Feral Cat Program
Feral cats are the offspring of stray or abandoned domestic cats who revert to a wild state. Raised without human contact, they are afraid of humans. Despite a high mortality rate among kittens, feral cats are successful survivors, who exist by scavenging through garbage and leftover restaurant food and from handouts provided by sympathetic people.

Our Animal Control Officer estimates that there are at least 500 feral cats in Hull.
Two non-neutered cats and their cumulative offspring (assuming a survival rate of 3 cats per litter) can produce over 500,000 cats during their lifetime. This is way too many cats for a town that encompasses a mere three square miles!

The Hull Seaside Animal Rescue promotes the non-lethal and humane control of the local feral cat program through our trap-neuter-vaccinate-return (TNVR) program. This effectively reduces the feral cat population by sterilization – as opposed to euthanasia, disease, over-breeding and starvation and coyotes. In the past few months alone, we have treated over 100 feral cats and have socialized and fostered an additional 50 feral kittens.

Our goal is to continue to educate and encourage individuals and neighborhood associations to help us trap-neuter-return our feral colonies, build feral care stations (so they don’t set up homes in your house!) and provide on-going care, shelter, food, supervision, and medical treatment, while finding homes domestic stray cats who join the colony.

Attempts to eradicate whole colonies of cats usually fail because other strays soon fill the ecological vacuum created. Unmanaged colonies are often regarded as a nuisance because of territorial behavior such as spraying, fighting, and caterwauling during mating periods. Neutering results in healthier animals and eliminates undesirable behavior. Sterilization programs stabilize and reduce the colonies. Management of a colony includes regularly feeding and monitoring of the colony as well as providing winter shelter if necessary.

It costs us $75.00 to trap/neuter/vaccinate each feral cat. We have several colonies on our "neuter/vaccinate" waiting list and our funds are quickly running out. Please consider making a financial donation to help us with our neuter/vaccinate operations. Donate