Winter is 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 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 …
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by Mike Phillips, NYC Feral Cat Initiative Seemingly overnight in July 1990, AnnaBell Washburn became a face for the fledgling movement advocating humane care for feral cats in the United States. That month, an article recounting her Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) work at Martha’s Vineyard, MA, was published in Cat Fancy magazine. Although the article also mentioned the work of many …
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Earlier this summer, Kathleen O’Malley, the Director of Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) Education for the NYC Feral Cat Initiative, a program of the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals, took a TNR trap to Park Slope, Brooklyn. She wasn’t headed to trap a community cat. Instead, she visited Animal Rights Camp (ARC) and captured the attention of its young campers by speaking to …
This past spring Kathleen O’Malley and Mike Phillips of the NYC Feral Cat Initiative (NYCFCI), a program of the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals, along with Sheila Massey, a Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) advocate, taught a NYCFCI TNR Certification Workshop to two dozen participants in Washington Heights, eleven of whom were police officers representing seven area precincts. According to Kathleen, “the workshop …
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This past spring, Kathleen O’Malley, the Director of Trap-Neuter- Return (TNR) Education for the NYC Feral Cat Initiative (NYCFCI) of the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals, was invited to visit a preschool class at the YM & YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood that was in the process of learning about cats. A then-seven-week-old, adoptable kitten named Coyote accompanied Kathleen …