30 January 2010
Monthly Meeting
Despite the torrential downpour a little more than a dozen folks dragged themselves out to our Jan monthly meeting on the 19th. I'd like the thank David from Nevada Corporate Center for generously allowing us the use of their meeting room. We look forward to hosting other meetings in the venue! Come join us on Feb 25 to meet other cat friendly folks and eat cake! Jan TNR Classes
Our first two Introduction to TNR classes were held at the HCWS Spay/Neuter Clinic on the 9th and the 23rd. 15 students attended these two classes and got great information on trapping, staging, transporting cats humanely. The new Training Coordinator Tricia Brain has jumped right in producing very professional looking training manuals as well as preparing to take over presentation of the training material.Trapper Certification Process
C5 is committed to humanely trapping, staging, and transporting feral cats. As feral cats are wild animals, trappers, stagers and transporters need to use caution. C5 supports a TNR certification process, which is required to be a trapper, stager, or transporter. The certification process includes: * Attending a two (2) hour C5 TNR class
* Eight (8) hours in the field with a mentor
* Four (4) hours volunteering at one(1) monthly feral cat clinic to gain a better understanding of the requirements and processes
Email TNRClass@gmail.com to register for the class. Contact Debbie alyse24@aol.com to volunteer for the clinic. Trapping for Weekly Slots
We continue to attempt to fill 30 weekly slots on Tuesdays for community cats from Clark County. With the bad weather it's proven to be a challenge but with the formation of a number of trapping teams, we hope to get a little more organized and continue to deliver cats. If you'd like to assist in trapping for these slots, contact Keith info@clarkcountyferalcats.org to find a trapper team near you.
Jan HCWS Monthly Feral Clinic
http://kittenpaparazzi.blogspot.com/2010/01/hcws-january-2010-monthly-feral-clinic.html Monthly HCWS Feral Clinic No No's
Please do not bring cats in carriers or non-approved traps. Arrange to get a trap before the morning of the clinic and transfer the animal into the trap before coming to the clinic.Transferring cats disrupts the check in process and you may be asked to step aside while other people's cats are processed. If you need assistance in performing a transfer be prepared to wait and provide your own trap, otherwise there is no guarantee that a trap will be available. Make sure you have pre-printed labels which include the following lines: Trapper, Trapper Phone, Trapping Location, Sponsor, Sponsor Phone. A template is available on the clarkcountyferalcats.org website. If you do not, you may be asked to step aside while you fill out the labels. Make sure you sign a release every time! The monthly clinic is only for community cats that are going to be released back to outdoor colonies. Cats that will be fostered, adopted or rescued in any way are not be brought into the monthly feral clinic! The clinic targets the free-roaming cat population and the vets, vet techs and others who volunteer at the clinic expect to work on this demographic of animals. Cats that are fixed at the monthly clinic receive no paperwork (sterilization/shots), are ear tipped, and are exposed to all manner of parasites and disease found amongst the feral population. If you trap kittens small enough to tame or friendly strays that you intend to foster or adopt, do not bring them to the monthly clinic. Contact Keith at info@clarkcountyferalcats.org or myself if you need to have an animal fixed that will not go back to a colony. HCWS is happy to aid folks and animals who are truly in need. All that is expected is honesty about the animals and what will happen to them.
Public Outreach
Keith and I attended a couple of events for public outreach this month. One was Chris G.'s town hall meeting on fixing County budget shortfalls and the other was the Westley Neighborhood associations monthly meeting. At both events, Keith expressed the advantage of a community based TNR program: why use tax payer dollars to endlessly kill cats when volunteers and resources are available to do TNR?In other tabling event news, C5 will have a booth at the Clark County Library Districts Petstacular event of Feb 27 at the Rainbow library. If anyone is aware of other pet friendly venues where we can have a booth, let me know and I'll try to get us signed up! I've wanted to start tabling at Petsmarts, Petcos, etc. to push more traffic to the TNR Class and get more caretakers to register etc. Several cat adoption rescues in town already have arrangements to run operations out of the locations. I've contacted a couple and I think we can leverage the traffic they already have by having C5 volunteers available to give information about the Community Cat problem and upcoming classes, clinics, etc. If you are interested, contact me with a Petsmart/Petco location near you and the days or hours you'd be willing to spend.
Drop Trap Primer
Information on building and using a drop trap to catch more cats! http://kittenpaparazzi.blogspot.com/2010/01/whys-and-hows-of-drop-trapping.html
Feb Upcoming Events:
Introduction to TNR Class, Saturday Feb 6 and 20 12:00 - 2:00 PM
Heaven Can Wait Society Spay/Neuter Clinic
546 N. Eastern Ave
Email TNRClass@gmail.com to registerHCWS Monthly Feral Clinic Sunday Feb 21 6:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Heaven Can Wait Society Spay/Neuter Clinic
546 N. Eastern Ave
Volunteers needed to aid in checking in cats from 6:30 - 10:00 AM
Email alyse24@aol.com to volunteer C5 Monthly Meeting Thursday Feb 25 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Plaza Tower and Suites
101 E. Convention Center Dr. #P-111Petstacular Pet Fair Saturday Feb 27 10:00 to 2:00 PM
Rainbow Library
3150 N. Buffalo Dr.
Despite the torrential downpour a little more than a dozen folks dragged themselves out to our Jan monthly meeting on the 19th. I'd like the thank David from Nevada Corporate Center for generously allowing us the use of their meeting room. We look forward to hosting other meetings in the venue! Come join us on Feb 25 to meet other cat friendly folks and eat cake! Jan TNR Classes
Our first two Introduction to TNR classes were held at the HCWS Spay/Neuter Clinic on the 9th and the 23rd. 15 students attended these two classes and got great information on trapping, staging, transporting cats humanely. The new Training Coordinator Tricia Brain has jumped right in producing very professional looking training manuals as well as preparing to take over presentation of the training material.Trapper Certification Process
C5 is committed to humanely trapping, staging, and transporting feral cats. As feral cats are wild animals, trappers, stagers and transporters need to use caution. C5 supports a TNR certification process, which is required to be a trapper, stager, or transporter. The certification process includes: * Attending a two (2) hour C5 TNR class
* Eight (8) hours in the field with a mentor
* Four (4) hours volunteering at one(1) monthly feral cat clinic to gain a better understanding of the requirements and processes
Email TNRClass@gmail.com to register for the class. Contact Debbie alyse24@aol.com to volunteer for the clinic. Trapping for Weekly Slots
We continue to attempt to fill 30 weekly slots on Tuesdays for community cats from Clark County. With the bad weather it's proven to be a challenge but with the formation of a number of trapping teams, we hope to get a little more organized and continue to deliver cats. If you'd like to assist in trapping for these slots, contact Keith info@clarkcountyferalcats.org to find a trapper team near you.
Jan HCWS Monthly Feral Clinic
http://kittenpaparazzi.blogspot.com/2010/01/hcws-january-2010-monthly-feral-clinic.html Monthly HCWS Feral Clinic No No's
Please do not bring cats in carriers or non-approved traps. Arrange to get a trap before the morning of the clinic and transfer the animal into the trap before coming to the clinic.Transferring cats disrupts the check in process and you may be asked to step aside while other people's cats are processed. If you need assistance in performing a transfer be prepared to wait and provide your own trap, otherwise there is no guarantee that a trap will be available. Make sure you have pre-printed labels which include the following lines: Trapper, Trapper Phone, Trapping Location, Sponsor, Sponsor Phone. A template is available on the clarkcountyferalcats.org website. If you do not, you may be asked to step aside while you fill out the labels. Make sure you sign a release every time! The monthly clinic is only for community cats that are going to be released back to outdoor colonies. Cats that will be fostered, adopted or rescued in any way are not be brought into the monthly feral clinic! The clinic targets the free-roaming cat population and the vets, vet techs and others who volunteer at the clinic expect to work on this demographic of animals. Cats that are fixed at the monthly clinic receive no paperwork (sterilization/shots), are ear tipped, and are exposed to all manner of parasites and disease found amongst the feral population. If you trap kittens small enough to tame or friendly strays that you intend to foster or adopt, do not bring them to the monthly clinic. Contact Keith at info@clarkcountyferalcats.org or myself if you need to have an animal fixed that will not go back to a colony. HCWS is happy to aid folks and animals who are truly in need. All that is expected is honesty about the animals and what will happen to them.
Public Outreach
Keith and I attended a couple of events for public outreach this month. One was Chris G.'s town hall meeting on fixing County budget shortfalls and the other was the Westley Neighborhood associations monthly meeting. At both events, Keith expressed the advantage of a community based TNR program: why use tax payer dollars to endlessly kill cats when volunteers and resources are available to do TNR?In other tabling event news, C5 will have a booth at the Clark County Library Districts Petstacular event of Feb 27 at the Rainbow library. If anyone is aware of other pet friendly venues where we can have a booth, let me know and I'll try to get us signed up! I've wanted to start tabling at Petsmarts, Petcos, etc. to push more traffic to the TNR Class and get more caretakers to register etc. Several cat adoption rescues in town already have arrangements to run operations out of the locations. I've contacted a couple and I think we can leverage the traffic they already have by having C5 volunteers available to give information about the Community Cat problem and upcoming classes, clinics, etc. If you are interested, contact me with a Petsmart/Petco location near you and the days or hours you'd be willing to spend.
Drop Trap Primer
Information on building and using a drop trap to catch more cats! http://kittenpaparazzi.blogspot.com/2010/01/whys-and-hows-of-drop-trapping.html
Feb Upcoming Events:
Introduction to TNR Class, Saturday Feb 6 and 20 12:00 - 2:00 PM
Heaven Can Wait Society Spay/Neuter Clinic
546 N. Eastern Ave
Email TNRClass@gmail.com to registerHCWS Monthly Feral Clinic Sunday Feb 21 6:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Heaven Can Wait Society Spay/Neuter Clinic
546 N. Eastern Ave
Volunteers needed to aid in checking in cats from 6:30 - 10:00 AM
Email alyse24@aol.com to volunteer C5 Monthly Meeting Thursday Feb 25 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Plaza Tower and Suites
101 E. Convention Center Dr. #P-111Petstacular Pet Fair Saturday Feb 27 10:00 to 2:00 PM
Rainbow Library
3150 N. Buffalo Dr.
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