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A division of T.R.A.N.S. (Team Reducing Animal Neglect & Suffering)
Non-profit Charitable Organization with Sec. 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt status.
The Feral Cat Consortium is an all-volunteer group working to stem the tide of overpopulation of feral and stray cats on the Northshore. Thanks to the insightful participation of the St. Tammany Humane Society and some compassionate veterinarians, there is real hope that we can stabilize the population such that it will then decline due to natural attrition.
Whether or not you care about homeless cats, it is clearly in the interest of the community as a whole to reduce the numbers, for practical as well as humane reasons. Many individuals feed colonies of feral cats, but the only alternatives to stopping the population growth have been inadequate and inefficient. The only options for the mostly-unadoptable feral cats have been euthanasia or life in a cage.
Now there is an alternative on the Northshore. With your help, the cats can be humanely and affordably neutered to live out their natural lives in peace. Volunteers will continue to feed the cats. The population decreases relatively quickly due to natural attrition.
By feeding a colony or supporting our goals, you can make a difference. With the matching funds generously supplied by the Humane Society, just $20 from you will neuter a cat, saving generations of kittens from dreadful lives.
TNR
TRAP, NEUTER, & RETURN is a proven method of humanely reducing the large numbers of feral and stray cats, which frequent our city streets, towns, and countryside, sometimes living in large colonies.
Volunteers humanely trap the cats, and take them to a veterinarian where they are affordably neutered or spayed, given a rabies shot and other medical attention is necessary. The cats are returned to their home territory where volunteers feed them. Because they no longer breed, they live healthier lives and their numbers decrease over time through natural causes.
Estimates number feral cats in the U.S. from 60-100 million. St. Tammany Parish Animal Control euthanized almost 1900 homeless cats in 2003. Trapping and killing programs don’t work because they are expensive, do not enjoy widespread public support, and other cats come into they cleared space.
One pair of breeding cat can produce 420,000 descendants in 7 years. Half of all kittens born into feral colonies die before they are a year old.
TNR programs have successfully stabilized and controlled the overpopulation in many communities. They work because the breeding is stopped and because volunteers do most of the work.
TNR is less expensive than killing!
The Feral Cat Consortium had over 1000 cats spayed/neutered in its first year and a half in operation, and found homes for many kittens and adoptable adult cats!
Our continued success depends upon your support!
Last updated: 6/3/2005 9:20 AM
The Feral Cat Consortium, a non-profit organization of St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana.
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