Pet Connections Socializes Cats from Happy Tails

One of our new feline friends!

Beginning in the middle of December, Pet Connections has had the opportunity to conduct weekly visitations with the cats up for adoption at Happy Tails.  To prepare for these visits participants watched videos to learn cat behaviors and body language.  They also learned how to appropriately keep a cat calm while handling.    

Socializing the cats at Happy Tails is beneficial for both parties as petting a cat is relaxing, decreases blood pressure, relieves depression, and decreases anxiety for our participants while the cats stress is minimized, their quality of life is maximized, and the likelihood for adoption of the cats greatly increases. 

Plaques stating that the cat has been socialized by Ontario ARC participants will be made to hang on each cats’ crate who participates in the socialization. 

This great partnership with Happy Tails will continue weekly every Wednesday afternoon from 1:00-1:30! Based on a similar program for dogs, Pet Connections has experienced 100% success rate with adoptions of the dogs from Happy Tails and is off to a great start with the cats as well!  We hope to keep the momentum going!