For Immediate Release
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Loving & Letting Go: The Journey of Fostering Shelter Animals
December 19, 2022 (Helena, Montana)—Join author and cat lover David Abrams for an informative and heartwarming presentation on fostering shelter animals on Saturday, January 7th at 1:30PM. In addition to Abrams’ presentation, the Lewis & Clark Humane Society in partnership with Lewis & Clark Library will host a pet adoption event at the Library from 1:00-3:00PM.
Abrams and his wife began fostering shelter cats during the summer of 2022. Since that time, the Abrams’ have fostered nine cats. In addition to discussing the fostering process, Abrams will share some tips and tricks of pet care and how to find balance of loving intensely and letting go when the time comes.
David Abrams is the author of two novels about the Iraq War, Brave Deeds and Fobbit (which Publishers Weekly called “an instant classic”). Fobbit was also a New York Times Notable Book of 2012, a Barnes& Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, a Montana Honor Book, and a finalist for the L.A. Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Abrams’ short stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and appeared in the anthologies Montana Noir, Watchlist, and Fire and Forget. He lives in Helena, Montana with his wife and their four cats.
The Lewis & Clark Humane Society was founded in Helena in 1964 as a means to create a more humane and ethical way to deal with the community’s stray and unwanted pets. For more information on pet adoptions, visit https://lchsmontana.org/adopt-a-pet/
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