Category: Feral Cats & TNR

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    Architects for Animals: Giving Shelter Thursday, January 30, 2014 6:00–8:00 p.m. Steelcase Showroom, 4 Columbus Circle, Manhattan For the fourth consecutive year, the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals and Architects for Animals present Architects for Animals: Giving Shelter, a winter cat shelter exhibition and reception to benefit the NYC Feral Cat Initiative of the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals. …

Architects for Animals Returns to NYC for Fourth Annual Winter Cat Shelter Exhibition Read more »

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    The Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals urges New Yorkers to check for animals taking cover before starting car engines Thursday, January 16, 2014 – New York, NY – With the cold weather underway, New Yorkers need to take special precautions to ensure the safety of small animals, especially cats, who live outdoors. These animals often seek shelter and warmth …

Cold-Weather Precautions to Keep Outdoor Cats Safe Read more »

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Living in New York City, people are accustomed to hearing all sorts of sounds at all hours of the day and night, especially if they live in busy midtown Manhattan. Even so, one resident of an apartment building with windows facing an exit road for the Midtown Tunnel did not expect to hear a kitten meowing loudly outside her windows …

Miracle on 35th Street…or the Meow Heard Round the City Read more »

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by Mike Phillips, NYC Feral Cat Initiative Feral cats usually have sturdier immune systems than indoor cats, but when they do need medical treatment, the challenge for caretakers is to find ways to treat them without using stressful and traumatic restraint. Cats often break with illness from stress alone, so you want to make sure the method of treatment doesn’t …

Medicating Feral Cats and Kittens Read more »

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Winter’s Coming…Are Your Colony Cats Prepared? Cold, wet, wintry weather is just around the corner. So now is the time to purchase or construct outdoor cat shelters for your feral colony cats if you don’t have them in place already. It’s also the perfect time of year to replace the straw in the cat shelters you already use. Read on …

Fall is the Time to Prepare Winter Shelter for Feral Cats Read more »