What we do. What you can do (Volunteer.)

June 29, 2009

Our friend Cindy from Charles River Alleycats took the photo of the cat in the banner. It is one of several feral cats she was feeding in Charlestown. After she trapped and spayed them all, one of the cats ended up in our barn program. That was several months ago. Since then, we have gotten quite a few queries about openings in our barn program, but we have no barns available.

If you have a barn and need a barn cat, you can contact us through this web page. We would sure love to hear from you. Cindy was just telling me this evening about the large numbers of kittens - 12 weeks old and older - that members of her group have been capturing and spaying and being forced to return to city neighborhoods. They are not likely to be tameable at four months of age, so they cannot be adopted out as house cats. But if we had more barns, these youngsters would be great candidates.

Check out any of the barn cat videos referenced in the sidebar at left to learn more.  And if you feel a touch of sadness about this dreadful kitten season and would like to make a contribution of any size to support our efforts, we would be very grateful.  Donations may be made through our secure paypal site.

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If you want to learn about feral cats, go to the Forum, and take a look at a section our friend Cindy (from Charles River Alley Cats) created. It offers a great deal of useful and interesting information about feral cats.

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The president of our group, Sara Carlisle, has also posted a series of videos about her experiences rescuing feral cats in Blogtails.

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Check out the Cat Rescue and Dog Rescue sections in Video Features for first-hand information about shelters and other rescue organizations in Massachusetts.  

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Questions? Send an email to sandy@sheltermeinc.org.

p.s. Captions will appear if you run your cursor over any of the photographs in the banners. Please look around.

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