Posts Tagged ‘Nye County Nevada’

Great Kitty Rescue case set for trial this week

Reprinted with permission from Cats Examiner, Barbara Kohn:

Best Friends caring for nearly 800 cats

Best Friends caring for nearly 800 cats

Over two years ago, Animal Control in Nye County, Nevada, took control of some 800 cats in what has been described as a rescue effort that turned into an extreme case of animal hoarding. FLOCK (For the Love of Cats and Kittens), a registered 501c3 non-profit corporation, had kept the cats in deplorable conditions in their facility in Pahrump, Nevada.

Nye Country convinced FLOCK owners to surrender the cats and then turned their care over to Best Friends Animal Society. “The Great Kitty Rescue,” as Best Friends called it became the largest successful cat rescue in American history. (more…)