The Good Mews Animal Foundation, a no-kill cat shelter in East Cobb, has announced that founder Gloria Skeen Cornell has died.
The organization posted a notice on its website and Facebook page on Monday.
“Gloria’s passion for animal welfare was no secret. She became inspired early in life after witnessing animal abuse and vowed to one day do what she could to put an end to it,” read the message by the shelter’s board of directors.
A former flight attendant, she inadvertently started what became Good Mews out of her townhouse in 1988, taking in an abandoned cat after returning from a trip, then added another stray after that.
The shelter moved to space on Sandtown Road in Marietta, then to East Cobb, initially at the Fountains at Olde Towne shopping center.
When that center was razed for a medical office building, Good Mews built a standalone building on Robinson Road and relocated there in late 2015.
It includes space for veterinary medical and surgical care and separate space for kittens (see ECN coverage of its 30th anniversary in 2018).
The shelter typically holds up to 100 cats at a time, and Good Mews also has created a foster cat program for about 30-40 cats.
Since its opening Good Mews has placed more than 10,000 neglected, abandoned and abused cats in homes and has an average adoption rate of 450 cats a year.
“It’s a place where thousands of homeless kitties found their forever home, a place that helped Cobb County Animal Services achieve no-kill status, a place that provides on-site TNR services to surrounding low-income areas, and an inviting place many consider a home away from home,” the Good Mews message read.
“Although there are many more programs and community involvement that have come to fruition since Gloria’s founding, we wouldn’t be here without her.”
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