Looking for the
purr-fect home

A local animal advocacy group is looking to find new homes for some adult cats after a woman abandoned 18 of them when she moved out of her Tacony home.
Operation Cat SNIP (Spay Neuter Immunize Protect), which works out of a trailer off of Torresdale Avenue in Holmesburg, has already found homes for 10 of the animals.
The remaining pets are females GinGin and Jubilee and males Scout, Chachi, Donny, Spud, Twister and Nuni.
Among the original 18 cats, five were not fixed. Donna Munizza Shields, who directs Operation Cat SNIP and whose husband Don is a veterinarian, is part of a small group that has been caring for the animals.
Munizza Shields stresses that Operation Cat SNIP is not a shelter. It’s a place where individuals who care for feral and stray cats can have them spayed and neutered at a low cost.
Munizza Shields encourages all cat owners to spay or neuter their pets and urges individuals not to be "hoarders." She describes hoarders as generally good-hearted people who take in homeless cats but fail to provide veterinary care or bathe the pets. Anyone who wants to adopt a cat can call Susan Zimmerman at 215-357-4946. ••