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  • 1.  How do you train your volunteers to trap?

    Posted 01-05-2023 06:10 AM

    How are you currently training your volunteers to help with your trapping and TNR programs? 

    Community Cats Podcast is hosting their monthly TNR Certification Workshop this Saturday, January 7 from 2 - 4:30 p.m. ET. Session is 2.5 hours long, followed by an optional 15-minute Q&A. 


    Presented by Neighborhood Cats, this session will cover everything a new volunteer (or staff member, or friend) will need to know about trapping and colony care. Plus, there is a chance to win a humane box trap from Tomahawk Traps! 

    Attendees who attend the session will receive a certificate after they complete a brief quiz.

    Registration is $10. Register for the event here. 

    Learn more about the workshop and related events in our Community Cat Care Training & Education center.

     

    We created these workshops to help more groups and organizations provide quality training and information to their teams. If you’d like to incorporate these workshops into your onboarding program, let us know! We’d be glad to work with you, and even create resources specific to your community that can be shared with anyone who attends from your group. Contact Stacy directly at stacy@communitycatspodcast.com to learn more about our collaboration opportunities. 

    TNR Certification Workshop Flyer


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    Brianna Lovell Myers
    Community Cats Podcast
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  • 2.  RE: How do you train your volunteers to trap?

    Posted 01-07-2023 11:39 AM
    Kudos to Community Cats Podcast and Neighborhood Cats for their wonderful workshops

    I took this workshop to refresh my trapping skills after a 34-year hiatus.  It was a great way to confirm that I had been well-trained in the basics in the early 1980's (New York) and that there are new equipment, tricks, and supplies I needed to get my hands on now. (Drop traps!!  Cameras!!  Woo-hoo!!)

    Kotor Kitties is a nonprofit HQHVSN and TNR program in Montenegro.  We offer scholarships to this workshop for any bilingual or English-speaking locals in Montenegro willing to help with trapping.   We also ask  any vacationers planning to come to Montenegro who want to help us to please take this course and volunteer with a local group for some hands-on trapping experience before they come!  

    My goal for the future is to have this workshop simultaneously translated for use in the Balkan countries of Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzgovina, Serbia and Macedonia, which share a common base language (and can communicate fluently).  TNR is in its infancy in these countries and the work/life practices make in-person workshops impossible to schedule.   These workshops are tremendously helpful to us!  (And the timing is perfect--in Montenegro it's a Saturday evening, from 8 - 10:30.  Dinner is over, young kids are in bed, but it's not too late to stay alert.)

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    April King
    Volunteer and Board Member
    Kotor Kitties
    +1 206 407 5336
    http://www.kotorkitties.org
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  • 3.  RE: How do you train your volunteers to trap?

    Posted 01-09-2023 05:48 AM
    April- you have been and continue to be a tremendous support of the Community Cats Podcast- thank you for the endorsement!  Good luck with everything that you are doing to help cats in your community.

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    Stacy LeBaron
    Head Cat
    The Community Cats Podcast
    Warren VT
    978-239-2090
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  • 4.  RE: How do you train your volunteers to trap?

    Posted 01-08-2023 07:24 PM
    I can't tell you how much I appreciate the workshops made available by Community Cats Podcast and Neighborhood Cats .   Before Covid we used to hold TNR educational programs for the public specifically targeting those who were caregivers of local colonies. New volunteers shadowed an experience trapper to learn "on the job".   Our group is very small relative to a lot of the rest of the groups on this forum and in recent years the volunteer base has shrunk.  For new volunteers interested in TNR I direct them to the above workshop and then go out with them into the field to show the techniques as they relate to particular colonies.   I then direct them to some of the other workshops in your portfolio such as the one focused on advanced drop trap techniques.  The materials and workshops produced by you guys makes groups like mine much more efficient.  Thank you! - Gwen/P.A.N.T in Dutchess County, NY

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    Gwen Harding-Peets
    Volunteer, TNR, foster, board member
    PANT
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  • 5.  RE: How do you train your volunteers to trap?

    Posted 01-09-2023 05:47 AM
    Gwen- thank you so much, I am so glad you find our programs helpful!  Keep up the great work.

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    Stacy LeBaron
    Head Cat
    The Community Cats Podcast
    Warren VT
    978-239-2090
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