How You Can Help
Learn how to Help Community Cats in Your Own Community.
Help Us Care for Community Cats
Donate Food or Funds
The Community Cat Coalition is a 100% all-volunteer organization. When you help by providing food or funds, it is going directly to the cats and will be used in one of 3 ways:
- Spay neuter for community cats.
- Providing vouchers for CCC members who are actively doing TNR in our communities.
- Sponsoring spay neuter clinics in Washington State.
- Food for CCC members who are caring for community cat colonies.
- Medical supplies like vaccines, flea and worm medication. We also provide Convenia, and injectible antibiotic, for our local spay neuter clinics.
Learn How to do TNR
Educate Yourself
Find a Mentor
Many of us learned how to do TNR by looking up information online, but finding a local trapper to teach you the ropes can help you avoid a lot of mistakes. Veterinarians, no kill shelters and rescues often work with trappers and may be able to connect you with someone.
Take a Class
The Community Cat Coaltion offers classes on demand in the Pacific Northwest. Do you have a cat situation in your neighorhood? Gather a group of friends and email us at CCCofWaTNRClass @gmail.com to request a class tailored to your situation.
Here is a YouTube link to an ASL interpreted class we did a few years ago.
Ask Questions
Do you have questions about trapping? Email the CCC for information or resources at CCCofWa@gmail.com
As an all volunteer organization, we don’t have the manpower to do the trapping for you, but we can walk you through the process and hook you up with resources in the Puget Sound area.
- Traps and wildlife cameras are available to borrow with a 100% refundable deposit.
- The Puget Sound area has many free or inexpensive spay neuter resources. Tell us your location and we can send you information on the clinics near you.
Be an Advocate for Community Cats
Educate Your Community
Trap-Neuter-Return is the only proven way to control cat population. Communities wishing to tackle over-population, need to make spay-neuter a priority. It’s humane and it works! Check out this TNR video by Best Friends.
- Communities save money because fewer cats are using resources at public shelters. Intakes are expensive and shelter space is limited.
- Nuisance problems like fighting, spraying and using yards as litterboxes is reduced or even eliminated after TNR.
- TNR programs help owned cats because it reduces the number of unvaccinated cats.
Foster Cats or Kittens
Foster for a Shelter or Rescue
One of the best ways to reduce euthanasia in your local shelter is to volunteer to be a foster parent. You will be doing more than saving lives! Cats in foster care aren’t exposed to shelter viruses that can have long lasting effects. Home care leads to faster socialization and decreases the risk of them being miscategorized as a barn cat. And when it comes time for them to be adopted, you will be able to give the shelter detailed information on their personality, likes and dislikes. This improves their chances of being adopted into a home that values those personality traits. These cats are less likely to be returned when their adopters find them to be a poor match for their household.
If you are interested in fostering, contact your local shelter and see if they have a foster program. If they don’t, help them get one started.
P.O. Box 1236
Mukilteo, Wa 98275
Email: CCCofWa@gmail.com
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