As most of you know, we adopted our in-house heat-seeking sleep-bomb from a shelter in Red Bank, Tennessee, about seven years ago. She’s been the joy of our household ever since, and I’d like to think that, perhaps, we’ve improved her quality of life as well.

So here comes Christmas, and the economy sucks, and pet surrenderings are up all over the place, stuffing shelters to the brim and costing thousands of cats and dogs their lives — just because there’s nowhere for them to go. But here in the Seattle area, the Humane Society would like to make it as easy as possible for you to bring home something warm and fuzzy for the holidays.

Free cat adoptions at the Seattle Humane Society.

The Seattle Humane Society invites you to adopt a cat – and the fee is on them! Seattle Humane is brimming with cats – 239 to be exact. The facility holds 150 cats comfortably; most of the remainder have to go into kitty foster homes. The staff says for some reason, cat adoptions are down here and at shelters across the nation.

“We don’t know if it’s because of the economy because more people are downsizing to apartments where they aren’t able to have cats, or there’s a pet fee that they can’t afford, we aren’t sure what the problem is,” said Amber Yoo, Humane Society Marketing Communications Manager.

In order to get the numbers down, for the rest of the month, Seattle Humane is waiving the $80 adoption fee for any cat over a year old. The hope is to find all of these cats a home for the holidays…