The combination of financial pressure from the pandemic, escalating operational costs, and a delayed restructuring ultimately forced owner Lauren Pears to make the incredibly hard decision to close the cafe.
"New Jersey has created the perfect storm for cat loss through a unique combination of factors that no other state matches: Extreme density creating territorial confusion; deadliest road network and brutal commuting culture."
"Infant spider monkeys in the pet trade are often the result of their mothers and family members being shot down from the trees to capture the baby; many times, the baby is killed or injured due to the fall."
"It's a chance to relive the greatest moments of their marriage. Picking out linens and flooring and faucets, doing renovations, working with architects and decorators. This is the stuff that they live for, not being famous or pleasing audiences."
If you see videos of it, it looks like a scene from a horror movie. It doesn't knock them out, it doesn't stun them. They essentially will suffocate, and will be conscious while they're suffocating ... and then the ones who survive have their necks rung by these devices.
Kehn and scores of animal rescue advocates turned out at budget hearings to demand the City Council reject layoffs, maintain animal shelter operations, and preserve spay-neuter programs.