Five hundred cats got a second chance they wouldn’t have had otherwise.
Tiffany Deaton, Best
Friends strategist for the
East, was contacted to help find places for the cats to go. It was going to take a large network and solid teamwork to move hundreds of kitties. Shelter staff worked with Tiffany and many other Best Friends staff to coordinate the move of around 400 cats to partners in Georgia, South Carolina, Wisconsin, New York and other parts of Florida. “This was a team effort and with the support of everyone involved, we coordinated moving all of these cats in just three weeks,” Tiffany says.
At the same time, the shelter worked to place the rest of the cats with partner organizations closer to home. “We admire Marion County Animal Services’ dedication to both the cats and the owner, and we were grateful that they reached out for help,” Tiffany says. Because of it, 500 cats got a second chance they wouldn’t have had otherwise. And that is incredibly good news.