The Feral Cat Initiative
The Feral Cat Initiative is a program sponsored by the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals and administered by Neighborhood Cats. A primary goal of the Initiative is to help caretakers effectively perform Trap-Neuter-Return projects. Towards this goal, assistance is available to qualified individuals in arranging, at no cost, spay/neuter, equipment and experienced volunteer help.

At the caretaker's expense, assistance is also provided in arranging for transportation, ancillary veterinary care and, in very limited circumstances, building recovery space. Please note that the cost of these services as well as other project-related expenses (e.g., bait, sheets, etc.) are the caretaker's responsibility. Financial aid may be provided at the Initiative's discretion, if financial need can be demonstrated in the form of a current letter of disability, Social Security assistance, unemployment, welfare assistance or the like.

For more information or to request assistance, please contact:

Valerie Sicignano
Feral Coordinator
Phone: (212) 330-0033 (Mon-Wed. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.)
Email: coordinator@neighborhoodcats.org

Animal Care and Control
New York Animal Care and Control will perform animal rescues.

Contact:

Make Pastore, Drector of Field Operations
Phone: (718) 272-7200, ext. 227
Email: mpastore@nycacc.org

Manhattan:

Neighborhood Cats
Workshops given to teach organizing a "managed" feral colony
NYC specific information about feral cat care

Kittykind
Cat adoptions and rescue at Petco in Union Square in Manhattan

City Critters
Rescue and Cat adoptions at Kip's Bay Petco in Manhattan

Brooklyn

Brooklyn Animal Resource Coalition
Excellent adoption agency/shelter and pet supply store in Brooklyn

Staten Island

Feline Rescue of Staten Island

Queens

Francis's Friends
Rescue/Adoption in Astoria, Queens

Animal Haven
Animal shelter/adoptions in Flushing, Queens

Free or Low cost Spay/Neuter for Street Cats

Muffin’s And the Mayor’s Alliance (MAMA) for NYC’s Animals offers the MAMA Coupon - A Low-Cost Feral Cat Spay/Neuter Coupon
See details about the MAMA program

Muffin's Pet Connection
Certificates for low-cost spay/neuter at New York area participating veterinarians

ASPCA
Free spay/neuter:
The ASPCA operates a free program for Spay/Neuter of ferals with on-site service for feral colonies of 10 or more. They also do trap loans and offer some options for adoption of socialized kittens and domestic strays.
Conditions and contact information
ASPCA Spay/Neuter Van Schedule

City-wide adoption coalition for already domesticated pets

Mayor's Alliance for NYC animals

National Organizations Helping Street Cats

Alley Cat Allies
A clearinghouse for information. Here you can find a factsheet on every subject imaginable about feral cats and their care.

San Francisco SPCA
Working with Maddie's Fund, the SF-SPCA has made SF the most progressive city in the country with regard to street cat care and the socializing of feral cats for adoption. Their goal is to make SF a no-kill city for animal control.

Best Friends Animal Sanctuary
The gold standard of sanctuaries to which all others are compared. A gracious and supportive leader for other groups starting up.

Feral Cat Coalition (San Diego)
Pioneer leader in the TNR movement. Doing highly organized mass trapping of feral cats since 1992. Routinely perform spay/neuter of 100 cats in a single afternoon.

Humane Society (Washington, DC)
Feral Cat Information. Start planning now to attend Animal Care Expo 2008, the nation's premier animal welfare conference! For information on the May 14-17 event in Orlando, Florida, visit www.AnimalSheltering.org/expo or call
1-800-248-EXPO.

General Vet Information

Greater New York Vet Directory
Lists vet info in all five boroughs for all kinds of animals, including fish, birds, and reptiles in addition to dogs and cats

Electronic Zoo
Vet info on the web resource

IVIS (International Veterinary Information Service)
Not-for-profit organization created to provide clinically relevant,
up-to-date information to veterinary practitioners, veterinary
students, academic clinicians and researchers in the animal health care sector worldwide using the Internet free-of-charge.

Street Cat Groups Outside NYC

Feral Cats
Lots of information about feral cats

Stray Cat Alliance
Lots more information about feral cats

Other Animal websites of interest:

Organizations that have info on all or most of what you are interested in

PETA
Friends of Animals
IDA
Kinship Circle
Last Chance for Animals
Pet-abuse.com
Humane Society
Fund for Animals

Shelters/Orgs for Strays
Best Friends
Allley Cat Allies

PASADO Safe Haven

Pet Rescue Volunteers

Coalition for NYC animals
Companion Animal Network

Feral Cat Alliance
Little Shelter
Tri-County Animal Rescue
Angel's Gate Hospice for Animals
Fairfield Ohio County Humane Society
Operation Kindness

Companion Animals, Assistance
Animals, & Special-Needs Animals


Say No To Animals In Petshops
Spay/Neuter Assistance Programs
http://www.nj-ara.org/chained.html (NJ Animal Rights Allience)

Stop the Killing (shelters)
http://www.shelterwatch.com/ (Shelter Watch)
http://www.borntodiepets.com/  (Born to Die Pets)

http://www.nokillnow.com/boardsupervisors.htm  ( Horrible at Abuse at shelter)
http://www.animal-abusesite.info/RowenCo.html  (Rowan County Abuse)

http://www.aavs.org/campaign02.html  (Regarding mandetory Pound
Seizure of animals for labs)

http://www.handicappedpets.com/ncsa/Barkley/  (Handicapped Pets)



HUMANE EDUCATION

http://www.teachhumane.org/  (Humane Education)
http://www.learningwithoutkilling.info/index.htm (Learn w/o Killing)


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http://www.canadianvoiceforanimals.org/  (great site...covers everything)

http://www.all-creatures.org/anex/dog.html

http://www.animalsrighttolifewebsite.com/

http://www.cok.net/  (Compassion over Killing)

http://operationkindness.org/AnimalSponsor/ForMercy.htm

http://www.animalsvoice.com/

http://www.h4ha.org/

http://www.mercyforanimals.org/move-the-message.asp


http://www.firepaw.org/

http://www.animaladvocates.com/

Friends of Urban Cat League

Moo Shoes
Vegan shoes and animal-friendly accessories

Counter Restaurant
Fine vegetarian cuisine in New York City

NYC dog walkers in Lower Manhattan
Professional NYC dog walkers, dog trainers and pet sitters serving Lower Manhattan. The website has many resources for animal welfare including spay and neutering programs (NYC and beyond).

Bide-a-Wee
Bide-A-Wee is a companion animal welfare society whose no-kill adoption centers have found loving homes for more than one million dogs, cats, puppies and kittens in the century since they were founded

1-800-Save-A-Pet
1-800-Save-A-Pet is a national pet adoption clearinghouse. Dog and cat adoptions. Search, see photos, then adopt a dog or cat at an SPCA, humane society or animal shelter.