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National Feral Cat Day Event - Oct 16th
We’re having an Open House for National Feral Cat Day! On Sunday, October 16th from 12 to 3pm, 330 Eisenhower Ln N, Lombard, join us for a bake sale, gourd sale, door prizes and our Boutique sale (t-shirts+). Donations from our Wish List will be gratefully accepted! Socialize with other cat people! Hope to see you there! If you would like to contribute to our Bake Sale, please contact Sue Zorn at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 630-661-8509.
September Numbers
We sent 27 cats for surgery, plus one for rabies only and one for Convenia only, to DCAS on September 29th. 5 friendlies, 22 ferals, 15 males and 12 females. The cat needing rabies vaccination had been too young on a previous trip and Wolcott had terrible URI, not a candidate for surgery then – but has decided to be friendly!
On 9/30 we sent 13 cats to ADOPT, 5 friendlies, 8 ferals, 9 males and 4 females.
Our totals to date: 107 for September, 555 for the year, 13,769 since 2007.
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| Feral cats pee out the end of the trap! = newspaper on the floor to blot up quickly. Cats for 9/29, on hand already for 9/30, etc. |
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| This is 9/30 AM - cats that went in yesterday, new ones going in, constant movement. |
Last Feral Trip for the Year
Reminder - Our last feral trip will be October 13th.
We are ending our feral trapping early this year. Many reasons:
- S/n slots will be sharply curtailed after 13th due to vet availability
- Volunteer EXHAUSTION (two trips a week, almost every week, even if they are back-to-back)
- Fewer volunteers than ever = we are all doing double-duty+
- Trapping = kittens coming in and not enough fosters to support more
- Year-end tasks = fundraisers and more!
We hope you understand and know we will continue to help in all the other things we do in addition to trapping, but we want to continue doing TNR in the future and we have to have a break of some sort. We will still be posting about surgeries – we have kittens on hand to neuter yet and a small number of other incidental cats will occur. But all out trapping has to cease until next Spring – when overnight temperatures are above freezing consistently. It can be much easier to say “yes” and suffer the consequences but now we have to say “no” for a while. I’ve been told repeatedly to slow down, “There will always be cats, but there is only ONE of you.”
Adoption Event Saturday October 8th
Come to our building (330 Eisenhower Lane North in Lombard) and visit our adoptable cats/kittens on Saturday from 11 to 3! Fill out an Adoption form in advance – it will speed up the process a lot! We will have almost 20 cats/kittens on hand and information about the other 80 adoptables we have in foster. We have gotten a reputation for being the most knowledgeable about the felines in our care, resulting in so many happy adoptions! We also have dozens more awaiting fostering families, please consider! To learn more about fostering, click here. Hope to see you there!
“As If They Were Our Own” Results
Thank you to everyone who donated to “As If They Were Our Own!” We received $ 12,874 in total donations, $4,774 donated to match and $8,100 was donated to be matched – still donated despite not being matched. This is tremendous, considering the state the world is in. Thank you all for caring about the cats, we will do our best to do our part!
Thank you for your donations!
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| These two were initially bottle babies. Mom was trapped two days later and we were able to reunite them - mom is always best! Took many people working together to make this happen! | ||