Friday, August 31, 2007

Roosevelt Island Feral Cats


Feral cats on Roosevelt Island.
According to the Main Street Wire:

To some, the cats are beloved gardening companions with names and vivid personalities. To others, they are a nuisance – or worse. Now Island cats and the humans they charm or offend will benefit from an agreement reached by the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation and Island Cats, a recently formed rescue and adoption group, to trap, neuter and return the cats to live out their natural lives in their own managed colonies, the equivalent of extended families that keep intruders out, with human caretakers who feed and bring them water regularly and keep their food and wintering shelters clean. The Island initiative is part of a nationwide program called Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR).