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  • 1.  Animal Rescue and Living in Community

    Posted 01-11-2023 08:38 AM
    Hi all, and here's to a wonderful new year! This is my first post on Maddie's Fund, so if there is a more appropriate location for this post please let me know.

    I'm hoping to connect with people who would like to form (or are already forming) an intentional community that is centered around animal rescue / sanctuary, or that includes it as part of the core purpose.

    For those of you unfamiliar with intentional communities, the IC website is probably the best resource. There you will find many examples of eco villages focused on permaculture and sustainability. ICs can be organized to focus on any cause or mission, and can have various ways of governance and living styles.

    As someone who loves the concept of living in community with like minded animal lovers on a mission, I feel that the advantages of shared efforts and infrastructure with a reduced cost of living is a model worth exploring.

    A little about me, lifelong animal lover and pet parent with years of experience dog/cat fostering, placing with adopters, and having farm animals. Currently live in my western Washington home and open to relocating.

    There are so many possibilities and I'm looking forward to your thoughts and ideas in this thread and also please feel free to message me.

    Thanks for reading!
    Robin 

    #OrganizationalManagement

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    Robin Miller
    Foster Care
    various
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  • 2.  RE: Animal Rescue and Living in Community

    Posted 01-12-2023 12:58 AM
    HI Robin,

       Welcome, this is a very interesting topic.  Before I got into cat welfare I was very interested in the concept of co-housing.  I would be interested in finding out more about what you discover.    I think it would also be great to take some of the intentional community components and bring them forward into all of our communities in some way, especially with regards to community cats.  

    Thanks, Stacy

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    Stacy LeBaron
    Head Cat
    The Community Cats Podcast
    Warren VT
    978-239-2090
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