Campaign Details
According to The Humane Society of the United States, cats are divided into three distinct populations: The first two populations are the obvious ones: those owned as pets, and those in shelters and rescues. The third group is the one most people don't think about: community cats, which consists of abandoned, stray, and feral (unsocialized) cats. The community cat population isn't small: there are an estimated 30 to 40 million in the United States.*
The Little Guild has worked throughout 2015 to help community cats living in Northwest Connecticut. We have done this in a variety of ways:
-- Through a Community Pet Pantry for community members to come and take food to feed community cats in their neighborhood
-- Through a Trap Neuter Release (TNR) Program where we partner with local barns and community members to trap feral community cats, get them spayed/neutered and vaccinated and the release them to barn homes where they are provided with daily food, water and consistent monitoring and shelter.
-- Through education - in October 2015 we held a feral cat shelter workshop - more than 75 wonderful community members came together to build 200 cat shelters. These shelters were distributed to community cat colonies throughout the area and have provided much-needed warmth and shelter this winter.
We are now working on the next phase of our community cat program and we need your help! Our goal is to raise $10,000 to fund building a feral cat enclosure at the Guild. This building will be a heated, safe place for feral cats to live in their own colony. It will allow for them to have indoor/outdoor access year-round (they will have a large fenced in area outside of the shed) and will serve as a great educational tool for the Guild as we continue to raise awareness about community cats and TNR.
For more information on community cats and TNR, we suggest the following resources:
40 Million Community Cats Article
Thanks in advance for your support!
Little Guild of St.Francis
About the Organization
285 Sharon Goshen Tpke.
West Cornwall, Connecticut 06796
UNITED STATES