PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The
working cat program is a life saving adoption option for cats that are having a hard time finding a home. The Pennsylvania SPCA helps find alternative homes for the cats, on farms and warehouses, with hopes that they will take care of rodent problems for their caretakers.
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April 16, 2019 Staci Papadoplos manages animal care at the Pennsylvania SPCA. She started the working cat program about four years ago in a garage space. Since then, money has been raised to build indoor and outdoor transitional sheds. Popadopolos says the outdoors sheds are what makes the program special.
"So the transition sheds allow cats who may have only been in people's homes and are not social enough to go back into someone's home, through traditional adoption. It gives them the space to transition into an outside life, so eventually we can place them on a farm or in a outdoor space where they can become successful."
She says most of the cats in the program were brought to the shelter by humane law enforcement officers. The animals were rescued from hoarding situations where they were living wild indoors, with no human interaction.
The cat's personalities are assessed when they arrive at the no-kill shelter. If their social level is low, they are elligible for the working cat program.
