No Kill Nation: Stray Cat Alliance Gala!

First Christine, awards the Pet Care Foundation the “Lifeline Award,” for their help and generous grant to The Stray Cat Alliance. She also mentions the many people and organizations that have helped The Stray Cat Alliance in incredible life-saving ways. The Stray Cat Alliance works with communities regardless of socioeconomic status, to educate them and give them resources to save cats. They also provide veterinarian care and they have a program to capture, spay, neuter and release cats. They have saved thousands of cats to date, many of which were in the most dire need of care and treatment. The transformations of these cats in the promotional video are unbelievable. They aim to do their part to make Los Angeles a no kill city this year and later the nation “one stray at a time!”

Michael Lewis is awarded the Impact Award for his contributions to The Stray Cat Alliance. He actually got a feral cat from Patty Shenker, who is the woman in the full cat painted face who coined the saying, “Peace begins on your plate.” He was out in Houston doing aid with his company after Hurricane Harvey and came across cats that needed help after the disaster. Amazingly, Christine and the Stray Cat Alliance were already there working with the cats in the area. That inspired him to get more involved with the organization and get his hands “dirty” to help these cats. He says he wanted to be more than a human being, he wanted to be a “human doing.” He says the work that Christine and The Stray Cat Alliance has done impacted him, and I think anyone watching these videos would agree they’ve been impacted by their work as well. Thank you Stray Cat Alliance for the amazing work that you do for these cats! We hope to see the United States and nations around the world turn into “No Kill Nations” one day soon!

Report Edited by Ellen Dent.

Photos courtesy of Jane Velez-MItchell