Welcome to the 4th edition of the Multnomah County Animal Services quarterly e-newsletter where you'll receive updates about all the things we're doing in our unique open-door shelter.

We appreciate your support and we want to keep you in the loop about the gains we've made in caring for our community's lost, abandoned, and abused animals. We hope to use this newsletter to share our success stories and let you know how your license fees support the shelter.

This edition includes news about our neighborhood cat adoption partners, our upcoming ad campaign, and several happy endings at the MCAS shelter. We hope you enjoy it. Feel free to share it or pass it along to the other animal people in your life!

Multnomah County Animal Services is pleased to announce that we now have six cat adoption outreach partners in Portland. All of our partners are locally-owned, small businesses. Adoptable cats from the MCAS shelter are cared for at each neighborhood business until they are adopted. This program enables people to meet and adopt homeless MCAS shelter cats at several locations throughout Portland in addition to our shelter location in Troutdale.

Our current cat adoption partners in Portland are:

• Personal Beast - 8119 SE Stark St 
• Sellwood Dog Supply & Cat Annex - 8334 SE 17th Ave 
• Natural Pet Food Solutions - 7639 S.E. Milwaukie Ave 
• Pets On Broadway - 2762 NE Broadway St  
• Beauty and the Beast.....5215 N. Lombard St, Portland
• Meowhaus......5244 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland 

If you own a retail business and are interested in becoming a cat adoption partner, please let us know. Check our web site to learn about our new locations. And remember, we always have lots of cats available for adoption at our main shelter location in Troutdale.

You might remember Rhino from the news. Back in May of this year, he sustained injuries when the car he was tied to began driving away while he was still tied to it. The parties involved in that incident were acquitted of criminal charges at the end of July.

Since the time of of the incident, MCAS staff had been in touch with Rhino's original owner, Nicolas M. We learned that Nicolas was forced to re-home Rhino. From there, Rhino was re-homed again-- the last home was with the people involved in the incident. 

After two long months in the intake kennels here at the MCAS shelter, we're happy to announce that Rhino went home with Nicolas. Both Rhino and Nicolas were overjoyed to see each other again.

On the afternoon of September 5th, a vacationer from Sioux Falls, South Dakota brought in a cat that he found at Timothy Lake (on the north side of Mt Hood). Fortunately, the cat had a microchip and MCAS was able to quickly and easily obtain the cat owner's contact information.

It turned out that the cat's owners live in Donald, Oregon. And apparently, the cat (named Bailey) is an indoor-only cat who had never been outside. After escaping from her home, it seems Bailey climbed into a neighbor's boat to hide and inadvertently made the trip to Timothy Lake with the boat's owners.  

Thanks to a microchip and a good samaritan, we were able to reunite Bailey with her owners just a few hours after she came into the shelter. Needless to say, they were very happy to have Bailey back, safe and sound.

Microchips and pet licenses help us reunite lost pets with owners every week. You can license your pets on the MultCoPets.org web site and a microchip can easily be implanted by your veterinarian.