How We Can Help You

Carol’s Feral can help you help the roaming cats in your neighborhood with TNR by:

1. Loaning you a humane live trap and teaching you how to use it
2. Providing you with low cost spay/neuter services so that the cat isn’t adding to the cat overpopulation problem.
3. Helping you get the cat healthy so that it can return to it’s home.

Carol’s Ferals is not an animal shelter. We do not take in stray cats and adopt them out (though we do have a few that need homes). Our goal is to curb the population of stray, feral, and owned cats. Trap-Neuter-Return is a practice set forth by Alley Cat Allies and is the humane solution to the cat overpopulation problem. This is where our focus lies.

Never take a feral cat to a shelter!
Taking a feral (wild/untamed) cat to any shelter or humane society will result in it’s being immediately killed.

The R in TNR is for RETURN…not merely RELEASE, and is the most important step in the TNR process. A cat needs to be RETURNED to where you found it. Simply dumping a cat in another location is cruel. Cats live in colonies with social structure and will basically kill themselves trying to get back to their colony if not properly re-homed. Never just take a cat to a different location and consider the problem solved!

How it Works
Carol’s Ferals accepts cats 3 evenings per week (Sunday-Tuesday) typically between 6-7:30 pm. My rehab facility is on the NE side of Grand Rapids and you must call first to get the address.

Once you have trapped a cat, you can feed him up until the time you transport it to us. You do not have to fast the cat. We will take away any food in the trap once the cat reaches me. Keep the trapped cat covered at all times. This will reduce stress on the cat (AND YOU!).

Spay/Neuter surgery will take place the following morning. Our vet is Dr. Bruce Langlois of The Animal Hospital of Lowell. He and his team will anesthetize the cat while in the trap and perform surgery. If you wish to have the cat tested for Feline Leukemia/FIV or given any vaccinations, that can be done at the same time. There is a small fee for these additional services. The fee for spay/neuter can be discussed via phone. Based on situation, some surgeries can be done on a donation basis.

We will pick up the cat later in the day and bring it to my rehab facility where we will keep it in a comfortable cage with a bed, food and litter box. We will monitor the cat to make sure it is recovered enough to be released back where you trapped it. Cats are usually kept between 1-3 days.

For every cat that you have fixed, you are circumventing the unwanted births of 11,000 cats over the next 5 years! Imagine the difference we can make together!

Let us help you help the cats in your neighborhood!

E-mail or call:
616 560-0555
info@carolsferals.org