You may want to solicit calls — consider placing an ad in your local newspaper with a number people can
call about community cats.
Taking proactive steps, like educating your
neighbors about community cats and Trap - Neuter - Return, can be helpful in avoiding complaints and violent threats.
Look up news
stories about community cats, contact local animal rescue organizations, and talk to community cat caregivers and veterinarians.
The majority of people calling animal
control about community cats are looking for help — they do not want community cats to be taken away and killed.
Volunteers also participate in service projects and attend educational presentations to learn
more about community cats, breed discrimination and puppy mills.
How to Bust Myths
about Community Cats with Science is part of an ongoing series of educational programs from Maddie's Institute, a program of Maddie's Fund ®.
Complainant: People who
complain about community cats legitimately feel that the cats are a nuisance because they eliminate in their gardens, yowl at night and spray smelly urine.
When residents call
in about community cats, Farrell and her team ask if they are willing to trap the cats and offer to loan them humane traps.
Read about community cats, Trap - Neuter - Return (TNR), news, events, and other useful information from the NYC Feral Cat Initiative, other bloggers, and the media.
The Community Cat Program Assistant will be expected to receive, manage and respond to calls and emails from members of public and other HRA
departments about community cats, while ensuring timeliness as well as provide direct support for HRA's working cats program, Blue Collar Cats.
Blog: What to
Say About Community Cats and Health Risks These resources and information can to help you provide accurate information about public health issues and free - roaming cats.
Laura's day consists of communicating with the eight town councils she works alongside to ensure the well - being of community cats, and also deals with some cases of hoarding of cats, or
complaints about community cats by residents.
CHANGING
PERCEPTIONS ABOUT COMMUNITY CATS: Please read this document prepared by Dr Hurley and Florida's own Dr. Julie Levy to gain a new perspective on these cats you might not have considered before:
You can help protect cats, and debunk misinformation that might come up during discussions or
conflicts about community cats, by knowing accurate information.
Most people who call
about community cats don't want the cats to die — but they don't understand that the cats have a home outdoors and are just as healthy as pet cats.
Being
pro-active about community cat care and following best practices helps you avoid conflicts with neighbors that could endanger the cats» wellbeing.
We then held a training with the entire staff of
LCAS about community cats, mitigating concerns, and enacting community cat protections.
3) The costly
hysteria about community cat caregivers - In two separate incidents in the Kansas City area, one community cat caregiver was sentenced and fined for feeding outdoor cats and another had surveillance cameras set up (illegally) to catch him feeding cats — how'd we get to this hysteria about feral cats?
In Alley Cat Rescue's Guide to Managing Community Cats, Louise Holton debunks myths and
misinformation about community cats, makes the case for why TNR (Trap Neuter Return) works, offers guidelines for veterinarians and colony caretakers on how to care for community cats, and shares guidelines for effective adoption programs for cats that can be adopted out or rehomed.
Thank you for contacting the Austin Humane
Society about our Community Cat Program, which provides free sterilizations and rabies vaccinations for cats without identified owners.