Have you seen the just-launched Common Sense for Cats website yet? It’s an Alley Cat Allies initiative that the organization describes as “an online resource to educate about outdoor cats and Trap-Neuter-Return, the only humane and effective program to stabilize—and reduce—outdoor cat populations.”
The site serves as a useful primer—courtesy of some very nice visuals—for those [...]
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6 May 13
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Posted in In the News
Tagged Alley Cat Allies, Common Sense for Cats, community cats, feral cats, Trap-Neuter-Return
Tagged Alley Cat Allies, Common Sense for Cats, community cats, feral cats, Trap-Neuter-Return
22 Jan 13
The timing was perfect—almost.
Not 10 minutes after I published yesterday’s post, I noticed a link posted by my friends at Stray Cat Alliance on the organization’s Facebook page. Beside the link was this not-so-subtle endorsement:
“THIS IS A MUST READ!!!!!”
As I say, not so subtle. On the other hand, I couldn’t agree more.
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Posted in Sheltering
Tagged community cats, Julie Levy, Kate Hurley, Maddie's Fund, Stray Cat Alliance, Trap-Neuter-Return
Tagged community cats, Julie Levy, Kate Hurley, Maddie's Fund, Stray Cat Alliance, Trap-Neuter-Return
7 Jun 12
Though the news wasn’t entirely unexpected, it’s now official: Wake County, NC, has officially adopted TNR!
According to a story in Monday’s Raleigh Public Record, the new policy allows private non-profits to manage the trapping, sterilization, and vaccination of community cats.
And, in what was apparently an eleventh-hour victory, TNR supporters (led, as I understand it, by [...]
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Posted in In the News
Tagged community cats, feral cats, public health threat, Trap-Neuter-Return, Wake County
Tagged community cats, feral cats, public health threat, Trap-Neuter-Return, Wake County
19 Mar 12
As I mentioned in my previous post, I spent March 4th at the Vertebrate Pest Conference, attending its half-day Feral Cats session. Having made the trip to Monterey, I wasn’t about to return home without a visit to the San Francisco SPCA—to, at last, meet in person some diehard Vox Felina supporters I knew, for [...]
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Posted in Vox Felina
Tagged community cats, feral cats, San Francisco SPCA, Trap-Neuter-Return
Tagged community cats, feral cats, San Francisco SPCA, Trap-Neuter-Return
30 Jan 12
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