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10/15/2026

12 cats TNRd this week. That's 12 more that won't be contributing to the overpopulation. Thanks everyone for the help!

10/08/2026

26 cats TNRd this week! Thank you for helping reduce the outdoor cat population in Frederick County.

10/05/2026

The first 10 cats for a trapping Monday! The goal is 15. All cats will be spayed/neutered, vaccinated, microchipped and medical needs addressed. This is what it takes to keep our feral friends healthy ❤️. All cats have caretakers and live in safe environments.

10/05/2026

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10/02/2026

Do we have anyone willing to help us trap in Eldersburg? Please contact Babs. [email protected]

10/02/2026

We've celebrated our community cats all October for quite a few years. But it's good to see others join in! Celebrate by neutering a community cat this month. Or donate to a TNR group in your area. Offer to pay a vet their next community cat appointment to pay it forward. Donate food to someone who feeds a colony. Buy a trap to donate to a TNR group. Any little bit will help! 💝

This October, we're joining forces with to turn National Feral Cat Awareness Day into , a time to learn more about feral and community cats, the challenges they face, and how even small changes can make a huge difference.

These cats may live outdoors and have limited contact with people, but they are still an important part of many communities and deserve care and compassion.

One of the most widely used approaches for managing feral cat populations is trap-neuter-return (TNR). Through TNR programs, cats are humanely trapped, spayed or neutered, vaccinated, and returned to their outdoor homes. Through surgical sterilization, TNR reduces feral cat numbers without culling or disrupting stable cat colonies.

National Feral Cat Awareness Month is also an opportunity to learn how to safely interact with community cats, support local TNR efforts, and recognize when a cat may need additional help.

Catster has compiled its resources on feral cats, TNR, community cat care, and related topics to make it easier to find reliable information and learn more about helping cats living outdoors.

Head to https://www.catster.com/ to learn more.
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10/01/2026

30 cats TNRd this week. 14 last week. We are so grateful for all the people who help, and of course, to all the caretakers that are asking for help!

09/29/2026

PayPal Giving Fund has sent you $302.92. Thank you all who have donated! 🩷

09/28/2026

A recent study in Australia exonerated cats for the wildlife harm they were being falsely blamed for. Researchers analyzed 11 years (2013–2024) of wildlife rehabilitation records in Australia, covering 52,475 individual animals from 158 threatened species.
Human and human activities were responsible for most known wildlife harm, followed by extreme weather events (which might also be human-related). Notably, other animals represented just 4.4% of all wildlife injuries, with cats representing a minority of those (0.6%). That is 315 of the 52,475 injuries, and does not account for the fact that cats are scavengers and may have come across wild animals already injured for other reasons (e.g., human caused harm).
The study concluded that while public debate across the US has disproportionately emphasized free roaming cats as a “conservation threat,” that debate is incorrect.
In addition to falsely blaming cats, it overlooks more common and potentially preventable human causes of wildlife injury. The analysis finds that most harm is associated with human-modified environments, including hazardous infrastructure, roads, entangling materials, poisons in the environment and habitat fragmentation because of development.
Another new study reported similar results. It examined hunting behavior among 2,400 semi-owned/free roaming cats. The researchers were interested in testing whether widely cited estimates of free roaming cats killing “61–118 million birds annually” were accurate. They were not!
Researchers found that roughly 8 out of 10 cats — 77% — didn’t hunt, while only 23% hunted sometimes or often, and focused mostly on insects. Birds were the least commonly reported prey, resulting in a figure over 300 times lower than reported by cat-killing advocates. Once again, being scavengers, cats could have come across many of the birds, who were already injured/killed for other reasons, such as crashing into windows.
Despite the growing scientific consensus that cats are not to blame for species decline and that calls to eliminate them “by any means necessary” is “wrong and fuels an unwarranted moral panic over cats,” it is not likely to change policies toward them by government agencies and organizations pursing a “native-species” agenda.
When nativists and bird watchers call for killing cats, they are not motivated by saving birds or wildlife. Instead, they are motivated by a hatred of cats.
Published in part by Nathan Winograd on Substack.

09/25/2026

It's that time of year again, calendar pic time! Please send pix of your ear tipped colony cats to [email protected]. We will pick 12 of the best pix for this year's calendar and let you know who's cats won.