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Celebrate National Feral Cat Day

Whether you host a workshop, hold a fundraiser, or sponsor a special neuter clinic day for feral cats, your efforts help us achieve our goals of protecting and improving the lives of cats. Invite your friends and family and others who care about cats, and be sure to tell us and others in your community by registering your event. Be sure to take pictures! Select stories will be featured online and in our newsletter. Read our event ideas.

You can also celebrate NFCD by taking simple steps to reach out to and educate others—an important first step in protecting cats. Help people understand that feral cats are healthy and happy outdoors and that Trap-Neuter-Return improves cats’ lives. Read our ideas for how to educate others.

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Five Event Ideas

  1. Plan a Trap-Neuter-Return effort—in your backyard or throughout your community.
    If you’ve ever thought of doing Trap-Neuter-Return, NFCD is an excellent opportunity to try. Read our TNR guide.
  2. Organize a special spay and neuter clinic for feral cats.
    Make this first event a kick-off to promote what will become a monthly clinic. Learn more about running a clinic.
  3. Host a workshop in your community.
    Educate others about outdoor cats, Trap-Neuter-Return, and other services available at the local level, and network with other volunteers, caregivers and feeders, and those who care about cats. Learn more about how to host a workshop. Screen our educational videos during the workshop.
  4. Have a bake sale.
    Make cat-shaped baked goods for humans and catnip treats for cats and donate the profits to Alley Cat Allies. Contact donate@alleycat.org.
  5. Take part in local events and hand out educational materials.
    Use truth cards and brochures from our marketplace to educate others at public events, like fairs, or in public places, like shopping malls. Or, set up a table with literature at local conferences or meetings.

Five Ways to Educate Others

  1. Write a letter to the editor.
    Write an editorial for your local paper, telling them about NFCD, highlighting local programs, educating others about feral cats and Trap-Neuter-Return, or providing information about your local events. View examples here.
  2. Connect to protect.
    Join Alley Cat Allies online! Join our cause on Facebook , follow our blog posts on MySpace, or keep up with our tweets on Twitter to stay connected and up-to-date on the latest news and information—and so we can stay connected with you. Learn more at www.alleycat.org/SocialNetworking. Also consider devoting your status to Alley Cat Allies—let your friends know you are celebrating National Feral Cat Day on October 16, and ask them to do the same.

    You can also connect with other cat lovers in person by creating or joining a meet up group.
  3. Hang a poster or place advertisements.
    Post our downloadable NFCD poster at your veterinarian’s office and in other high traffic areas in your community: your place of worship, your office, or the local library, school, gym, café, or store. Order more full-size posters. Place advertisements in local newspapers or publications, using these samples.
  4. Ask your local official or school official to sign a National Feral Cat Day Proclamation.
    View a sample here. Make sure to let Alley Cat Allies know! Fax a copy to 240-482-1990, or mail one to Alley Cat Allies, 7920 Norfolk Avenue, Suite 600, Bethesda, MD 20814-2525.
  5. Talk to a friend, co-worker, or acquaintance about feral cats.
    Here are some talking points to get you started.