HOW TO HELP feral and stray cats -- care of cat colonies, how to TNR (trap-neuter-return), taming.

List touchable cats as FOUND! at official animal control! Assume that cats are LOST, not dumped (and if dumped, they often have been dumped by someone who does not own them)

Here we can help each other -- first-timers to rescue goddesses.

Read our LINKS and FILES for HOW TO info; also search the message archives below.

TNR -- www.neighborhoodcats.org/

TNR -- www.alleycat.org

TNR -- www.americancat.net/

Taming -- www.icraeastbay.org/ICRAKittenSocializing.pdf

Neonatal kitten care -- www.kittenrescue.org/pages.php?pageid=15

To find lost shy cats -- www.catsinthebag.org/

To read PDF files, free software www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

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About Crossposts and Forwards

This is not a placement list.

Please do not include this group when crossposting messages like "help", "cat needs home". Please instead refer them to this list for firsthand advice.

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In emergency, please use your local resources, and contact your local police department if needed.

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All List Moderators: Gesine, Linda, Toni, Katie, Harriet, Susan

Spay neuter your pets!

"When dealing with ferals you gotta relegate the YOU part of the equation to the back of the bus"-- Kestrel

"I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell." Harry S. Truman