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Feral Cat Rescue of Southern Maryland

Great Mills, MD
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www.feralcatrescuemd.org/

    • Mission

    Feral Cat Rescue, Inc. is a non-profit, all-volunteer organization dedicated to humanely reducing the feral and stray cat population in St. Mary’s County through a variety of methods without euthanasia. With our Trap, Neuter, Return, and Maintain program, feral cats are humanely trapped, then evaluated, vaccinated, and sterilized by veterinarians. Healthy cats too wild to be adopted are returned to their familiar habitat under the lifelong care of volunteers or those people already feeding them. Under our adoption program, the kittens and domestic cats that are adoptable are temporarily placed with foster families until they can be permanently adopted into good homes. We are a 501(c)3 charity. Most of our monetary donations pay our veterinary bills. Volunteers and foster parents/families are always needed and welcome.

    About Us

    In 2007 when Feral Cat Rescue was founded, Tri-County Shelter was euthanizing 550 cats per month. In 2017, the number dropped to 160 per month due to the efforts of Feral Cat Rescue volunteers as well as the efforts of other rescue groups in the tri-county area. We believe the humane solution to the feral cat population is TRAP / NEUTER / RETURN / MAINTAIN rather than euthanasia. We vet over 400 cats a year and return them to their homes where members of the community continue to maintain these cats by providing food and water daily along with veterinarian care when needed. We are only able to foster about 120 cats a year. We do not take in feral adults. When we have room we may take in kittens under the age of 8 weeks to foster. We sometimes take in already domesticated adults.

    ​Our main goals are:

    ​1. Trap, Neuter, Return, Maintain (TNRM).

    2. Provide education, grants, and traps to the community in order to reduce the feral cat population.

    3. Find loving forever homes for domestic cats/kittens.

    Cause Areas Include

    • Animals

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