Unfixed cats can produce three litters a year resulting in as many as 200 kittens; within three years those cats can produce more than 2,000 kittens! In several rural North Carolina counties stray and feral cat colonies experience great suffering and many die from the elements, human cruelty or being euthanized in animal shelters. Our spay/neuter program works with TNR groups to lower this number and reduce suffering. Our 2023 goal is 2,700 procedures. Please help those who have no voice.
North Carolina ranks a dismal third nationally in shelter-animal euthanasia. Part of the reason is the large number of kittens born every year to unaltered, outdoor unowned cats, many living in feral colonies, who end up unwanted in shelters. One of proven best ways to address this problem is spaying and neutering feral cats.
Since 2014 our program has provided procedures and medical care for more than 8,000 colony cats reducing the colony population. Working with local trap-neuter-release groups and colony managers in rural central North Carolina, we work in counties that have no other spay/neuter programs. Targeting one entire colony at a time, each cat receives a procedure, appropriate pain medication, vaccines and treatment for any medical needs they arrive with, from broken limbs to ear mites, before release.
We know this program is making a real difference because, during subsequent visits to each colony a year or so after treating the cats, we find the colony has not grown and the present animals are healthy. Colony by colony we're reducing the number of kittens born, lowering the overall number of cats who end up euthanized in shelters. We're also helping the adult cats stay healthy: the females don't have multiple litters and the male cats are less prone to contracting fight-borne diseases.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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