CatVando NFP Corporation: March 2009

Monday, March 23, 2009

Green Your House for your Pet's Sake!

Last year, the ASPCA received more than 3,200 calls related to household cleaners.
Companion cats and dogs are polluted with even higher levels of many of the same synthetic indisutrial chemicals that researchers have recently found in people, including newborns.
Health problems in pets span high rates of cancer in dogs and skyrocketing incidence of hyperthyroidism in cats

Learn what you can do to help protect your critters (and yourself!)

Sunday, March 29

2:00pm

Animal Care League

1013 Garfield - Oak Park

Monday, March 9, 2009

CatVando at ACL's 2nd Chance Shop

Ellen Miles will be at Animal Care League's 2nd Chance Shop, 159 S. Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park on Saturday, March 21, noon to 4pm to give overview and answer questions about street cats. What's a feral? What to do if you have street cats? What to do if you're feeding an outside cat. The importance and benefits of TNR (Trap Neuter Return) and street cat care.

TNR

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."

CatVando NFP Corporation

Monday, March 23, 2009

Green Your House for your Pet's Sake!

Monday, March 9, 2009

CatVando at ACL's 2nd Chance Shop

TNR

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