New York City Feral Cat Initiatiave

NYCFeralCat.org

How the New York City Feral Cat Initiative of the Mayor’s Alliance is helping NYC’s community cats The NYCFCI’s mission is to raise awareness about the

NYCFeralCat.org

NYCFeralCat.org

How you can help Community Cats in your neighborhood

thousands of community cats living outdoors throughout NYC’s

Attend one of the TNR training/certification workshops

to call a block meeting to discuss ways

five boroughs and provide services to assist proactive New

taught twice monthly. These workshops are offered at no charge

neighbors can work together to TNR the

Yorkers to undertake a TNR project to humanely reduce the

in rotating locations in all five NYC boroughs. As a certified

cats on the block. All of the NYCFCI TNR

number of community cats and improve the plight of those

caretaker, you’ll have access to all the services offered by the

educational materials are available in

cats currently living outdoors. Where TNR has been completed,

NYCFCI, including free or low-cost spay/neuter, transport for

“printer-friendly” versions at

we offer solutions to aid caretakers in the successful, ongoing

cats to spay/neuter appointments, transport and loan of

NYCFeralCat.org/information.htm.

management of existing colonies.

equipment for a mass trapping project, and giveaways of food

In addition to the workshops and many services provided by the NYCFCI and outlined in this brochure, NYCFCI provides advice to the public and TNR caretakers by phone and email and we make available our educational information via our website, e-newsletter, blog, and printed materials.

Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals

®

for a TNR project in your neighborhood. A

individuals have taken these workshops. The Humane Society

garage, basement, or other similar space

of the United States (HSUS) offers an online certification course

provides the cats a place to recover from

for a $10 fee. For the workshop calendar and information, visit

their spay/neuter surgery while still in

NYCFeralCat.org/events.htm.

the traps before being returned to their familiar outdoor location.

Foster friendly cats and kittens while they await adoption

that they be used. However, hands-on participation is required to use the NYCFCI TNR program. Only in unique situations can

placement.

NYCFCI help with limited hands-on assistance with the actual

Learn how to tame feral kittens, bottle-feed orphaned kittens,

trapping and recovery care. Local volunteers must provide the

or advanced trapping techniques at one of our specialized

ongoing feeding and care for the cats after a TNR project is

training workshops.

completed. Though not a NYCFCI program, “TNR for hire” is

Advocate for community cats by becoming an outreach/

offered by some “certified” individuals when professional help

tabling volunteer for the NYCFCI.

has been desired with a feral spay/neuter project. The NYCFCI

Donate to the NYCFCI to help

can help you locate a certified individual for hire.

Visit our website at NYCFeralCat.org.

Contact us by calling 212-330-0033.

Or email us at info@nycferalcat.org

The New York City Feral Cat Initiative

Provide holding/recovery space

and straw bedding for winter shelters. To date, more than 4,200

NYCFCI enthusiastically offers these services and encourages

Learn more about the NYCFCI and how you can join the ranks of New Yorkers who are working to improve the lives of our city’s community cats.

NYCFeralCat.org

Start the TNR conversation in your neighborhood by requesting NYCFCI educational flyers

pay for veterinary care and other TNR expenses.

and door-hangers for your neighbors. These tools are a

Sponsor one of the registered

great way to convince both cat lovers and cat haters on the

feral cat colonies in your borough

block that TNR is the only effective solution. Also post the

with a monthly donation to

information where you see people feeding unneutered cats in

defray the cost of the daily food,

your neighborhood and encourage them to attend the next TNR

or volunteer one day a week to

training workshop with you. We offer a door-hanger invitation

feed a feral colony near you.

Working to Improve the Lives of NYC’s Feral and Stray Community Cats

NYCFeralCat.org

How the New York City Feral Cat Initiative of the Mayor’s Alliance is helping NYC’s community cats The NYCFCI’s mission is to raise awareness about the

NYCFeralCat.org

NYCFeralCat.org

How you can help Community Cats in your neighborhood

thousands of community cats living outdoors throughout NYC’s

Attend one of the TNR training/certification workshops

to call a block meeting to discuss ways

five boroughs and provide services to assist proactive New

taught twice monthly. These workshops are offered at no charge

neighbors can work together to TNR the

Yorkers to undertake a TNR project to humanely reduce the

in rotating locations in all five NYC boroughs. As a certified

cats on the block. All of the NYCFCI TNR

number of community cats and improve the plight of those

caretaker, you’ll have access to all the services offered by the

educational materials are available in

cats currently living outdoors. Where TNR has been completed,

NYCFCI, including free or low-cost spay/neuter, transport for

“printer-friendly” versions at

we offer solutions to aid caretakers in the successful, ongoing

cats to spay/neuter appointments, transport and loan of

NYCFeralCat.org/information.htm.

management of existing colonies.

equipment for a mass trapping project, and giveaways of food

In addition to the workshops and many services provided by the NYCFCI and outlined in this brochure, NYCFCI provides advice to the public and TNR caretakers by phone and email and we make available our educational information via our website, e-newsletter, blog, and printed materials.

Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals

®

for a TNR project in your neighborhood. A

individuals have taken these workshops. The Humane Society

garage, basement, or other similar space

of the United States (HSUS) offers an online certification course

provides the cats a place to recover from

for a $10 fee. For the workshop calendar and information, visit

their spay/neuter surgery while still in

NYCFeralCat.org/events.htm.

the traps before being returned to their familiar outdoor location.

Foster friendly cats and kittens while they await adoption

that they be used. However, hands-on participation is required to use the NYCFCI TNR program. Only in unique situations can

placement.

NYCFCI help with limited hands-on assistance with the actual

Learn how to tame feral kittens, bottle-feed orphaned kittens,

trapping and recovery care. Local volunteers must provide the

or advanced trapping techniques at one of our specialized

ongoing feeding and care for the cats after a TNR project is

training workshops.

completed. Though not a NYCFCI program, “TNR for hire” is

Advocate for community cats by becoming an outreach/

offered by some “certified” individuals when professional help

tabling volunteer for the NYCFCI.

has been desired with a feral spay/neuter project. The NYCFCI

Donate to the NYCFCI to help

can help you locate a certified individual for hire.

Visit our website at NYCFeralCat.org.

Contact us by calling 212-330-0033.

Or email us at info@nycferalcat.org

The New York City Feral Cat Initiative

Provide holding/recovery space

and straw bedding for winter shelters. To date, more than 4,200

NYCFCI enthusiastically offers these services and encourages

Learn more about the NYCFCI and how you can join the ranks of New Yorkers who are working to improve the lives of our city’s community cats.

NYCFeralCat.org

Start the TNR conversation in your neighborhood by requesting NYCFCI educational flyers

pay for veterinary care and other TNR expenses.

and door-hangers for your neighbors. These tools are a

Sponsor one of the registered

great way to convince both cat lovers and cat haters on the

feral cat colonies in your borough

block that TNR is the only effective solution. Also post the

with a monthly donation to

information where you see people feeding unneutered cats in

defray the cost of the daily food,

your neighborhood and encourage them to attend the next TNR

or volunteer one day a week to

training workshop with you. We offer a door-hanger invitation

feed a feral colony near you.

Working to Improve the Lives of NYC’s Feral and Stray Community Cats

NYCFeralCat.org

NYCFeralCat.org

NYCFeralCat.org

The Solution is the same:

Trap-Neuter-Return

Maybe you love cats.

Maybe you hate cats.

and, when needed, medical care. Young kittens

former “house cats” that have become

place they call home – whether it’s your backyard or an industrial park.

Two unneutered stray or feral cats can quickly reproduce at an alarming rate. A large “colony” of cats can quickly grow where only the first two cats originally made their home. From as early as six months old, each new female born into the expanding colony will give birth to two or more litters of kittens each year. Spaying just one female community cat can prevent the births of more than 57 kittens over the next two years.

to humans, but there are humane ways to discourage cats from entering a particular yard or area. That information can be found on our website – NYCFeralCat.org – with tips to manage a feral colony.

performed consistently in a neighborhood has the

majority of the free-roaming cats in NYC

and have learned to survive in whatever

The presence of community cats is not inherently of any health risk

and friendly cats may be taken in for adoption. TNR

lost or were abandoned. But the vast

contact, they are very wary of people

doing their part in their communities.

their caretakers provide them with food, shelter

York City. Some of the cats are strays –

and having lived with little or no human

crisis. During a TNR project, cats are trapped, spayed (females)

identification, and returned to their territory where

lots, and other outdoor spaces of New

lost or abandoned pet cats. Born outdoors

community is natural rodent control. These working cats are

and painlessly ear-tipped on the left ear for

live in the backyards, alleyways, vacant

humans. Feral cats are the offspring of

male cats) are dramatically reduced. An added benefit to the

and eventually reduce the stray and feral cat overpopulation or neutered (males), vaccinated against rabies, surgically

Tens of thousands of free-roaming cats

are wild, or “feral” – not socialized to

TNR is the only humane and proven-effective method to control

potential to reduce intake at the city’s shelters and, consequently, While the tame and friendly strays can often be successfully

to reduce euthanasia rates. TNR is effective and humane, unlike

adopted back into a home, for the thousands of their feral

traditional trap-and-kill or trap-and-remove. Both trap-and-kill

offspring, adoption, rescue, or relocation is well beyond any

and trap-and-remove result in the “vacuum effect”– when new,

realistic expectation. Even young feral kittens need to be carefully

unaltered and unvaccinated cats move into the emptied area and

tamed with much time and patience before they can be safely

breed with no caretaker to monitor the cats over the long term.

handled by a prospective adopter.

A TNR’d colony defends its food source, keeping unneutered and

Fortunately, there is a humane and effective solution to stem the population explosion of community cats: Trap, Neuter, Return (TNR).

unvaccinated cats out of its territory and preventing any new

The New York City Feral Cat Initiative of the Mayor’s Alliance

births in that “managed” colony.

(NYCFCI) is not a rescue group or shelter, and will not satisfy

A TNR “mass trapping” potentially involves neutering all of the cats during one trapping project. Mass trapping immediately stabilizes the colony and reduces tensions in the community because no new kittens are being born and the nuisance behaviors often associated with the mating of unneutered cats (fighting, yowling, and the smell from spraying of intact

requests to remove or relocate feral cats. Animal Care & Control of NYC (AC&C) does not pick up healthy stray or feral cats.

Taxpayers pay the price when large numbers of community cats and kittens are euthanized in city shelters; and the cats pay the price with their lives. TNR makes sense, saves tax dollars, is humane, and it works!

Feral Cats + Stray Cats

= Our Community Cats

NYCFeralCat.org

NYCFeralCat.org

NYCFeralCat.org

The Solution is the same:

Trap-Neuter-Return

Maybe you love cats.

Maybe you hate cats.

and, when needed, medical care. Young kittens

former “house cats” that have become

place they call home – whether it’s your backyard or an industrial park.

Two unneutered stray or feral cats can quickly reproduce at an alarming rate. A large “colony” of cats can quickly grow where only the first two cats originally made their home. From as early as six months old, each new female born into the expanding colony will give birth to two or more litters of kittens each year. Spaying just one female community cat can prevent the births of more than 57 kittens over the next two years.

to humans, but there are humane ways to discourage cats from entering a particular yard or area. That information can be found on our website – NYCFeralCat.org – with tips to manage a feral colony.

performed consistently in a neighborhood has the

majority of the free-roaming cats in NYC

and have learned to survive in whatever

The presence of community cats is not inherently of any health risk

and friendly cats may be taken in for adoption. TNR

lost or were abandoned. But the vast

contact, they are very wary of people

doing their part in their communities.

their caretakers provide them with food, shelter

York City. Some of the cats are strays –

and having lived with little or no human

crisis. During a TNR project, cats are trapped, spayed (females)

identification, and returned to their territory where

lots, and other outdoor spaces of New

lost or abandoned pet cats. Born outdoors

community is natural rodent control. These working cats are

and painlessly ear-tipped on the left ear for

live in the backyards, alleyways, vacant

humans. Feral cats are the offspring of

male cats) are dramatically reduced. An added benefit to the

and eventually reduce the stray and feral cat overpopulation or neutered (males), vaccinated against rabies, surgically

Tens of thousands of free-roaming cats

are wild, or “feral” – not socialized to

TNR is the only humane and proven-effective method to control

potential to reduce intake at the city’s shelters and, consequently, While the tame and friendly strays can often be successfully

to reduce euthanasia rates. TNR is effective and humane, unlike

adopted back into a home, for the thousands of their feral

traditional trap-and-kill or trap-and-remove. Both trap-and-kill

offspring, adoption, rescue, or relocation is well beyond any

and trap-and-remove result in the “vacuum effect”– when new,

realistic expectation. Even young feral kittens need to be carefully

unaltered and unvaccinated cats move into the emptied area and

tamed with much time and patience before they can be safely

breed with no caretaker to monitor the cats over the long term.

handled by a prospective adopter.

A TNR’d colony defends its food source, keeping unneutered and

Fortunately, there is a humane and effective solution to stem the population explosion of community cats: Trap, Neuter, Return (TNR).

unvaccinated cats out of its territory and preventing any new

The New York City Feral Cat Initiative of the Mayor’s Alliance

births in that “managed” colony.

(NYCFCI) is not a rescue group or shelter, and will not satisfy

A TNR “mass trapping” potentially involves neutering all of the cats during one trapping project. Mass trapping immediately stabilizes the colony and reduces tensions in the community because no new kittens are being born and the nuisance behaviors often associated with the mating of unneutered cats (fighting, yowling, and the smell from spraying of intact

requests to remove or relocate feral cats. Animal Care & Control of NYC (AC&C) does not pick up healthy stray or feral cats.

Taxpayers pay the price when large numbers of community cats and kittens are euthanized in city shelters; and the cats pay the price with their lives. TNR makes sense, saves tax dollars, is humane, and it works!

Feral Cats + Stray Cats

= Our Community Cats

NYCFeralCat.org

How the New York City Feral Cat Initiative of the Mayor’s Alliance is helping NYC’s community cats The NYCFCI’s mission is to raise awareness about the

NYCFeralCat.org

NYCFeralCat.org

How you can help Community Cats in your neighborhood

thousands of community cats living outdoors throughout NYC’s

Attend one of the TNR training/certification workshops

to call a block meeting to discuss ways

five boroughs and provide services to assist proactive New

taught twice monthly. These workshops are offered at no charge

neighbors can work together to TNR the

Yorkers to undertake a TNR project to humanely reduce the

in rotating locations in all five NYC boroughs. As a certified

cats on the block. All of the NYCFCI TNR

number of community cats and improve the plight of those

caretaker, you’ll have access to all the services offered by the

educational materials are available in

cats currently living outdoors. Where TNR has been completed,

NYCFCI, including free or low-cost spay/neuter, transport for

“printer-friendly” versions at

we offer solutions to aid caretakers in the successful, ongoing

cats to spay/neuter appointments, transport and loan of

NYCFeralCat.org/information.htm.

management of existing colonies.

equipment for a mass trapping project, and giveaways of food

In addition to the workshops and many services provided by the NYCFCI and outlined in this brochure, NYCFCI provides advice to the public and TNR caretakers by phone and email and we make available our educational information via our website, e-newsletter, blog, and printed materials.

Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals

®

for a TNR project in your neighborhood. A

individuals have taken these workshops. The Humane Society

garage, basement, or other similar space

of the United States (HSUS) offers an online certification course

provides the cats a place to recover from

for a $10 fee. For the workshop calendar and information, visit

their spay/neuter surgery while still in

NYCFeralCat.org/events.htm.

the traps before being returned to their familiar outdoor location.

Foster friendly cats and kittens while they await adoption

that they be used. However, hands-on participation is required to use the NYCFCI TNR program. Only in unique situations can

placement.

NYCFCI help with limited hands-on assistance with the actual

Learn how to tame feral kittens, bottle-feed orphaned kittens,

trapping and recovery care. Local volunteers must provide the

or advanced trapping techniques at one of our specialized

ongoing feeding and care for the cats after a TNR project is

training workshops.

completed. Though not a NYCFCI program, “TNR for hire” is

Advocate for community cats by becoming an outreach/

offered by some “certified” individuals when professional help

tabling volunteer for the NYCFCI.

has been desired with a feral spay/neuter project. The NYCFCI

Donate to the NYCFCI to help

can help you locate a certified individual for hire.

Visit our website at NYCFeralCat.org.

Contact us by calling 212-330-0033.

Or email us at info@nycferalcat.org

The New York City Feral Cat Initiative

Provide holding/recovery space

and straw bedding for winter shelters. To date, more than 4,200

NYCFCI enthusiastically offers these services and encourages

Learn more about the NYCFCI and how you can join the ranks of New Yorkers who are working to improve the lives of our city’s community cats.

NYCFeralCat.org

Start the TNR conversation in your neighborhood by requesting NYCFCI educational flyers

pay for veterinary care and other TNR expenses.

and door-hangers for your neighbors. These tools are a

Sponsor one of the registered

great way to convince both cat lovers and cat haters on the

feral cat colonies in your borough

block that TNR is the only effective solution. Also post the

with a monthly donation to

information where you see people feeding unneutered cats in

defray the cost of the daily food,

your neighborhood and encourage them to attend the next TNR

or volunteer one day a week to

training workshop with you. We offer a door-hanger invitation

feed a feral colony near you.

Working to Improve the Lives of NYC’s Feral and Stray Community Cats