Viral Trends
February 14, 2023 | 2:49pm
An adoption center and cat sanctuary in Los Angeles has actually gone viral after releasing its “nice and naughty” cat of the week series.
Toni Barrett, advancement supervisor for Heaven on Earth Perry’s Place, said she and her staff were motivated by a popular cat influencer on TikTok who passes the name “Pot Roast’s Mom,” who would identify her own cats as “good or bad” cat of the week.
Barrett believed the concept was an amusing concept and chose to use it to her work at the sanctuary, she informed Fox News Digital.
“We should do that at Perry’s Place because we have so many cats, and we always have someone doing something naughty or volunteers telling us how much they loved [how] this cat was well-behaved this week,” Barrett said.
The series was introduced on the shelter’s Instagram page in March of 2022, however did not remove till the fall, according to Barrett.
“It was slow [at first]people were enjoying it, and then all of a sudden we had this one [post] that kind of went viral,” Barrett commented.
Two felines called Elijah and Popsicle were granted great and naughty cat of the week, respectively.
“Elijah has opened up and shown the staff how much he loves belly rubs,” the post checked out in referral to the “nice cat” of the week.
“Popsicle stole treats from Daniel, his BLIND roommate,”the post likewise said, concerning its “naughty cat.”
Barrett rapidly observed an enormous boost in Instagram fans along with likes. Since then, countless users have actually been responding to the posts.
“[We got] people there just for the ‘nice and naughty’ cat,” Barrett specified.
“We have people that, God forbid we forget a Saturday, they are like, ‘where’s my ‘nice and naughty’ cat post?’”
Heaven on Earth’s Perry’s Place is the present residence for approximately 111 cats and 91 foster cats.
Volunteers and team member are the ones to choose a cat to be picked for the “nice and naughty” cat of the week award.
“If a volunteer or staffer notices a kitty being extra good or naughty, they can put their recommendation in the [suggestion] box,” Barrett shared.
Barrett will choose the designated kittens on the days leading up to Saturday, however in some cases things don’t go according to strategy.
“Our adoption team has done such a great job that sometimes I’ll have a cat ready on Tuesday, and then on Friday that cat will be adopted, so then I have to scramble and find a new cat,” she commented.
Ultimately, that issue is “100% worth it,” Barrett said.
There are some weeks when discovering a “naughty” cat is really hard due to the fact that “everyone has been so good,” Barrett specified.
The group can constantly depend on the sanctuary’s “resident naughty cat,” Kallo, to be as much as no good.
“We could honestly put him as ‘naughty cat’ every week with a new thing he does,” Barrett joked.
Some confident adopters have actually connected to Perry’s Place through social networks revealing interest in the cats included in the series.
“It has definitely [given] some of these cats more attention than they normally would have,” Barrett explained.
This year, Perry’s Place will be commemorating its 10-year anniversary.
The shelter’s opening was “a big turning point,” according to Barrett.
“It enabled us to save so many more cats throughout the years and adopt them into loving homes,” she explained.
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