FERAL AFFAIRS NETWORK
Connecting compassionate hearts to save community cats
Feral Affairs Network (FAN) is a team of compassionate lovers of felines working to create a community which supports and cares for feral cats in every way possible.
FAN is a nonprofit organization whose primary goal is to help feral/community cats and also other animals and their caretakers in need. Our ultimate goal is happy, healthy and safe community cats throughout Hampton Roads and a strong caretaker network working together to support and care for community cats in every way possible.
Please contact us if you'd like to know how you can help or you can click the button below to donate or see our supplies wish list.
FAN is a nonprofit organization whose primary goal is to help feral/community cats and also other animals and their caretakers in need. Our ultimate goal is happy, healthy and safe community cats throughout Hampton Roads and a strong caretaker network working together to support and care for community cats in every way possible.
Please contact us if you'd like to know how you can help or you can click the button below to donate or see our supplies wish list.
What is TNR?
Helping stray cats: TNR, TRAP/ NEUTER/ RETURN, is the key. Nearly three-quarters of cats who enter our nation’s animal shelters each year are killed. Most are free-roaming, stray or feral cats. Here at FAN, we refer to them as community cats. Although some of these cats are adoptable, many more are not. And for un-adoptable cats, a trip to the shelter is often fatal.
TNR saves cats’ lives. Trap-neuter-return (TNR) entails trapping, neutering, vaccinating, and returning community cats to their original outdoor locations. It is not only the most humane method of preventing cats from entering the shelter system, it’s the most effective. TNR also ensures the cats’ health and welfare. Once these cats are sterilized and vaccinated, they can live healthy, happy lives in their communities, where caring residents look out for them. Sterilization and vaccination provide a public health benefit to the community, too, a vast improvement over the failed trap-and-kill approach that’s been used for generations. What is Feral Affairs Network doing to help? FAN organizes and facilitates trapping, spay/neutering, vaccinating and releasing of community cats all over Hampton Roads, VA preventing thousands of births. Support TNR and help reduce the number of community cats, and ultimately the number of cats being killed in America’s shelters. Re-phrased from https://bestfriends.org/our-work/best-friends-advocacy/protecting-community-cats |
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Don’t Take Kittens or Their Mother to an Animal Shelter
What To Do If You Find Kittens Outdoors - You May be surprised to hear that, usually, you should not take them to a shelter. Click the link to see what you SHOULD do. www.alleycat.org/community-cat-care/finding-kittens-outdoors/
