not having to deal with unwanted pets born
 to owners that could not afford to spay and nueter their pets.
 False sories of how these animals were threatening the eco-system, these animals damaging
 propeties, decline of wildlife.  Puppy mills were blamed for increasing numbers of pets
 being bred when there was a marked increase in the American Kenn

el Club in their breeders.

 This is a book everyone should read. How did a pet loving society become the main way to
 slaughter animals?

Having a Roommate that is a Cat

One night my daughter came home with a little scared kitten. She named he Sunday. Now Sunday, was a little Tuxedo cat. She wanted nothing to do with us other than she was quite happy to be with humans. It was quite evident that Sunday had lived with humans before. Now being a cat myself, a Leo, I understand that cats will love you if they are going to love you in their own time. So other than taking her to the vet, getting her tested for Feline Leukemia, updating her shots, having the vet tell us that she was around three years old, I did not mess with her much. She settled in a rountine. She did not seem very well to me but the vet said she was fine. But she slept all day and all night most of the time. She ate very little. She was fixed.  She was a tiny little thing. She looked like she was more like a three month old kitten then a three year old.

I bought the best food for her. We had two other cats and she was nice to them. All three lived pretty much in harmony. Except for Sophie who was my cat. She did not appreciate a new cat in the house. She began to urninate on everything. I took her to the vet, she growled all the time. The vet said she did not have a urinary tract infection but she was just angry.  So I could have her wetting on everything so she had to move out in the garage for a while. She was smart and knew why she was being moved out. I would let her back in part of the day. She would be really good for a while and then she would go back to peeing on everything. In the mean time Sunday began the same behavior as did Zola my daughters other cat. I was home so I would say to each one, every couple of hours that now I want you to make a good decison and I would let them out. As long as I remembered to let each one out every couple of hours they did not wet on anything. Sunday continued to sleep a lot. My daughter just fell in love with this little cat. Though she was just a little bit of a thing she had a big personality.  Now Sunday slept in my sock drawer. This went on for about six months. Finally the day came when Sunday decided to join the family. She came bouncing out of my bedroom like I am lonesome I want to be part of the family now.  From then on she would cry in the middle of the night and if someone got up and kissed her head, she would snuggle down and go back to sleep. She liked to sleep wrapped in a lap blanket on the back of a couch.  Summer came and Sunday would go off sometimes for a day or so a a time. She  would come if you called her. She never really went far but it was like she was not sure she wanted to live with us.  Well, Sunday and Zola got ready to move with my daughter, who was moving to Seattle. Sophie, stopped peeing on things and got ready to move with me. I was moving into an apartment. Once we were moved she never again peed on anything she just was mad. Well, Sunday moved with my daughter and it took some doing to get her to stop peeing on everything.  She lived with my daughter around another five years. She died at home. My daugher still misses her. She is remembered as she was a little bundle of fur, tiny in stature, but big in personality.

Judi Singleton owns and operates Bejewelu.com

Cats Really Do Have Nine Lives

I read this article about a cat named Bart who was hit by  a car.  I really did read this article in the Tampa Tribune.  It was written on April 18, 2015. Well,  Bart was hit by this car and his owner could not handle burying him so he ask a friend to bury the cat in a grave near the road where he got hit. Well guess what a few days later Bart, the cat, showed up a lot worse for wear but alive and hungry. Bart had a broken jaw, a ruptured eye and a torn-up face, but he was alive, dehydrated and hungry. And Hutson wasn't sure what to do.
The owner, Mr. Hutson, did not know what to do as he did not have a lot of money and the vet bills were going to be well over $1000., he contacted a vet before he contacted the Humane society, who paid out a fund they had for just such cases for all of Bart's medical bills. 
He went through surgery on Tuesday Afternoon and will fully recover in about six weeks,  He had to have his jaw wired shut, one eye removed, a feeding tube.
This cat was determined to live. How he must of felt being buried alive. It was not his owners or the guy who buried him fault as they took vitals and he had none they assumed he was dead.  What kind of determination and fortitude does it take to claw yourself out of a grave and go home.  I think I have heard it all now. 
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