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Open Window Issue 3 April 2010 Open your heart to our community’s homeless cats

Open Window Issue 3 April 2010 Open your heart to our community’s homeless cats. Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee

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Open Window Issue 3 April 2010 Open your heart to our community’s homeless cats

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  1. Open WindowIssue 3 April 2010 Open your heart to our community’s homeless cats • Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee • A 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. We are dedicated to the care of feral cats, and members of our group work on a volunteer basis to feed, water, and provide medical care for hundreds of feral cats in Knoxville and surrounding areas. We participate in a trap/neuter/return program in an effort to control the feral cat population. The TNR program is where feral cats are humanely trapped by volunteers, taken to a clinic to be spayed or neutered and vaccinated, and returned to their colony where they are most comfortable. We are not an adoption agency nor do we take in unwanted pets. Our organization only holds adoption fairs in order to find homes for socialized kittens born into feral colonies and to re-home stray pets that are abandoned in our colonies! We are funded solely from donations and fundraisers with 100% of money raised going directly to controlling and maintaining the feral cat population. • Monthly Meetings • Feral Feline Friends meets the second Tuesday of every month at Mr. Gatti’s at 6913 Kingston Pike (just west of Papermill Road.) Please come so you can learn about how you can help the feral cats of our community. • REMINDER! • Now that it is Spring, the temperature will continue to rise. Please remember to give your cats plenty of fresh, clean water. “Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives?” Louis Camuti

  2. The Escaping Cats Not thinking anything bad would happen, owners Tony and Angie put their female cats, that were going to PPaws, in their young son's bedroom the other night. Then they left the male cats in the other part of their home. Waking up at around 5:00 A.M., they couldn't find any of the cats. They searched everywhere. Then they looked outside and noticed that all of the cats were OUT OF THE HOUSE, immediately panic set in for them. Tony and Angie soon called Ida around 5:30A.M. and asked, "what do we do?". Ida told them to open the door and welcome them back in. That didn’t seem to work too well. How did they get out? It seems the cats were pure geniuses. They put their heads together and figured out that if the cats on the bedroom side put their paws under the door and pulled, and the cats in the living room pushed on the door, it would open. While they were committing their crime, they managed to take a vent up off the living room floor and they all went through the vent. Tony knew that on occasion they had a kitten come up the "unused air duct" from under their home, but he had no idea that they all knew this escape route. Then Ida cleverly told Angie to start cooking some bacon or sausage and open the door. Sure enough, here come the cats looking for breakfast, which they didn't get. Tony and Angie caught all the females except one, who hightailed it away from the house when she saw Tony carrying carries inside the house. They had managed to catch the other seven cats and brought them to PPaws on time. They have blocked off the "escape route" and are hoping that this incident will never happen again.

  3. Donation Care to donate to Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee? The cats would greatly appreciate anything you could manage to donate. Please help in anyways you can. Thanks! Support Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee  In Honor/Memory of Enclosed is my donation of: __$10 __$25 __$50 __$100 __Other Your donation will solely be used for the care of Knoxville’s feral colonies, to include spaying/neutering, food, or other necessary care. Your donations are tax deductible under section 501c3 of the IRS code. Please let us know if your employer will match your gift. Name Address Phone Email Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee P.O. Box 32121 Knoxville, TN 37930-2121 Phone: (865) 406-6980 Email: kfcf@comcast.net www.knoxvilleferalcatfriends.org Open Window is edited by Amanda Fort. To submit information for the newsletter, please contact her at amanda_1994@comcast.net

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