Last month, Marie, a concerned Bronx resident, contacted the NYC Feral Cat Initiative of the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals to request help for Pinky, a young, feral, gray tabby from a local colony, who was in trouble. Marie had spotted her wandering the streets with a rusty, broken can on her head. Unable to eat or drink in the …

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Through its various workshops and other communications, the NYC Feral Cat Initiative (NYCFCI), a program of the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals, encourages its Certified Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) Caretakers to obtain neighborhood support and help with the ongoing care of their community cat colonies. As the NYCFCI’s Director of Education, Kathleen O’Malley states, “The basic rule of thumb is that if …

Networking to Find Help in Caring for Community Cats Read more »

When KittyKind, a non-profit, all-volunteer cat rescue group and Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals Participating Organization (APO), recently became the recipient of 10,000 Halo cat food meals, they decided to give those meals away to as many community cat Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) caretakers as they could. So they turned to the NYC Feral Cat Initiative (NYCFCI), a key program of the …

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The New York City Feral Cat Initiative (NYCFCI), a program of the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals, is working with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ), Brooklyn Councilman Brad Lander’s office, the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative (BGI), and volunteer Certified TNR Caretakers to Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) the community cats who live by the PANYNJ Marine Terminal at the …

Red Hook Community Cats TNR’ed, Thanks to NYCFCI Read more »

Thanks to three generous grants, beginning in late October 2015, the New York City Feral Cat Initiative (NYCFCI), a program of the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals, held three cat food giveaways for volunteer Certified Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) Caretakers. In total, the NYCFCI provided approximately 700 caretakers with more than 6,000 cases of canned food and 500 12-pound bags of dry …

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