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This Guy Didn’t Have a Prom Date…So He Took His Cat!

Brooke Arnold / 05/17/2016

Prom is, perhaps, the most important night of a young man’s life. So when 18-year-old Sam Steingard’s High School Prom came and he didn’t have a date – he had the purrfect backup plan…his cat, Ruby. Sam’s sister Caroline, of Washington D.C., shared his story on Imgur along with a photo of him with his ‘date’, complete with […]

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This Program Pairs Homeless Cats with Prison Inmates

Brooke Arnold / 04/13/2016

There’s a cat foster program at the minimum-security Larch Corrections Center near Yacolt, Washington called Cuddly Catz. As part of the program, cats on “death row” are given a second chance by going to live with prison inmates. What makes this a purrfect match? The program was born from the understanding of a shared need between