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July 2, 2009

Fantabulous news for Baltimore kitties!!

With a final rally, the three Baltimore shelters fighting to find homes for 500 cats and kittens in June managed to do it -- and more.

The Maryland SPCA, BARCS, and Baltimore Humane Society adopted a grand total of 573 cats and kittens during the month. In 2008, by comparison, the shelters found homes for 353.

The three shelters, as part of Baltimore 500, offered free adoptions on cats and kittens throughout the month of June to jumpstart their effort. Six vet offices offered free exams to kitties adopted during the promotion.

On Sunday June 28 I visited the MDSPCA and cuddled with an adorable kitten named Tortellini. By Wednesday when I dropped by the shelter again, the kitty was gone, hopefully to a wonderful home. In fact, every last kitten who'd been with Tortellini on Sunday was gone. Too cute to last -- particularly when being offered for free!

Congrats to all the shelters for saving so many kitties!

Sun file photo of a kitten that sort of resembles Tortellini.

Posted by Jill Rosen at 11:51 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Categories: Cats Cats Cats

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This is great news for kitties and the people who love them. My rescue kitty, Max, on my lap at this very moment, would agree, I'm sure.

Posted by: Dahlink | July 2, 2009 2:55 PM

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About Jill Rosen

Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.

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