You already know I am a big supporter of feral cats — I won a Pettie award for my post last year about National Feral Cat Day. This year I am having a commenthon to benefit one of my local groups that works hard for feral and stray cats, but first I want to tell you a little bit about National Feral Cat Day and its origins.
This is the tenth anniversary of National Feral Cat Day — it was created in 2001 by Alley Cat Allies, on their tenth anniversary to raise awareness about feral cats and promote TNR — Trap, Neuter and Return, which is the most effective way to control feral cat populations. All over the U.S. and even in some cities in Canada, there are events being held today to promote awareness about feral cats, spay-neuter clinics, walk/runs and more!
Feral cats need our help more than ever because there are some humans out there who want to blame certain declining songbird populations on feral cats, when it is really due far more to habitat destruction by… guess who? Humans! If you are a cat and you have ever hunted, you know that your preferred meals are rodents and other ground-dwelling creatures — they are way easier to catch! We need a large force out there teaching smaller groups how to educate humans about feral cats, to teach about TNR and caring for feral cat colonies, and to help advocate in city and state governments for the protection of feral cats and their caretakers. That is why Alley Cat Allies is so important, and so needed. My human donates to them every year during the holidays.
Since she is already giving money to Alley Cat Allies, my human wanted to do a commenthon today for a local group that helps ferals and strays in our area called Stray Cat Alliance. They work very hard for Los Angeles County ferals and their caretakers. They advocate for ferals and educate southern California humans about these kitties. They help loads of humans TNR and care for their colonies. In the video below, one of their members briefly discusses how to Trap, Neuter and Return a cat.
For every comment this post receives today until 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time, my human will donate 50 cents to Stray Cat Alliance, up to $100 total! We love this organization and we want to see them continuing to help the strays and ferals of Los Angeles for a long time to come!
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Great post SparklE
Wow, thank you for doing this commentathon, Sparkle! Feral cats deserve to be taken care of, too.
All but one of my 10 kitties were ferals and rescued by my husband and I.
Bless all the angels out there that rescue or help all the feral kitties!!
What a nice thing to do for the ferals. Count us in.
You are so awesome Sparkle! So nice of you to do this!
What a great thing to do!
After all, evFURRY khritter needs to be safe!
Hugz&Khysses,
Khyra
Wow. We just learned a lot … and we are so glad that you taught us. It’s a great thing you are doing, Sparkle, and we want you to know that we are two CatFriendly WireFoxTerriers (and TheirMoma) that are happy to support you and are ready to share the word.
We hope you reach your goal. We really do.
Jake and Fergi
Keep up the great work!
Oh my goodness! I almost missed out!!! And you know I have to comment. I have so much to say. If only my human would get her act together!
What a great thing to do!! Thank you for caring!
Sophie and Salem
What a nice thing to do for the feral kitties! Thanks for doing this.
Oh! Our lazy human has barely helped us blog in FOREVER so we almost missed this! We just moved to a city so our OTW hasn’t gotten involved with any TNR programs, but she tells people about them and why they’re the best idea for dealing with feral cats all the time! Thank you for having a commentathon!
We’re here too! The mom has adopted a couple ferals, including our Mica Minnie Moo! All kitties deserve loving homes!
This is a great thing to do to support feral cats! We hope you get 200 comments.
Good cause. Keep up the good work.
Yay! Feral Cat Day! We made a donation today, too!
DMM
We hope we made the deadline! It’s really awesome that you are doing a comment-a-thon for the feral kitties, they need people to help them.
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