"Sponsor a Feral Cat" Program
A Del Norte Success Story
Let’s start by saying “THANK YOU” to the following people:
Sweat Equity provided by:
Mike Ambri, Steve Brown, Wendy Franz, Jodie Snyder, Rick Steiner and Bob Wirthlin
$1297.00 in financial donations to AZCats provided by:
James Burford, Susan Carrick, The Dendy’s , Deborah Dillon, Travis Edwards & Scott Merrill, The Evjen’s, John & Francis Eyrich, Dean Fenton, Joel Gillies, Barbara Gould, Bert Herrendorf, Amie Kafer, Robin & Greg Lansing, Doris McVey & Pat Poulson, Rick & Joyce McClary, Judy Mack, Jeanne & Abbas Mahammadian, Greg Meyer, Gary & Kim Moll ,Susan Pennington, Tom Remes, Tom Shafer, Dierdre Sparling, Rick Steiner, John P. Villegas-Grubbs, Victoria Wallace and Sharon Wood & John Rorquist
More donations were forthcoming but were not required; instead, these sources may be “tapped into” if another initiative is required in Spring 2009.
DATELINE MARCH 1, 2008: The Del Norte “Sponsor a Feral Cat” Program was launched with the distribution of flyers, collection of donations and an announcement on the Del Norte Website.
GOAL: To stabilize the colony of feral cats in Del Norte through the humane trapping, subsequent spay/neuter and release.
DATELINE MARCH 7, 2008: Media coverage on KPHO Channel 5 News of the Del Norte “Sponsor A Feral Cat” Program.
RESULTS: 24 feral cats were humanely trapped on March 30th & April 1st and were delivered for spay/neuter procedures on the same days. Specifically:
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Trapped |
Neutered/Spayed
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Males |
10 |
7 |
Females |
14 |
11 |
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Total: |
24 |
18 |
PHOTO GALLERY: Photos of the program efforts here!