I’m Marcie Guerra with Cats & Comics here in Upland, California. My role here is caretaker of the cats. So, if a kitty is a little sick, people reach out to me, and we take the proper measures for that kitty. I also do the foster coordinating, intake, and I’m a trapper. So, anything that has to do with the cats, that's me.
Cats & Comics serves many purposes. Number one, it’s a temporary home for our cats. Our motivation for this really is so families and potential adopters can actually go in and sit down and visit with the kitties. Often, adoptions have happened when there's this little minute bonding moment. A kitty will just come up and do this one little thing on someone’s face, and it’s over. They leave for home with their new cat.
Our biggest mission is to spay and neuter. We spay and neuter about 150 to 200 cats a month. Since we started in 2022, we are at 5528 cats.
It’s profound for me to be able to rescue such sick kittens. I found a group of kittens where all of their eyes were severely infected. Five were blinded. And I remember thinking, we're going to have five blind kittens in one litter. Out of those 9 kittens, the blind ones were the first ones to get adopted, and that really restored my faith in humanity.
I'm a firstborn immigrant from a family that came here in 1969 from Chile. I know that had they arrived anywhere else, they would have never, ever, had the help that they have had here in the US. In the 1970s, in Echo Park, there was so much neighborly love.
To be an American to me means helping, contributing in some form. Helping your neighbor, helping the other person. And to me, that's what the United States represents, is helping one another be able to become better, strive for better, do better for their families, and by us doing better as a whole, we're just a better community. We're just a better place to be, a better place to live.
Cats & Comics serves many purposes. Number one, it’s a temporary home for our cats. Our motivation for this really is so families and potential adopters can actually go in and sit down and visit with the kitties. Often, adoptions have happened when there's this little minute bonding moment. A kitty will just come up and do this one little thing on someone’s face, and it’s over. They leave for home with their new cat.
Our biggest mission is to spay and neuter. We spay and neuter about 150 to 200 cats a month. Since we started in 2022, we are at 5528 cats.
It’s profound for me to be able to rescue such sick kittens. I found a group of kittens where all of their eyes were severely infected. Five were blinded. And I remember thinking, we're going to have five blind kittens in one litter. Out of those 9 kittens, the blind ones were the first ones to get adopted, and that really restored my faith in humanity.
I'm a firstborn immigrant from a family that came here in 1969 from Chile. I know that had they arrived anywhere else, they would have never, ever, had the help that they have had here in the US. In the 1970s, in Echo Park, there was so much neighborly love.
To be an American to me means helping, contributing in some form. Helping your neighbor, helping the other person. And to me, that's what the United States represents, is helping one another be able to become better, strive for better, do better for their families, and by us doing better as a whole, we're just a better community. We're just a better place to be, a better place to live.
