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Adapted from KOMO 4 News “Seattle Refined”

Seattle Meowtropolitan has been playing coy with us for a while. In fact, you could say they’ve been playing “cat and mouse” with the entire city on when their cat cafe will open.

Too corny? Fine, we’ll stop right meow 🙂

But finally, after much fundraising, location scouting, partner acquiring and merch purchases – the Wallingford cafe is officially open!

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“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

Animal Shelter Finds Homes for Every Cat and Dog in Its Facility By Genevieve Shaw Brown for ABC News For once, the shelter was completely silent. That silence, said Christine Fatheree, was the best sound of all. Because it meant that every single dog and cat at the Summit County Animal Control, where she’s the […]

Welcome to Tails from RASKC – a new blog that highlights the positive difference that Regional Animal Services of King County makes in the lives of animals, and their families. One of my proudest achievements as County Executive is improving the performance of our regional animal services to make them more humane, affordable, and accessible. […]

VolunteeroftheMonth_Dec2015Meet Valli!

Valli has been one of the most prolific foster volunteers for several years, serving over 1,000 hours in each of the past three years. Valli serves on the Tukwila Team, is incredibly reliable and has spearheaded a great number of cat-blanket making parties! Read our Q&A with her below:

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Watch RASKC’s Animal Placement Specialist, Nickie Ford talk about our Kirkland Pet Adoption Center in this 12 minute special!

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“Dogs have owners, cats have staff” – Anonymous

“Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ” – George Eliot

Volunteerofthemonth_Nov2015_BlogMeet Amy!

Amy has donated over 10,000 hours during the past five years working on various projects — from the cat meet & greet to helping out with the new volunteer orientation program, and organizing RASKC’s Annual Springtime Foster Dinner Celebration. Aside from Amy’s genuine dedication, she is caring volunteer who is always willing to jump in and help wherever needed.

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I retired two years ago from nursing.  I had so many people ask what I was going to do when I was no longer working.  Many were surprised that I actually had a four part “bucket list”.  One of the four was to work with animals.  I attended a volunteer orientation class and was hooked.  […]