See our Guidelines
for Outdoor Community Cats (Stray, Feral / Wild, Barn).
- Click here for the application
for outdoor community cats.
Humane Ohio takes the lead locally helping people care
for outdoor community cats.
Walk - in appointments
for outdoor community cats are available Monday through Thursday if space is available in our spay / neuter schedule that day.
Not exact matches
The
Cats On My Block by Valerie Sicignano This picture book, written by Valerie Sicignano, Community Outreach Director of the NYC Feral Cat Initiative of the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, introduces young children to the world of outdoor c
Cats On My Block by Valerie Sicignano This picture book, written by Valerie Sicignano,
Community Outreach Director of the NYC Feral
Cat Initiative of the Mayor's Alliance
for NYC's Animals, introduces young children to the world of
outdoor catscats.
In a project called «Architects
for Animals,» founded four years ago by Leslie Farrell, and presented by the Mayor's Alliance
for NYC's Animals, some of the city's most renowned architectural firms and designers design and build delightfully original winter shelters
for New York City's
outdoor «
community»
cats to provide them with a refuge from the cold.
Our work to keep pets in their homes also includes tools to resolve problem
cat behaviors — the reason most often cited
for cat relinquishments — and we are working to protect
outdoor community cats and provide solutions to conflicts between
cats and wildlife.
To ensure that more
community cats stay safe in their
outdoor homes, we recommended enacting an eartip protection policy, utilizing Alley
Cat Allies educational materials, loaning traps only
for TNR, training staff to inform the public about TNR, and diverting
cats to TNR programs.
[CITY / COUNTY»S] proposed feeding ban
for outdoor cats has already been tried in other
communities and it has never worked.
During TNR,
community cats are humanely trapped, spayed or neutered, vaccinated, eartipped
for identification, and returned to their
outdoor homes.
These
community cat caregivers are good Samaritans who devote their time, energy, and resources to care
for outdoor cats by providing food, veterinary care, and love.
During TNR
community cats are humanely trapped, taken to a veterinarian to be spayed or neutered, vaccinated, eartipped
for identification, and, after recovery, are returned to their
outdoor homes.
This is especially important
for community, or unowned,
cats who live
outdoors.
Community cat caregivers care
for outdoor cats but are not the
cats» owners.
If you want to help
cats in your
community who live
outdoors or if you already care
for cats and want to conduct Trap - Neuter - Return (TNR) but don't know where to get started, we can help!
Why they harm
cats: leash laws are dangerous because any
cat who is
outdoors — whether she is someone's pet who is outside
for a period of time, either intentionally or by accident, or a
community cat — is subject to impoundment.
While it might be tempting to place our own desires
for the comforts of indoor living on
cats, the truth is
community cats prefer living
outdoors.
Punitive ordinances like feeding bans waste taxpayer dollars and penalize
outdoor cat caregivers who are Good Samaritans making the
community a better place
for cats and people.
Feral
cats are part of the
community, and it is expected that you will continue to care
for the
cat by providing water and feeding the
cat to keep it is as an «
outdoor»
cat.
Considering that most
communities have laws banning animal hoarding, we should consider the same standard
for outdoor cats as those that are in a person's home.
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?
If you want a more detailed graphic that also accounts
for the presence of
outdoor pet cats in the community, you can use either the U.S. or Canada version of the «Outdoor cat population calculator&
outdoor pet
cats in the
community, you can use either the U.S. or Canada version of the «
Outdoor cat population calculator&
Outdoor cat population calculator».
We have developed world - recognized best practices
for humane care of
outdoor cats, and have produced materials, trainings, and advice on these practices
for the millions of Americans providing care to stray and feral
cats in their
community.
• We have: o Made TNR mainstream and accepted as the only effective approach to
outdoor cat populationso Established the Feral Friends Networko Brought together experts and advocates
for the first
community cat conference in Americao Transformed shelters through advocacy and guidanceo Established the ongoing Boardwalk
Cats Project in Atlantic City, NJo Founded National Feral Day, a national day of action that has grown to include events in all states and many countries worldwide.
Whether your passion is helping companion animals — by spaying and neutering
outdoor cats or companion animals; getting the animal protection
community registered to vote and participating in the legislative process; or protecting wildlife and its habitat, ADLA has a place
for you.
To this end, SHS houses a full - service public veterinary hospital; clean and inviting apartments
for adoptable
cats, dogs, rabbits and other small animals; classrooms
for community education; executive offices; a barn full of country critters; multiple
outdoor training and play spaces; and an organic garden.
Feral *, stray, and
community cats, as well as owned
cats who live
outdoors, qualify
for the free services which include surgery, vaccinations, pain medications, and e-collars (
for post-surgical recovery).
The village has a ranch - style administrative building that houses both agencies» offices, a
community room, cage-less catteries with indoor and screened
outdoor access
for adoptable
cats, a separate area
for lost and sick
cats, and medical facilities to care
for the animals.
Using this technique,
community cats living outside are trapped, neutered, vaccinated, ear - tipped (the universal symbol
for a sterlized
cat), and then returned to their
outdoor home.
Outdoor (
community, stray and barn)
cats are eligible
for a $ 40 package that includes spay / neuter surgery, rabies and FVRCP vaccinations, flea treatment, ear tip, pregnancy termination and treatment
for any other parasites found at the time of surgery.
Alley
Cat Allies believes Trap - Neuter - Return programs
for cats greatly improve
communities, save tax dollars, and are the most effective and humane approach
for outdoor cats.
Here, you'll learn how you can build an
outdoor shelter
for the
community cats in your neighborhood.
While feral
cats may live solitary lives,
outdoor cats in general are very social, frequently living with human beings, being cared
for as
community cats and interacting with other felines in extended
cat colonies.
In the state of Virginia, Alley
Cat Allies is raising awareness and educating the community about outdoor cats, community cat colony care, Trap - Neuter - Return, and advocating for humane policies for all ca
Cat Allies is raising awareness and educating the
community about
outdoor cats,
community cat colony care, Trap - Neuter - Return, and advocating for humane policies for all ca
cat colony care, Trap - Neuter - Return, and advocating
for humane policies
for all
cats.
RELEASE — October 24, 2017, Los Angeles» Architectural
Community Designs Innovative
Outdoor Shelters
for Homeless
Cats Click here to view slideshow, or here to download 13 Shelter Designs & Detail, Accompanying High Resolution Image Files -LRB-.
We're working to advocate
for anti-cruelty laws that protect every
cat in the United States, regardless of whether the
cat is a companion,
outdoor, or
community cat
Our
outdoor community cat spay / neuter voucher program is designed
for community (feral and free - roaming)
cats only and is not intended
for pet
cats or
cats who will be placed into homes as pets.
Community cats — also known as feral
cats — are well - suited to living
outdoors alongside humans, as they've done
for over 10,000 years.
We strive
for a world where all domestic
cats have a safe
community in which to live, including those whose homes are
outdoors.
Slowly but surely, however, there is a movement towards not only accepting the feral
cat colonies that call our neighborhoods home, but towards caring
for these
outdoor cats,
cats who provide a service by driving down the rodent population
for the homes and businesses in
communities all across the country.
We offer discounted and free spay / neuter and vaccinations, loan humane
cat traps and have donated food available
for outdoor cat communities.
Most
community cats are not socialized to humans and are not suited
for adoption, but they can live long and healthy lives in their
outdoor home.
Visit the NYC Feral
Cat Initiative of the Mayor's Alliance
for NYC's Animals website to read about how Trap - Neuter - Return (TNR) humanely reduces the number of
community cats living
outdoors, and how you can help by attending one of our free TNR certification workshops.
United Paws Low Cost Spay Neuter Clinic offers sliding scale spay / neuter surgeries
for pets of lower income, disabled or unemployed persons and $ 5 spay / neuters
for any
community «feral»
cats or
outdoor homeless kitties.
Best Friends is a leader in developing innovative programs
for community cats, so we'll be doing more trapping, more sterilizing and vaccinating, and more returning
community cats to their
outdoor homes.
Outdoor community cats are accepted
for surgery Monday through Thursday.
In many areas of the U.S., unlimited admission of
cats is not a legal mandate
for shelters, yet millions of
community (unowned and
outdoor)
cats are regularly admitted and, despite strong efforts by shelters, most
cats do not make it out alive.
To help reduce conflict in the
community, the organization provides information
for humane ways to keep
cats out of your yard, including fencing options, using scented plants as a deterrent, and how to build
outdoor litter boxes that will help keep
cats from digging in your garden.
«So there is more chance
for accidental litters out there,» Wright said, «especially with the
community and with the
outdoor cats.
The Humane Rescue Alliance's
community cat program addresses the needs of the unowned,
community cats who live
outdoors in the District and supports members of the public who care
for and coexist with them.