<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of CTV News (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">(with video)</div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/unwanted-cats-become-barn-buddies-through-humane-society-program-1.1630244">http://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/unwanted-cats-become-barn-buddies-through-humane-society-program-1.1630244</a></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">----------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Unwanted cats become Barn Buddies through Humane Society Program</b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Winnipeg Humane Society program is giving Manitoba cats a second chance at life.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cats who can't be placed in homes are going to the country as part of the Humane Society’s Barn Buddies program.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“So people like me who have a barn and need a mouser, or three, can get them from the humane society," said Sherry Scouten, Barn Buddies participant.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cats eligible for Barn Buddies may be accustomed to living outdoors, display some behaviour problems or are just not that social.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The program is proving popular with farms, said Val Poulton with the Winnipeg Humane Society.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 25px; font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif;">“</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 25px; font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif;"><br></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 25px; font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif;">I usually have a waiting list of at least three or four homes for the cats that come in,” she said. “We tend to have more people than we do cats."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 25px; font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif;"><br></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 25px; font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif;">The program is free to sign up for, but the Humane Society asks for donation of $40 to help cover costs.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 25px; font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 25px; font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">--------------------</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 25px; font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Winnipeg Humane Society program is giving Manitoba cats a second chance at life through the Barn Buddies program.<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><img src="cid:347B2FBA-A873-425E-AF42-463EF74924DB" alt="image.jpeg" id="347B2FBA-A873-425E-AF42-463EF74924DB" width="728" height="407"></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">----------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>