S2, Ep18: Stray Cat Alliance with Christi Metropole
The ChickPeeps Vegan Podcast
Evanna Lynch
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
This week on The ChickPeeps, Robbie, Tylor and Evy visit the Stray Cat Alliance headquarters and talk to founder, Christi Metropole about her work running a shelter that saves and rehomes 1,400 cats per year. We discuss the role of vegan advocacy in an animal welfare organisation, the inherent inner conflict vegans face when adopting a cat, and the imperfect solutions we have to the problem of overpopulation. Also in this episode...
- Christi shares how her vegan values and her love of cats went hand in hand, and the decision to advocate for veganism through her work in animal welfare..
- How Christi ‘trapped’ her first cat and began her mission to protect cats when she founded Stray Cat Alliance.
- Christi explains the ‘Trap, Neuter, Return’ program and why culling animals in the wild doesn’t work to control the population.
- Isn’t spaying and neutering our companion animals taking away the reproductive rights of that individual?
- Christi highlights the urgency for resources for companion animals in underserved communities.
- We discuss the inner conflict of vegans who feed their cats a meat diet.
- Christi explains why Stray Cat Alliance is a ‘No-Kill’ organisation and why she believes the no-kill approach ‘isn’t a fantasy’.
- Christi gives her opinion on open admission shelters in LA.
- We talk about why the animal welfare community puts such a strong emphasis on the ‘Adopt, Don’t Shop’ initiative for companion animals.
- Momo and Evy discuss listener, Samantha’s question as to when does the frustration towards one’s non vegan friends and family subside.
Links
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Tylor Starr: @tylorstarr
Evanna Lynch: @msevylynch
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do. |
| 0:09.3 | Eat your veggies, not your friends. |
| 0:12.0 | It's not hard to be vegan. |
| 0:14.5 | The chickpeakies. |
| 0:17.7 | Hello friends. |
| 0:18.5 | Welcome to season two, episode 18 of The Chickpeeps. |
| 0:21.3 | I'm your host, Ivana Lynch, and The Chickpeeps is your friendly weekly vegan podcast. |
| 0:25.6 | So, cats. |
| 0:27.0 | Cats are brilliant. |
| 0:28.5 | I love cats. |
| 0:29.6 | Can you believe we made it all the way to Half-Ry through Season 2 without doing an episode |
| 0:33.0 | exclusively in praise of cats? |
| 0:34.6 | Well, here we are, talking about cats and where they fit into our |
| 0:37.6 | vegan lives. I'm sure many of you will have experienced the dilemma of having a companion |
| 0:41.7 | animal as a vegan because you end up grappling with your own speciesism and value system, |
| 0:46.7 | particularly when it comes to cats. So this episode, Robbie, Tyler, and I had the pleasure |
| 0:51.5 | of interviewing Queen Cat Lady, vegan, and founder and |
| 0:54.9 | executive director of the Stray Cat Alliance, Christy Metropole, who talks us through her work |
| 0:59.5 | in saving cats at her shelter. Christy founded Stray Cat Alliance in 1999 after she encountered |
| 1:04.6 | a stray and needy kitten and was appalled to learn that little to no resources existed to help her, |
| 1:09.1 | her cat, and thousands of feral free-roaming |
| 1:11.3 | cats like them. Under Christie's unwavering leadership, hundreds of volunteers and scores of donors |
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