<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>An initiative started by UC Davis called the "Million Cat Challenge" - a push to save 1 million cats from euthanization in five years has failed. Turns out they only needed four years to reach that goal and earn a standing ovation from Caturday.</div><div><br></div>Courtesy of <i>CBS-13</i> (Sacramento, California) at:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/05/16/million-cat-challenge/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark">http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/05/16/million-cat-challenge/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark</a></div><div><br></div><div>———————————————</div><div><div><h1 class="title" style="margin: 0px 12.015625px; padding: 14px 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: capitalize; line-height: 52.5px; font-size: 4.2em; font-family: Lato, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-position: 0px 0px;">More Than 1 Million Cats Saved By Cutting Euthanasia Rates</h1></div><div><br></div><div>UC DAVIS (CBS13) — Four years ago an initiative was started by UC Davis called the “Million Cat Challenge.”</div><div><br></div><div>It was basically a push to save 1 million cats from euthanization in five years. They only needed four years to reach that goal.</div><div><br></div><div>A local shelter is also celebrating cat saving success in Yuba County.</div><div><br></div><div>Yuba County Animal Care Services previously had an 80 percent kill rate of cats. The not-for-profit group, FieldHaven Feline Center started a major push to get those numbers down.</div><div><br></div><div>Among other improvements, they held spay and neuter workshops to help keep the population down.</div><div><br></div><div>The shelter now has a lifesaving rate of more than 80 percent, eclipsing the previous kill rate.</div><div><br></div><div>——————-</div><div><br></div><div>Video</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TAyMjXxA8iw">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TAyMjXxA8iw</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>———————————————<br><br><div><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><br></div></div></div></body></html>