ALERT!! We need your help! Or should I say, the BARN CATS need your help!! Sponsored Barn Cats.................... We have 4 cats that need to find barn homes ASAP. Two of them, Milo and Jenny are siblings and would great for them to be adopted together. Midnight and Pixel, poor things, were at the wrong place at the wrong time. They were trapped and brought to the shelter. Read below about our great program and how you can save a life. PLEASE call or come by the shelter today to adopt a barn cat. Read below about our great sponsored barn cat program and how to relocate Barn Cats. Sponsored Barn Cat... There are those people that trap cats and bring them to the shelter. Sometime they are sweet kitties. Others have to be adopted out as a barn cat. Which mean they are feral. It is so sad, because often the cats are abandoned and they grow up on the streets. It is not the cats fault that this has happened. We have an awesome Sponsored Barn Cat Program. Please read below about the program, as well as How To Relocate A Barn Cat to help save a cat. Please let us know as soon as possible if you want to adopt a barn cat. On the day the cat is available, we can get the paper work done and send the kitty on to the vet. We wont have to make these poor cats sit in a cage, scared to death any longer than necessary. HOW TO RELOCATE BARN CATS....... To relocate a barn cat, you must have proper shelter, food and water. Shelter can be a barn, or a good size building, as long as it has adequate sunlight and air circulation. You will need to keep the cat in this building for a minimum for 2 weeks, to ensure the cat will consider this new location his home. At the time of year you want to adopt a barn cat, if your building will get too hot or too cold, you need to plan on another time of the year. The safety of the cat is the number one priority. Inspect the building for any openings that the cat could escape through and repair. After the two weeks, you can always remove any material which was used to close the openings. During the two weeks, be sure to provide a litter box. This will help keep the building clean, as well as provide one more object that the cat will relate to as his new home. Keep it very clean during the two weeks. Some proven practices to make the relocation most likely to be successful are: 1. Relocate at least two cats at the same time 2. Cats are confined in adequate climate for up to two weeks 3. Cats are fed canned cat food as well as dry cat food 4. The new caregiver makes verbal attempts to bond with the cats at least twice a day A new home MUST provide the following to any cat: Shelter Food Water Comfort Safety Basic Steps on relocating a barn cat 1. Prepare the area with a litter box, food (wet and dry), water and a bed. Consider a corner that will provide a hiding place for the cat. Scared cats need a quiet, enclosed area. Maybe move some of your items in the barn around to provide a hiding place. If you have square hay, stack some up in the corner. Remember, you cannot move any of these items for at least two weeks. Longer would be better. Leave the food, water and litter box just outside of the hiding place. Only his bed should be in the hiding area. DON’T go into his hiding place. Give him privacy. This is his “safe” place. 2. VERY Important. Be sure the food containers are free of ants and other insects. 3. The building must have proper ventilation. You may need to consider a small fan. Don’t point the fan at the bed and food containers. 4. Release the cat next to his new hiding place. The day you release the cat, DO NOT go back into the building for the rest of the day. Give the cat some time to adjust to the new area. Remember, the cat just had surgery and now relocated. He has no idea what is going on. 5. Starting the next day, go slowly and quietly into the building to give fresh food and water. Make the same sounds and say the same thing every time you go into the building. The cat will soon learn your sounds mean food. He will also learn you will not harm him. 6. The day you plan to open the building, leave the food, water, bed and hiding place exactly the same. Do not change it. Continue feeding the cat twice a day with the same words and sounds for at least a week. Good luck and we hope this document helps in your task in relocating barn cats. Thanks for saving a life! SPONSORED BARN CATS... We are a space-based shelter and our ferals/semi-ferals cats are held for only 96 hours. (Feral meaning not social/wild) The only hope for these cats is adoption as a barn cat, and they really do make GREAT barn cats! The City of Denton and Denton Animal Shelter Foundation (DASF) wants to save as many barn cats as possible. The adoption fee is sponsored by DASF. What this means is, there is no charge for our ferals or semi-ferals cats, including cats like this one. If you can provide proper shelter, food and water you can save a kitty. A feral cat must be kept up for at least 10 days, in order to train the cat; where his new home is located. Therefore, the building MUST have ventilation with a window, and a fan would be great. In Texas summer, you CAN NOT put a cat in a building without ventilation. And it must have some form of light source. Natural or artificial. There are two ways to adopt a Barn Cat. You can come to the shelter to fill out the adoption form. Or, you can call the shelter receive the sponsorship. The shelter is open for adoptions Monday – Saturday, 10 AM – 5 PM. 940-349-7594 The adoption fee is fully sponsored (i.e. no cost to you) and includes all the veterinary services
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 16:46:31 +0000