Did you know?
Over the course of three years, one unspayed stray female, with all her unspayed female offspring, can be responsible for over 800 kittens.
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Programs
We recognize that the cat overpopulation and homelessness problems cannot be solved by adoption alone – there are simply too many cats, and not enough good homes. Therefore, our emphasis centres on spay/neuter and education programs.
Low Cost for Low Income Spay/Neuter
For many people having trouble making ends meet, having their pet neutered is not financially possible. FFN and several area veterinarians have devised a program whereby someone in financial need (referred to FFN by the Salvation Army, Stratford House of Blessing, or Ontario Disability Office) is provided with a voucher that entitles them to one spay or neuter surgery for a co-pay of $10.00. Surgery spaces are limited.
Spay the Mama
When finances and shelter space permit, FFN, in conjunction with the Ontario SPCA, Perth County Branch, provide very low cost spays for mother cats when their kittens are surrendered to the animal shelter for adoption. This way neither mom-cat nor babies will add to the cat overpopulation crisis, and all will be healthier.
Shelter Support
While
FFN is not a cat rescue, we do strongly support the Ontario SPCA Perth
County Branch cat adoption program in the following ways:
Adoption Sponsorship
When finances permit, FFN subsidizes $50 of the cost of adoption for cats that have been waiting a long time for their “forever homes”.
Evelyn’s Fund
FFN has added a “Cinderella” Fund to help pay veterinary bills of shelter cats in need. (This fund is named after our first wonderful benefactor, Evelyn Saley.)
In addition, our volunteers work to help socialize the cats up for adoption, and many FFN volunteers are part of the OSPCA kitten foster program.
Trap/Neuter/Return
Trap/Neuter/Return (TNR) is a program that humanely reduces the feral cat population and benefits both the cats and the community. Entire colonies of stray and feral cats are humanely trapped. Kittens and tame cats go to the animal shelter to be adopted. Those cats too wild to be adopted are neutered and vaccinated against disease by veterinarians, and then returned to their outdoor homes to live out their lives under the watchful eye of volunteer caregivers. In this way breeding and it’s accompanying nuisance behaviours such as spraying, yowling and fighting stop, and the population of each colony reduces over time.