Credit: Stripes (left) and Eliott (Photo courtesy of Cleveland APL)
The Cleveland Animal Protective League will hold “Mission: Pawssible 2” Friday, Aug. 21 through Sunday, Aug. 23 at both of the organizations adoption centers with drastically reduced adoption fees for all cats and kittens as part of the promotion — kittens (under five months old) from $95 to $20 and cats (over five months old) from $45 to $5. 

“Here at the Cleveland APL, our mission is to foster compassion and end animal suffering,” Sharon Harvey, Cleveland APL President and CEO, said in a press release. “We work to achieve this mission every single day, but this weekend, we are on a very specific mission for our cats, and that is to find them all a home. You can help us by adopting or just spreading the word about Mission: Pawssible! Like Tom Cruise, we can do it without a stunt double, but we need you – and so do our animals!”

The Cleveland APL hopes to find homes for over 100 feline friends this weekend. The animals will be available for adoption at two different centers: the Cleveland APL adoption center in Tremont at 1729 Willey Avenue and PetSmart Charities Everyday Adoption Center in the Parma PetSmart store at 6870 Ridge Road. 

All animals adopted from the Cleveland APL have been spayed or neutered, received the appropriate tests and vaccinations and cats come with a free travel box. All animals currently up for adoption can be viewed here or by downloading the Cleveland APL’s free app for iOS and Android device. 

This article appears in Aug 19-25, 2015.

By day, Tyler Singleton studies journalism at Kent State University. By night, he pledges to serve and protect the public as a Geek Squad Agent. Tyler has been “waiting for next year” his entire life and even this love for Cleveland sports led to his name: Tyler as in Ty Detmer, another mediocre Browns quarterback. Tyler’s work has been published by the Kent Stater, Kent State’s newspaper and KSUbuzz.com, Kent State’s arts and entertainment website.

One reply on “Cleveland Animal Protective League Begins “Mission: Pawssible II””

  1. Unfortunately, there are far more kitties available than there are good (and forever) homes for them. Especially for young cats and older felines. Everybody wants a kitten, it seems. So that is why the shelters charge more to adopt them. But kittens are like newborn kids with claws. Sooooo cute…but they need a lot of attention and time…and still have enough energy left to tear up your furniture and drive you up the wall.

    But have you ever thought of adopting an older kitty…or even a “bonded pair” whose owner has either passed away or can no longer take care of them? The APL has a number of older cats. Sometimes one, sometimes two. Males, females, and mixed pairs.

    Our two oldest kitties (20 and 18) died within the last year. It was time to find new animal companions for our third-oldest (13) kitty. We didn’t want any kittens, mostly because…to be honest…they might outlive us! And then someone would have to adopt THEM someday!

    So in May, we adopted a bonded pair from the APL. One is an orange tabby. He’s eleven. The other is an all-black female, except for a heart-shaped white patch on her belly. She’s five. Both of them are the nicest, sweetest felines you could ever hope to find. And the APL staff is top-notch.

    There are probably other shelters with pairs of older cats, or single older cats. Lakewood and Berea come to mind. But APL seems to have a whole bunch of them. Some are really, really, REALLY nice animals.

    Five Dollar Kitty Day? That’s an even better bargain than Dollar Dog Night at the ballpark! Just do it! Go adopt an older kitty! Or even two!

    Chuckles the Clown

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