My human dropped in at the Kitty Bungalow National Feral Cat Day art reception last night at Angel City Brewery in downtown L.A. She gathered some important information for me to share with you, in addition to what I said in Thursday’s post. First, though, let me show you a couple of the fun parts of last night. Then I have an action I hope you will take at the very end of my post.
There were lots of gorgeous photographs of feral and formerly feral cats, all donated by the photographers.
There was also an enclosure with kittens! They were all born to feral moms, and socialized and ready for adoption. In fact, while she was there, my human saw one little guy get adopted. The event also had food and fun games (like tossing cat plushies into cat traps to win a prize). But the most important part was the posters on display with facts. I’ve left them really large so you can read them yourself.
Note the fact at the bottom: “TNR costs roughly $50 per cat while it costs approximately $100 to euthanize a cat.” The city of L.A. is practicing stupid math right now, and the taxpayers are the ones getting the hit.
Below are some suggested Tweets. If you live in L.A. and have a Twitter account, make your voice heard! Make sure that government officials know how unhappy you are about the city turning its back on TNR.
And here is something more you can do: Kitty Bungalow is campaigning, online and off, to get the city of L.A. moving on a plan to bring back TNR support to animal services. The city has actually had a plan for a while now but has been letting it sit while cats die. The online campaign is here — please sign it and spread the word! This is a new campaign — let’s see how quickly we can reach the 10,000 goal!
With your help, a difference can be made for feral cats. Without your help… well, let’s not even go there.
Yay Sparkle for sharing the Cat Plan! We’re joining forces with kitty Bungalow to help get more signatures & make people aware of the cat crisis in L.A.! LOVE your post!
Thank you for this important info. I signed the petition and will share it!
Sure hope this campain will be a huge succes !!
XOXO
Mama signed…woo-hoo!
That event looks like it was truly wonderful. We signed the petition, Summer. We hope that it makes a difference and that LA get the cat plan it needs!
Signed + shared. Thank you Summer for being a friend of feral cats. Sparkle is purring for you💜ðŸ±
I signed and shared with my personal Facebook page.
We’ve signed & will share now!!!!
We totally agree that TNR is the best way to reduce the number of feral cats ; we hope the campaign will be successful ! Purrs
We hope they get to resume good TNR practices again.
That looks like a great event, and for such an important cause. We will go and sign the petition right now, Summer!
I think I signed!!! Fabulous post and beyond impawtant!
I will sign the petition. Looks like our Maple cats are gonna get taken care of. Eddie has a heart of gold and they’re in front of his house. TW talked with him 2 days ago about TNR and it’s happening so those 3 little kitties won’t turn into 10 and 20 little kittens.
What a fabulous event, Summer! You and your human are awesome advocates for feral cats. We’ve already signed the petition and shared.
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Sounds like a great event!
Noodle and crew
I hope this campaign is successful. I tried to sign the petition but I kept getting an error message when I tried to sign in using FB.
Summer, our mom is using this info TONIGHT at our Jackson Galaxy/Feral Cat awareness event. People need to know – especially “TNR costs roughly $50 per cat while it costs approximately $100 to euthanize a cat.†GOOD INFO!!!
Summer, with your mommy involved with this, big changes can be made, because we know she has the tenacity, resources and outlets to get the word out. Best of luck to all the kitties in L.A. and all those working so hard to get TNR re-established. XOCK, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo
Another outstanding, informative article sweetie. I don’t live in CA, but I could still send a tweet and say something like, You are moving backwards by not allowing TNR in your state. That will tell them that the whole country is watching.
We’re behind this 100%
We have TNR in place in our area and also a organization that is low cost and no cost for spay/neutering ferals. It has elevated us to a NO KILL city….that is something we hope all cities aspire to.
THANK YOU, sweet Summer, for sharing this vital information. I’m sharing it on social media, with special message. L.A. is my home town, and I feel very strongly about this issue. We must get a plan in place to protect ALL cats!
Signed and shared 🙂
Purrs xx
Athena and Marie
Done!
In Belgium they try to catch feral cats neuter them and then set them free again. I think that is the best solution !
We signed it! We sure hope they get all the signatures so change can happen soon!
TNR is the best, most humane option. How can there even be a debate about the merits?
I signed – thank you for writing about this.
Great post (as always), Summer! What beautiful photographs at that art reception.
We’re now off to sign!
It’s a shame that the city of Los Angeles is so backward thinking on this issue. They should be setting an example. I have shared,
Hugs to your human for all her efforts for the Feral kitties in LA
You, Binga, Bodie and I are lucky to have furever homes.
Hugs madi your bfff
We sure hope the campaign is successful. We will go sign the petition nows.
sounds like a great event – and we SIGNED!
I signed the petition! Will share too.
A very important campaign! Wish you a big success! xxx
What a great event! We’ll definitely sign the petition…and share it on FB!
That is a terrific organization and we went over and signed the petition too!
We sure signed that petition. I just hope they get enough signatures to make a difference. What a great place that is. I would love to see something like that. Thanks for the pictures. I just love the feral cats.
We purr this campaign is successful.
Purrs Georgia and Julie,
Treasure and JJ
We haven’t voted as we won’t be eligible but we strongly agree that TNR is the best way to reduce the number of feral cats.
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
Thus will ge pinned to our FB. Page. YOU BET we will help!!