 Hello everybody and welcome to City Talk. I'm Marlee Drum with Columbia Animal Services and wanted to share with you that June is Adopt a Shelter Cat Month and to honor that we're participating and it's for adult cats anything a year older. We are actually adopting out for only ten dollars and for that ten dollars you get not only an awesome cat but it's already spayed or neutered. It's microchip. It's vaccinated. We've tested them for feal and chymion aids and the idea of course this time of year is we're getting covered up with kittens and just cats in general so we want to get as many out the door as fast as we can during this time to keep the shelter from coming overcrowded. So this is a special month for cats and we hope folks will come out and adopt one and for ten dollars you can't beat a deal like that not to mention you're getting a forever friend. So come see us at Columbia Animal Services. We're at 127 Humane Lane right off of Sharp Road 977 or just give us a call at 776-7387. It's such an easy process to adopt you just come down to the shelter you take a look around sometimes the cat will choose you and you don't even have to choose your cat and literally with after about 10 or 15 minutes with paperwork you are leaving with your cat because the cats you're viewing are the ones we've already spayed and neutered microchip so they are ready to go right there and then so I always tell people the hard part is picking out the one you want because there's so many to choose from but like I said often that cat will choose you first so the cool thing about adopting a shelter pet and particularly a cat this time of year since we have so many with all the kittens being born is as part of the old saying goes is you're actually saving two lives the cat that you're taking from the shelter and the space you're making available for the next one so we get this crowd that's time of year obviously we don't want to euthanize anything due to space so if you are coming to adopt a cat or thinking about getting a cat always think about getting a shelter cat first because you truly are helping with the ones out there that truly need homes and you know in any community it's always good to go to a shelter and ours in particular we're getting so close to being a pet safe community we really want to reach that goal and that's just one small way that our citizens can truly help us out and I shouldn't say a small way it's a huge way to help us out because you're saving a life