1988-2008... 20 years of purrs... 20 years of purpose...
Good Mews
Finding good homes for good kitties…
Happenings
Camp O.P.P.
Good Mews had a wonderful opportunity to participate this summer with Our Pal’s Place, Camp O.P.P.
Each week in July we spent the day with a different group of kids ranging in age from 5th grade to 8th grade.
Fun was had by all as well as a great chance to educate the kids on cat behavior, the importance of spay/neuter, cat care and what it takes to run Good Mews!
Cat Alert!
As we are approaching Fall, it is overwhelming to realize a Fall kitten season is approaching when it seems this Spring’s kitten season has not yet slowed down.
We have many cats and kittens in foster care still waiting for room to enter our shelter.
Due to this we will be focusing our efforts until late September or early October in getting our foster kitties into the shelter, as well as some kitties already promised a space.
Anyone in rescue understands what a trying season this has been so we thank you for your support and patience with our efforts for the next couple of months.
Every adoption means another one saved!
Sloppy Kiss Cards
Isn’t it fun to send our email cards to your friends and family? And we can make it an added bonus for our kitties if you sign up for a year long membership!
We are teaming up with Sloppy Kiss cards which are animated ecards for dog and cat lovers. You get to choose and name the dog or cat that stars in every ecard you send. Join now for just $9.95 for a year of ecards and 25% of your sign up fee will be donated to GM!
Don’t forget that sending ecards can help you drive sales for GM:
If you send an ecard to a friend and they sign up for Sloppy Kiss Cards then Good Mews gets 25% of the sale. If your friend then sends an ecard to someone else who then signs up, we get credit for that sale as well. And so on, and so on…
When your friend clicks on the ecard link to view the ecard the charity code is stored as a cookie on their computer for 30 days. If they join Sloppy Kiss Cards at any time during those 30 days then the charity code field of the sign up form will be automatically filled in with your charity code. This means Good Mews will get credit for the sale and your charity code will be associated with that person’s account so when they send ecards your code will be included in their ecard links which will hopefully continue to drive more sales for GM.
Click onto Sloppy-Kiss-membership for more information and sign up today to send Sloppy Kiss cards! Our shelter code is entered into the enrollment form so GM gets credit for all memberships!
Squeak and her new baby!
Who says babies and cats don’t mix?
Here is the story of our GM kitty Squeak in her brand new home! This letter is from her new mom!
I recently adopted Squeak and wanted to provide an update about how she is doing. She is doing well and is settling in. She and our other cat have not completely warmed up to each other but they definitely do not have any problems with each other. On the other hand Squeak has adopted our 10 week old daughter, Annaliese. She usually wants to be in whatever room Annaliese is in and as you can see from the attached photos Squeak loves Annaliese.
The pictures where Annaliese is in the pink sleeper were taken 2 hours after I got Squeak home. The other pictures were taken the following day. Even if Annaliese is not lying on the play mat, Squeak loves to lie there.
Squeak is so sweet and loving and instantly became a part of the family.
Best Wishes,
Kimberly Geyerman
PSA
We are very excited to have our new PSA up online! Recently we had our shelter filmed so click on and enjoy!
Thanks to Amy Jackson and Mark Burch for working on this for us and doing such a fantastic job to show off our shelter!!
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What is important to us
Today this section of the website is being written very differently. It is written from my point of view as the Feline Care Manager of our no-kill shelter.
On Friday, June 6th our day began like every other. I made a call to help rescue just one kitty from Heard County animal control who had been left by her owner because he could no longer care for her. He was taking care of 50+ cats, most likely few were spayed and neutered. I had received an email last night and although these come in all of the time...... I looked at the picture in this one.
While our typical day at Good Mews is helping who we can and caring for who we have, a typical day at animal control is very different. They try to help who they can but with much more desperation than we personally experience on our typical Friday. While we planned to save just one homeless kitty’s life, because in the middle of kitten season we are just too full, they were frantically trying to find rescue to come to take the 35 others that would be euthanized by the end of the day. Some adults.... but the majority were kittens......tiny babies huddled in cages out of fear of where they are. Those babies only had until 4 o’clock on this particular Friday.
By late in the day, we had received numerous pleas for help for Heard County Animal control. Lots of pictures, lots of babies.......3:30 pm........ 30 minutes left.
Today gave us yet another look at a typical day at our shelter vs. a typical day at area animal controls. This reality was just one day at one shelter in GA. Thirty-five cats were to be euthanized today. Just cats, who knows how many dogs??
We rescued 4 more babies and 2 adults which was the best we could do. They are able to hold them for us until we can get there to save their lives! Two kittens we rescued had just arrived today and at 4 o’clock they would head down the hall to be euthanized. Why? With no chance at all?? No cage space is the answer why. So, those very adoptable fluffy calico babies got turned in today and at 3:45 their life was spared by 15 minutes.
We feel fortunate that we were able to help. To at least make this Friday, June 6th a good day for a few kitties that will get a new chance at life.
Just imagine, if everyone spayed and neutered their pets............
If you would like to make a donation to help us in our mission of saving more lifes, please click Donate Today!
All donations are tax-deductible in accordance with the law. Good Mews is a 501(c) 3 organization.
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Click the paw to donate financially to Good Mews programs. Or read about the Programs you can donate to first.
Catistics
Adopted This Year: 202
Adopted Last Year: 263
Total Cats Adopted: 5,021+
Years Running: 20
Featured Kitty
Penquin
My name is Penquin, and I although I had a rough time of it before coming to GM, I have made myself at home and shown what a sweet boy I am. I am seeking a home where I can be the king of the household! I do have some special needs, but hey, that’s ‘cause I’m a special boy! Please come and meet me!
Meet Your Match
Good Mews is very excited to announce we will be the first shelter in Georgia to roll out the ASPCA®’s Meet Your Match Feline-ality™ Program. We plan to have it up and running by late summer!
Meet your Match for felines was introduced by the ASPCA® in 2007. The launch of Feline-ality™ in 2007 is the latest addition to the ASPCA®’s Meet Your Match™ constellation of adoption programs that include research-based animal behavior assessments—all aimed at increasing adoption rates, and reducing return rates at shelters, thus combating the problem of pet overpopulation in shelters today.
According to the ASPCA®, “the key to developing successful adoptions lies in making good matches between adopters and pets, thus creating lasting bonds,” said Dr. Emily Weiss, the ASPCA’s senior director of shelter behavior programs, and researcher of ASPCA®’s Meet Your Match™. “Feline-ality™ is a tool that does precisely this; and everyone—adopters, shelter staff, and most of all, the cats—benefits from the program.”
Meet Your Match™ is a program of ASPCA®.
Cute!!!
It just goes to show, you are never too young to support Good Mews!
See our supporter close up: baby.jpg
Low Cost Spay and Neuter
Spring is here and along with it brings prime kitten season!
No one can resist a cute kitten and the little ones who make it to GM know they are safe here until they find their forever home. But unfortunately, the simple fact is there just are not enough homes for all the cats and dogs millions wind up without a chance.
Did you know that over 8 million cats and dogs get killed in shelters in the United States every year?
Please spay and neuter, it is the only way to help the pet overpopulation problem.
Click Low Cost for spay and neuter options for you or someone you know!
These kittens are part of the GM foster program. Some were born homeless and outside and some we saved from euthanasia at animal control.
Be part of the solution...... spay and neuter to help avoid another homeless pet........
P.E.T.S. Project
UPDATE: We are now featuring homeless pets from both Paulding and Heard County Animal Control. Heard County is a very high kill shelter and we are pleased to be working with them to help when we can!
Good Mews is always trying to help as many homeless pets as possible and like all shelters, we are limited by space and resources.
Introducing the P.E.T.S. (Putting Euthanasia To Sleep) Project, we are beginning a new community effort by featuring the homeless dogs and cats from Paulding animal control and Heard County Animal Control.
Long term, our goal is to feature animals from 2 shelters on our website( just added #2), make flyers to post around the community, raise money for more spays, neuters and other necessities for our cats, and ultimately help us rescue more homeless pets. All donors will receive a special “paw print” featuring their name on it which will be seen in our shelter!
Money raised within this program will enable Good Mews to continue our mission of helping homeless, abandoned and abused pets. With more resources, we will continue to rescue as many cats as we can from local animal controls who otherwise wouldn’t have a chance at life.
Click here to see our flyer advertising this new project. P.E.T.S._Project1.pdf
If you would like to participate by helping to print out pictures of the homeless pets of Paulding animal control and hang them around town, please contact and click on
for more details!
If you would like to donate to Good Mews to enable us to rescue more homeless animals, please click P.E.T.S-Project. In order to get your name on our special card hanging in the shelter, please mention P.E.T.S. Project when you make your donation.
To see the homeless dogs and cats of Paulding Animal Control and Heard County Animal Control, please click on to Read More!