Show us your cats!

That is what Aug. 8 is all about: a day to celebrate the feline and raise awareness about the number of cats that need to be rescued and adopted each year across Canada.

International Cat Day was created in 2002 as a way to help educate and inform people about cats and what is needed to help and protect them.

In the Interior of B.C., a group of dedicated volunteers from the Okanagan Humane Society have been working together to save lives and end the suffering of local animals in the region since 1996, spaying or neutering more than 47,500 pets since that time.

And, last year, the charity cared for more than 4,150 animals in the Okanagan and is on track to help even more this year.

The need to create animal welfare support specifically with cats is greater than eve

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