Posted on 12/21/2022 4:00:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
Ian CrossPosted at 12:41 PM, Dec 14, 2022 and last updated 10:15 AM, Dec 14, 2022 COLUMBUS, Ohio — If you’re a weirdo who loves cats and lives in Cleveland, you may soon be able to announce that to the world with your license plate while supporting an organization that helps cat owners and their feline companions.
A bill to add a “Weirdo Cat Lovers of Cleveland” license plate option had its first hearing in the Ohio Statehouse’s Transportation and Public Safety Committee Tuesday, bringing the legislation one step closer to passing.
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Proceeds from the $15 contribution collected from those who register their vehicle with this license plate will go to the “Weirdo Cat Lovers of Cleveland” organization, which will use the contributions “to further their mission of assisting pet parents with emergency veterinary bills for their feline companions, providing food and litter to those in economic need, and controlling feral cat populations through the process of trap-neuter-return to the community,” the bill states.
The group has trapped, neutered and released 82 cats and kittens as of May 2021, and is currently working to do the same for five other cat colonies in Northeast Ohio, according to testimony from Phillip M. Robinson Jr., a state representative for Ohio House District 6 who sponsored the bill amendment.
“Don’t let the group’s quirky name distract you from the good work they do in our state,” he said.
The non-profit started as a Facebook group where cat lovers could share pictures, ideas and find comfort, according to testimony from Mandalyn Stevens, the group’s sales and marketing director. The group grew to over 20,000 members, and the founders registered Weirdo Cat Lovers of Cleveland as a 501(c)(3).
Weirdo Leadership.jpg Mandi Stevens / Weirdo Cat Lovers of Cleveland Photo of the Weirdo Cat Lovers of Cleveland leadership. “As a group, we are proud of our work and the contribution to our members, the community, rescues, and the many veterinary offices that we work with,” Stevens stated. “These funds will allow us to continue this work and help even more families.”
Learn more about the group at weirdocatloversofcleveland.org.
For people who have no lives....
Yeah, I had an aunt who was one, God rest her soul. I will say this though. walking into her house you couldn’t tell by smell that she has any many cats as she did. Let’s just say that a dozen may have been on undercount.
Cat lover’s answer to the energy crisis.
Out: Three Dog Night
In: Nine Cat Night
Zing! Spot on. She might have the last laugh this week when everywhere is supposed to get a stiff winter blast!
Looks like my house but we only got 5.
This is definitely FAKE NEWS. The US Gov't reported over the summer that July was the 3rd hottest on record and there is no way with all that warming that just a few months later, we are having seriously cold December temperatures.
But thank goodness the Biden Administration has been shutting down fossil fuel electrical generation from coal and natural gas. Those wind turbines and solar panels work well in winter. Those deaths in the Texas freeze a couple of years ago were also fake news. /sarc
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