The Cal Poly Cat Program is calling for volunteers to foster cats from the shelter until they can find their forever home, providing a safe environment for cats and helping to manage the feral cat population in San Luis Obispo.
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Cal Poly Cat Program brings their Adopt-A-Kitty Event to downtown
Cal Poly’s Cat Program hosted its Adopt-A-Kitty Event in Downtown San Luis Obispo at Humankind. The event worked as a way to bring awareness to the club, encourage people to adopt kittens and engage with the community. Mustang News reporter Gabrielle Ottaviano went to the event to learn more about the program.
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Room to roam: Cal Poly Cat Program moves to new on-campus facility
The Cal Poly Cat Program has moved into a new, larger shelter space that allows for more specialized care for its sanctuary cats.
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Fetching happiness: How more Cal Poly students are adopting and fostering pets
Here’s how Cal Poly students are finding comfort and responsibility by adopting or fostering pets to cope with stress and loneliness.
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Community and Calm: SLO County’s first cat cafe opens in Grover Beach
Pumpkin adores the attention he gets as the only orange tabby cat at The Caffeinated Cat Cafe. The 8-month-old cat is noticeably more hyper than the rest of the cafe cats and always greets customers with a meow, according to cafe owner Jaime Pierce. She emphasized that Pumpkin is much more than your run-of-the-mill cat. […]
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Creating a sanctuary: New location creates opportunity for the Cal Poly Cat Program
The Cal Poly Cat Program is tentatively set to move to the Avila Ranch House by the end of April. Their current location, where they have been located for over 30 years, is being taken over to expand the Cal Poly Technology Park, according to Cat Program Faculty Advisor Damon Watkins.
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The Cal Poly Cat Program has helped find homes for more than 3,000 cats roaming campus
In the early 1990s, hundreds of feral cats roamed Cal Poly’s campus and the surrounding neighborhoods. Some were pets students had abandoned. Others were the offspring of cats brought in by the agriculture department for pest control. Animal science senior Garret Quindimil started the Cal Poly Cat Program in 1992, when he found the cat […]
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14 things you may have missed at the Cat Video Film Fest
We captured as much cuteness as we could.
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Feral cats find a home at Cal Poly
It appears as if Cal Poly not only has a soft side for Mustangs but for cats as well. The Cal Poly Cat Program (CPCP) was designed in 1992 as a senior project to minimize the amount of feral cats roaming around on campus.