Black & Orange Cat Foundation (or “B & O”) is named for two very special and very spoiled cats, Butler and Oswald. Butler, the “B” in “B & O” is the black cat in the group, while Oswald, the “O” in “B & O” is our orange feline. Although, we are especially fond of our black and orange cats (and, yes, we love those black and orange tortie mixes, too), we do not just help cats of those colors. We help all cats, no matter their shading.
Both Butler and Oswald were adopted from the Union County Humane Society in Marysville, Ohio. Butler stole our hearts, when, after being released from his cage, he ran up his new mom's arm and perched atop her shoulder.
Oswald, on the other hand, got our attention by screaming his head off until we finally came over and opened his cage door. Whereupon, there was no putting him back inside without suffering permanent hearing loss.
While these two mongrels were adopted from our local shelter, the rest of the cats who have padded into our lives have come looking for us. Like the hobos during the Great Depression who marked “X's” on gates to let other hobos know where a kindly person lived who would give them a meal, these cats seem to have marked our homes to lead other unfortunate felines to our doors.
Stray and abandoned, often very ill or injured, these cats led us to the idea of starting an organization to spay and neuter feral and stray cats in order to decrease the overpopulation problem and help cats who have no other angels looking out for them.
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Buy postage stamps, t-shirts, and cards that feature the B and O logo and some of our kitties through Zazzle.com A portion of all proceeds comes back to B and O to help us fund our spay and neuter efforts in the community. If you join our ‘fan club’ on the site, we get an even larger donation from the sales. There are seasonal postage stamps and cards that you can send for holidays, as well as generic ones that can be used all year long. For everyone who has adopted from us, please be on the look out for your baby among the featured kitties. And if you have adopted a cat from B and O and would like to send a cute photo of your furry friend, please email that picture and we’ll try to use it on a stamp!! You can check out everything that is available at the following link: zazzle.com/bandocatfoundation |