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Western Pennsylvania Humane Society Blog

an 'Open Door Shelter' helping pets & people since 1874

Category Archives: Cat Cuddling

Cat Cuddler Chronicle  February 16, 2012 “The Sweethearts”  Imagine you’d reached your golden years and were enjoying a life of bird watching, cushions, and sunny windowsills. And then you lost your home. Meet Max and Olivia, our shelter’s newest feline retirees. Their humans had to move and couldn’t take them, so now this darling couple—he’s [...]

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With summer here at last, the Western PA Humane Society has opened the doors to a new room made just for our cats and visitors. We transformed a big room with lots of windows a ‘Cat Colony.’ That’s a great animal husbandry vocabulary word for a refurbished supply room with new, wallpaper which is now [...]

Gary, the 8-month-old pit bull mix, & I have spent this first week of foster getting to know each other. He learns my habits while I learn his. It’s a fair exchange, I think. He’s teaching me how he signals to go outside & do his stuff. That’s just what I wanted. Then I can [...]

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Lots of people stop by to visit with our animals when we have them at malls, stores and other venues to meet the public. They often say: “I don’t know how you people do it. I’d love to volunteer, but I’d want to take them all home.” “I’d volunteer, but I know my heart would [...]

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