1.
Outdoor cats are found in every neighborhood.
These cats include community cats:
● Friendly stray cats
● Abandoned cats
● Unsocialized cats (feral)
● Owned cats let outside to roam and reproduce

2.
Being un-neutered is a
hard life for cats living
outdoors.

3.
Mating is a call of nature but not
a pleasant experience for the
female.

4.
When she has kittens, she must find
a nesting place that is safe and warm
to protect her young kittens from the
elements and predators (raccoons
and other wildlife that will eat the
kittens, and tom cats that will
sometimes kill them).

5.
The nest must be near a reliable
food source to keep her and the
kittens healthy. Many don't find that
reliable source. Ever vigilant, she is
under pressure to snatch her food
quickly and get back to her babies to
protect them.

6.
She will often protect her babies with
her life and she suffers grief when
she loses them.

7.
Male cats grow up to be a slave to
their hormones.

8.
They fight for territory. They fight for
the females in heat and they fight for
food.

9.
It is a sad, hard life where they often
end up contracting diseases from
other males, causing their lives to
end painfully.

10.
From fighting they get abscesses
and torn ears. They mark their
territory by spraying and they are
stinky!

11.
All this could be avoided simply
by spaying or neutering the cats!

12.
As the weather continues to get warmer, we are
fast approaching what we call “the kitten season”.
For the past two years we have been trying to help
improve the lives of stray and feral cats and
reduce the cat overpopulation problem in
Clarksville and Montgomery County by getting
involved in a Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) program.

13.
TNR is the method of humanely trapping community cats,
having them spayed or neutered and vaccinated against
rabies, and then returning them to their colony to live out
their lives. TNR also involves a colony caretaker who
provides food and adequate shelter and monitors the cats’
health. TNR has been shown to be the least costly and the
most humane, efficient way of stabilizing community cat
populations.

14.
TNR helps stabilize the population of community colonies
and, over time, reduces them. Nuisance behaviors such as
spraying, excessive noisemaking and fighting are largely
eliminated and no additional kittens are born.

15.
While we are already making progress in our own
neighborhood, we need your help to institute other TNR
programs around Clarksville and Montgomery County.

16.
You can help with ongoing needs including feeding,
trapping, transportation to and from the veterinarian,
temporary housing for cats after surgery, and fostering and
socializing kittens for the purpose of finding them good
forever homes.

17.
Your support is key in solving this problem.

18.
Would you consider donating $5.00 to
help us achieve our mission?

19.
You can make your donation through PayPal
on our website or through our Clarksville Cat
Rescue Go Fund Me account.

20.
Your donation is greatly appreciated and will
be used to help reduce feral cat
overpopulation, improve the cats’ lives,
protect our wildlife and make our
communities better.

21.
1880 Garwood Dr.
Clarksville, TN 37040
Phone: 931-217-0572
E-mail: feralcats@charter.net
Web:clarksvillecatrescue.wordpress.com