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Atlanta resident Sterling Davis was on a break from a rap tour when he applied for a job at the county shelter scooping kitty litter. He just wanted to stay busy and make a little money. Plus, hes always loved animals, like his cat at the time, Rick James.
I did horrible in the interview because they had cats in the room and I was playing with all the cats, kissing all the cats, he told TODAY.
Even though he didnt really answer any of the questions because he was distracted by the friendly felines, he got the job because, as the person who hired him said, Were not seeing people like you with cats.
Davis, 40, started helping shelter employees with trap-neuter-return cases. The team would trap community cats (formerly called feral), bring them to the shelter to be vaccinated and spayed or neutered, and then return them to their outdoor realm.
While Davis learned about TNR, he came to another realization.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/how-rapper-quit-his-music-career-start-cat-rescue-n1248990
I remember posting this video a couple of years ago:
Blue Owl
(50,331 posts)Love it!!!
MustLoveBeagles
(11,587 posts)Thanks for posting
Karadeniz
(22,490 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(9,961 posts)3catwoman3
(23,968 posts)And I like the term community cats. 🐈⬛ 🐈 🐱
Raine
(30,540 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,376 posts)Meowmee
(5,164 posts)japple
(9,819 posts)in Georgia. He has done remarkable work with TNR in ATL GA
TygrBright
(20,755 posts)"animal rescue is a white thing"... made me cry.
Racism just fucks up everything for everybody.
And until we start PAYING ATTENTION (damn, I was NOT paying attention in this particular context... lucky me, another thing my whiteness lets me be oblivious to...) this stuff is going to keep dividing us when it could be bringing us together.
Like Mr. Davis is.
Thank you.
For the moggies, and for this iggerent old white broad.
diffidently,
Bright
bucolic_frolic
(43,116 posts)https://www.lincolnshiretrustforcats.co.uk/retirement.html
http://messybeast.com/cat-shelter.htm
I looked into this. I have a great location, but no cat experience, so I'm sort of leaving it as an idea for serendipity.
Lots of hurdles to qualifying as a non-profit. Strict compliance.
JudyM
(29,225 posts)Have you considered volunteering at a local shelter to get the kitty experience you want?
Or at an animal hospital... I did that in high school.
bucolic_frolic
(43,116 posts)Shelters are far away for me, and most of them have other animals as well. The cat I almost bought was from a cat shelter, but it was a tightly held operation. I now realize it was going through the non-profit process, which is always an ongoing thing. But I do volunteer with a local hospice.
JudyM
(29,225 posts)Saw that first-hand.
Yeehah
(4,574 posts)We are all fellow creatures on the same journey.
niyad
(113,213 posts)crickets
(25,959 posts)His story just makes me so happy. Thanks so much for sharing this.