Agency Details:

Fix Our Ferals

Fix Our Ferals was founded to provide free spay-neuter clinics for neighborhood cats in the San Francisco East Bay. The purpose of our program is to greatly reduce the free-roaming cat population, to mitigate their suffering from starvation and disease.

Description:
Our community needed an economically feasible way to humanely manage colonies through spay/neuter and monitoring. We see that a well-managed cat population eases neighborhood tensions and fosters compassion for animals.Much has changed in the public’s mind about Ferals over the years since Fix Our Ferals was formed. Back then it was hard to sell the idea that Ferals could live healthy happy lives outside. Today, many people know what TNR means: trap-neuter-return. They know that neutered cats can and do live quality lives, as long as they get human care and monitoring. Although outdoor cats are often referred to as “homeless”, the term is a mis- nomer. Your neighborhood IS their home, just as thousands of back yards and other niches are “homes” where compassionate people are neutering and feeding their neighborhood cats. Each colony of cats is usually, if not always, a mixture of tame cats, feral cats, and every degree of tameness in-between.

History:
In 1998 Fix Our Ferals was founded so that feral cat caretakers could have access to free spay-neuter. Fix Our Ferals has to date admitted nearly 12,000 cats to our high-volume spay-neuter clinics, helping more than 3,000 caretakers in the East Bay.

Contact person: Rebecca Marsh, Executive Director, (email)

Address:

P.O.Box 13083 Berkeley, CA 94712

Web Site: http://www.fixourferals.org

Directions:

Fix Our Ferals is a Community Outreach Program, with established FOF projects in Berkeley, Oakland, Piedmont, Albany, El Cerrito, and Richmond.

Last updated on November 6, 2009