Cat trapping is more labor intensive than herding cats. The women volunteer their time to go to the site, meet with the person requesting assistance to learn about the number and condition of the cats needing to be sterilized, organize the trappings, transport the cats for sterilization and return them safely to the site if they cannot be adopted. It often takes numerous visits to address a colony because they can’t trap all the cats in one visit due to the shortage of traps and/or they don’t have the funding to pay for the sterilization. Quite often, the people who call them provide food for the cats but don’t have the means to capture them or the resources to pay to sterilize them. Sandra and Jazmín often pay for the sterilizations, request donations, or hold raffles to raise funding. If they encounter a litter of kittens or cats that are domesticated, they try to find forever homes for them. They care for cats that they rescue, feed them, deworm and in case of an illness they receive veterinary care until their recovery they are finally sterilized and then given them up for responsible adoption.

They currently know of eight colonies and typically learn of two colonies every week.  At this time, they are transporting these animals on their scooters which is stressful for both the cats and the women! Yikes! They need funding to purchase more traps, pay for sterilization and transportation.

This simple quote by Sandra says it all and speaks for all our partners, “We are willing to work harder in order to help more animals”.

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