In observance of National
Feral Cat Day (October 16) and New
York Week for the Animals (October 10–18), the NYCFCI and the
ASPCA co-sponsored a Feral Cat Winter Shelter-Building Workshop, Demonstration
& Sale in South Ozone Park, Queens. Reinier Samsingh, a protégée
of shelter-building expert Ashot Karamian, provided instruction to a dozen
feral cat colony caretakers from all five NYC boroughs and Long Island.
Some attendees at the October 17 workshop actually built their own shelters,
while others simply observed the demonstration and purchased ready-made
shelters at a discounted price. Forty shelters were purchased, and straw
was provided with each shelter.
As icing on the cake, the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals
arranged to deliver 25 shelters to their destinations on its Wheels of
Hope Transport Vans!
