Care for Cats is a long-term project aimed at increasing the value of owned, homeless and feral cats in Canada.

Year of the Cat is CFC’s first Canada-wide campaign that addresses the issue of cat overpopulation and recognizes that people, not cats, are the problem.  YOC will focus awareness on key messages such as: provide routine veterinary care, identify and register felines.  This campaign will result in an increased understanding of the most popular pet in Canada – the cat.

Both initiatives are a means to help communities across Canada present a powerful and unified message about responsible cat ownership by:

                    
• encouraging community collaboration across all industry sectors;
• creating community spay/neuter and vet care assistance programs;
• developing and sharing effective methods of delivering spay/neuter financial assistance programs;
• improving existing Trap/Neuter/Release programs and introducing TNR to new communities;
• creating a national time-line of events such as adopt-a-thons and an identification week; and,
• collecting and evaluating national metrics to measure success.

Anyone! Animal welfare organizations, municipalities, pet stores, veterinary clinics and pet families may hop aboard the Year of the Cat bandwagon! There are many things we can all do within our own spheres of influence, to positively affect cats and their wellbeing. Take what you are doing, use the resources we provide and paint it all cat! With the Year of the Cat resources available, the plan is to get people working together to create responsible and compassionate communities where people care for cats.

Provides free of charge support materials for anyone interested in promoting better care for cats.
Encouraging collaboration amongst all community stakeholders to create amicable solutions and public awareness of the problem.

Appreciate the feline species and foster more responsible cat ownership, which in turn will decrease the daily euthanasia of thousands of adoptable cats.

Start treating cats with the same respect and reverence as they do their canine companions: provide permanent identification and registration, routine veterinary care and licensing (where applicable).

Spaying and neutering is an extremely important tactic to curb cat over-population and improve cats' overall health and wellbeing.

Animal shelter 'Return-to-Owner' rates for cats can be dramatically increased through identification, registration and licensing.