Feral & Stray Cats
National Feral Cat Day
Alley Cat Allies launched National Feral Cat Day on October 16, 2001, to provide caregivers, advocates, and the general public with accurate, comprehensive information about stray and feral cats populations in the United States, and to advocate nonlethal management methods, including Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR), as the only proven, ethical way to improve the lives of outdoor cats.
Thousands of compassionate residents and volunteers across the United States will honor National Feral Cat Day 2007 with local events, workshops, and spay/neuter clinics to educate humane societies and government officials about TNR and the critical need for affordable spay/neuter, and to provide a forum to begin reforming local animal control policies and implementing communitywide TNR.
Tens of thousands of NFCD Advocacy Kits were mailed this summer to advocates across the United States and around the world. NFCD Advocacy Kits contain concise information about why lethal policies toward stray and feral cats must change and how cost-effective, nonlethal management methods, including high-volume, low-cost spay/neuter and Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR), are the only programs proven to succeed.
NFCD Advocacy Kit materials include full-color, bilingual (English/Spanish) posters; samples of bilingual print advertisements and brochures; and links to online resources to help advocates work successfully with local media. Electronic versions of all NFCD materials and a calendar of NFCD events scheduled across the nation are available at www.NationalFeralCatDay.org.