How We Help

The Cat People carry out a number of programs that benefit homeless and needy cats. Here are the highlights of these much-needed programs:

The Feral Cat Care and Feeding Program. Volunteers working with this program provide two square meals a day for several colonies of ferals living in a huge county park outside town, and twice-daily visits to assess the cats' condition, remove new arrivals for fostering/adoption, and otherwise keep tabs on the cats' health. If you should want to volunteer to become one of our Feral Feeders (training will be provided), you will have to make a comitment to one night or morning a week and promise to be regular! We often have cat food we can provide you with, but when we don't, we ask that you contribute a bag of kibble or some cans of food. This is a high-involvement, hands-on volunteer program, and the cats come to depend on you: if you're not there, they go hungry. If you think that helping with this program is for you, we would love to have you help us. Please give Barb Hays a call at 327-4706.

The Colonies Assistance Program. This program, begun in 1996, provides assistance to people who are trying to manage feral colonies -- whether it is a colony of strays in a downtown alley or a bunch beside a canal, or a couple of strays who wandered up to their back door. We provide guidance, traps, food (sometimes), and most importantly -- funds for fixing those ferals! Call our office and leave a message. we'll get back to you as soon as we can.

SPAY TODAY! This is The Cat People's voucher program, designed to help low income families spay or neuter their companion cats. Most local veterinarians accept the vouchers, which are good for $25.00 towards an alteration surgery. Call our office at 327-4706, and ask for a SPAY TODAY application. Be sure to clearly leave your address..
Emergency Assistance. This program lets us help when and as we can, and according to the funds we have available. If you have a cat emergency, call us at Pawsitively Cats 327-PAWS for quick action.
Senior Citizens' Veterinary Assistance Fund. We set up this fund with contributions made in the memory of Patty Harrell, our first Pawsitively Cats manager, and our Treasurer for many years. Patty died of cancer in 1999. We donate cat food, kibble and litter to many seniors around town, and help out with shots and spaying/neutering. Call our office to get on the list.

The Cat People
4909 Stockdale Highway PMB 246
Bakersfield, CA 93309
(661) 327-4706
e-mail us at: Alisa74@gmail.com