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Tri-Valley Fix Our Ferals
P.O. Box 52
Danville, CA 94526
Because every cat matters.
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At our last clinic of 2011 (Sunday, December 11), TVFOF’s amazing group of vets, vet techs and volunteers fixed 64 cats (including 35 spays and 29 neuters) – bringing the grand total for our six years to 2,300 cats ‘served’! This is a phenomenal number, which does not even begin to encompass the untold number of litters spared a sad life on the streets. The cats seen at TVFOF clinics have so little – and during this holiday season as well as through the year, we thank everyone involved (from our wonderful caretakers and volunteers to our fantastic vet techs and veterinarians) for giving them perhaps the greatest gifts of all – improved health, quality and length of life! We are still working on TVFOF’s 2012 clinic schedule and will update the Clinic Dates page of this website as well as our phone (925-264-7703) as soon as we can. Sorry, but we cannot take any reservations for the February clinic until Monday, January 9. In the meantime, for all who help our feral feline friends, we wish you goodness in your lives on a par with the good you do for these deserving cats all year! |
The Tri-Valley Fix Our Ferals Board of Directors wishes to acknowledge a major donation to the TVFOF organization from the estate of the late Marcellina Coca. According to one of her grandsons (Adam), Marcellina worked hard all of the 95 years she was on this earth. She loved animals and cared for the stray cats in her neighborhood. When she died, Marcellina left instructions that part of her estate was to be donated to a cat rescue group. Given that saving money was a lot harder “back in the day”, Adam felt strongly that his grandmother’s money should go to a local, all-volunteer group where all of it would be used “properly” to help the cats. As it turns out, Adam works with a TVFOF volunteer – and when he heard about the mission of Tri-Valley Fix Our Ferals, Adam knew he’d found the right place for his grandmother’s money. From the bottom of our hearts, the TVFOF organization extends a sincere thank-you to the late Marcellina Coca and her thoughtful grandson, Adam, for their most generous donation! We promise that all of the money will be used to help those cats brought to a TVFOF's clinic – for, as Adam requested, those cats "who really need it the most"! |
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Tri-Valley Fix Our Ferals (TVFOF) provides free spay/neuter services for feral cats (three months of age and older) living in the greater Tri-Valley area of northern California – offering a humane, effective and nationally-recognized alternative (“Trap-Neuter-Return”) to euthanizing these cats in local animal shelters as a means of population control. Per our mission statement , a FERAL CAT is defined as a cat that cannot be handled and could not be brought into the clinic without being trapped. Cats in carriers as well as cats who display overt affection in the trap will be turned away. In addition, the right ear of all cats admitted to each clinic is “tipped” (the standard means of identifying that a feral cat has been fixed). Because it is the case that these spay-neuter clinics are most likely the one chance these feral cats will have at veterinary care, there will be no exceptions to these TVFOF clinic policies.
Modeled after similar programs in other cities across the U.S., TVFOF offers bimonthly clinics at a local veterinary facility to spay or neuter as many feral cats as financial and volunteer resources allow. In addition to spay/neuter and as resources allow, TVFOF offers a number of services to the cats brought in to its clinics – from fluids, flea treatment and vaccinations to minor surgery for such things as abscesses and tooth removal.We even send homemedication with those catsneeding extra help during their recovery.
All services are provided by volunteer veterinarians, veterinary technicians and caring members of the cat-loving public. These services are offered free-of-charge, though the expenses that TVFOF does incur run approximately $40 per cat per clinic for drugs and medications. All donations are gratefully accepted!