Feral cats or community cats; they belong to all of us, so says Jackson Galaxy and his correct. Those of us who know cats would totally agree with Jackson. In some countries most cats are community cats. That is the norm. In developed countries it is more about personal cat ownership.
National Feral Cat Day® was instigated by Alley Cat Allies to promote an awareness of the need to be compassionate towards feral cats and to increase the number of people involved in trap-neuter-return, the only humane way of controlling feral cat numbers. It is an opportunity for people who care about the welfare of feral cats to spread the word; to help defeat those who want to hurt or exterminate feral cats.
It takes place on the 16th October each year. The 2014 theme is “TNR: From the Alley…to Main Street.”
Anyone can get involved in organizing an event. Alley Cat Allies have a really nice poster than can be downloaded and used by event organizers.
National Feral Cat Day® is not only about Americans promoting care of the feral cat; it is also international.
Click on this link to find out more.
Better still a Global Anti Declaw day, do you think?
Michael, i have a few photo’s of cats with distorted tails or bob tails which i clicked in Indonesia.If you want to do a article on the same could mail you the photos.This was just one of the photo’s, a strange peculiarity i observed in the stray feral cats in Indonesia.In Mumbai city most feral cats have normal tails.
Ahsan, you are Pakistan’s one man band of feral cat carers and every day for you is Feral Cat Day 😉
I look forward to your next article. We enjoy them and they are unique on the internet.
You do your bit for feral cats it seems. Feral cats are part of the American ecosystem it said and I agree. For that reason people should accept them and learn to live with them.
Dilute orange spotted tabby bob-tailed feral cat 😉 Cute and a bit sad. The short and kinked tail is interesting. The original Siamese cats from Thailand in the late 1800s also had kinked tails and some had/have short tails. The breeders in the West bred out this kink.
My neighbour has two Siamese cats and I was stroking one (the blue point) and although her tail is straight you can feel a kink in it at the end of it. The Asian cat tail kink/distortion is alive and well in Europe!
I’ll do a page on that subject today if I can. I am not sure there are definitive and certain reasons for this tail abnormality in Asian cats other than it is an unwelcome genetic mutation.
What a good idea Dee! Yes and we could maybe have a PoC article advertising it too and put the link on the anti declaw groups, we will have to think this out …..