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Fetching happiness: How more Cal Poly students are adopting and fostering pets

by Caroline Ohlandt April 11, 2025April 10, 2025

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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Cal Poly alum seeks location for first cat cafe in SLO

by Kaitlyn Knopf May 27, 2024June 1, 2024

After falling in love with the process of fostering cats, Cal Poly alumni Jaime Pierce is decided to open a cat cafe in San Luis Obispo: The Caffeinated Cat Cafe.

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Cal Poly Cat Program provides new pet owners comfort during COVID-19

by Gabriella Salibo October 8, 2020August 29, 2022

Since COVID-19, the process of finding new homes for the cats has turned into clockwork, as many people throughout San Luis Obispo have shown an increased interest.

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The Cal Poly Cat Program has helped find homes for more than 3,000 cats roaming campus

by Emily Fagenstrom December 21, 2018August 19, 2022

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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A lick a day keeps the doctor away

by Serena Lopez November 20, 2018August 29, 2022

The most stressful time of the year for students often arrives with midterms and finals. The hours spent sitting in class, studying, doing homework, keeping up with a social life and possibly working a job can be a lot to juggle. College student mental health statistics reflect this. What if something as simple as petting […]