What affects us affects cats
SYCAMORE, Illinois: A woman, Teresa Damm, owns a house at 330 Terence Drive, Sycamore. She has a severe allergy to cats. When she arrived to live in the area they were feral cats. She wanted to fix the problem and decided to fund and work with a local non-profit, Fixin’ Feral Felines. The organisation …
I feel that decisions regarding the management of feral cats must be ethical. This is the starting point and the foundation for all decisions regarding feral cats. It is something which is rarely clearly stated by local governments when deciding what to do about feral cats. This is a test podcast. I’ll be doing …
It’s been a SUCCESS: concerned cat lovers came together via Facebook to put a lot of pressure on the property management company, ‘Related’, for Plummer Village in LA, which is the area where Barbara Yabor’s feral cat colony lives. The result is that they have decided to put a stop to the planned trapping …
**PLEASE SHARE THIS POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA TO SEE IF WE CAN GENERATE SOME VIRAL ACTIVITY TO SAVE THESE CATS** UPDATE 28 Aug 2018: RESULT! The planned trapping of these cats has been stopped. Please read this page and then please click on this link to read the update. My thanks to all the …
Does trap-neuter-return (TNR) work? This is the big question and a difficult one to respond to accurately. My understanding is that there have not been enough studies to evaluate accurately and properly whether TNR works over a large area. However, having run this website for a long time, I can confirm that I have …
SHAMOKIN DAM Borough (Snyder County), Pennsylvania: in this borough they have very recently introduced a new ordinance which states that if you are engaged in TNR programs and feeding feral cats you have to feed the cats within a fenced area or within a cage in order to prevent feral cat colonies from becoming …
TNR: Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. Successful TNR is an act of love. Love for the cats who need our care and to be treated humanely because we put them there.
Intro: this is the story of a specialist animal rescue worker: a TNR (trap-neuter-release) volunteer. She made a comment on a heavily viewed page about the high suicide rate of animal rescue workers. I felt that Cheryl’s comment deserved a wider audience than would be the case had it been left as a comment. …
