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Found a dog, bird or other animal?

Depending on the animal we may be able to help rescue, otherwise search on facebook or google type of animal and area

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Have you spotted stray cats or kittens?

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Found cats FAQ

Cats roam outside in most neighborhoods. Some are pets whose owners let (or put) them outside, but many are community cats, who may be feral/wild or one-time pets who are now stray, lost or abandoned. 

Although these community cats aren't owned, they may be fed by one or more caring person.

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How is a stray cat different from a feral cat?

A stray cat is a pet who has been lost or abandoned, is used to contact with people and is tame enough to be adopted. A feral cat (community cat) is the offspring of stray or other feral cats and is not accustomed to human contact. Feral cats are usually too wild to be handled or adopted.

Stray cats may be reunited with their families or adopted into new homes, but feral cats will find it difficult or impossible to adapt to living as pets in close contact with people. But that doesn't mean there aren't things you can do to improve feral cats' health and quality of life.

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Why are there feral cats?

If they don't have early contact with people, the kittens of stray or feral cats will become feral themselves, too fearful to be handled or adopted. Since a female cat can become pregnant as early as five months of age, the number of feral cats in a neighborhood can rapidly increase if cats aren't spayed or neutered.

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Where do community cats live?

Community cats typically live in a colony (a group of related cats). The colony occupies and defends a specific territory where food (a restaurant dumpster or a person who feeds them) and shelter (beneath a porch, in an abandoned building, etc.) are available. Although feral cats may be seen by people who feed them, strangers may not realize that feral cats are living nearby because they rarely see them. Stray cats tend to be much more visible, may vocalize and may approach people in search of food or shelter. Stray cats may join a colony or defend a territory of their own.

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Won't removing community cats from an area eliminate the problem?

There are many reasons cat problems are rarely solved by trapping and removing a colony. Community cats live at a certain location because it offers food and shelter. If a colony is removed, cats from surrounding colonies may move in to take advantage of the newly available resources. The cycle of reproduction and nuisance behavior begins all over again.

If all the cats in a colony are not trapped, then the ones left behind will tend to have larger litters of kittens. The kittens are more likely to survive because there are fewer cats competing for food. The colony's population will continue to increase until it reaches the number that can be supported by the available food and shelter.

Here are some of the other factors that usually make trap and removal ineffective:

• No input from the cats' caretakers, who are the only people who really know the cats' numbers and patterns and can control whether or not the cats are hungry enough to enter a baited trap.

• No volunteers to trap cats, who face an uncertain fate or death upon capture.

• Little to no animal control staff and money available to accomplish the task.

• No strategy for the difficult task of catching all the cats in a colony.

• No one watching out for pet cats who are lost or abandoned, aren't spayed or neutered and quickly repopulate a vacated territory.

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Can you take animals found?

-Depending on the nature of the cats as stated above.

-They need to be assessed if desexed or not, or if a lost animal.  Take to a vet if tame to check for microchip, advertise if not chipped and if desexed or not as may be missing

-If not desexed we can assist in desexing

-Taking in any friendlys not owned depends on space we may have in foster homes, we are a small rescue so space is limited

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Can animal rescue's take stray/feral cats?

Rescues already care for and try to find homes for untold thousands of lost, injured and abandoned cats, in addition to pet cats whose owners are unable or unwilling to keep them.

Many rescues don't have the staff or money to do TNR unless they receive donations or grants. However, rescues that receive calls of complaint or concern from the public may attempt to humanely trap to assist TNR. Or they may provide information and loan traps to citizens interested in humanely trapping feral cats. If there is a local group helping feral cats, the rescue may refer callers to that group.

Because feral cats are so scared of people they usually cannot be adopted, majority of rescues dont have land/space to take in feral/stray cats as most run from their home in non rural areas.

It's a complicated situation: While it's difficult to accurately identify a feral cat without observing them during a holding period, safely caring for a feral cat in a typical rescue cage is terribly stressful for the cat as well as potentially dangerous for the rescue staff.  We dont recommend taking in feral/wild cats ourselves due to these factors but can assist in TNR

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A better approach is TNR and a dedicated caretaker. Spayed or neutered feral cats are healthier because they no longer have kittens or fight over mates and their nuisance behaviors are greatly reduced or eliminated. If the colony has a dedicated caretaker, they provide food, water and shelter and watch over the cats' health and remove any newcomers for TNR (if feral) or adoption (if tame).

TNR improves the quality of life for existing colonies, prevents the birth of more cats and reduces the number of cats over time.

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