AlleyCatAction
A Publication of Alley Cat Allies
The National Feral Cat Resource / Summer 2001
Under the Boardwalk:
Feral Cats Get a Reprieve
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OR AS LONG AS ANYONE CAN REMEMBER, CATS
Photos courtesy of Courier-Post, South Jersey’s newspaper.
have been living under the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
The cats have become a trademark for the boardwalk and have
been accepted, or, at the very least, tolerated by the city. What has not
been consistent over the years is how, as a community, Atlantic City was
able to manage the burgeoning population of beachside felines. Until
now. With the help of Alley Cat Allies and the Humane Society of Atlantic
County (HSAC), the odds have just improved for the boardwalk cats.
Alley Cat Allies entered the picture in May of 2000 when we contacted local officials after learning that animal control workers were instructed to begin trapping and euthanizing whole colonies of feral cats.
At the encouragement of advocates Zena Levina and Chris Hayes, ACA
was invited to a meeting with Ron Cash and others of the Health Department, Steve Dash of the HSAC, Atlantic County Animal Shelter, and
feral cat caretakers. As a result the pilot trap-neuter-return program
called the Cat Action Team (C.A.T.) was launched to control the stray
and feral cat population on the Atlantic City Boardwalk. C.A.T. members monitor colony sites, provide shelters, construct feeding stations,
Inside Action:
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Farewell to a Founder
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Promote TNR in Your
Community
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Neighborhood Cats of N.Y.C.
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Military Biologists
Hear About TNR
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Norfolk Naval Shipyard
Update
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Colony Caretaker Gets
“Helping Hand”
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Adopt-a-Boardwalk Colony
assist with trapping the cats,
transport them to the spay/neuter
clinic at the HSAC, and return feral cats to their colonies.
Previously, if Atlantic City animal control received a complaint
about a feral cat or, if the cats
were perceived to be a health risk,
the cats were trapped, taken to
the Atlantic County Animal Shelter, and euthanized. (This is still
the case for cats living elsewhere
in Atlantic City.)
C.A.T. has made significant
progress toward its goal to trap
and sterilize an estimated 350400 cats living along the boardwalk. Of the cats that have been
trapped, only 40 percent have
been returned to their boardwalk
colonies; 60 percent were either
tame or able to be socialized and
placed for adoption at the local
shelter. Large reduction of outdoor cats in TNR programs such as
that taking place in Atlantic City is
the first benefit of community
nonlethal control programs.
From the beginning C.A.T. has
incorporated education in its program by communicating with Atlantic City residents and visitors
about the nonlethal approach for
controlling the feral cats, the
need to sterilize house cats, and
the services that HSAC offers to
both dogs and cats in homes.
In addition to prominently
placing signs on the boardwalk,
C.A.T. is improving the colony
sites and participating in community-wide clean-up efforts to
The boardwalk cats are featured in the
June 2001 issue of Cat Fancy magazine.
beautify the boardwalk. If you
would like to help with boardwalk
clean-up efforts, trapping cats,
constructing feeding stations, or
general colony maintenance, join
the Atlantic City Cat Action Team
by calling Alley Cat Allies at
202.667.3630, ext. 131, or send
an email to [email protected],
reference: C.A.T. The pilot program needs funds for food, shelters, and ongoing care for the
boardwalk cats.
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AlleyCatAction
Volume 11 Issue No. 2, Summer 2001
Riti Dhesi, Editor
National Director
Becky Robinson
N E F AT E F U L S U M M E R N I G H T I N 1 9 9 0 , Louise Holton and
Becky Robinson stumbled on an alley full of cats and decided that something needed to be done.
In the coming weeks and months, the two figured out how to help the cats
and their caretakers. Louise drew on her experiences abroad, using trap-neuterreturn (TNR) as a method of controlling the feral cat population without killing
or harming them.
Few people had heard about TNR, and so Louise and Becky started an informal network of feral cat caretakers. Alley Cat Allies was born.
In the decade that followed, Alley Cat Allies grew from a handful of activists
helping individual colonies in Washington, DC, to the nation’s only clearinghouse
of information on feral cats and nonlethal control.
Now, having taken these important strides forward to improve the status quo
for our feline friends, Louise Holton has decided to move on. Ever mindful of
“thinking globally, acting locally,” she has left Alley Cat Allies to focus on the
overpopulation problem in her own backyard by forming Alley Cat Rescue in
Prince Georges County, Maryland. Rest assured, Louise will continue to pursue
other means of helping cats — and all animals.
Louise, a native of South Africa, was instrumental in bringing the practical
means of nonlethal control to the forefront of our animal welfare community.
She has given to many people and many more animals over the years because
of her fervent passion.
We, along with all of the alley cat allies, wish Louise all the best as she begins
new ventures.
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Executive Director
Donna Wilcox
Staff
Zoe Carson
Sarah Clifton-Crump
Riti Dhesi
Katherine Farbry
Lydia Nichols
Catherine Pajic
Kelly Pressley
Board Members
Peggy Carlson, MD
Lisa McDonald
Becky Robinson
Donna Wilcox
Ann Elise Wort
Board of Advisors
Ellen Perry Berkeley
Author, Maverick Cats
Donna Bishop
Alliance for Animals
Bonney Brown
Best Friends Animal Sanctuary
Holly E. Hazard
Doris Day Animal League
Tippi Hedren
The Roar Foundation
Marvin Mackie, DVM
Animal Birth Control Clinics
Esther Mechler
SPAY/USA
Michael Mountain
Best Friends Animal Sanctuary
Jenny Remfry, PhD
VetMB, UK
James R. Richards, DVM
Cornell Feline Health Center
Roger Tabor, MIBiol, MPhil, FLS
Author, Biologist, Naturalist, and
Broadcaster
AnnaBell Washburn
PAWS, Martha's Vineyard
Visit us online
www.alleycat.org
Alley Cat Allies
1801 Belmont Road NW, Suite 201
Washington, DC 20009
Tel: 202.667.3630
Fax: 202.667.3640
email: [email protected]
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has been named Feral Cat Day.
Alley Cat Allies has chosen this day to commemorate the
10-year anniversary of our incorporation.
Promote TNR in
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D U C AT E Y O U R C O M M U N I T Y A B O U T
trap-neuter-return (TNR) with ACA’s popular
10-minute video, The Humane Solution: Reducing Feral Cat Populations with Trap-Neuter-Return. It’s ideal for local cable stations to include in
their programming. Maricopa County in Arizona
is currently showing the video on eight cable stations. Contact your local cable station and request that it add The Humane Solution in its
scheduling. To purchase the $13.00 video (VHS)
contact Alley Cat Allies (also available in Beta
format).
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APOLLO
Neighborhood Cats of N.Y.C.
more effective by focusing on advocacy. The
group decided they would create a New York
specific resource center for people with energy
and passion wanting to help NYC feral cats and
supply feral cat caretakers with this crucial information in a timely manner.
To date the group is “involved in six model
colonies throughout Manhattan and have advised on a seventh,” says Kortis. “We are helping improve the cats’ lives by helping other
people to help the cats.”
Neighborhood Cats certainly has its share
of obstacles, such as transportation, recovery space,
and the availability of lowcost spay/neuter veterinarians. While the group eventu-
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Photos by Bryan Kortis
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cats played a key role in introducing
Ruth Sharp, Shirley Belwood, and Bryan
Kortis to one another. And Sharp, Belwood,
and Kortis decided to give something back to
the felines. In September of 1999, these three
New Yorkers founded Neighborhood Cats, Inc.
to help better the lives of the city’s alley cats.
The group is educating local residents about
feral cats and colony management, in addition
to helping caretakers manage colonies.
After learning the particulars of TNR from
Alley Cat Allies’ factsheets
and hands-on experience,
Neighborhood Cats is leading
the way in TNR advocacy efforts in New York City.
While managing the
group’s first colony, the trio
found homes for 20 kittens
and one stray cat, and had
eight feral cats sterilized before returning them
to the colony site. People in the immediate
neighborhood were educated on the TNR process and the benefits of this approach - less
noise, less smell, better rodent control, less suffering among the cats (especially among kittens), more pride among neighborhood residents (as they point to a humane solution
reached by residents acting together). Neighborhood Cats decided to share its knowledge
with other NYC neighborhoods. However, after
becoming involved with a number of hands-on
projects, the organization decided it could be
ally hopes to start a feral cat spay/neuter clinic
like San Diego’s Feral Cat Coalition, President
Mike Phillips says about Neighborhood Cats,
“We aren’t sitting around waiting, but we live
in hope.” Nonetheless, they are making a dent
in the local feline overpopulation issue.
The ASPCA invited the group to participate
in its feral cat seminar in March and so did the
City Bar Association, which will hold its feral
cat forum June 19th. Neighborhood Cats is also hoping to air a show on public access cable
television that will focus largely on feral cats.
And, most importantly, Neighborhood Cats
has succeeded in mobilizing volunteers to
manage colonies.
If you would like to assist Neighborhood
Cats, Inc., in its efforts or if you would like
more information about the organization, log
on to www.neighborhoodcats.org, email
[email protected], or call
212.662.5761.
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Military Biologists Hear about TNR
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L L E Y C AT A L L I E S ’ N AT I O N A L Director, Becky Robinson,
recently spoke to more than 150 biologists and managers at the
National Military Fish and Wildlife Association’s annual meeting
for military base wildlife resource managers. During “Feral Animal Impacts on Military Operations,” Robinson presented the effectiveness of
reducing cat populations and controlling their behaviors using the nonlethal control method, trap-neuter-return (TNR). Robinson discussed
successful TNR feral cat management programs throughout the United
States, which include programs on some military bases. The guidelines
for cat management currently in place for military installations, “Technical Information Memorandum (TIM) No.37,” do not recommend TNR
as a method of control. However, TIM No. 37 is under revision and TNR
California Feral Cats
Profit from Fund
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HANKS TO MADDIE’S FUND,
a $200 million foundation dedicated to ending the euthanasia of
healthy companion cats and dogs and
healthy feral cats in the United States by
2010 (www.maddiesfund.org), 960 veterinarians in California have sterilized
more than 73,138 feral cats in less than
two years as part of the California Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) Feral
Cat Altering Program.
In August of 1999, Maddie’s Fund
awarded $1.07 million to the CVMA to
spay/neuter feral cats throughout California. Maddie’s Fund developed the
Feral Cat Altering Program (FCAP) to
create a collaborative environment in
which veterinarians, caregivers, and other animal care groups could work together to reduce animal shelter deaths
and humanely control feral cat populations. The first year of the program
proved to be so successful that Maddie’s
Fund awarded the CVMA an additional
$1.07 million. Alley Cat Allies gives a
round of applause to everyone involved.
may be offered as a viable option for controlling feral cats.
Due to animal abandonment and overpopulation on military bases,
conference attendees recognized the need for stricter policies regarding
military personnel’s companion animals. Possibilities include microchipping as a means of identification, already being used at some bases, and
sterilization for prevention of the births of additional animals. ACA is
committed to establishing TNR as the primary method of feral cat control on all military installations and has been tracking pilot programs on
several bases including the Norfolk Navy Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia. Interest is growing as ACA receives new phone calls regularly
from caretakers on bases wanting to start nonlethal control programs.
Clearly, ACA supporters will be key to the establishment of TNR.
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Congratulations
to the FCCO
ON APRIL 1, 2001, IN EUGENE, OREGON,
the Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon (FCCO)
spayed/neutered its 10,000th cat! For the past
six years the FCCO has been working to humanely reduce the feral cat population in Oregon. With its state-of-the-art, 24-foot mobile
hospital, FCCO holds three spay/neuter clinics
per month throughout the state — averaging
75 cats per clinic!
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Norfolk Naval
Shipyard Update
THANKS TO CYNTHIA MOOSE,
MEOWER Power, Alley Cat Allies’
supporters, and Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) officials the trap-neuterreturn (TNR) program at NNSY is well
under way. Approximately 40 cats
and kittens have benefited
from the comprehensive sterilization program — nearly 50
percent of the felines are kittens or tame adults who are
being placed in homes! ●
GRANDMA
Photo by Bryan Kortis
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Folly Beach Felines
Reap Rewards
T
H E C I T Y O F F O L LY B E A C H , A
small island off the coast of South Carolina, knows that trap-neuter-return
(TNR) works. The city recently awarded Pet
Helpers of Charleston a $1,000 grant to be
used towards the Folly Beach TNR program
and to assist Folly Beach residents in spaying/neutering their pets. Carol Linville, president of Pet Helpers, stated that the City of Folly Beach currently has a feral and stray cat population that is 95 percent controlled, due to the
foresight of city officials, local residents, and
Pet Helpers.
The $1,000 grant will help Linville reach her
goal of 100 percent feral and stray cat population control on Folly Beach. “Since these cats are
the result of people who abandoned their cats
unfixed, this becomes a community problem and
responsibility, and can only be solved through local government officials, citizens, humane
groups, and veterinarians working together,”
Linville said. “The City of Folly Beach leads
the state, if not the entire southeast, as
the most progressive city in the area of
animal welfare, citizen education, care
and control, and in requiring
spay/neuter — the only
answer to the national animal overpopulation crisis.” ●
Colony Caretaker
Gets “Helping Hand”
Alley Cat Allies and the
MBNA Platinum PlusSM
Visa Credit Card
Alley Cat Allies is proud to
offer the Platinum PlusSM
credit card, a no-annual-fee
Visa credit card program
that provides peerless benefits, service, worldwide acceptance, and convenience.
To request your Alley Cat Allies Platinum PlusSM card, call
800.523.7666. Please mention priority code VZ53
when speaking with an
MBNA representative about
this program.
Howie Long and Terry Bradshaw present
Teresa Del Genio with MBNA America
Bank’s “Helping Hand Award.”
I
N 1995, LIFE CHANGED FOREVER
for Teresa Del Genio and the pregnant cat
outside her work place. After finding the
starving cat and taking her home, Teresa knew
that she had to help not just one cat, but the legions of other cats she knew were out there.
And has she ever. For nearly a decade, Teresa has volunteered countless hours at the local
Delaware Humane Association, cared for three
feral cat colonies, and spent thousands of her
own dollars spaying and neutering feral and
stray cats and kittens. It’s been physically and
emotionally exhausting — but her efforts have
not gone unnoticed. This past October 2000,
MBNA America Bank presented Teresa with a
“Helping Hand Award” for her life-saving work.
Everyday, for the past six years, Teresa has
trekked through grass and brush in her business
suit and pumps to feed her feral cat colony on
the way to work. What keeps her going? “I am
making a difference in the world,” she says. “I’ve
learned that I do not exist solely for myself.”
When Teresa found her first colony of cats,
she had no idea what to do. In fact, she even
thought about taking them to the local SPCA
to be euthanized. “I thought that it would be
better for them to have ‘death with dignity’
than to suffer.” Since then, she’s changed her
view 180 degrees! An acquaintance introduced her to trap-neuter-return (TNR) and
gave her a photocopy of an Alley Cat Allies article about trapping and taming feral kittens.
“This article was my bible,” Teresa says. “I
followed it from beginning to end. It was the
only point of reference I had at that time.”
Teresa has been a member of Alley Cat Allies since 1995. In March of 1999, she approached MBNA, her employer of 15 years,
about initiating an Alley Cat Allies MBNA credit card program. The contract was signed in
May and ACA has received tens of thousands
of dollars from the program, giving donors a
“painless” way to support a cause they cherish. What advice does she offer other feral cat
caretakers? “Do not give up — there are just
not enough people who care.”
Alley Cat Allies congratulates Teresa Del
Genio and all the other hard-working caretakers out there for their dedication, selflessness,
and compassion. Thanks — from all the cats
you’ve saved!
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Adopt-a-Boardwalk-Colony (It’s as Easy as A-B-C)
T
H A N K S T O A L L E Y C AT A L L I E S ’
supporters and volunteers, the cats
who live under Atlantic City’s famed
wooden promenade are getting the care and
protection they deserve.
Not only are the feline residents of this seaside gambling mecca now part of a comprehensive trap-neuter-return (TNR) program (see
article on page one), plans are also in the
works to post signs along the boardwalk, informing tourists that these cats are well fed but not overbred.
But we have so much more to do. Many of
the cats still need to be sterilized. They need
better shelters, as well as feeding stations, and
ongoing care. They need you!
That’s why we started the Adopt-a-Boardwalk-Colony (ABC) program, to ensure that
these cats are cared for throughout their natural lives. As an ABC participant, you’ll receive a
special adoption package, including a certificate of adoption with the name of your
colony, a photo of your colony, and a map and
history of Atlantic City. We’ll also keep you updated on all developments regarding the
Boardwalk Cats.
The only thing you won’t get is the cat!
● For $50 you can insure that another Boardwalk Cat is spayed or neutered. You’ll give some
lucky feline a longer and healthier life, and we’ll
give you a customized adoption package.
● For $100, you can feed a feral cat for a
whole year. He’ll get nutritious meals from caring volunteers, and you’ll get a tote bag. Just
right for a trip to the beach!
● For $250 you can provide a sturdy shelter
and hand-built feeding station (with food).
We’ll send you a special ABC T-shirt, so everyone will know you support the Boardwalk Cats.
● For $1,000 you can adopt a Boardwalk Cat
for life and become a member of our Feral Filanthropist Society. You’ll receive a silver lapel
pin with the new Alley Cat Allies logo.
● For $2,500 you can adopt a whole colony.
Your name will be posted on a sign along the
boardwalk, near your colony, for 37 million
visitors to see each year.*
Now choose your game! Please designate
which colony(ies) you wish to adopt. (For the
safety of the cats, code names have been assigned to the real colony locations):
● Baccarat
● Seven Card Stud
● Blackjack
● Slot Machines
● Caribbean Stud
● Sportsbooks
Poker
● Straight Flush
● Craps
● Three of a Kind
● Full House
● Twenty-One
● High Rollers
● Two Pair
● Keno
● Wildcard
● Roulette
● Winner Take All
For more information on this and other
ways to help the cats, contact our development office at 202.667.3630, ext. 109 or [email protected]. Thanks for helping the Boardwalk Cats hit the jackpot!
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*Pending approval by Department of Public Works.
With a Little Help from our Friends...
Alley Cat Allies extends special thanks to Doskocil, the manufacturer of Dogloos®, for donating six shelters (with
doors and pads) to the Boardwalk Cats. We also want to thank the Humane Society of Atlantic County for providing three Dogloos®, and Richard and Francine Bank for their generous gift of three Dogloos®, as well as their
ongoing support of the Atlantic City project. The assistance of all these good people has meant the difference
between life and death for countless numbers of cats.
ALLEY CAT ALLIES NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT
Please send in the donation form below, with the name (and address) of the person you wish to designate as
the adopter, and the colony you wish to adopt.
NAME OF ADOPTER
NAME OF DONOR (IF DIFFERENT FROM ADOPTER)
MAILING ADDRESS
M/C #
STATE
ZIP
VISA #
PHONE NUMBER
EXPIRATION DATE
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I wish to adopt a cat or colony with my gift of:
❏$50
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❏$100
❏$250
❏$1,000
❏$2,500
❏Other:$________
I don’t wish to adopt, but here’s my special contribution of $_________________
Enclosed is my check, payable to Alley Cat Allies___________________________
Alley Cat Allies 1801 Belmont Road NW, Suite 201, Washington, DC 20009 Tel: 202.667.3630 Fax: 202.667.3640 www.alleycat.org
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