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WKBW 7 News Buffalo
Ten Lives Club temporarily shuts down surrender line, calls for community help
By Yoselin Person,
16 hours ago
Ten Lives Club recently announced it was shutting down its surrender line until August 6 due to limited space and called for the community's help to adopt or foster cats and kittens.
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"In our shelter program, we currently have over 700 cats and kittens. During this time our main focus will be getting these cats adoption ready and sent out to our adoption locations. This will ensure we have more available cage space at the shelter for new intakes when our surrender line reopens," Ten Lives Club said in a Facebook post .
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“As of this minute we have over 700 cats in our total program between foster care, stores and our shelter and our infirmary."
- Marie Edwards, founder of Ten Lives Club
Edwards said they’re hoping to open back up on August 6, but need to have more empty cages.
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"The other day 26 people walked in, just unexpected with cats and we took them all because we don't want to say no in case they're gonna walk out the door and put them somewhere," Edwards said
But why are so many cats being surrendered?
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“There's been a lot of evictions this year. A lot of people leaving their cats then behind in the home or in the apartment complex," she added.
Elyse Kochmanski recently became a foster cat mom. She fosters nine from Ten Lives Club.
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“I’m just really glad that I started fostering now because I know they really need the help. At home, I have these guys that are about 13 weeks now and then I have some three-week-old little babies that were brought in.”
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“Any types of donations — like food Purina kitten chow, Purina cat chow — that’s the kind of stuff that the cats really need right now."
- Makenna Lederhouse, PR marketing coordinator of Ten Lives Club WKBW
“We’re just trying to push to get cats adopted, get them processed, and hopefully make room for more intakes and help all the strays out there."
Ten Lives Club will be hosting an adoption event in two weeks.
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