Alley Cat Rescue

Alley Cat Rescue's Global Feral Fix Challenge 2024 Uniting Veterinarians and Rescuers to Fight Community Cat Overpopulation

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Tuesday, February 27, 2024
TNR, Challenge, ACR, Euthanasia, Animal, Veterinarian, Alley Cat Rescue, Cat, Sterilization, Trauma

MOUNT RAINIER, Md., Feb. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Alley Cat Rescue's Feral Fix Challenge begins in March. The Feral Fix Challenge is an annual, global campaign that brings veterinarians and communities together to save cats' lives. The Challenge invites veterinarians to get involved by providing low-cost or free spay/neuter for community cats. Now in its thirteenth year, the Feral Fix has resulted in the sterilization of over 320,000 cats. Vets across all 50 U.S. states, Antigua, Canada, Croatia, Dubai, Greece, India, Israel, Japan, Nicaragua, South Africa, and the U.K. have taken part in the Challenge.

Key Points: 
  • MOUNT RAINIER, Md., Feb. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Alley Cat Rescue's Feral Fix Challenge begins in March.
  • The Feral Fix Challenge is an annual, global campaign that brings veterinarians and communities together to save cats' lives.
  • The Challenge invites veterinarians to get involved by providing low-cost or free spay/neuter for community cats.
  • Now in its thirteenth year, the Feral Fix has resulted in the sterilization of over 320,000 cats.

Alley Cat Rescue's 2023 Global Feral Fix Challenge Results in Record Number of Community Cat Spays/Neuters

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Wednesday, January 31, 2024
ACR, Rabies, Sterilization, Euthanasia, Starvation, Veterinarian, Disease, Challenge, TNR, Alley Cat Rescue, Cat

MOUNT RAINIER, Md., Jan. 31, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The 13th cycle of Alley Cat Rescue's annual Feral Fix Challenge ran from March 15 through December 31, 2023, with record results. The Challenge is a global event that invites veterinarians to get involved with trap-neuter-return (TNR) by providing low-cost or free spay/neuter surgeries and rabies vaccinations for free-roaming cats. The goal of the Challenge is to save feral cats from shelter euthanasia, starvation, and disease by humane population management.

Key Points: 
  • MOUNT RAINIER, Md., Jan. 31, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The 13th cycle of Alley Cat Rescue's annual Feral Fix Challenge ran from March 15 through December 31, 2023, with record results.
  • The Challenge is a global event that invites veterinarians to get involved with trap-neuter-return (TNR) by providing low-cost or free spay/neuter surgeries and rabies vaccinations for free-roaming cats.
  • The goal of the Challenge is to save feral cats from shelter euthanasia, starvation, and disease by humane population management.
  • Alley Cat Rescue is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to the welfare of all cats: domestic, stray, abandoned, and feral.

Alley Cat Rescue Partners With Mountain View Humane to Provide Community Cat Spay/Neuter in Roanoke, VA

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Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Sterilization, ACR, TNR, Euthanasia, Pet, Cat, Alley Cat Rescue

ROANOKE, Va., Jan. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Alley Cat Rescue, is sponsoring spay and neuter surgeries for community cats through the Mountain View Humane spay/neuter clinic.

Key Points: 
  • Alley Cat Rescue, is sponsoring spay and neuter surgeries for community cats through the Mountain View Humane spay/neuter clinic.
  • ROANOKE, Va., Jan. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Alley Cat Rescue, is sponsoring spay and neuter surgeries for community cats through the Mountain View Humane spay/neuter clinic.
  • Alley Cat Rescue promotes Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) as an effective method to humanely control the population of community cats, improve community cat welfare, and decrease shelter euthanasia.
  • Alley Cat Rescue is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to the welfare of all cats: domestic, stray, abandoned, and feral.

Alley Cat Rescue Takes Stance Against US National Park Service Plan to Remove Cats from San Juan Historical Site, Call for Public to Become Involved via Petition

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Thursday, December 7, 2023
Cat, Alley Cat Rescue, Rabies, TNR, Local government, Breeding, National Park Service, NPS, ACR, Volunteering, Government, Hunting

MOUNT RAINIER, Md., Dec. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Alley Cat Rescue (ACR) officially opposes the U.S. National Park Service's (NPS) plans to remove the community cats currently living at the San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico. ACR argues that finding new, safe locations for the approximately 200 community cats who currently live at the site will be impossible, especially within the six-month time frame allotted by the NPS. There is an absolute crisis of shelter overcrowding throughout the U.S. Neither rescues nor state shelters in this country will be able to take in more than a few cats, if any.

Key Points: 
  • Alley Cat Rescue (ACR) urges the public to sign a petition opposing the US National Park Service's plans to remove the community cats currently living at the San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico.
  • MOUNT RAINIER, Md., Dec. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Alley Cat Rescue (ACR) officially opposes the U.S. National Park Service's (NPS) plans to remove the community cats currently living at the San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico.
  • Neither rescues nor state shelters in this country will be able to take in more than a few cats, if any.
  • Alley Cat Rescue is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to the welfare of all cats: domestic, stray, abandoned, and feral.

Alley Cat Rescue Takes Stance Against US National Park Service Plan to Remove Cats from San Juan Historical Site, Call for Public to Become Involved via Petition

Retrieved on: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023
Cat, Alley Cat Rescue, Rabies, TNR, Local government, Breeding, National Park Service, NPS, ACR, Volunteering, Government, Hunting

MOUNT RAINIER, Md., Dec. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Alley Cat Rescue (ACR) officially opposes the U.S. National Park Service's (NPS) plans to remove the community cats currently living at the San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico. ACR argues that finding new, safe locations for the approximately 200 community cats who currently live at the site will be impossible, especially within the six-month time frame allotted by the NPS. There is an absolute crisis of shelter overcrowding throughout the U.S. Neither rescues nor state shelters in this country will be able to take in more than a few cats, if any.

Key Points: 
  • Alley Cat Rescue (ACR) urges the public to sign a petition opposing the US National Park Service's plans to remove the community cats currently living at the San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico.
  • MOUNT RAINIER, Md., Dec. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Alley Cat Rescue (ACR) officially opposes the U.S. National Park Service's (NPS) plans to remove the community cats currently living at the San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico.
  • Neither rescues nor state shelters in this country will be able to take in more than a few cats, if any.
  • Alley Cat Rescue is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to the welfare of all cats: domestic, stray, abandoned, and feral.

Alley Cat Rescue's 2023 National Community Cat Survey Will Advance the Case for TNR

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Tuesday, April 11, 2023
ACR, Health, Alley Cat Rescue, Cat, TNR, Hunting

MOUNT RAINIER, Md., April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Alley Cat Rescue (ACR) is encouraging all individuals and groups who are involved with TNR and/or caretaking of community cats to fill out a new Community Cat Survey, which can be accessed at this link: https://forms.gle/r5HJbZhabXfPCXAdA

Key Points: 
  • ACR founder and president, Louise Holton explains, "We have come a long way since I started on this mission to promote TNR in 1990.
  • Back then there were only a handful of forward-thinking groups and individuals working on implementing TNR in America.
  • ACR will close the survey in October 2023 and publish their findings in a report that will be made available on the ACR website, among other places.
  • Alley Cat Rescue is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to the welfare of all cats: domestic, stray, abandoned, and feral.

Alley Cat Rescue Global Feral Fix Challenge 2023 Uniting Vets and Rescuers to Fight Community Cat Overpopulation

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Veterinarian, Vaccination, Sterilization, Challenge, Alley Cat Rescue, TNR, Cat, ACR, Euthanasia, Rabies

MOUNT RAINIER, Md., March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Alley Cat Rescue, Inc. announced today the start of the Feral Fix Challenge, an annual global event that brings veterinarians and communities together to save cats' lives. The Challenge invites veterinarians to get involved with trap-neuter-return (TNR) by providing low-cost or free spay/neuter and rabies vaccination for free-roaming cats. Now in its twelfth year, the Challenge has resulted in the spay and neuter of over 250,000 cats by more than 1,700 veterinary participants. Vets across all 50 U.S. states, Antigua, Canada, Croatia, Dubai, Greece, India, Israel, Japan, Nicaragua, South Africa, and the U.K. have taken part in the Challenge.

Key Points: 
  • MOUNT RAINIER, Md., March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Alley Cat Rescue, Inc. announced today the start of the Feral Fix Challenge, an annual global event that brings veterinarians and communities together to save cats' lives.
  • The Challenge invites veterinarians to get involved with trap-neuter-return (TNR) by providing low-cost or free spay/neuter and rabies vaccination for free-roaming cats.
  • Now in its twelfth year, the Challenge has resulted in the spay and neuter of over 250,000 cats by more than 1,700 veterinary participants.
  • Alley Cat Rescue is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to the welfare of all cats: domestic, stray, abandoned, and feral.

Alley Cat Rescue 2022 Global Feral Fix Challenge Results in Spay/Neuter of Over 50,000 Community Cats

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Tuesday, January 31, 2023
TNR, Starvation, Veterinarian, United Arab Emirates, Cat, Sterilization, Alley Cat Rescue, Euthanasia, Rabies, ACR, Disease, Challenge, Birth control, Veterinary medicine, Hunting

MOUNT RAINIER, Md., Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Alley Cat Rescue's 12th annual Feral Fix Challenge drew to a close on December 31, 2022. The Challenge is a global event that invites veterinarians to get involved with trap-neuter-return (TNR) by providing low-cost or free spay/neuter surgeries and rabies vaccinations for free-roaming cats. The goal of the Challenge is to save feral cats from shelter euthanasia, starvation, and disease by humane population management.

Key Points: 
  • MOUNT RAINIER, Md., Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Alley Cat Rescue's 12th annual Feral Fix Challenge drew to a close on December 31, 2022.
  • The Challenge is a global event that invites veterinarians to get involved with trap-neuter-return (TNR) by providing low-cost or free spay/neuter surgeries and rabies vaccinations for free-roaming cats.
  • The goal of the Challenge is to save feral cats from shelter euthanasia, starvation, and disease by humane population management.
  • Alley Cat Rescue is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to the welfare of all cats: domestic, stray, abandoned, and feral.

Alley Cat Rescue Sends Letter Defending Women Arrested in Wetumpka, AL for Helping Community Cats

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Thursday, December 15, 2022
Inhumanity, Water, ACR, Maintenance, TNR, Cat, Alley Cat Rescue, Learning, City, Letter, Drinking, Food, Hunting

MOUNT RAINIER, Md., Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Alley Cat Rescue, Inc. (ACR) has sent a letter via direct Email to Wetumpka Alabama's court magistrate, Kelly Tyrone, upon learning that two senior citizens have been arrested for helping the city's community cats through trap-neuter-return and regular feeding.

Key Points: 
  • Alley Cat Rescue, Inc. (ACR) has sent a letter to Wetumpka Alabama's court magistrate explaining the importance of trap-neuter-return and providing food for community cats.
  • MOUNT RAINIER, Md., Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Alley Cat Rescue, Inc. (ACR) has sent a letter via direct Email to Wetumpka Alabama's court magistrate, Kelly Tyrone, upon learning that two senior citizens have been arrested for helping the city's community cats through trap-neuter-return and regular feeding.
  • TNR also benefits the cats, according to the letter, by preventing kittens from being born in perilous conditions and dying.
  • Alley Cat Rescue is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to the welfare of all cats: domestic, stray, abandoned, and feral.

Alley Cat Rescue Letter Endorsing Trap-Neuter-Return for Outdoor Cat Population Management Gains Support From Over 160 Cat Experts Around the Globe

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Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Motivation, Veterinarian, Cat, ACR, Letter, Population, Science, Alley Cat Rescue, Death, Culling, Method, Ecosystem, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Predation, Classification, Bird, Poisoning, Mouse, Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, TNR, Failure, Hunting

BRENTWOOD, Md., Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- In reaction to the Polish Academy of Sciences' recent classification of domestic cats (Felis catus) as an "invasive alien species," Alley Cat Rescue (ACR) has penned an open letter to environmental leaders of multiple Island and other nations, urging them to reject any policies that promote cat culling and to manage feral cat populations through the nonlethal practice of Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR).

Key Points: 
  • These countries were selected due to their unique wildlife, which some conservationists believe are threatened by feral cat predation.
  • Alley Cat Rescue President and Founder, Louise Holton, explains the group's motivation behind the letter, saying "We agree that outdoor cat populations need to be controlled.
  • The cat advocacy organization also uses historical evidence to reveal common unintended consequences of eradicating cats from an enclosed ecosystem.
  • Alley Cat Rescue is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to the welfare of all cats: domestic, stray, abandoned, and feral.