HEART OF TEXAS
FERAL FRIENDS
CAREGIVERS: Special Hot Weather Alert - SCROLL DOWN FOR INFO! The Animal Birth Control Clinic in Waco launched its "TNR Campaign" in March 2007. For more than two years, we have helped local residents, including caregivers and business owners, in Waco and surrounding cities with TNR.
Special Seminar: Local Rabies Control Authority Seminar - Details below.
HEART OF TEXAS FERAL FRIENDS
TNR stands for "Trap-Neuter-Return." TNR humanely stops the breeding of feral cats and makes the community a better place for us all.
The Animal Birth Control Clinic's TNR program has a group of volunteers called the HEART OF TEXAS FERAL FRIENDS!
Our goals are to:
- Provide our community with a humane alternative through Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR);
- Train Caregivers how to TNR and manage their colonies;
- Educate the community about the benefits of TNR; and,
- Unify those who want to help feral cats.
WE HELP YOU HELP YOUR COLONY!
Our resources and volunteers are limited, but we will help you as much as we are able!
************* HEART OF TEXAS FERAL FRIENDS works to ensure that healthy feral cats can peacefully co-exist in a safe environment within our community.
TNR WORKS IN OUR COMMUNITY!
Testimonies coming soon!
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Benefits of TNR include healthier feral cats, less cat fights and spraying, designated feeding stations kept clean by dedicated carefeeders, no unwanted litters of kittens, less tax dollars spent by the city to destroy feral cats at the shelter, and it makes our entire community a great place to live!
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Would you like to help the TNR program with a donation?
Drop off or mail your tax-deductible check to the ABC Clinic at 1531 Wooded Acres, Waco, TX 76710. Please make your donation to "ABC Clinic TNR Program"!
We appreciate your support!
If you or anyone you know is feeding a feral cat colony, tell them about us!
For more information about feral cats and the local TNR program, contact us today. **************************
Resources:
Alley Cat Allies,
Best Friends Animal Sanctuary,
Neighborhood Cats,
Indy Cats,
and the Humane Society of the United States Feral Cat Program.
Thank you!
All photos courtesy of Heart Of Texas Feral Friends
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SPECIAL HOT WEATHER ALERTS:
With temperatures topping 100 degrees for several days in a row,
and NO rain in the forecast,
Heart of Texas Feral Friends would like to
remind Caregivers to please set out
extra water for your cat colonies.
Still need to TNR this summer???
As a reminder, please take care when doing TNR this summer:
Do you have an idea for keeping
feral cats COOL this summer?
Please share your tips and ideas with us!
Here is a tip from Caroline in Waco:
Freeze milk jugs of water, put around the feeding stations
or under bushes where they lay.
Rotate them daily.
Also just pouring water in the same areas
will wet the ground and give them some relief.
Also, be sure to sprinkle flea powder around your colony "hang outs" to help combat pesky fleas.
For more tips, go to our CAREGIVER'S CORNER link above.
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Local Rabies Control
Authority Seminar
Thursday, July 31, 2009
Blinn College Student Center Conference Auditorium
Brenham, TX
8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Presented by Health Services Region 7 Zoonosis Control
Texas Department of State Health Services
To register for this seminar,
call Melissa Maass (RVT) at 254-778-6744, x2452
CE Credit Available - call for details.
Heart of Texas Feral Friends volunteers are encouraged to attend!
We will keep you posted of future rabies control seminars
that may be closer to the Waco area.
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Our Bow-Wow-Meow River Run was a HUGE success!
Check out our video clip! Click here!
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