Kittens For Adoption After Neighbors' Successful Stratford TNR Effort
How cute are these munchkins? Neighbor Michael writes about a large trap, neuter, and release effort on Catford Stratford Road we mentioned would be happening a few weeks back in a post about a decidedly less humane form of controlling the local feral population–trying to poison them. He says:
Our TNR project was completed with a very high degree of success. We were able to capture all of the females and a majority of the male cats. I personally am fostering four kittens that we have up for adoption.
The first pair are two eight week old siblings named Bonnie and Clyde (above). These two have a pretty amazing story that starts with being soaked by someone, then placed in a bucket, taken indoors by a mentally insane woman and fed pasta, only to be rescued when the NYC Marshal evicted this woman from her apartment.
Being only four weeks old when separated from their mother, they are lucky to have survived. We do think that woman had cut their whiskers, but fortunate for them, they will grow back. They are super friendly, playful, oddly fearless, and are a pair of little outlaws at play. I named them Bonnie & Clyde for good measure.
I also have two sisters who are eleven weeks old and are still progressing on being socialized. They are Rollo and Ginny (below) and would best if someone who has experience with rescues to adopt. Rollo is the tux girl and Ginny is her tabby (kind of tabby tux) sister. To me, they’re the dapper duo, one classic and the other from the seventies. Ginny is still quite shy and working up to being a sweetie.
“I see the only solution [to the number of local feral cats] being neighbors from each and every block addressing the cats who reside there, and managing the problem until the population is no longer living on our streets,” Michael says.
If you or anyone you know is looking to adopt, you can find the rescued Stratford kittens through the Brooklyn Bridge Animal Welfare Coalition. Now, check out Michael’s awesome photos of some other cats helped by the TNR operation here, and a great video of them all below!
All photos by Michael Meysarosh