Welcome to our premier post of the Zimmer Foundation Mews & Views blog. Some of you may already recognize the title from our TLC/for The Love of Cats newsletter with the same name. We've published it locally (greater Ann Arbor MI area) for many years. You can read our archived newsletters by visiting: http://www.tlconline.org/. If you're not familiar with us, the Zimmer Foundation is a 501(c)3 private operating foundation that believes the lives of all cats (friendly and feral) have value and has established programs aimed at improving their lives.
Our TLC program is one of Michigan's largest cat spay/neuter programs -- and has fixed over 12,000 cats to date. It targets the two groups of cats traditionally living below the spay/neuter radar: pet cats in lower-income families and managed feral cats living in naturally-occurring colonies in residential areas.
In addition to our spay/neuter efforts, we provide life care for a closed retirement shelter housing 18 geriatric cats ranging in age from 10 to 19 years. And, we provide tuition funding for a small group of exceptional veterinary students focusing their life work on feline medicine.
Mews & Views will follow our geriatric cats as they journey through their final life phase, share human interest anecdotes on the cats in our spay/neuter programs -- many have pretty interesting stories to tell -- and present our vision on how the existing cat welfare system can (and should) be improved. As you may have guessed -- we're fully-immersed in these topics and would like to share them with you. Stay tuned.
Is it okay if those of us in Michigan whimper and wail onw that you're gone? Because I strongly feel that urge.
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