People magazine recently featured Empty Cages Collective on their website. Devotee Sam The Cat is an overnight celebrity on the internet. Sam has over 20,000 followers on Instagram, nearly 5,000 Facebook friends and a dedicated website to his unusual and striking markings. Abandoned in a carrier on the cold, mean streets, Sam needed veterinary attention and a safe place to land. His proud forever family chose to use the attention Sam is getting as an opportunity to raise awareness about the plight of homeless animals and our work here at Empty Cages Collective by donating a portion of all Sam The Cat merchandise to our rescue. Thanks Sam and Fam!

A computer glitch is killing cats at New York City's animal care and control. Empty Cages Collective is part of an ongoing effort to expose the bedlam and horror that goes on at ACC, and the New York Post recently picked up the story. Read all about it here.

Dozens of rescue cats have been mistakenly killed because of a computer glitch, activists say. 

The so-called death-row database at the New York City Animal Care and Control shelter is failing felines, they claim, by neglecting to inform the centre when cats have been requested for adoption.

'They're using the animals as guinea pigs,' said P.J. McKosky, head of the Empty Cages Collective in Brooklyn.

'They're working out the kinks without a safety net, and that's resulted in deaths.'

Read the full article from the Daily Mail here.

If a rat skipped across the subway tracks, caked in soot, eyes burning red, splashing in the sewage, certain thoughts would most likely come to mind.

Cute would probably not be one of them, but Stephanie Dietz might disagree.

Last week, Ms. Dietz, 25, from Bushwick, Brooklyn, invited into her home two cousins of such creatures -- both spayed females rescued from possible death in a Queens laboratory two weeks ago.

Empty Cages Collective, an animal advocacy group, acquired these 2 -- and 39 more -- white rats and mice from an area college, which agreed to surrender them if the group promised not to reveal the school's identity, according to P. J. McKosky, the organization's coordinator.

Read the full article here.

About a month ago, the Williamsburg Courier covered our hugely successful and fun cat & kitten adoption event at 8 of Swords Tattoo Shop & Gallery in Williamsburg. Thanks for the coverage, friends!

The Williamsburg Greenpoint News + Arts newspaper featured Empty Cages Collective in a recent issue. Thanks to publisher Genia Gould for her support, and kudos to writer Athena Ponushis for getting PJ to stay in one place long enough for a quick interview! To read it click on the photo above. You'll need Adobe Reader, but kittens are optional!

Michele Howley, a friend to animals and adopter of one our bottle-baby kittens, visited the feral cat recovery space this past weekend and did a great write-up on her blog today. We've already gotten some donations and encouraging notes, and the cats and kittens are going to be thrilled with the toys and treats donated off the Amazon WISHLIST! Thank you everyone, we'll have lots of crazy kitten videos soon! To read the post and meet Murray, the magnificently goofy tiger click HERE.