CatVando NFP Corporation: A Hairy Cleanup

Sunday, February 15, 2009

A Hairy Cleanup

OK, so this isn't about TNR or cats per se, but it is about us, including our critters, working together to help save other critters. Our own Stephanie Skrine shared an article from her groomers magazine that affords a great way for us all, including our critters, to help clean up some of the oil spills that are wrecking havoc with marine and fowl life.One square foot of hair mat a half inch thick can collect one quart of oil in one minute!Hair stylist, Phil McCrory has teamed up with Matter of Trust, an ecological public charity, to form the Hair Mats Program. Hair is boxed up and sent to San Francisco.I've gotten hair from a groomer and know how heavy it can be, which would make shipping prohibitive for most groomers. Maybe the owners can pay an extra few bucks to have their critters hair sent to help other critters - I know I gave her a little of the hair I'd saved from my creatures since passed, just to have them be part of helping out. I'm sure the hair I get when I brush Bella would soak up several quarts a year.To learn more about the Hair Mats Program, visit http://wwwMatterOfTrust.org

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Sometimes you see them, sometimes you don’t – but they’re usually there. Street cats. Sometimes feral, which means unsocialized, unaccustomed to human touch. Many ferals are descendants of house cats that have been abandoned, or lost, many times un-spayed or neutered, left to breed uncontrollably. Some street cats are house cats, let out to fend for themselves, or living in and out, again, unsterilized. Many of these cats are lost each year to starvation, inclement weather, or used as fight bait or abused in other ways. Many of these cats live in colonies, hidden during the day, out searching for food in the night. To understand the many myths about street cats see the links provided
TNR, Trap-Neuter-Release, is the most effective means of controlling and reducing today’s street cat population. TNR is a proven procedure in which entire colonies of stray and feral cats are humanely trapped, evaluated, vaccinated and neutered by veterinarians. Kittens reached early enough to socialize are usually adopted into good homes. Adults are released to live in their own territories under the watch of voluntary caregivers.
At CatVando, we do TNR, teach others with cats in their area how to do TNR and colony management. We lend traps and sometimes crates (for kittens) and provide names of resources for new colony managers and concerned citizens. We’re located in Maywood IL and work there and in surrounding suburbs. We also work with people with cats and dogs, connecting them to low cost clinics so that all animals are afforded sterilization so that the tens of thousands of unwanted cats and dogs are not euthanized each day.
We are currently working with our Village to institute a community wide TNR program, to educate current feeders, solicit more feeders, locating cats and colonies to TNR and soon, to work with youth groups, churches and other agencies to build shelters for the street cats to be placed in colony managers yards or, in the event of colonies located at factories or other businesses, on the premises.
If you have cats in your area, or in your home, that are in need of spay or neuter services, please call To 708 829 6013
It is our belief that through working with the animals we can in part, counteract some of the violence of the world and ascribe to Gandhi’s words:
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

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Sunday, February 15, 2009

A Hairy Cleanup

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