October 16 is National Feral Cat Day. The Day promotes the humane population method of trap-neuter-vaccinate-return. J.L. Harris, who died in 2012, as you already know, single handedly carried t-n-v-r in Vance County from 1987.
This event at Tractor Supply promotes t-n-v-r; our outreach through you and Mr. Rush and the Dispatch seeks to locate people who are already feeding free-roaming community cats, are interested in continuing to do so and also humanely controlling their numbers. Like any media outreach we try to show/reach people who care or don’t know they care.
Area residents are invited to bring their well-manned, secured on a lead or in carrier pets to be blessed. The Blessing will be at 11:00 a.m. Chief Frankie Nobles and his Vance County Animal Control staff will offer a rabies clinc from 9:00 a.m – 12:00 noon. People can also bring animal food to be donated to caregivers of free-roaming community cat colonies or to Vance County Animal Control. The 11:00 a.m. program will also include brief talks by area animal activists as well as recognitions of people making a difference in a postive way for Vance County’s “unwanted” companion animals