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www.carefelinerescue.org • Latest news about feral cats living in Orange County, Fl • CARE Feline Rescue, Inc.
The Big Fix
Mark Your Calendar
Last November, CARE Feline Rescue was involved in
Orlando’s first successful mass spay day and we are ready to try again. Orange County Animal Services has
set the date for our next clinic as Sunday, March 25, 2007. We hope to have another 150 cats done that day and need volunteers to make it happen!
If you can help with any of the following, please email us at volunteer@carefelinerescue.org.
· Leading a volunteer group of trappers at a colony
· Trapping, transporting, recovering and releasing Cats starting Thursday March 22nd.
· Building Traps On the 10th and the 17th
· Loan your personally owned traps for this event
Many Hands Make Light Work
Our First Volunteer Build-A-Trap Day
 Last month we held our first ever Volunteer Build-A-Trap Day. We successfully completed the pieces and parts for 10 new large and light weight manual traps. Thanks to the many volunteers that attended and helped us with various special obstacles. We had people very willingly offer to go shopping, drive supplies back and forth between two locations, and stay much longer than planned. We even had a few recruited by family that had not planned to come at all!
Thanks to: Stuart Bogue, Jim Bojarzuk, Sherry Ciccone, Melissa Cranis, Jean Dell, Butch and Carlen Nall, Carolyn, Reid and Steve Nevins, Candace Rodatz Barnes, The Barns Brothers, Chip and Jenny Steele.
Special thanks to Mason Friar, for doing all the preliminary design work, gathering all the supplies and tools and allowing us to use many of his personal tools for the day. And for taking the remaining traps home to complete. And to Butch Nall for taking several traps home to complete. And to Di Silkwood for allowing us to invade her home when the library told us part of the build could not be done on their property for liability reasons.
Help us do it again! The next Trap Workshop will be March 10th and 17th to build traps for The Big Fix. Mark you calendars and look for details to come.
Volunteer Spotlight
Women Who Inspire
Connie Graham has dedicated many years to working with CARE and has served as president for most of the time we have been operating. She began as one of only three people who decided to change the future of feral cats in Orange County. Her efforts have help to prevent more kittens from dieing than can be calculated. She has built a team and shown us how to move forward in making TNR work here. We are a model for new groups starting out and the work is spreading. There are fledgling groups beginning in both Seminole and VolusiaCounty. And Laws and views are changing.
Connie has decided to take a much deserved break and so has resigned from her position as our President. We hope that Connie will continue to be involved as much as time allows. Her experience and Insight are invaluable.
Sandra Rogers, in addition to many other tasks within CARE, is our Confirmation Volunteer. She has developed a new confirmation procedures and has been working all weekend, every weekend, for the past year and a half for us to take full advantage of the appointments allotted us by OCAS. Due to her diligence we have lost less than 1% of our available appointments to no shows ( An improvement on 30 - 50% prior to her efforts).
Thank you to both these women for your extreme dedication to the CARE effort and the Cats of Orange County. You are both an inspiration and I hope we will all look to your example and continue to work together towards eliminating the homeless pet population through TNR.
CARE NEEDS YOU!
Calling All Cat Lovers
We need at least two people to help with returning the daily voice messages. If we are not able to fill this critical position people will have to wait several days to have their calls returned. We do occasionally get time sensitive calls and cats will suffer for this. Without the CARE Callers to make appointments the entire program will shut down! Please consider helping even if only for a few months.
CARE Callers need to:
¨Be very familiar with the CARE Program (preferably used it at least two to three times)
¨Have access to the internet and basic computer skills (know how to cut and past and navigate two or more windows) for making appointments .
¨Have access to a phone to make calls .
¨Be willing to help people find appropriate alternatives if our service is not appropriate. (not solve the problem, just give them some resources) .
¨Have one to three hours one day per week to return voice mail calls
We also desperately need help with loaning traps
¨A place to store at least four traps at any given time out of the sun and rain. .
¨Two to three nights each week (not always the same nights that is up to you) to coordinate pick up and instruct new users on the use of the traps .
¨The ability to be reached by phone and return calls within 36 hours .
¨Ability to track at least 6 and up to 20 traps and keep up with paperwork so that you know where they all are
¨Live in North, South, West, or Central Orange County.
We Would like to send newsletters like this at least Quarterly. But, We need a writer to put it all together! Let us know if you are willing to be our Editor!
Business Notes:
New Board Announced
Announcing the 2007 CARE Board Members. The entire group can be reached at Board@carefelinerescue.org Each office has an email account as well.President – Pres@carefelinerescue.org - Lisa Freeman, Vice President – VPres@CareFelineRescue.org - Jean Dell, Treasurer – Tres@CareFelineRescue.org - Barb Logan, Secretary – Sec@CareFelineRescue.org - Susan Shaw, Members At Large - Warren (Chip) Steel and Stuart Bogue.
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