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October 16, 2011

National Feral Cat Day

It's National Feral Cat Day! Now in its 11th year, National Feral Cat Day was launched in 2001 by Alley Cat Allies, the national advocate for feral and stray cats and a recognized authority on Trap-Neuter-Return (T-N-R) — the program wherein cats who live outdoors are humanely trapped and brought to a veterinarian to be evaluated, spayed or neutered and vaccinated.

Friendly cats and kittens are put up for adoption. Feral cats that have undergone the procedure are released back into the areas from which they came, with volunteer caregivers providing a managed food source and monitoring the colony to aid sick or injured cats. And because they are spayed and neutered, the feral cats don't have to deal with stuff like mating and pregnancy, and no new kittens are born.


If you'd like to learn more about National Feral Cat Day, Alley Cat Allies, and/or how you can help feral cats, please click HERE.

31 comments:

  1. Paws up for National Feral Cat Day!! We were not aware of it and thank you for posting this!

    Momo & Pinot xoxo

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  2. You wrote a great post for National Feral Cats Day.

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  3. I am doing a commenthon for one of my local feral and stray groups for National Feral Cat Day!

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  4. We think this is an important cause! I was semi feral! Being free and very scared of all humans. I am still fearful of humans... except my mom and the human grandma! That was most likely why I was left behind when my former mom, (the neighbor) moved. It took mom several days to catch me!

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  5. Yay and paws up for all those involved in the good work of helping ferals and strays!

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  6. Paws up for your National Feral Cat Day.
    Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx

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  7. TNR is such a great program.....

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  8. Paws Up for National Feral Day - our local cat sanctuary runs a TNR programme... so simple and yet so effective! =^..^=

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  9. Thank goodness for caring volunteers that participate in TNR!!!

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  10. Great post! Thanks for participating in Weekend Cat Blogging.

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  11. Yay for this National Feral Cat Day and lots of purrs for volunteer caregivers!

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  12. We were on vacation so it's not the vieemos visit, but now we come home and want a good week
    Turrinhas girlfriend
    Kika

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  13. The adorable ferals deserve every bit of help we all can provide for them!

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  14. We are all formerly feral here at The Lounge. Humans need to get us spayed and neutered!

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  15. Thanks for writing this post. We need to get the word out to as many people that we can, that ferals are not horrible cats. They can be very very nice. At least all of mine are nice. Have a great week end.

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  16. Some of our cats were ferals, all have been rescues. It breaks the mom's heart to think of all the suffering homelessness causes. Once they had a home, none of our ferals have ever looked to go outside again.

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  17. I can't see your pictures yet (soon, I hope) but I am so happy you are coming over. It's been an AWFUL couple of dayopefully things will get fixed soon!

    XOXO, Spitty

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  18. Um, make that:

    ...days, but hopefully...

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  19. Awesome!! Love you guys!! Happy National Feral Kitty Day! I'll tell my ferals that today is their special day :) Maybe give them a tasty treat with their kibble.

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  20. Hooray for National Feral Cat Day! We should all have one of those.

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  21. Thank you for helping raise awareness about ferals (mom forget which is norty). xx

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  22. Me too lift´s my paws up for National Feral Cat Day !

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  23. It sounds like a great program.

    Interestingly, I saw a large feral cat colony in the industrial sections of SF on Saturday while I was wandering around to art studios. They were in a vacant lot near a studio building, but seemed well cared for, with food and water provided.

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  24. I got to know the T-N-R program through blogging and am more aware of it. Every kitty deserves a good life and I admire these caring people. Thank you for raising the awareness.

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  25. This is a wonderful program with a proven record of success! Thanks for sharing the word...if only the programs were better funded...

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  26. Great post. I started out outside but now have my furever home and never ever want to go back out there again.

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  27. That's the best I have heard of and I think all countries should do that. In Belgium there is T N R service but maybe not enough.

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  28. This sounds like a wonderful program. Going to click on the link now to learn more. Thanks!
    Cindy

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  29. Thanks for your post in honor of the feral cats. We've dealt with quite a few over the years but the colony is not much of a colony anymore...two of the original cats remain, and other kitties visit for food every day.

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