Monday, April 11, 2011

Working Together to Make a Difference!

Animal Welfare agents work together on a 
Special Case to spay 5 Cats
C. Gable lives in a rural area and had friendly cats living outside his barn.  He is a cat lover but kept having new kittens added to his colony. Gable saw FYM's (Fix Your Mama) announcement in The Blount Countian, "Fix Your Mama-- before She's a Mama!" and wanted 5 female cats fixed.  He said he'd trapped them after reading about FYM. The chances of him letting them go and then successfully trapping them again was low. Calvin put all the cats in a wire crate together. The Rescue Riders picked them up as a favor and brought them directly to Alabama Spay/Neuter.
Rescue Riders Transport from NH (transports animals from Alabama and other Southern states to homes waiting for them in the Northeast) was on I-59 headed to Birmingham and offered to stop and pick up the cats that day.
Bo (with Rescue Riders) calls in a panic that one is giving birth but they're afraid to open the crate since Calvin has said some of them are feral. They came directly to the clinic with all the cats and at least one newborn kitten where the crew of Alabama Spay/Neuter took over from there.
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The four cats were all spayed and the momma ended up giving birth to four kittens.
The kittens will be fixed when they are of age.
Anyone may bring in feral cats without making an appointment. They will receive a capstar, sterilization, and rabies shot for a discounted rate. We have a TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return) program which you make an appointment to learn every thing about how to Trap feral cats, bring them in to get fixed, and release them back in to their territory. It’s Free!
It’s not enough to just have house cats sterilized. The feral and free roaming cats are the souls running at large with out anyone caring for them or having them fixed. If there is nothing done about the ferals and their kittens, they will end up in shelters where they will be euthanized due to over population. 
The key to preventing overpopulation and euthanasia 
in animal shelters is spay/neuter.

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