Animal Welfare Professionals

Does anyone keep track of the community cats they assist?  If so what all information do you collect and how do you store it?  Do you work with a local shelters to make sure the cats are returned to their home?  And is this verbal contract or a legal contract? Do  caregivers of the cats approve of your attempt to keep this information?   
#CommunityCatManagement

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Kathie Stafford
Director
Curious Cats 4 TNR INC
Rockport IN
812-489-3185
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Look at Catstats its a great program and has wonderful resources.  Catstats.org

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Geri Wheelis
Co-Founder
Animal Advocates For Change
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Geri - thank you so much I will definitely look into this database as I start my rescue nonprofit this year.  I've been in the Kansas and Kansas City rescue community for 10 years, so I'm finally making it official!!  Thx.

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Cindy Weber
Founder & CEO
Purrecious Nine Lives Rescue & Sanctuary
Shawnee KS
8168038988
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-20-2023 12:56 PM
From: Geri Wheelis
Subject: Keeping track

Look at Catstats its a great program and has wonderful resources.  Catstats.org

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Geri Wheelis
Co-Founder
Animal Advocates For Change
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Just to add- Catstats was designed by Neighborhood Cats and there is a very minimal fee to use the program.  If you go to this link: https://www.communitycatspodcast.com/community-cat-care-training-education/  
and scroll down to the bottom of the page there is a link to a recording that walks you through cat stats so you can check it out.

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Stacy LeBaron
Head Cat
The Community Cats Podcast
Warren VT
978-239-2090
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-20-2023 12:56 PM
From: Geri Wheelis
Subject: Keeping track

Look at Catstats its a great program and has wonderful resources.  Catstats.org

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Geri Wheelis
Co-Founder
Animal Advocates For Change
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Hmmn. We have never been charged for using CatStats. Is that a new thing? Tx!

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Geri Wheelis
Co-Founder
Animal Advocates For Change
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-21-2023 03:09 AM
From: Stacy LeBaron
Subject: Keeping track

Just to add- Catstats was designed by Neighborhood Cats and there is a very minimal fee to use the program.  If you go to this link: https://www.communitycatspodcast.com/community-cat-care-training-education/  
and scroll down to the bottom of the page there is a link to a recording that walks you through cat stats so you can check it out.

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Stacy LeBaron
Head Cat
The Community Cats Podcast
Warren VT
978-239-2090
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-20-2023 12:56 PM
From: Geri Wheelis
Subject: Keeping track

Look at Catstats its a great program and has wonderful resources.  Catstats.org

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Geri Wheelis
Co-Founder
Animal Advocates For Change

I'm a TNR group and save information about all cats we help, anywhere from 1,000 to 1,500 each year. I also maintain a map of this information using Google Maps which allows us to see where folks are feeding in case there's situations in the future where we need to find out who is feeding nearby, folks who can keep an eye out for a lost cat, etc. The larger groups will call us for the map information as well if someone say brings in a feral cat that they can't adopt to see if anyone near that area recognizes the cat so they can release it on their property safely, other similar situations. It's incredibly helpful to have. In the data I collect I keep track of male/female, if they were s/n, if they were PTS due to disease (extremely helpful for monitoring colony health), which cats were friendly enough for adoption, rough age of cats (below 6 months, over 6 months, and senior over 10 years) as well as exactly which cats went back to the community.

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Jacqueline Betty
Charles River Alleycats
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Hi Jacqueline - I'm curious what database you are using?  You're doing an amazing job at keeping track of all that information, not to mention how many cats you are helping in your community.  I'm finally officially starting my nonprofit this year and definitely need to learn more about available databases.  Thanks so much!!!

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Cindy Weber
Founder & CEO
Purrecious Nine Lives Rescue & Sanctuary
Shawnee KS
8168038988
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-20-2023 04:10 PM
From: Jacqueline Betty
Subject: Keeping track

I'm a TNR group and save information about all cats we help, anywhere from 1,000 to 1,500 each year. I also maintain a map of this information using Google Maps which allows us to see where folks are feeding in case there's situations in the future where we need to find out who is feeding nearby, folks who can keep an eye out for a lost cat, etc. The larger groups will call us for the map information as well if someone say brings in a feral cat that they can't adopt to see if anyone near that area recognizes the cat so they can release it on their property safely, other similar situations. It's incredibly helpful to have. In the data I collect I keep track of male/female, if they were s/n, if they were PTS due to disease (extremely helpful for monitoring colony health), which cats were friendly enough for adoption, rough age of cats (below 6 months, over 6 months, and senior over 10 years) as well as exactly which cats went back to the community.

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Jacqueline Betty
Charles River Alleycats
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I just use Google Sheets, we don't have a budget for an actual program or anything. I've included a little snapshot of what it looks like, I've hidden a few of the columns but in general this is how it looks. I then take this information and maintain the google maps in just a few clicks. I don't specifically include it when I'm speaking to anyone about it but I've been doing this for 6 years now and our group has maintained a more rough version of this for at least 5 years before I came along and nobody has ever had a problem. Anytime I've ever had to explain to someone why I'm reaching out there's never been a problem and they've been happy to help cats in need since they're often the ones who called us to help cats in the first place. There is no waiver I have them sign or anything.

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Jacqueline Betty
Charles River Alleycats
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-20-2023 05:24 PM
From: Cindy Weber
Subject: Keeping track

Hi Jacqueline - I'm curious what database you are using?  You're doing an amazing job at keeping track of all that information, not to mention how many cats you are helping in your community.  I'm finally officially starting my nonprofit this year and definitely need to learn more about available databases.  Thanks so much!!!

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Cindy Weber
Founder & CEO
Purrecious Nine Lives Rescue & Sanctuary
Shawnee KS
8168038988
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-20-2023 04:10 PM
From: Jacqueline Betty
Subject: Keeping track

I'm a TNR group and save information about all cats we help, anywhere from 1,000 to 1,500 each year. I also maintain a map of this information using Google Maps which allows us to see where folks are feeding in case there's situations in the future where we need to find out who is feeding nearby, folks who can keep an eye out for a lost cat, etc. The larger groups will call us for the map information as well if someone say brings in a feral cat that they can't adopt to see if anyone near that area recognizes the cat so they can release it on their property safely, other similar situations. It's incredibly helpful to have. In the data I collect I keep track of male/female, if they were s/n, if they were PTS due to disease (extremely helpful for monitoring colony health), which cats were friendly enough for adoption, rough age of cats (below 6 months, over 6 months, and senior over 10 years) as well as exactly which cats went back to the community.

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Jacqueline Betty
Charles River Alleycats

I also use Google sheets - and we use Google My Map - to track our cat colonies. Both are free. Google sheets has each cat's details (male/female, location from, etc) and Google My Map has colony locations/# TNR'ed/Status. 

Highly recommend Google My Map - makes it VERY easy to plug in new locations that come up and see if (1) we've already been there, (2) we have contacts in that area, and (3) if we can work on multiple locations at once since they are close together!

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Erin Dams
Roanoke Valley SPCA
Roanoke VA
5403396550
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-21-2023 01:27 PM
From: Jacqueline Betty
Subject: Keeping track

I just use Google Sheets, we don't have a budget for an actual program or anything. I've included a little snapshot of what it looks like, I've hidden a few of the columns but in general this is how it looks. I then take this information and maintain the google maps in just a few clicks. I don't specifically include it when I'm speaking to anyone about it but I've been doing this for 6 years now and our group has maintained a more rough version of this for at least 5 years before I came along and nobody has ever had a problem. Anytime I've ever had to explain to someone why I'm reaching out there's never been a problem and they've been happy to help cats in need since they're often the ones who called us to help cats in the first place. There is no waiver I have them sign or anything.

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Jacqueline Betty
Charles River Alleycats
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-20-2023 05:24 PM
From: Cindy Weber
Subject: Keeping track

Hi Jacqueline - I'm curious what database you are using?  You're doing an amazing job at keeping track of all that information, not to mention how many cats you are helping in your community.  I'm finally officially starting my nonprofit this year and definitely need to learn more about available databases.  Thanks so much!!!

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Cindy Weber
Founder & CEO
Purrecious Nine Lives Rescue & Sanctuary
Shawnee KS
8168038988


Original Message:
Sent: 01-20-2023 04:10 PM
From: Jacqueline Betty
Subject: Keeping track

I'm a TNR group and save information about all cats we help, anywhere from 1,000 to 1,500 each year. I also maintain a map of this information using Google Maps which allows us to see where folks are feeding in case there's situations in the future where we need to find out who is feeding nearby, folks who can keep an eye out for a lost cat, etc. The larger groups will call us for the map information as well if someone say brings in a feral cat that they can't adopt to see if anyone near that area recognizes the cat so they can release it on their property safely, other similar situations. It's incredibly helpful to have. In the data I collect I keep track of male/female, if they were s/n, if they were PTS due to disease (extremely helpful for monitoring colony health), which cats were friendly enough for adoption, rough age of cats (below 6 months, over 6 months, and senior over 10 years) as well as exactly which cats went back to the community.

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Jacqueline Betty
Charles River Alleycats

Hi! Our Pets for Life mentorship partners all track the community cats they work with. They collect the same information as for owned pets and it's stored in our PFL custom database.  We have a checkbox to mark which cats are community cats. They can track basic demographic info about each cat plus any supplies/services/meds given.

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M Saucedo
GIS Analyst
Pets for Life
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