Shadow Cats

Shadow Cats is Janet Jensen’s account of how she became involved with stray/feral cat rescue in her New York City neighbourhood, and how she ultimately found success as a rescuer by using a combination of adoption and trap/neuter/return methods.  If I lived in New York City, I can see how I could quickly become Janet Jensen—it would be so easy to become wrapped up in the care of the local strays and ferals, especially when there are other, nefarious people around who’d just as soon poison the cats as help them out.  Through a combination of trial, error, help, and advice from others, Jensen learns how to determine which cats have adoption potential, and which cats are truly feral and only happy when not in captivity.  In the book she tells a number of “socialization” stories, and as a reader you quickly feel a sense of relief when female cats in the colony are spayed, and there are no more kittens to worry about.  Jensen’s story is unique in that I think she’s the only “cat person” I know of who only lived with one cat, as her cat was so stressed and unhappy with interlopers that a second cat was just out of the question—perhaps she’s lucky because she had incentive to not keep them all smile

This is definitely a good overview of how TNR works in practice, and there are some entertaining cats and human characters along the way as well.  If you buy the book from Amazon’s third-party sellers, buy the new, $9.00 copy from the seller, “JanetJen1”.  Janet Jensen is selling these books herself and signs them for the buyer, so it would make a nice gift for the cat lover in your life.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 12/09 at 08:12 PM

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  1. grin i like shadow cats

    Posted by brenda  on  01/26  at  10:42 AM
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