Neighbor News
ARF to Hold Spay/Neuter Clinic for Feral Cats
Now booking free surgery appointments for community (feral) cats in our area.
In recognition of Spay/Neuter Awareness Month, ARF Hamptons is pleased to offer a free feral cat surgery clinic for community (feral) cats and kittens in the area through its Operation Cat program on Tuesday, February 13. This free clinic will take place at the ARF Adoption Center, at 124 Daniels Hole Road in East Hampton. Appointments are required. To reserve a spot, call 631.537.0400 x202. Leave a message and someone will return your call to confirm your appointment.
About ARF’s Operation Cat Program
Through a vast network of volunteers Operation Cat (Op Cat) humanely reduces the growing number and needless suffering of homeless, feral and stray cats by using an effective trap/neuter/return strategy (TNR). Volunteer caretakers provide food, water and shelter for over 1,000 cat colonies, ranging in size from two to thirty cats. They trap the cats, bring them to the Adoption Center where they are altered and vaccinated, and then release them back to their colony. One of the cat’s ears is notched to identify it as an altered cat so it is not mistakenly trapped again. Since the program’s inception in 1997, over 35,000 feral cats from Speonk to Montauk and most recently Brookhaven township have been altered.
ARF’s Op Cat program offers free spay/neuter surgeries for free-roaming cats trapped in the Towns of East Hampton, Southampton, Shelter Island and Brookhaven.
