Cats On Campus
Promoting Responsible Pet Ownership and Population Health
The Cats on Campus Goal
Cats on Campus was founded as a sister organization to Campus Cats, a non-profit organization whose goal is to humanely reduce the number of feral cats on the UGA campus through TNR. As a student organization, we seek to expand the capabilities and resources of Campus Cats.
In order to accomplish this goal, we will form a reliable volunteer network that can assist with everything from watching traps to feeding cats to fostering kittens. In addition, we hold fundraisers throughout the year in order to help Campus Cats pay for vet bills, cat food, equipment, and other costs incurred by their work. For more information on how you can help out, click "Join the Club" on the left sidebar or email Christina Parr.
What is TNR?
TNR stands for "Trap, Neuter, Return," but there's more to it than that. When we find an adult feral cat on campus (or you tell us about a feral cat on campus), this is what we'll do with it:
- Using a humane trap, we capture the feral cat.
- A veterinarian examines the cat, treats it if it is sick, and administers the rabies vaccine.
- We take the cat to the Spay and Neuter clinic so he or she can't make feral kittens. The tip of the cat's left ear is then snipped to visibly mark it as having received the Feral Cat Treatment. This ensure that we don't capture the cat twice.
- After the cat has recovered from surgery, we return it to the same place we trapped it. The cat thinks of this location as home, so he'd be kind of disoriented if we took him anywhere else.
- Cats on Campus volunteers feed the cats in a certain area for the remainder of the cats' lifetimes. This also allows us to monitor sites for new arrivals.
Kittens
If we trap a kitten or find a litter of kittens, we'll foster them until they're old enough to be adopted. Feral kittens are much easier to tame than adult cats, and they make great pets! We never put a kitten back where we found it (the whole idea is to reduce the number of cats on campus, after all). If you adopt a kitten from us, we'll pay for its first vaccinations, a combo test, and its spay or neuter.
Kittens will be available for adoption at our Spay/Neuter Awareness Event on April 27, 2009!
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