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TNR Week Wrap-up & Feral For Life Giveaway Winners
We hope this week has been enlightening and informative. I have a few things to share to wrap-up TNR Week. First, I want to thank everyone who helped with the posts this week including Justine Pimlot, Ellen Perry Berkeley, and Becky Robinson. I’d also like to thank Alison Grasheim and Elizabeth Parowski from Alley Cat [...]
Continue reading...TNR Week: The Controversy
Friday, September 17, 2010
Guest post by Peter J. Wolf Over the past week, we’ve touched on the origins and history of TNR, explained a bit about how it works, showcased some success stories, and much more. We would be remiss, though, if we ended TNR Week without at least mentioning the controversy surrounding TNR. TNR Controversy It’s not [...]
Continue reading...TNR Week: Local Resources
Friday, September 17, 2010
Hopefully by now, if you’ve never been involved with TNR, we’ve sparked an interest in you to join the thousands of other cat lovers who are working to help reduce the feral cat population through this important work. And if you’re already doing TNR or helping to feed a feral cat colony, perhaps you’re looking [...]
Continue reading...TNR Week: Q&A with Becky Robinson, President and Co-founder of Alley Cat Allies
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Becky Robinson is president and co-founder of Alley Cat Allies, the nation’s leading advocacy organization dedicated to the protection and humane treatment of cats. Based in Bethesda, Maryland, the mission of Alley Cat Allies is to end the killing of cats and lead the movement for their humane care. . . . If I understand [...]
Continue reading...TNR Week: Resources & Tools from Alley Cat Allies
Thursday, September 16, 2010
If you are interested in getting involved with TNR, don’t worry, there are lots of resources to help you get started. Alley Cat Allies has assembled a complete Trap-Neuter-Return guide on their website with guidelines for humane trapping, suggested trapping equipment, and helpful videos. This excellent video gives an overview of the full trapping process. [...]
Continue reading...TNR Week: Campus Cats Benefit from TNR
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
University and college campuses are quite often home to many feral cats, and fortunately, organizations have been forming over the past 20 years specifically to care for campus cats. These groups implement TNR programs, feed and monitor the cats, and often rescue adoptable cats and find them homes. If you’ve ever strolled across a college [...]
Continue reading...TNR Week: A Brief History of TNR – Q&A with Ellen Perry Berkeley
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Ellen Perry Berkeley is a writer and editor who has written numerous articles for Cat Fancy, and is the author of Maverick Cats: Encounters with Feral Cats and TNR Past, Present, and Future: A History of the Trap-Neuter-Return Movement. . . . For those who’ve not read your books and articles, can you talk a [...]
Continue reading...TNR Week: Disneyland Views Feral Cats as “Partners”
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Over the last 25 years, feral cats have played an important role at the Disneyland Resort. When the gates close and the crowds are gone, about 200 cats walk the Disneyland property doing their part to control mice and other rodents. The cats have played this role for 25 years, but 7 years ago an [...]
Continue reading...TNR Week: Q&A with Cat City Documentary Writer/Director Justine Pimlott
Monday, September 13, 2010
Justine Pimlott is an award-winning documentary writer, director, and producer, whose work focuses on a range of social and political issues. Her latest documentary, Cat City, which chronicles the plight of Toronto’s homeless cats and the people who care for them, was released in 2009. What prompted you to create Cat City? What kind of [...]
Continue reading...TNR Week: Enter to Win Free Stuff From Feral For Life!
Monday, September 13, 2010
The awesome Brooklyn-based cat rescue organization Feral For Life is offering a special giveaway for TNR Week! One first place winner will get a Feral For Life T-shirt in their choice of green or black. This great graphic was designed by Martina Fugazzotto, and the t-shirt comes in both men’s and women’s styles. The first [...]
Continue reading...TNR Week: Haves and Have-Nots
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Guest post by Peter J. Wolf For many of us, spoiling our cats is something we’ve raised to an art form—an inalienable right, even. From gourmet organic foods to luxurious memory-foam beds, our feline friends seem to be living the easy life. And, as Moderncat readers know all too well, many of them are. Feral [...]
Continue reading...Moderncat Theme Week: Focus on TNR, Trap-Neuter-Return
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Starting tomorrow, we are going to take a break from fancy cat furniture and adorable handmade goodies for one week. Instead, we will feature a series of posts focusing on TNR, or Trap-Neuter-Return, which is an approach for humanely reducing the population of feral, or unowned, cats. Not all cats are as lucky as yours [...]
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Saturday, September 18, 2010
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