If you would consider making a monthly pledge
to help them purchase this food, it would help them greatly. Here's
what you can do:
Call or write advoCATS and let us know what
commitment you would be willing to make. If you live locally,
you may purchase dry cat food and give it to them directly or
contribute money (check) for them to purchase the food. If you
do not live here, you may send a check directly to the feeder
or to advoCATS and specify it is for cat food. If you have a particular
area you would be interested in supporting, we will try to put
you in touch with a person who feeds in that area.
We hope you will give this proposal serious
consideration and extend your generosity beyond your donations
to advoCATS for spaying and neutering. Your contribution is tax
deductible.
We are trying to find people who are feeding
the cats on the Big Island who are not members of advoCATS. Occasionally
our feeders will find left over cat food or empty food containers
at their regular feeding spots left by well meaning people. This
not only wastes food, but the advoCATS feeders time of going there
and feeding the cats. It also makes it hard for our trappers to
trap a cat who has already eaten. The trappers always feed the
colonies after they have successfully trapped at that location.
At some of the locations, such as shopping centers, managers get
angry at people who leave behind the empty bags or cans and the
advoCATS feeder gets blamed for it. Our feeders are discreet and
clean up after feeding or trapping so as not to anger the these
places. People may be well meaning, but sometimes they are making
matters worse for the cats and harder for the feeders. If you
or someone you know would like to help with the food, it's best
to use our Adopt A Feeder Program. Or if you are interested in
volunteering as a feeder and or trapper, we can always use more
help. Since our feeders go out 7 days a week rain or shine, they
would sometimes love to have a day off or to go on vacation.
Here are just a few of our feeders
stories...
Sandi in Kailua Kona - I've been feeding
about 80 cats daily at Old Airport park at 7 locations for the
last 9 years. Most of the cats there have been dropped off by
people who don't want them, can't take them when they move, or
the cat is ill and the person doesn't know what to do or can't
afford to take care of them. So many are very friendly and love
to be around people. There isn't a week that goes by that we don't
have another member(s) added to the colony.We try to find homes
for as many as we can, and the TNR program has really helped keep
the population down.
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Sara in Pahoa - At the refuse transfer
station I feed about 20 cats. I wish there was some way to get
the information out to people. I sometimes find food, including
dog food, at my site. This is a waste of people’s time and
resources, and not good for the cats.
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Grace in Kailua Kona - I feed at least
100 cats at nine different colonies at shopping centers and in
the industrial area in Kailua Kona. Some days I really don't feel
like going to feed, but I know they are counting on me and I can't
let them down. I see their little faces waiting for me. I don't
believe in just feeding the cats, it needs to be done in unison
with trapping, spaying and neutering to reduce more kittens being
born. TNR really works! At one of the shopping centers I feed
at, the management recently told me since I started to feed and
perform TNR, she has not seen any new kittens around.
