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 Caretaker
Training Workshops (New York City)
Trap-Neuter-Return:
How to Manage a Feral
Cat Colony
Sunday, August 24, 1 to 4
pm
Bronx Library Center
310 East Kingsbridge Road
Bronx, NY
To register: email name and phone number to
headcat@neighborhoodcats.org or call 212-662-5761.
There is no fee for the Aug. 24 workshop.
Please note: Use of library space by Neighborhood Cats for this program
does not indicate endorsement by The New York Public Library.
Saturday, September 6, 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
Park Slope Food Co-op (for directions,
click here)
782 Union Street (Union & 4th Ave.)
Brooklyn, NY
(To register: send your name and phone number to
headcat@neighborhoodcats.org or call
212-662-5761.
There is no fee for the Sept. 6 class )
Saturday, September
27, noon to 3 pm (hosted by PLUTO Rescue)
Blue Heron Nature Center (for directions,
click here)
267 Poillon Ave.
Staten Island, NY
(To register: call PLUTO Rescue at 718-227-0553.
There is a $15 fee, payable at the door).
Sat,
October 4, 1 to 4 pm
Sat, November 1, 1 to 4 pm
Sun, November 16, 1 to 4 pm
ASPCA
424 E. 92nd Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY
(To register, see instructions below)
Come learn how to care for
the feral and stray cats in your community and make use of the many
resources now available to assist you. All steps in setting up a managed
colony will be covered, including establishing good community relations,
feeding, building and placing shelters, arranging vet care, finding
recovery space, safely handling feral cats, and trapping (with an
emphasis on conducting a mass trapping of an entire feral colony at
once).
All workshop attendees will become TNR certified and NYC residents will
gain access to no-cost spay/neuter and trap rental. Join the over 1500
caretakers trained to date!
To register for one of
the ASPCA workshops:
You will need to send us the following:
*Name
*Address
*Phone number
*A course fee of $15 per attendee.
Note: course fees are NOT
refundable.
*The date of the workshop you wish to attend.
Registration can take place by mail or online. By mail, please send the
above information and your course fee (with check or money order payable to
"Neighborhood Cats") to:
Neighborhood Cats
2576 Broadway, No. 555
NY, NY 10025
Online, please email your information to:
headcat@neighborhoodcats.org
and make a $15 donation per attendee on the Donate
page of this website.
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Online Course - Caretaker
Training
Online Course for Feral Cat
Caretakers
"Trap-Neuter-Return: How to Manage a Feral Cat Colony"
Humane Society University (a program of The Humane Society of the US)
To enroll and learn more,
click here
Authored by Bryan Kortis, Neighborhood Cats'
Executive Director, this eight lesson, 12 to 16 hour course covers all
aspects of feral cat colony management in detail. Learn how to win your
community over to TNR, provide good nutrition and adequate winter shelter,
trap entire colonies at once, get those "hard-to-catch" cats, safely care
for ferals confined in traps, prepare for spay/neuter surgery, and much
more, including why TNR works where other methods fail. By course's end,
you'll be fully prepared to fix and care for your neighborhood cats!
Course fee: $50.
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Other Events
Communities and
Colonies: Implementing a Trap-Neuter-Return program for feral cats in
your community
October 16, 2008, 9 am to 3:30 pm
Wisconsin Federated Humane Societies Fall Conference 2008
Appleton, WI
For registration info:
http://www.wifedhs.org
Neighborhood Cats executive director Bryan
Kortis will be presenting on different aspects of setting up and running
a community-wide TNR program, including an examination of policy issues
surrounding TNR, strategies for persuading municipal officials to offer
their support, organizing a grassroots TNR movement, and administering a
large scale TNR program.
Third National Spay/Neuter Conference
(presented by SPAY USA)
October 16-19, 2008
Chicago, IL
For registration info:
http://spayneuterconference.org
The following will be
presented by Bryan Kortis, Neighborhood Cats:
TNR Policy and Programs
October 17, 2008, 1:30 to 2:15 pm
Learn how to address animal control, public health and
wildlife concerns on acommunity level, and make presentations to
boards and committees. Real life program case studies will be
discussed such as the New Jersey Feral Cat and Wildlife Coalition.
Hands-on (er...off) Feral Cats
October 17, 2008, 4:15 to 5 pm
Learn the basics of starting a successful TNR "Coach Program"
for feral cats. Our speaker has set up a comprehensive program which
recruits expert volunteers as TNR coaches, sets up trap banks and
arranges for affordable s/n services, creating networks for
caretakers throughout the community.
We cannot forget the ultimate underdogs: the feral cats
October 18, 2008, 10:15 to 10:45 am
Too often stray, homeless and feral cats do not register on
the radar except to be targets of individual or public eradication
campaigns. While dog euthanasia rates in many parts of the country
have been going down, the percentages of cats who die in shelters or
on the streets remains very high. How do we tackle this difficult
problem?
Effective Community Feral Cat Programs
October 24, 2008
The Michigan Partnership for Animal Welfare (MPAW) Animal Welfare
Conference
Grand Rapids, MI
For more info:
http://www.mpaw.org/events.htm
Bryan Kortis of Neighborhood Cats will present
a half-day workshop on many of the larger issues facing large-scale
Trap-Neuter-Return programs, including basic strategies for spay/neuter
allocation, trapping, collaboration and more, understanding the law and
how it impacts a TNR program, and working with wildlife advocates and
organizations to achieve the mutual goal of reducing the number of feral
cats in the environment.
Feral Cats, Public Health and the Environment:
a dialogue
October 29, 2008, 8:30 to 10 am
American Public Health Association 136th Annual Meeting and Expo
San Diego, CA
For more info:
http://apha.confex.com/apha/136am/webprogram/Session24239.html
For the first time at a national public health
conference, the issue of feral cats and Trap-Neuter-Return will be
presented in detail. The panel will include, among others, Bryan Kortis
of Neighborhood Cats, Dr. Gordon Stull, DVM, of Neighborhood Cats and
the Burlington County Feral Cat Initiative, Dr. Julie Levy, DVM, PhD,
University of Florida, and Eric Stiles, Vice President of Conservation,
New Jersey Audubon Society.
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