The Eye: Sorry ’bout that; we killed the cat

It was with a tear in The Eye that we learned of the untimely death of a young cat.

Due to a miscommunication, and what we suspect was less-than-careful attention to the situation by staff at the Humane Society for Larimer County, a young cat brought to the center by a Northern Colorado Business Report staffer was inadvertently euthanized despite concerted effort to prevent such a thing from happening.

The little cat was brought to the Humane Society as a stray and left there with the assurance that should this extremely friendly and attractive black feline not be considered for adoption, our staffer would be notified so she could reclaim the cat.

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Days passed, and our staff person was vigilant, checking frequently to see if the cat had graduated from the stray room to the adoption room. Then, in response to her last call, she got a message: “The cat is no longer at the shelter,” the unconcerned voice reported. “Sorry about that.”

Sorry about that! Outraged, our staffer called the Humane Society to lodge a complaint. Not only had all her efforts to save the cat failed, but the nonchalant manner in which she was informed was appalling.

Humane Society supervisor Carol Thomas delivered another apology and tried her best to sort out the cause of the mishap. But alas, it was too little, too late. The little cat was gone, our staffer was bereft, and the question remains: If you can’t trust the Humane Society to follow through for the sake of an animal, whom can you trust?

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Applied Computer Technology Inc. continues to flirt with delisting from the Nasdaq stock exchange. The Fort Collins computer maker, whose stock is being hammered with virtually every other technology company in the country, narrowly avoided delisting over the summer after its stock price settled in at below $1 per share – below new, more-stringent Nasdaq standards for continued listing.

ACT succeeded in boosting its stock price back above $1 before the ax fell, but the ever-vigilent Eye has kept track of the stock, which now, once again, is trading below $1. The stock closed Sept. 30 at about 62 cents per share, the 46th consecutive trading day that it’s been below the greenback mark. It takes only 30 days of such trading before a company is on notice from Nasdaq and is given 90 days in which to boost its stock price above a buck for 10 consecutive days.

Applied Computer isn’t the only local company to struggle under the tighter Nasdaq rules. Voice It Worldwide Inc. has already been delisted and is now trading over the counter.