Caretaker Training Workshops (New York City)
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Caretaker Training Workshops (New York City)

Trap-Neuter-Return:
How to Manage a Feral
Cat Colony

Monday, May 12, 6 to 9 pm
Saturday, June 7, 1 to 4 pm
Saturday, July 12, 1 to 4 pm


  ASPCA
  424 E. 92nd Street, 5th Floor
  New York, NY
  (To register, see instructions below)

Thursday, June 19, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
(instructed by SaveKitty Foundation)
Thursday, July 17, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
(instructed by SaveKitty Foundation)

  32-42 91st St., Apt 304 (bell #21)
  East Elmhurst, NY 11369
  RSVP to 718-507-6843 or rosaryzap@aol.com
  NOTE: There is no fee to attend a Thursday evening class

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

"Trap-Neuter-Return, Feral Cats & Wildlife"
Alabama Animal Control Association/Alabama Humane
Federation 2008 Annual Conference
Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 9 am to 4 pm
Hoover Public Safety Center Hoover, AL
To register: http://aacacares.net/events/index-events.htm

In partnership with Humane Society University, a program of The Humane Society of the United States, a daylong workshop on Trap-Neuter-Return will be taught by Bryan Kortis, Executive Director, Neighborhood Cats. The morning session will focus on TNR from a policy perspective, while the afternoon will emphasize wildlife issues involved with the management of feral cats. For a detailed description of the workshop: click here

 

How TNR Can Help Your Shelter
Animal Care Expo
May 16, 2008, 8:30 am - 10 am
Orlando, FL
To register for Animal Care Expo 2008,
click here

An estimated 80% of kittens are born to feral and stray cats! Often these kittens and many feral adults wind up in shelters, causing intake rates, euthanasia rates and shelter costs to rise. For shelters with animal control responsibilities, feral cats can also be a large source of complaint calls, further draining man-hours and resources. In this workshop taught by Bryan Kortis, Executive Director of Neighborhood Cats, you'll explore how a communitywide Trap-Neuter-Return program can help resolve these issues by reducing and managing the feral cat population in your area.

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