Atlanta Community Cats - Cats@Midtown - In Honor of & Memorials - ART Cats

Every Kitty, Every City Program is coming to Atlanta soon

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Through the Every Kitty – Every City program, we raise awareness and educate the community in targeted cities about outdoor cats, feral cat colony care, Trap-Neuter-Return, and the importance of accessible, affordable neuter services through workshops, outreach, and organizing.

The Every Kitty – Every City program provides individuals, groups, and veterinary professionals in the community with the tools and basic knowledge needed to serve as a community resource. As part of the program, Alley Cat Allies rallies and assists community volunteers, local groups, and private shelters to enhance their already existing Trap-Neuter-Return programs or to seamlessly launch new ones.

Alley Cat Allies sponsors workshops, open to the public, for advice and instruction on the best practices of Trap-Neuter-Return and colony care. We also recruit and help train local veterinary professionals on high-volume, low-cost techniques that will increase the availability of affordable neuter services—including early-age spay/neuter—and vaccination protocol.

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RESOURCES & LINKS 

The Feral Cat Organizations mentioned below have all been helping feral cats and their caretakers for decades  click photo or logo for link to very informative websites.

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FERAL CAT CARETAKER

Colony care-taking is a little different from simply feeding feral/stray cats. Colony caretakers provide food, water and shelter for colony DAILY, or share the responsibilities with other caretakers in the group in order to monitor  the colonies to assure all cats are spayed or neutered and make arrangements for trapping at colony as need arises, also monitor colony individuals for health and/or injuries, maintain records on colony members, and advocate for the colony as necessary. Primary colony caretakers 

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Trapping skills and knowledge of feral cat behavior helpful, but we can train. Although we sometimes receive contributions of food, the caretaker must commit to providing food for the colony members on a daily basis. This usually means you have to buy food for your colony yourself.

The cats have to be fed daily, so be prepared to go out regardless of the weather. Since feral cats are not always welcome members of a community, it is generally best to feed and monitor at times when you are not obvious to the public and in a location that is not easily seen. This often means going out very early or under the cover of darkness to somewhat secluded areas. This is not a job for the timid or fearful as sometimes you will be spotted and confronted by people who do not understand what you are doing. At these times you will need to be prepared to discuss TNR in a calm, informative manner.

It is helpful if you have access to a computer in order to update colony information in our online database. A digital camera is also helpful for taking photos of colony members for our records.

 Atlanta Community Cats - Cats@Midtown - In Honor of & Memorials - ART Cats

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• Feral Cats and “TNR”
  Lesson 1 
• Community Relations – The First Step in Implementing TNR
  Lesson 2 
• Food and Shelter
  Lesson 3 
• Preparations for Trapping
  Lesson 4 
• Trapping
  Lesson 5 
• Caring for Trapped Cats
  Lesson 6 
• Spay/Neuter Date and the Release
  Lesson 7 
• Feral Cat Issues
  Lesson 8 
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• Print Document: Trap-Neuter-Return
  81-page pdf