<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>Courtesy of the <i>New York Post</i> at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://nypost.com/2015/02/25/car-service-turns-into-animal-haven-helps-sterilize-feral-cats/">http://nypost.com/2015/02/25/car-service-turns-into-animal-haven-helps-sterilize-feral-cats/</a></div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Car service turns into animal haven, helps sterilize feral cats</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Brooklyn car service owner is using her spare space to help control the pet population — with on-site vets that have spayed and neutered thousands of cats.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Big Apple Car in Bath Beach, which dispatches 225 luxury car drivers to jobs around the city, has a surgery room on its first floor where the doctors sterilize kitties for free on Sundays and Mondays.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The operation would normally run several hundred dollars at a veterinarian. The vets are paid by the nonprofit The Toby project.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The base also has about 20 frisky cats up for adoption in a sanctuary created in its basement by the nonprofit Ferals in Peril.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The group rescues the cats largely in the Bensonhurst, Bath Beach, and Bay Ridge sections of Brooklyn.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It doesn’t run an animal shelter, but uses the car base space as a temporary home for kitties that are neutered or spayed while it finds homes for them.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Big Apple Car’s president Diana Clemente adores cats and offered the animal rescue group the space to spay and neuter cats in 2011, as well as to provide sanctuary for them.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The animal lover began working in the black car industry as a teenager, working first as a telephone operator when she was sixteen.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She is a volunteer with the Hampton’s Animal Rescue Fund.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I go down there on my break and play with them,” said Big Apple manager Marie Franc.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“It is unusual, but I think of it like this– anyone who can help an animal should have a special place in Heaven.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Since the car service turned into an animal haven, over 9,000 cats have been spayed and neutered at the base.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Some of their staff have fallen in love with the cats and adopted them as well.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">--------------------</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A cat at the facility</p></div><div><img src="cid:B47CEF41-FBF2-47BD-B274-67B3CC315DED" alt="image1.jpeg" id="B47CEF41-FBF2-47BD-B274-67B3CC315DED"></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_022815.jpg">http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_022815.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------<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> </div></div></div></div></div></body></html>