Community Cats
Our Community Cat Program aims to improve the lives of community cats in our region by reducing shelter deaths, improving health and reducing overpopulation.
We do this by offering low-cost spay/neuter of community cats to the public, engaging in targeted TNR projects throughout our community and providing education and outreach to increase awareness of community cats, how best to care for them, and the services that are available to help them.
What are Community Cats?
- Community cats are free-roaming cats with no identifiable owner. They are typically not adoptable.
- Community cats have a home: they live outdoors, thriving in every landscape, from the inner city to rural farmland.
- An estimated 80,000 free-roaming felines live in our region and have to fend for themselves.
- Unaltered community cats reproduce at an alarming rate, driving up overpopulation and shelter intakes.
- Community cats entering shelters drain already limited resources and take up space.
- Targeted trapping, spay/neuter, and release (“TNR”) of free-roaming cats is the only effective humane method to address these concerns.
Community Cat Package
We offer a $45 Community Cat Package which includes a spay/neuter surgery, Rabies vaccine, microchip, pain medication, and mandatory ear tip. This package is intended for free-roaming, unowned cats only.
Request a Community Cat Appointment
- Please request a community cat appointment by filling out the form below. This does not guarantee your appointment will be approved.
- Requests are processed in the order received.
- Due to space/availability, we may not be able to approve every request.
- Drop off at 7:30 a.m.
- Pick up same day at 3:45 p.m.
- Each client may bring up to two (2) cats. A $20 deposit is required for 3 or more cats.
- It is MANDATORY for each cat to be in its own humane live trap. *Community cats that are not in a trap will be charged an additional $10 transfer fee/equipment fee. We offer FREE trap rentals at our clinic on a limited basis for pending appointments with a signed rental agreement.
- No food past midnight the night before (keep indoors the night before if possible).
- Holidays and inclement weather may affect our schedule.
- This package is intended for free-roaming, unowned cats only. To spay/neuter a pet cat, please schedule an appointment.
What is Ear-tipping?
Ear-tipping is a nationally recognized way to identify sterilized and vaccinated cats. It is difficult to get close to some community cats; so the identification must be visible from a distance. Immediate visual identification is necessary to prevent an unnecessary second trapping and surgery. This is done while the cat is under anesthesia. Ear-tipping removes the top 1/3 of the left ear.
