! HAPPY NEW YEAR & HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY ! We have tentative dates for our Tri-Valley Fix Our Ferals 2010 clinics – starting Sunday, February 21st – see the Clinic Dates page for details. And join us this year as TVFOF and its amazing supporters (veterinarians, veterinary technicians, volunteers and caregivers) continue our efforts to make the greater Tri-Valley area a better place for feral cats and prepare to celebrate the organization’s 5th anniversary in October!

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TVFOF has joined four TerraCycle brigades™ – Chip Bag, Cookie Bag, Drink Pouch and Energy Bar Wrapper. Drop off these bags, wrappers and pouches at a TVFOF clinic or put them in the mail to us – and we’ll make sure they stay out of landfills and are put to good use earning cash for TVFOF!

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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 (as determined by the lead veterinarian ) wi ll 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 $38 per cat per clinic for drugs and medications. All donations are gratefully accepted!