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July Newsletter
Life in the Shadows Understanding Community Cats
The Humane Society of Oldham County has volunteers that try to manage problem areas by trappin
g and bringing them to our clinic for spay/neuter, vaccinations, and medical treatment
. This type of involvement ensures the colony sees minimal growth and remains mostly free from disease, particularly outbreaks that can spread into the rest of the community, potentially affecting other wild animals and domestic pets. When spay or neutered, their ears are tipped, so we will know at a glance if they have already been fixed.
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colony manager, with help from other volunteers,
will also ensure there is some kind of shelter for the cats during inclement weather to help keep them from sheltering in and under cars. They will regularly fundraise and leave food for the cats to help ensure starvation and malnutrition are kept to a minimum. And they’ll make sure there is always a clean water source nearby.
In an ideal world, these cats would all become domesticated and would be adopted to wonderful forever homes. While stray cats are often friendly with humans and may find a good home with an understanding guardian, feral cats, those who were born and raised in the wild, are often unable to adapt to domestic life. And of course, there just aren’t enough homes for all the wild and stray cats out there. When a community cat needs to be relocated for its safety, we try to find someone with a barn or outbuilding who would like a "working cat" to help with rodent control. This is done through our Barn Cat Program.
For those cats that were once pets, we do try to trap and adopt them out like this girl, now named Mama Mia, pictured below. She was living in a wrecked and abandoned car in an apartment parking lot with her kittens. She is now spayed, medicated, even bathed and blow dried, and showing her once loving nature again. All but two of her kittens have found homes.
If you would like to help by offering your time to help manage a colony or help with Trap-Neuter-Release, please contact Shelley at shell44@aol.com
For those cats that were once pets, we do try to trap and adopt them out like this girl, now named Mama Mia, pictured below. She was living in a wrecked and abandoned car in an apartment parking lot with her kittens. She is now spayed, medicated, even bathed and blow dried, and showing her once loving nature again. All but two of her kittens have found homes.
If you would like to help by offering your time to help manage a colony or help with Trap-Neuter-Release, please contact Shelley at shell44@aol.com
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