SCAT Street Cat Rescue volunteers have been saving and bettering feline lives in Saskatoon, SK since 1997. We welcome you to visit our website often and to become a member of the Street Cat Rescue team.
Keep in touch with what the volunteers and cats are up to by visiting our blogs and be sure to join us on facebook.

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One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a boy picking something up and gently throwing it into the ocean. Approaching the boy, he asked, "What are you doing?"
The youth replied, "Throwing starfish back into the ocean he surf is up and the tide is going out. If I don't throw them back, they'll die."
"Son," the man said, "don't you realize there are miles and miles of beach and hundreds of starfish? You can't make a difference!"
After listening politely, the boy bent down, picked up another starfish, and threw it back into the surf. Then, smiling at the man, he said:

"I made a difference for that one."

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SCAT Street Cat Rescue is proud to announce its first annual calendar - Men with Cats. Twelve Saskatchewan men from twelve different professions participated, along with some of the cutest cats on the planet. Add in professional photographers and a graphic designer who volunteered their time and expertise to put it all together, and the result is nothing short of magical.

Here's how to order your calendars:
1) By mail or in person, pay $20.00 for each calendar to SCAT at 2750 Faithfull Avenue, Saskatoon, SK S7K 6M6 Please do not sent cash in the mail. Email us at
2) Contact us at and we will put you in touch with a SCAT volunteer in your area who will take your order.
You can arrange for pickup or delivery, with an extra charge for delivery. Pickup will be at the address listed above, or through a volunteer.

For calendar delivery within Saskatoon city limits, add $3.00 to your order (no limit on number of calendars) To have your calendars mailed within Saskatchewan:

• $3.00 for one calendar
• $4.00 for two calendars
• $5.00 for three calendars

Contact us at for mailing rates for more than three calendars, or for mail delivery outside Saskatchewan.

Join the SCAT Street Cat Rescue "Men With Cats" Calendar facebook page.

Help support Street Cat Rescue this year with a gift from our wishlist. We could definitely use donations of canned cat food or unscented cat litter. Street Cat Rescue could especially use a donation of your time.

• Do you have any special skills that could help us make a difference? - consider volunteering!
• Do you have room in your home to foster a cat?- take a look at our fostering pamphlet
• Do you have a few hours to help out at one of our adoption events? - contact us!

Thank you to Teresa Chu and the staff at All About Cats and Dogs for their commitment and great organization of the 2nd Annual Gala. Their year-round support of SCAT Street Cat Rescue and New Hope Dog Rescue is always above and beyond wonderful, and to add this tremendous effort to put on an amazing gala is awesome.

We would also like to thank the wonderful sponsors to the gala. Your commitment to this event proves your dedication to our community and helped make it a huge success.

Thank you also to all the wonderful volunteers who helped.

We look forward to seeing everyone again next year. Please keep an eye out for the date for the 2012 Gala.

The "Walk for Cats" was SCAT's first walkathon so we welcomed all to join us and help the SCAT kitties. It was on Sunday, July 24. People met at the Diefenbaker Centre on the university campus and the Meewasin Trail and walked as far as they were able along the trail to the railway bridge or to the Circle Drive Bridge and back and enjoyed the day. There were gifts and prizes for participants. And everyone had a great time. Thanks to everyone that came out to help SCAT cats!!!

SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN, 10 JANUARY 2011: According to the Vietnamese calendar, 2011 is officially the Year of the Cat. That makes this the perfect year to celebrate North America’s number one animal companion with a nation-wide ‘Year of the Cat’ campaign. The program is designed to increase the value of owned, homeless and feral cats and, in doing so, address the issue of cat overpopulation in Canada.

“We are pleased to announce that we will be one of many organizations across the country working collaboratively on Year of the Cat initiatives,” explains Linda Jean Gubbe, SCAT Spokesperson. “This program is being lead by a new national volunteer organization called Care for Cats. Coping with the seemingly never-ending stream of stray, abandoned and feral cats that enter our shelter each year is a growing problem … not only in our community but also across the country. With the Year of the Cat resources to assist us, we can work together to create responsible and compassionate communities where people care for cats.

Check out www.careforcats.ca for information.

Some of the Year of the Cat events planned for 2011 includes:

• May — The PURRfect month for a cat awareness campaign and an adopt-a-thon
• Sept. 23 – Oct. 2 — National Cat ID Week focusing on permanent identification, licensing and registration
• December — Hoping for Fur-ever homes adopt-a-thon

Hamilton, Ontario, veterinarian and feline specialist, Dr. Elizabeth O’Brien, is the official spokesperson for the Care for Cats committee. She says that 2011 The Year of the Cat is modeled after a similar highly successful campaign created by the Hamilton-Burlington SPCA in 2008.

“Care for Cats has built its public educational campaign based on solid facts,” explains O’Brien. “The 2008 Business of Urban Animals Survey (BUAS), commissioned by PetLynx Corporation for the International Summits for Urban Animal Strategies, provided statistical proof of what people working in animal shelters and veterinary hospitals have known for decades: cats are not generally valued as much as dogs. In almost every category covered by this survey, dogs received better care than cats.”

The PetLynx Urban Animal Survey revealed:

• There are 8.5 million cats in Canada
• 36 per cent of Canadian homes have one or more cats
• 50 percent of these cats did not receive regular veterinary care in the past 12 months
• Less than 25 per cent of Canadian cats have permanent identification, such as tattoos or microchips
• 41 per cent either haven’t been vaccinated in the last four years or have never been vaccinated at all
• 54 per cent of people who owned cats that were not currently spayed or neutered reported that they were

“unlikely” to have their cats altered in the coming year.

“The message we need to get to the public is not only about the importance of spaying and neutering cats as a means of population control,” concludes O’Brien. “We also have to try to change attitudes about the intrinsic value of cats in our society. In a nutshell, we need people to start treating cats like dogs! We invite anyone interested in cats and creating healthy communities to visit our website and get involved in the Year of the Cat campaign.”

Street Cat Rescue can't do its work without the help of volunteers and generous sponsors. All funds raised go right to the kitties. If you can help out by volunteering, fostering or would like to donate please give the adoption center on Faithfull a call or use the donation button up above.

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