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| strategy for humanely managing and reducing free-roaming cat populations in south central Pennsylvania. |
| Organizational Goal: Reduce existing unaltered free-roaming | |
| domestic feline populations by 80 percent in south central Pennsylvania by 2022. |
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Strategies & Resources:
| The Nobody's Cats Foundation, PO Box 725, New Cumberland, PA 17070-0725 |
The Nobody's Cats Foundation is now a member of the Alley Cat Allies Feral Friends Network, a group of people
across the country and around the world actively protecting and improving the lives of cats. This is another
way for us to connect with caregivers, potential volunteers, and others in our area. ACA provides great
educational materials that we provide free of charge to advocates in our region and that we include in our TNR
Toolbox binder distributed at our free TNR Basics Seminars. Two seminars in Fairview Township on June 6 and
25 are just around the corner! Check out the Alley Cat Allies web site at http://www.alleycat.org/ for all kinds
of great information and resources.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nobody's Cats and PAWS will hold a joint yard sale fund raiser on Saturday, June 15 at our parking lot in Camp
Hill, from 8 am to 3 pm. Details here.
Vendors will pay $25 for a 10-foot space and we will split that amount, as well as the income from a bake and
hot dog sale 50/50. Each organization will also have the opportunity to sell items itself for additional income.
Contact: contact@nobodyscats.org
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Free Seminars for Humanely Managing Free-Roaming Cat Populations Offered in Fairview Township
The Nobody's Cats Foundation, a local 501(c)3 non-profit organization that promotes the adoption of Trap
Neuter Return in south central Pennsylvania, will offer free "TNR Basics" seminars at the Fairview Township
Fire Company Social Hall, 340 Lewisberry Road, New Cumberland on Thursday, June 6 and Tuesday, June 25
from 7 - 9 pm. The two-hour seminars, tailored to beginners, will include an overview of the strategy, step-by-
step instructions for implementing projects, a question and answer session, and hands-on operation of various
humane traps and tools. Each attendee also will receive a booklet of comprehensive resources and information.
Free-roaming cats, including feral cats, have lived among humans for more than 10,000 years and are the
same species as pet cats. (Indoor-only domestic cats became common only in the past 50 years since the
invention of cat litter.) An estimated 355,000 free-roaming cats live throughout south central Pennsylvania,
with their populations continuing to expand as traditional lethal strategies have failed. It is estimated that,
while 85 percent of indoor pet cats are altered, less than 3 percent of free-roaming cats are altered. Trap
Neuter Return (TNR) is a comprehensive management strategy for humanely and effectively reducing
populations of free-roaming domestic felines by preventing reproduction.
Contact: Christine Arnold, carnold@nobodyscats.org, 855-TNR-4CAT (855-867-4228)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The foundation is holding a food drive for colony caretakers in our region during the month of June. We are
seeking locations willing to accept donations as well as volunteers willing to pick up and deliver those
donations to our site on Hartzdale Drive in Camp Hill.
We are looking for Donation Drop-Off Locations at local businesses such as salons, vet offices, shops and feed
stores. The foundation will provide flyers and other information and we'll handle all the promotion via
Facebook, news releases, and the web site.
If you know of a business that might participate, please ask them to be part of this effort to help local
caretakers and cats. We'll be happy to answer any questions. If you've gained support from a business (or if
you own a business and want to help), just forward all the pertinent info: name of contact, name of business,
address of business, phone and email contact info, web site URL if available. We'll take it from there. Send the
info to carnold@nobodyscats.org.
If you would like to help pick up and deliver donations to our site, let me know via the same email address.
Every week we grow closer to that wonderful day when our clinic will open. We begin the staff hiring process
this month and meanwhile are hoping to hold a few clinics with volunteer and subcontract vets and techs to test
out our processes and systems. Keep posted on Facebook and the web site for more updates.
THANKS to each and every one of you for your ongoing support of the cause.
Everything you do helps us fulfill our mission.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Update on East Prospect helping hands project,
21 cats have been spay/neutered. 5 kittens have all found homes. A huge thank you to all Mini's friends who
have helped her, trapping, driving around, and bottle feeding. Sandy, the woman who owns the farm, is doing
better everyday.
The next step is to get the house handicapped accessible so she can make it home. Work on the house and
barns starts this Sunday the 21st. We need to get her Tack and Seed shop organized, cleaned and running
again. Then our big build weekend is May 4-5. Projects include building a handicapped ramp that needs to be
18 feet long, extending the sidewalk so her wheelchair can fit, clean and bath 22 horses, work on fields, pulling
weeds, painting etc.
Help is mostly needed on Saturday, May 4th. We need people to help build the handicapped ramp and people to
help with the weeds, painting, moving her bedroom furniture downstairs, planting flowers. We also need
donations in the form of flowers/plants, flower pots, and Cat Food (any kind). There are 24 cats at last count
that are feral and hungry.
If anyone is interested in helping or donating they can contact mini.truett@comcast.net
It is amazing to see people come together to help this woman.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lynn Stitt has resigned from the board of The Nobody’s Cats Foundation. In addition to serving as the primary caretaker for The
Best Little Cathouse in Pennsylvania, Lynn serves as a wildlife rehabilitator for orphaned and injured wild rabbits and squirrels.
The numbers of rehabilitators in our region has decreased to the point that Lynn now is responsible for serving a broader
geographic area than in the past. This will dramatically increase the amount of time and effort Lynn must invest in her rehab role.
Lynn’s primary commitment has always been to the wellbeing of the animals in her care and, although we are sad to lose her, we
understand and respect her decision to place them in the forefront.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Two free TNR Basics Seminars will be held in Fairview Township in June. Sponsored by the township, the seminars will be held on
Thursday, June 6 and Tuesday, June 25, from 7-9 pm at the township fire company social hall at 340 Lewisberry Road, New
Cumberland. The social hall is just off of Interstate 83 and around the corner from the Harrisburg West Exit of the Pa Turnpike so
this is a great opportunity for you to learn more about how to implement this effective and humane tool for managing colonies of
free-roaming cats. It's practical, hands on training that includes demonstrations of humane box and drop traps. Every attendee
receives a TNR Toolbox binder full of great information and tools.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The York SPCA's Humane Alliance model clinic is moving forward after ground-breaking in March. Executive Director Melissa
Smith reports that the plan is for a soft opening in the beginning of July and a Grand Opening set for Saturday, August 3. Melissa
also reports that the shelter hopes to start a fund to cover the costs of surgeries for feral cats, so they can be altered for free!
Keep posted for more information about how you can support the fund.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Humane traps -- including five drop traps and 150 box traps -- are now at our site and we're just a few weeks from being able to
get them out into the community to help TNRers do their thing. THANKS to Barry and Carla Haynes of the Animal Rescue Food
Bank for picking up the box traps in New Holland and delivering them to our back door -- saving hundreds of dollars in shipping
costs! ARF needs a new box truck; the truck pictured here is getting tired from all its hard work transporting pallets of cat and
dog food for redistribution to needy rescues, shelters, and colony caretakers in Pa. and surrounding states. We hope you will let
ARF know how much you appreciate the work they do for everyone by making a donation to help offset a truck purchase. Send
your donations to ARF, c/o Barry and Carla Haynes, 1240 Alpine Road, Wellsville, PA 17365.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
New Cumberland residents! A community group focused on implementing TNR in the borough is forming! Here's your chance to
contribute in your neighborhood by lending a hand in any of the many possible ways you can. Want to learn more? Contact
founder Sandi Kraybill at newcumberlandtnrprogram@gmail.com.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Congratulations to everyone at PAWS for great strides integrating its TNR and Adoption programs in 2012. Of the 420 cats that
entered the group's adoption program in 2012, more than half came from qualified TNR projects! By focusing on targeted projects
in a comprehensive way, PAWS makes it possible for those projects to accelerate reductions in colony size -- as well as rewards
caretakers who are properly implementing the strategy by helping them find indoor homes for friendly adults and kittens. The
targeted projects included those managed by PAWS volunteers and by community-based TNR programs all around the area.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Check out the link at the Carlisle Sentinel talking about our weekend construction workshop for shelters and feeding stations!
http://cumberlink.com/news/local/volunteers-build-shelters-feeding-stations-for-feral-cats-in-carlisle/article_512e86ba-629e-
11e2-b470-001a4bcf887a.htm
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Two foundation board members were featured in articles in the Patriot-News in December. Lynn Stitt, founder of The Best Little
Cathouse in Pennsylvania, was featured in an article on December 9. Click here to read the feature: http://www.pennlive.
com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/12/the_best_little_cat_house_in_d.html
Christine Arnold, foundation president, provided input to Karen Steinrock for her Pet Forum column on December 23 about
helping "faux ferals" relax.
Here's the link to Karen's column: http://www.pennlive.com/pets/index.ssf/2012/12/its_never_too_late_to_get_scar.html
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Quickly following up on its first successful venture in early December, the Derry Township community cats group will hold another
Trap Neuter Return project in early January 2013, with surgeries scheduled for January 17 and 18. The group continues to seek
volunteers to help with all aspects of the program, donations of cleaning and other supplies, tips from township residents on the
presence of free-roaming cat colonies in the township needing Trap Neuter Return, and monetary donations in any amount to help
defray costs. Call Tammy McElfresh at 805-2544 or e-mail tmcelfresh@comcast.net by December 28, 2012 to participate in or
support the next project. Kudos to the township group for initiating its program at the perfect time -- preventing hundreds of
kittens from being born within the next few months! Its efforts mean very quick results by preventing many spring litters.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hurricane Sandy Feral Relief Fund
Help bring emergency aid to cats across NYC
November 1, 2012
Feral cats are especially vulnerable to natural disasters. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, one of the worst storms to ever strike
New York City, thousands of ferals have been left hungry, frightened and without winter shelter. In many cases their caretakers
have also suffered devastating loss of homes and property and are struggling to provide for the cats who depend on them.
To reach out to caretakers in need, rebuild colonies and save cats harmed by the hurricane, Neighborhood Cats is launching the
Hurricane Sandy Feral Cat Relief Fund. NYC caretakers will be able to receive financial assistance for:
Food for colonies
Winter shelters to replace those lost in the storm
New feeding stations, feeders and other equipment
Veterinary care to treat injury or illness resulting from the hurricane
Please help us save the lives of Hurricane Sandy's smallest victims.
Donations may be made online at http://www.neighborhoodcats.org/DONATE
or mail contributions payable to Neighborhood Cats at:
Neighborhood Cats
Hurricane Sandy Feral Cat Relief Fund
2576 Broadway #555, New York, NY 10025
or by phone via a credit card donation please call (212) 662-5761
100% of monies donated to the Fund will be directed to disaster relief.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Carlisle Borough Residents! FREE spay/neuter surgeries are available for free-roaming cats in the borough through The Furry
Friends Network and its Fixin' to Save Lives surgery program. You trap and transport -- FFN will spay / neuter cats, and even has
tons of humane traps to loan for the program. Registration is easy -- just go on line to www.firstgiving.com/FFN/fixin-to-save-
lives to get the process started. If you would like to create a neighborhood group to share the responsibilities or belong to a
neighborhood association that would like to learn more about this program and TNR, send an email to contact@nobodyscats.org
We will arrange to provide hands-on training sessions and mentoring to help you get started. Now is the time to spay / neuter all
those free-roaming cats in the neighborhood before they start making more kittens for spring 2013.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PAWS, a long-time champion of Trap Neuter Return, now offers FREE TNR spay/neuter surgeries for free-roaming cats in areas of
the Middletown Borough, Dauphin County. If you know of anyone feeding free-roaming cats in Middletown, please have them email
clinic@pawsofpa.org or call 957-8122 to schedule an appointment. This is a great opportunity for borough residents to reduce its
free-roaming cat populations. This will allow the borough to redirect public resources used for animal-control, codes-enforcement,
and policing -- and prevents untold suffering among cats and kittens by preventing them from being born to suffer and die. THANKS
to PAWS for making these surgeries possible.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Internal Revenue Service has determined that The Nobody's Cats Foundation is exempt from Federal income tax under section
501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code, with our tax-exempt status effective January 26, 2012. The IRS has determined that we are
a public charity. We now also are qualified to receive tax-deductible bequests, devises, transfers and gifts under sections 2055,
2106 or 2522 of the Code. We received our notification very quickly, in about 60 days from the submission of our application -- and
owe our thanks to Vicky Trimmer, Esquire of the Persun & Heim PC law firm for her valuable assistance in preparing and
submitting the materials.
Thanks to all our supporters for your belief in our cause -- now we can really begin our work!
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TNR Support Available for Residents of Swatara Township Wards in the 17113 ZIP Code...
TNR colony caretakers in Swatara Township wards covered by the 17113 ZIP can receive comprehensive support from Steelton
Borough Community Cats (SBCC). This includes trapping, transporting, surgery and other services, and post-operative care
following TNR clinics held at the SBCC facility in Steelton. If you live in these wards, please take advantage of this opportunity to
humanely manage free-roaming cats in your neighborhood. Call 717-877-4146 or email SteeltonCats@gmail.com and check out the
details at http://www.steeltoncats.org/services.html!
SBCC is also providing TNR support to elderly and disabled resident of other Swatara Township wards who cannot trap, transport or
provide after-care to their neighborhood cats. If you know of a colony with an infirm caregiver, contact the folks at SBCC so they
can help these people and their colonies too! And of course, as a resident of the township benefiting from this FREE service, please
offer your help to SBCC by volunteering to help with trapping and transporting for these colonies.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wonderful news for the cats of York County. York County Commissioners approved an high-volume spay/neuter clinic in partnership
with the Humane Alliance! Read more about it...
http://www.ydr.com/local/ci_21102165/commissioners-approve-support-york-county-spcas-planned-spay
Congratulations to the SPCA for this achievement! This clinic, scheduled to open early in 2013, will dramatically increase the
number of cats who can be spayed or neutered in the county in the coming years and help drive momentum toward significant
reductions in domestic feline overpopulation.
across the country and around the world actively protecting and improving the lives of cats. This is another
way for us to connect with caregivers, potential volunteers, and others in our area. ACA provides great
educational materials that we provide free of charge to advocates in our region and that we include in our TNR
Toolbox binder distributed at our free TNR Basics Seminars. Two seminars in Fairview Township on June 6 and
25 are just around the corner! Check out the Alley Cat Allies web site at http://www.alleycat.org/ for all kinds
of great information and resources.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nobody's Cats and PAWS will hold a joint yard sale fund raiser on Saturday, June 15 at our parking lot in Camp
Hill, from 8 am to 3 pm. Details here.
Vendors will pay $25 for a 10-foot space and we will split that amount, as well as the income from a bake and
hot dog sale 50/50. Each organization will also have the opportunity to sell items itself for additional income.
Contact: contact@nobodyscats.org
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Free Seminars for Humanely Managing Free-Roaming Cat Populations Offered in Fairview Township
The Nobody's Cats Foundation, a local 501(c)3 non-profit organization that promotes the adoption of Trap
Neuter Return in south central Pennsylvania, will offer free "TNR Basics" seminars at the Fairview Township
Fire Company Social Hall, 340 Lewisberry Road, New Cumberland on Thursday, June 6 and Tuesday, June 25
from 7 - 9 pm. The two-hour seminars, tailored to beginners, will include an overview of the strategy, step-by-
step instructions for implementing projects, a question and answer session, and hands-on operation of various
humane traps and tools. Each attendee also will receive a booklet of comprehensive resources and information.
Free-roaming cats, including feral cats, have lived among humans for more than 10,000 years and are the
same species as pet cats. (Indoor-only domestic cats became common only in the past 50 years since the
invention of cat litter.) An estimated 355,000 free-roaming cats live throughout south central Pennsylvania,
with their populations continuing to expand as traditional lethal strategies have failed. It is estimated that,
while 85 percent of indoor pet cats are altered, less than 3 percent of free-roaming cats are altered. Trap
Neuter Return (TNR) is a comprehensive management strategy for humanely and effectively reducing
populations of free-roaming domestic felines by preventing reproduction.
Contact: Christine Arnold, carnold@nobodyscats.org, 855-TNR-4CAT (855-867-4228)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The foundation is holding a food drive for colony caretakers in our region during the month of June. We are
seeking locations willing to accept donations as well as volunteers willing to pick up and deliver those
donations to our site on Hartzdale Drive in Camp Hill.
We are looking for Donation Drop-Off Locations at local businesses such as salons, vet offices, shops and feed
stores. The foundation will provide flyers and other information and we'll handle all the promotion via
Facebook, news releases, and the web site.
If you know of a business that might participate, please ask them to be part of this effort to help local
caretakers and cats. We'll be happy to answer any questions. If you've gained support from a business (or if
you own a business and want to help), just forward all the pertinent info: name of contact, name of business,
address of business, phone and email contact info, web site URL if available. We'll take it from there. Send the
info to carnold@nobodyscats.org.
If you would like to help pick up and deliver donations to our site, let me know via the same email address.
Every week we grow closer to that wonderful day when our clinic will open. We begin the staff hiring process
this month and meanwhile are hoping to hold a few clinics with volunteer and subcontract vets and techs to test
out our processes and systems. Keep posted on Facebook and the web site for more updates.
THANKS to each and every one of you for your ongoing support of the cause.
Everything you do helps us fulfill our mission.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Update on East Prospect helping hands project,
21 cats have been spay/neutered. 5 kittens have all found homes. A huge thank you to all Mini's friends who
have helped her, trapping, driving around, and bottle feeding. Sandy, the woman who owns the farm, is doing
better everyday.
The next step is to get the house handicapped accessible so she can make it home. Work on the house and
barns starts this Sunday the 21st. We need to get her Tack and Seed shop organized, cleaned and running
again. Then our big build weekend is May 4-5. Projects include building a handicapped ramp that needs to be
18 feet long, extending the sidewalk so her wheelchair can fit, clean and bath 22 horses, work on fields, pulling
weeds, painting etc.
Help is mostly needed on Saturday, May 4th. We need people to help build the handicapped ramp and people to
help with the weeds, painting, moving her bedroom furniture downstairs, planting flowers. We also need
donations in the form of flowers/plants, flower pots, and Cat Food (any kind). There are 24 cats at last count
that are feral and hungry.
If anyone is interested in helping or donating they can contact mini.truett@comcast.net
It is amazing to see people come together to help this woman.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lynn Stitt has resigned from the board of The Nobody’s Cats Foundation. In addition to serving as the primary caretaker for The
Best Little Cathouse in Pennsylvania, Lynn serves as a wildlife rehabilitator for orphaned and injured wild rabbits and squirrels.
The numbers of rehabilitators in our region has decreased to the point that Lynn now is responsible for serving a broader
geographic area than in the past. This will dramatically increase the amount of time and effort Lynn must invest in her rehab role.
Lynn’s primary commitment has always been to the wellbeing of the animals in her care and, although we are sad to lose her, we
understand and respect her decision to place them in the forefront.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Two free TNR Basics Seminars will be held in Fairview Township in June. Sponsored by the township, the seminars will be held on
Thursday, June 6 and Tuesday, June 25, from 7-9 pm at the township fire company social hall at 340 Lewisberry Road, New
Cumberland. The social hall is just off of Interstate 83 and around the corner from the Harrisburg West Exit of the Pa Turnpike so
this is a great opportunity for you to learn more about how to implement this effective and humane tool for managing colonies of
free-roaming cats. It's practical, hands on training that includes demonstrations of humane box and drop traps. Every attendee
receives a TNR Toolbox binder full of great information and tools.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The York SPCA's Humane Alliance model clinic is moving forward after ground-breaking in March. Executive Director Melissa
Smith reports that the plan is for a soft opening in the beginning of July and a Grand Opening set for Saturday, August 3. Melissa
also reports that the shelter hopes to start a fund to cover the costs of surgeries for feral cats, so they can be altered for free!
Keep posted for more information about how you can support the fund.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Humane traps -- including five drop traps and 150 box traps -- are now at our site and we're just a few weeks from being able to
get them out into the community to help TNRers do their thing. THANKS to Barry and Carla Haynes of the Animal Rescue Food
Bank for picking up the box traps in New Holland and delivering them to our back door -- saving hundreds of dollars in shipping
costs! ARF needs a new box truck; the truck pictured here is getting tired from all its hard work transporting pallets of cat and
dog food for redistribution to needy rescues, shelters, and colony caretakers in Pa. and surrounding states. We hope you will let
ARF know how much you appreciate the work they do for everyone by making a donation to help offset a truck purchase. Send
your donations to ARF, c/o Barry and Carla Haynes, 1240 Alpine Road, Wellsville, PA 17365.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
New Cumberland residents! A community group focused on implementing TNR in the borough is forming! Here's your chance to
contribute in your neighborhood by lending a hand in any of the many possible ways you can. Want to learn more? Contact
founder Sandi Kraybill at newcumberlandtnrprogram@gmail.com.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Congratulations to everyone at PAWS for great strides integrating its TNR and Adoption programs in 2012. Of the 420 cats that
entered the group's adoption program in 2012, more than half came from qualified TNR projects! By focusing on targeted projects
in a comprehensive way, PAWS makes it possible for those projects to accelerate reductions in colony size -- as well as rewards
caretakers who are properly implementing the strategy by helping them find indoor homes for friendly adults and kittens. The
targeted projects included those managed by PAWS volunteers and by community-based TNR programs all around the area.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Check out the link at the Carlisle Sentinel talking about our weekend construction workshop for shelters and feeding stations!
http://cumberlink.com/news/local/volunteers-build-shelters-feeding-stations-for-feral-cats-in-carlisle/article_512e86ba-629e-
11e2-b470-001a4bcf887a.htm
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Two foundation board members were featured in articles in the Patriot-News in December. Lynn Stitt, founder of The Best Little
Cathouse in Pennsylvania, was featured in an article on December 9. Click here to read the feature: http://www.pennlive.
com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/12/the_best_little_cat_house_in_d.html
Christine Arnold, foundation president, provided input to Karen Steinrock for her Pet Forum column on December 23 about
helping "faux ferals" relax.
Here's the link to Karen's column: http://www.pennlive.com/pets/index.ssf/2012/12/its_never_too_late_to_get_scar.html
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Quickly following up on its first successful venture in early December, the Derry Township community cats group will hold another
Trap Neuter Return project in early January 2013, with surgeries scheduled for January 17 and 18. The group continues to seek
volunteers to help with all aspects of the program, donations of cleaning and other supplies, tips from township residents on the
presence of free-roaming cat colonies in the township needing Trap Neuter Return, and monetary donations in any amount to help
defray costs. Call Tammy McElfresh at 805-2544 or e-mail tmcelfresh@comcast.net by December 28, 2012 to participate in or
support the next project. Kudos to the township group for initiating its program at the perfect time -- preventing hundreds of
kittens from being born within the next few months! Its efforts mean very quick results by preventing many spring litters.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hurricane Sandy Feral Relief Fund
Help bring emergency aid to cats across NYC
November 1, 2012
Feral cats are especially vulnerable to natural disasters. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, one of the worst storms to ever strike
New York City, thousands of ferals have been left hungry, frightened and without winter shelter. In many cases their caretakers
have also suffered devastating loss of homes and property and are struggling to provide for the cats who depend on them.
To reach out to caretakers in need, rebuild colonies and save cats harmed by the hurricane, Neighborhood Cats is launching the
Hurricane Sandy Feral Cat Relief Fund. NYC caretakers will be able to receive financial assistance for:
Food for colonies
Winter shelters to replace those lost in the storm
New feeding stations, feeders and other equipment
Veterinary care to treat injury or illness resulting from the hurricane
Please help us save the lives of Hurricane Sandy's smallest victims.
Donations may be made online at http://www.neighborhoodcats.org/DONATE
or mail contributions payable to Neighborhood Cats at:
Neighborhood Cats
Hurricane Sandy Feral Cat Relief Fund
2576 Broadway #555, New York, NY 10025
or by phone via a credit card donation please call (212) 662-5761
100% of monies donated to the Fund will be directed to disaster relief.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Carlisle Borough Residents! FREE spay/neuter surgeries are available for free-roaming cats in the borough through The Furry
Friends Network and its Fixin' to Save Lives surgery program. You trap and transport -- FFN will spay / neuter cats, and even has
tons of humane traps to loan for the program. Registration is easy -- just go on line to www.firstgiving.com/FFN/fixin-to-save-
lives to get the process started. If you would like to create a neighborhood group to share the responsibilities or belong to a
neighborhood association that would like to learn more about this program and TNR, send an email to contact@nobodyscats.org
We will arrange to provide hands-on training sessions and mentoring to help you get started. Now is the time to spay / neuter all
those free-roaming cats in the neighborhood before they start making more kittens for spring 2013.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PAWS, a long-time champion of Trap Neuter Return, now offers FREE TNR spay/neuter surgeries for free-roaming cats in areas of
the Middletown Borough, Dauphin County. If you know of anyone feeding free-roaming cats in Middletown, please have them email
clinic@pawsofpa.org or call 957-8122 to schedule an appointment. This is a great opportunity for borough residents to reduce its
free-roaming cat populations. This will allow the borough to redirect public resources used for animal-control, codes-enforcement,
and policing -- and prevents untold suffering among cats and kittens by preventing them from being born to suffer and die. THANKS
to PAWS for making these surgeries possible.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Internal Revenue Service has determined that The Nobody's Cats Foundation is exempt from Federal income tax under section
501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code, with our tax-exempt status effective January 26, 2012. The IRS has determined that we are
a public charity. We now also are qualified to receive tax-deductible bequests, devises, transfers and gifts under sections 2055,
2106 or 2522 of the Code. We received our notification very quickly, in about 60 days from the submission of our application -- and
owe our thanks to Vicky Trimmer, Esquire of the Persun & Heim PC law firm for her valuable assistance in preparing and
submitting the materials.
Thanks to all our supporters for your belief in our cause -- now we can really begin our work!
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TNR Support Available for Residents of Swatara Township Wards in the 17113 ZIP Code...
TNR colony caretakers in Swatara Township wards covered by the 17113 ZIP can receive comprehensive support from Steelton
Borough Community Cats (SBCC). This includes trapping, transporting, surgery and other services, and post-operative care
following TNR clinics held at the SBCC facility in Steelton. If you live in these wards, please take advantage of this opportunity to
humanely manage free-roaming cats in your neighborhood. Call 717-877-4146 or email SteeltonCats@gmail.com and check out the
details at http://www.steeltoncats.org/services.html!
SBCC is also providing TNR support to elderly and disabled resident of other Swatara Township wards who cannot trap, transport or
provide after-care to their neighborhood cats. If you know of a colony with an infirm caregiver, contact the folks at SBCC so they
can help these people and their colonies too! And of course, as a resident of the township benefiting from this FREE service, please
offer your help to SBCC by volunteering to help with trapping and transporting for these colonies.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wonderful news for the cats of York County. York County Commissioners approved an high-volume spay/neuter clinic in partnership
with the Humane Alliance! Read more about it...
http://www.ydr.com/local/ci_21102165/commissioners-approve-support-york-county-spcas-planned-spay
Congratulations to the SPCA for this achievement! This clinic, scheduled to open early in 2013, will dramatically increase the
number of cats who can be spayed or neutered in the county in the coming years and help drive momentum toward significant
reductions in domestic feline overpopulation.
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