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[wylies99]

KOPC, the Korean Organization for the Protection of Cats is selling the desktop calendar. The money raised by selling these calendar will go to help rescued cats and cat shelters in Korea.

The photos in the calendars are of the cats who are being taken care by the KOPC members who practice the TNR(trap-neuter-return) programs and find homes for rescued cats around South Korea.

"KOPC" is, established in June, 2005, an online based community with about 8,600 members who individually practice TNR as well as take care of the neighborhood cats including feeding and medical care and volunteer for fostering and finding homes for the rescued ones.

=Price=
9,000won including shipping and a complimentary cellphone dangle(see the pic)


http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=193501122549

Details at the link

[Faunaki]

Thanks for that OP.

[Konglishman]

Thanks for letting us know about this. I think I will buy one of those cat calendars for my grandmother.

[wylies99]

You're welcome.

[wylies99]

You can join the NABIYA Facebook group. Nabiya is a shelter in Seoul and they also have many events to help cats.

[The Goalie]

I don't know anything about this issue but I do hope it doesn't mean there won't be a population of wild cats running around like there is now. First, I don't like the "man will have dominion" thing much, and the number of species, especially mammalian, inhabiting the human made environments are so few that it would be a shame if cats, never really comfortable with domestication anyways, were to come further under the sway of our domineering species and simply become sexless, impotent decorations for our unnatural habitations. Also, as much as I love all, or most, living things, I wouldn't much like to see rats and mice become too abundant, so I hope that the efforts of this shelter won't remove those lovely, prowling exterminators from the streets and fields and mountains, with all their capacity to breed and be acted upon by the forces of nature, but let them do what they were designed to do by the powers of natural selection, compete in the struggle for life, the war of nature, with as little intervention as our dominating wills can manage.

[SeoulMan6]

[The Goalie]

"Domesticated itself." Exactly. All on its own terms.

You've probably heard this but:

You feed a dog and give it shelter, etc. so it thinks you're god.

You feed a cat and give it shelter, etc. so it thinks it's god.

By the way, it's thought now that dogs also became at least semi-domesticated in the same way as cats, becoming village dogs, scavenging what they could from us before becoming fully domesticated.

By saying that cats are not really comfortable (probably not the best word but I liked how it sounded) with domestication I meant that they don't buy into it whole hog the way dogs do.

Bottom line is I like having cats running around, making a living on their own. I wouldn't feel the same way about dogs. That would be scary.

[Faunaki]

[quote="The Goalie I wouldn't feel the same way about dogs. That would be scary.[/quote]

Taiwan has problems with packs of wild little dogs running around. Once I was out walking by myself along the river and this pack of mutts surrounded me and one little ankle biter bit me. It was traumatizing, luckily they were all mini or I wouldn't be here to tell this story.

Korean cats fighting!

[pkang0202]

I'm a dog person myself. I own a cat because they are low maintenance.
Despite being a dog lover, you gotta love cats purely for this:

http://icanhascheezburger.com/

Seriously, dogs can't do half of the goofy things cats do.

OP, thanks for the link, I'll be buying a calendar today.

[Draz]

[raewon]

Thanks for the info. I just ordered one. ^*^

Happy holidays.

[Rteacher]

Thanks for posting the thread. I posted a link to it on the Seoul Veggie Club Facebook site.

[sojusucks]

I saw this mentioned on Brian Deutch's blog. Sounds like a good cause.

[conrad2]

Cat eye is very scary. Do you like cat?