Hello,

The Neighborhood Feral Cat Initiative, a program of Companion Animal Trust, provides free trap neuter return training workshops to the public once a month. The next workshop is next Saturday, June 19th.

The program also loans traps for free and has a PetSmart Charities grant that pays for most of the cost of spay neuter. The cost to the trapper is $10 per cat.

We are aware of the cats in Brunswick Gardens and in fact just yesterday spoke with about 4 people at the Hamilton Park festival about them. So there are many who want to address this concern.

Please come to this next workshop and encourage others to do the same.

You can register for it by emailing workshop@neighborhoodferalcat.org or calling 201 884 9649.

Website www.neighborhoodferalcat.org.

We look forward to helping you with the only humane non lethal solution.

This a local organization that may be able to help.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Companion-Animal-Trust/144611599448

I live around the corner from the community garden on Brunswick St and just tonight noticed that there were three (at least) new kittens in there. One of the females must have had this litter a few weeks ago, as they were not infants, but this was the first time I'd seen the kittens.

I enjoy having the 4-5 cats around the neighborhood that live in that garden but it seems like only a matter of time now until a few litters are born and a few generations go by and the population explodes. I'd hate to see any of them get hauled off by animal control because of overpopulation as the half dozen there now seem to do pretty ok for themselves.

My question is whether anyone is aware of any organizations in town that captures, fixes and then releases stray cats? I'm assuming if animal control were even aware of it they wouldn't do that and would just bring them into the pound, etc. (Correct me if I'm wrong) If this small group of cats could be fixed and released then the potential overpopulation of stray cats could be stemmed at least for this one group.