The Best Friends Podcast Episode 39
You see an outdoor cat. What do you do? There’s a good chance your instinct is to save the cat. An outdoor cat is a cat in need. Right?
What if that isn't the case? Many cats will spend their entire lives outdoors. They often have people who care for them by providing food or outdoor shelter. Others prefer to fly solo, not looking to us for help. Regardless, healthy outdoor cats are just that, healthy and living outdoors. Bringing those cats into a shelter can be a solution to something that was never a problem, to begin with, and could lead to that cat losing its life.
This week we hear from leaders across the country who have reexamined their approach to managing community cats. You’ll hear how they’ve implemented new programs and they share how they worked with stakeholders both inside and outside of their organizations to ensure their efforts are successful.
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RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE
- Best Friends Community Cat Handbook
- Animal Care and Control Resources
- Best Friends Editorial: The Dilemma of the Friendly Outdoor Cat
- HeARTs Speak editable Pet Resource Guide template
- Best Friends Humane Animal Control Manual
- Return-to-Field Decision Making Flow Chart
- Humane Society of Charlotte - Community Cat Collateral
- TNR Website
- Don't Kit-Nap
- Working Cat Resume
- Working Cat Flyer
- Trapping Guidelines
- Trap Loan Agreement
- How to Build a Community Cat Shelter flyer
- Community Cats flyer (English and Spanish)
- Solutions to Cats flyer (English and Spanish)
- Solutions to Cat Related Issues
- Fact vs. Fiction
- TNR FAQs
- Don Riser, animal services manager, Hesperia Animal Services
- Osby Montes, senior animal control officer, Hesperia Animal Services
- Audra Mullins, animal control officer, Santa Rosa County Animal Services
- Leah Massey, community cat program manager, The Humane Society of Charlotte
- Bennett Simonsen, community programs manager, Pima Animal Care Center