Maddie’s Fund Grant Award Helps Arlington Feral Cats and Strengthens Neighborhoods

By Carol Weemes, Arlington Animal Services

Posted on June 04, 2019, June 04, 2019

 

The City of Arlington is working to control the feral cat population and just got a big boost from the Maddie's Fund family foundation. 

Maddie’s Fund is dedicated to saving the lives of shelter dogs, cats and other animals. The foundation granted an award of $5,000 to Arlington Animal Services to help the city’s feral and community cat population. Not only does this grant funding help save and improve the lives of feral cats, it also helps achieve the City's goal of championing great neighborhoods.

The generous award helps fund five Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) clinics to spay/neuter and provide a rabies vaccination for Arlington’s free roaming felines. Each feral/community cat provided the free veterinary services will also receive an ear-tip to make them readily identifiable as having received services.

The first 20 Arlington feral/community cats to arrive at the Animal Services Center at 1000 SE Green Oaks Blvd, Arlington, TX 76018 between 8 and 9 a.m. on the "Feral Cat Sundays" listed below will receive the free services:

• June 9
• June 30
• July 28
• August 25

Kittens must be at least three months old. Feral cats must be in a trap. Pickup time is 4 p.m.
Special appreciation to Maddie’s Fund for their generosity making these TNR clinics possible.

Click here to view printable flyer.

The services help stop the reproduction process of feral cats, and vaccinating for rabies helps keep the community safer. Stopping the reproduction cycle will save untold numbers of homeless kittens.

Maddie’s Fund also recently provided a $5,000 boost to the “bottle babies” initiative – a program to help save unweaned kittens in the shelter’s Foster Pet Program.

Greatest appreciation to Maddie’s Fund from Arlington Animal Services.

Interested in participating in TNR? Click here to visit the TNR webpage for information about the program, including information on how to set a humane trap. For additional information, please contact Dianne Tawater at 817-459-6190.