We didn’t quite fill the street” adjacent to Borough Hall, “so maybe we’ll do that next year,” said Bill Sharon, who is one of several people responsible for organizing the pet fair. Sharon, who works as a borough codes officer, is a known cat-lover who works tirelessly to help the cat population in borough. He is always looking to get cats adopted to forever homes, help the stray cats in the borough and trying to control the cat population.
The problems many animals face, Sharon says, are created by people who don’t take care of them.
But the turnout for the Pet Fair Saturday brought a smile to Sharon’s face.
“This is something positive,” he said. “All we hear about is the negative, but this is something positive.”
Sharon said many of the organizations that set up tables at the Pet Fair hoping to promote their rescue, animal hospital, animal organization, etc., were “taken back by the response” that they received, as hundreds of people stopped out throughout the duration of the event.
Sharon knows first-hand the importance of spreading the word about animals in need. He works with several organizations, including Forgotten Cats, which is a trap, spay/neuter and release program. He said many organizations just want to get the word out about their purpose.
Forgotten Cats and many other cat organizations were at the Pet Fair Saturday.
Cat Angel Network, (
www.catangel.org ) based locally, is an all volunteer, no-kill cat rescue organization looking recruit more volunteers and resources to keep helping cats. Volunteers Karen Saylor and Linda Petro, as well as the organization’s president, Charlotte Jay, were stationed with a table in the middle of Smith Family Plaza.
