As I write this, we are close to 1900 cats since we became an official organization in September '07. It was the end of July last year when we achieved 1,000 and it took us 18 months to do that. To have helped another nine hundred in just 12 months is amazing!

It would be great to be able to report that we were going to achieve our 2,000th cat in July, but I just don't think our transport and recovery resources will enable us to do that. We should make that goal by the end of August, I'm crossing my fingers! We've had new volunteers that have helped lighten the load tremendously, but we just don't seem to be able to create more time in everyone's schedule! If you or someone you know would like to help us, please contact us!

"June is for Kittens" Results

Our donors were extremely generous and we received $2,265 at this writing to cover the costs of neutering 41 kittens in June! That is a huge amount and we are very grateful. Many people gave well above their comfort level and their generosity will have a far-reaching effect. Those kittens will NOT go on to create more kittens and the ones we have neutered and fostered will go on to happy homes. A huge win-win and we cannot express how much we appreciate your help!

(Special note: - After this President's letter was written, we received an additional donation of $500!  This brings our total received to $2,765 - exceeding our goal!)

Cataoke - Karaoke for Cat Lovers

Please join us for our summer event - Cataoke! This is our latest version of Wet Your Whiskers and we hope to provide everyone with a really enjoyable event. Attendees are already making plans about which songs they will perform! We will have appetizers, cash bar, 50-50 raffle and lots of fun! We'll be offering to sing for a $5 donation and the DJ has an extensive play list! Bring donations from our wish list to "Fill Our Van" to receive a raffle ticket for a gift basket. Pre-register for $15 by mailing to our P.O. Box by 7/15 or by PayPal by 7/16 and join us for a lot of fun!

Read more from our President this month here.

On July 17th, Feral Fixers will host its second annual "Wet Your Whiskers" get-together and fundraiser. We will be holding this event at the Elmhurst Public House, located at 683 W St. Charles Rd in Elmhurst, IL from 7:00pm to 10:00pm.

This event was a lot of fun last year and this year, it promises to be even more fun! We are having a karaoke theme this year, but since it's a cat-friendly event, we've named it 'Cataoke'.

Live music will be provided by Directors, Officers and Volunteers of Feral Fixers singing their favorite tunes for $5 donations!

As we did at last year's event, we will again feature Fill the Van.  We will have a van parked outside where you can donate cat food, cat litter or any other item on our Wish List to Feral Fixers.  For every item you donate, you will receive raffle tickets for a Gift Basket!

In addition to the Live Music, there will be appetizers, a cash bar, a 50-50 raffle and some cat-themed items to purchase!

Tickets are $20 at the door and $15 in advance.  If you wish to purchase the "Early Bird" special tickets, just click on the Buy Now button, below, or visit our website and purchase the tickets there.

In the June 2nd issue of the Forest Park Review, columnist John Rice talks about how volunteers in Forest Park (with the blessing of the village 'elders') are promoting and practicing Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) to deal with their local feral cat issue.

Money quote from the article: "The Group is called CATS for Forest Park.  The acronym stands for Care-And-Trap/neuter/release Strays. They have the blessing of the village and the sponsorship of Animal Care League, the shelter in Oak Park, to monitor and feed the cat colonies, while reducing their population through sterilization."

Forest park "gets it" - and that's great to see!

You can read the entire article here.

Feral Fixers was founded in September of 2007. In that abbreviated first year, Feral Fixers had 86 cats spayed / neutered. In 2008, Feral Fixers had 525 cats spayed / neutered and in 2009, Feral Fixers had 868 cats spayed / neutered. So far in 2010, Feral Fixers has had 407 cats spayed / neutered.  This is 70 cats more than what we had TNR'd last year at this time.

This brings us to a total of 1,886 cats. Clicking on the calculator to the right will send you to the Feral Fixers 'Statistics' page where you can see our progress, month-by-month, since we've started work.

Want to purchase something purr-fect for your cat-lover friends and help out Feral Fixers at the same time?  Just visit our Café Press store and Buy Something! In addition to the Calendar shown to the right, we have T-shirts, sweatshirts, aprons, hoodies, gym bags, messenger bags, coffee mugs, tote-bags, pet food bowls, etc. A portion of each sale goes to help us in our TNR efforts.