On Saturday, June 5, an open audition for 12 sexy male cat owners will be held at the South East Area Animal Control Authority (SEAACA), in Downey, Calif., all to find the feline owners who will grace the pages of “6 Packs/9 Lives,” a calendar campaign to aide and find help for many abandoned cats who need homes throughout the world.
SEACCA houses “The ModPawn,” a Found Animals adoption area. According to its website, (www.seacca.org), SEACCA was established in 1975 and “dedicated to quality animal control and care.” Watch their live PAWDcast: (Click here to see their live feed of the latest furry residents of the house!
For the first-ever calendar with attractive men and their pet cats, Found Animals Foundation, a partner charity to SEAACA, is teaming up with celebrity photographer Adam Bouska for the campaign. Bouska has had his work featured in major print markets like Life & Style Magazine, the New York Times and the Guinness Book of World Records 2010. Bouska has also earned spots on television outlets like “Chelsea Lately,” “The Today Show” and “The View.” As far as celebrity endorsers, Bouska’s range from the political in Meghan McCain to the musical in Barry Manilow to the spiritual in Deepak Chopra to the media in Lisa Ling.
Bouska was also involved in the NOH8 campaign and non-profit organization, which revolved around an artistic silent protest developed by the photographer and his partner, Jeff Parshley, after Proposition 8 was passed in 2008. The campaign continues to grow, and Bouska has photographed celebrities like Jane Lynch (“Glee), Giuliana Rancic (E! News) and Jeff Probst (“Survivor”), to name a few, in silver duct tape over their mouths, demonstrating the silent protest.
Los Angeles-based Found Animals Foundation Inc., a non-profit, privately funded 501 (c) (3) organization, works to lessen the multitude of shelter euthanasia that happens in most animal care venues. The organization teams with other groups to make programs that, “educe shelter intake, increase live release rates and focuses on developing cost-effective, scalable, and sustainable animal welfare business models,” according to the website (www.foundanimals.org.).
Brown Trout Publishers Inc. (the largest calendar publisher in the world) will publish and distribute the “6 Packs/9 Lives” calendar, with proceeds benefitting animal shelters as well as services to spay and neuter animals. Because of decreased funds and a lack of awareness, these animal shelters are often overrun with homeless critters needing a home and care. The sales of the calendar will go towards helping the furry creatures in society continue to have stables homes and places of help.
Brown Trout’s latest calendars include a Michelle Obama one, another focused on “Yoga Dogs” and a calendar centered on the late Michael Jackson. Visit www.browntrout.com for more information and calendar options.
“The ‘6 Packs/9 Lives’ calendar campaign uses a fun and sexy medium to attract attention and highlight the issue of overcrowded cat populations within shelters across the country,” Aimee Gilbreath, executive director of Found Animals, said in a release. “This calendar and the men that appear in it will bring much needed attention to an issue that’s become a national, yet still silent, epidemic. Through this initiative we’ll be able to find homes for countless animals and encourage people everywhere to visit their local municipal shelters to adopt their first or next pet. For every animal adopted from a shelter, three lives are saved. In that context, our sexy calendar may reflect a tremendous impact on the animal shelter system nationally.”
For the casting call, held on June 5 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., those auditioning will be judged by a panel looking for the best 12 candidates for “6 Packs/9 Lives.” The process will include answering questions, a catwalk and the ability to prove that the cat is indeed your own. The top 12 will then be photographed by Bouska for the calendar.
If not able to attend the call but still interested in participating, send materials (video with cat expressing why you’re the perfect fit for the calendar, proof of ownership) to [email protected]. The videos will be accepted through May 29.
