Feral Cat Group Holding Winter Shelter Building Workshop Saturday
By Jon Whiten • Nov 5th, 2010 • Category: Blog, News
With winter fast approaching, the Neighborhood Feral Cat Initiative is hosting a free workshop Saturday for anyone interested in learning how to build warm and comfortable shelters for wild cats.
The initiative is a project of Jersey City nonprofit Companion Animal Trust, which helps homeless cats and dogs find permanent homes. It’s goal is two-fold: to create a public awareness of, and dialog about, feral cats in Jersey City and to provide practical ways to alleviate the problems related to the cats.
Its main focus has been free Trap Neuter Return training workshops, which teaches folks how to help cut down on feral cat breeding in a humane way. The cat is trapped, then sent to a vet where it is spayed or neutered, vaccinated and tagged. It then is released back to its original area, where it and the other cats are managed by a volunteer caregiver. This helps keep the colony sizes down, reduces some of the aggressive behaviors that lead to nuisances like some spraying and fighting and helps overburdened urban shelters by keeping many of these cats out of their hands.
The group says it has trained over 200 people and spayed and neutered 627 cats in about a year and a half.
THE DETAILS
Feral Cat Winter Shelter Building Workshop; Saturday, November 6 from noon to 3 pm; City Hall (Room 204), 280 Grove St.
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Jon Whiten is the founding editor of the Jersey City Independent; he now works for a public-policy nonprofit in Trenton.
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