Our quarterly newsletter is filled with wonderful HCN news, educational information about cats, and fun stories celebrating our love for furry felines and the unique ways they bring smiles to our faces! To receive our newsletter please contact us with your name and address at info@homelesscatnetwork.org.
Author:
Barbara Kohn
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Judy Hnilo, a cat guardian and volunteer with the SF Peninsula’s Homeless Cat Network (HCN), is one of the three Grand Prize winners in the Purina Yesterday’s News “Do-Gooder Award Contest.” Hnilo won $5000 for herself and $15,000 for HCN for her efforts to help the environment by recycling cans and bottles. Yesterday’s News environmentally friendly cat litter sponsored the contest to celebrate the simple, eco-friendly choices cat owners make in their everyday lives.
Over 1500 cat guardians across the co...Read More
Author:
Peter
Every July the city of Burlingame hosts a weekend-long event in its Washington Park, an affair called Art in the Park. And every year Homeless Cat Network volunteers staff a booth offering information about feral and abandoned cats; their spaying, neutering, adoption, etc. There, next to and bantering with a booth from the Humane Society, HCN met with scores and scores of passing people curious to know about our HCN cat mission. We also heard dozens of proud stories about THEIR, the pass...Read More
Author:
Peter
There's little question left now, there must indeed be balm from Gilead. The Homeless Cat Network and Gilead Sciences in Foster City, California, are beginning a relationship that promises to humanely manage and reduce the abandoned cat colony on the campus of that innovative company. Gilead, with San Francisco Bay on the north side and a shopping center on the south, has been the victim of cat dumping for some time. Our Homeless Cat Network approached Gilead to assist in addressing their problem. Gil...Read More
Author:
Peter
The Homeless Cat Network is in the process of forging a relationship with a new student club at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont California whose immediate purpose will be the humane management of the feral cat colony on campus. Students, recongnizing that their beautiful campus is an inevitable target for abandoning companion cats, took the initiative to contact HCN for help. The result is the forming of a new student group, within the formal student body organization, that t...Read More
Author:
Peter McReynolds
Led by Judy Hnilo, Homeless Cat Network's recycling effort yielded $3.438.43 in 2008! In late 2004, in a good for the community "twofer", Judy started recycling discarded aluminum cans and plastic beverage bottles for cash. Cash to care for the many abandoned companion cats under HCN's wing. Since then, Judy's program has brought in a total of $10,375. That's a lot of needed and appreciated canned food and more. Judy collects recyclables herself and other volunteers contribute as well, some&n...Read More
Author:
Jim Lynch via Peter McReynolds
Our Homeless Cat Network has been named a Winner of the Zootoo.com 2008 Pet Lovers' Choice Awards in the Category of Rescue Groups and Organization. (Winners defined as one of the top three in each category.) These awards "recognize the very best of the pet world as rated by the hundreds of thousands of pet lovers in the Zootoo.com community" and "highlights America's top three service professionals in each category". HCN received a beautiful framed award certificate....Read More
Author:
Peter McReynolds
On November 25, 2008 our Cimeron Morrissey was able to inform us that the Homeless Cat Network's quarterly newsletter (which she so ably edits) Cat Tales , was named to a prestigious award, "Best Newsletter of the Year", by the Cat Writers Association. Cimeron tells us that the award was particularly appreciated because we were competing with "so many other well-known, highly celebrated publications." Cimeron provided a quote from the president of the Cat...Read More
Author:
Christine Morente, San Mateo County Times
DALY CITY — An orange tabby kitten ran across traffic on Southgate Avenue one day, his eyes crusted shut.
Nearby, a city worker saw the three-week-old feline frantically cross the street. He pulled over, ran and scooped him up. He dropped the kitten off at a Daly City library because he knew someone who could take care of it.
Not all feral cats in San Mateo County are so lucky.
The problem is that the majority of caregivers who regularly go out to feral cat colonies are anonymous and don't have the...Read More
Author:
Jim Lynch
November 5, 2007, SAN MATEO, CA – Homeless Cat Network (HCN) today announced that a member of their board of directors, Cimeron Morrissey, was chosen as Animal Planet’s Cat Hero of the Year. The prestigious national award carries a $5,000 prize, which Morrissey is donating to HCN. HCN is a Peninsula-based non-profit, all-volunteer feline rescue organization working to humanely reduce the homeless cat population through Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR), adoption, public education and responsible feral...Read More
Author:
Pat Wade
A few years ago, we brought home a new family member….an affectionate, needy cat. What a joy to have this special character in our slightly different home environment!
The Homeless Cat Network has its challenges finding homes for adult cats. Kittens seem to be more easily integrated into families. Thus, adoption of every homeless feline into a loving home is a success; and, greater success is achieved with placement of a special-needs adult feline into a loving home.
Our success story is about findi...Read More
Author:
Cookie McCrory
Homeless Cat Network will hold its annual Holiday Gourmet Bake Sale & Boutique on Saturday December 2nd from 10:00 AM until 4:00 PM in front of Dona's Hallmark, located at 717 Laurel St in San Carlos. Delicious bake goods will be available for sale and you can order our adorable Holiday Cat Cakes for family, co-workers and friends. Our Boutique Kitty Corner will feature many kitty-themed items that will make ideal holiday gifts. There will also be a Gourmet Bake Sale at Pet Club, located at 1850 So. Norfolk...Read More
Author:
Cookie McCrory
Homeless Cat Network will hold a
Bake Sale on
Saturday October 21, from 10:00AM until 3:00PM
in front of Pet Club, located at
1850 S Norfolk St in San Mateo.
Delicious bake goods will be available for sale and you can order our adorable
Halloween Cat Cake for your vet, job,
school class party or that cat lover friend.
There will be something for everyone.
See you there.
Support HCN
Author:
Cimeron Morrissey
Homeless Cat Network is offering a free “Trap-Neuter-Return” (TNR) workshop on Saturday, October 21 at 2:30pm, at the Peninsula Community Foundation Room in San Mateo: 1700 South El Camino Real, Suite 100.
Homeless Cat Network is offering the free workshop to help the public humanely control feral, homeless and stray cats. The non-profit feline rescue organization advocates using TNR as a non-lethal method for controlling free-roaming cats, and has achieved great success using this method throughout the...Read More
Author:
Cimeron Morrissey
Project Bay Cat Succeeds with Humane Feral Cat Management Program Model program humanely decreases the number of homeless cats along Foster City ’s Bay Trail and reduces their environmental impact March 27, 2006. FOSTER CITY, CA -- The City of Foster City, Homeless Cat Network and Sequoia Audubon Society today announced the successful completion of Phase II of Project Bay Cat, a unique coordinated effort to humanely solve feral cat challenges along Foster City’s Bay Trail. Project...Read More
Author:
Cimeron Morrissey
The following article appeared in the San Mateo County Times on March 16, 2006 : Good Works Volunteer gives homeless cats a second chance Nicole Neroulias AS A VOLUNTEER with Homeless Cat Network, a nonprofit feline rescue group, San Bruno resident Rose Shubin devotes more than 50 hours a week to help humanely reduce the number of homeless cats on the Peninsula. Rose is one of the few people in our community who traps stray and feral cats for spay/neuter and ...Read More
Author:
Cimeron Morrissey
Homeless Cat Network Joins National Campaign to Save Katrina Homeless Pets San Carlos, CA - January 30, 2006 - A major effort is being kicked off today around the country in a last-ditch effort to save thousands of pets made homeless by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Actor Pierce Brosnan and other celebrities will appear in public service announcements, which will be released over the next several weeks promoting a national pet adoption effort in order to make room in shelters for pets still...Read More
Author:
Cimeron Morrissey
Homeless Cat Network Creates Hurricane Animal Relief Fund Peninsula cat rescue organization helps the animal victims of hurricane Katrina September 6, 2005 – San Carlos, CA – Homeless Cat Network (HCN) today announced the creation of the “Animal Relief Fund for Hurricane Katrina Victims” (ARF-KAT) to help rescue and care for the animals and pets displaced by the hurricane. Homeless Cat Network is asking the public to help support relief and rescue efforts for the animal ...Read More
June is National ASPCA Adopt-a-Shelter-Cat Month Homeless Cat Network and the ASPCA Urge You to “Be the love of Nine Lives” by Adopting a Shelter Cat June 15, 2005 – San Carlos, CA – Homeless Cat Network and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) wants you to add a wonderful shelter cat to your family this month. Peninsula residents are invited to visit Homeless Cat Network’s many adoption venues, where cats and kittens of all sizes...Read More
Homeless Cat Network Wins Excellence in Volunteer Management Award April 21, 2005 – For Immediate Release – The Homeless Cat Network today announced that it has been chosen by The Volunteer Center as the 2005 winner of the Excellence in Volunteer Management Award. The award recognizes Bay Area non profit organizations that operate outstanding volunteer programs. Nominees are judged on the organization’s commitment to the volunteer program, the structure and operations of the volunt...Read More
They Take the Ouch Out of Meow Following is an article written by the editors of San Mateo County Times , printed in the paper February 8, 2005 "A caring group of volunteers is bringing Foster City’s cat problem under control with an enlightened, effective approach that costs taxpayers almost nothing. The Homeless Cat Network has mobilized its members to help reduce the population of feral cats along the Bay Trail, which includes a sensitive bird environment. T...Read More
Project Bay Cat Announces Successful Phase I Results Initiative Humanely Manages High Profile Homeless Cat Challenges Along Foster City’s Bay Trail; Unique Collaboration Achieves Success and Establishes Model Program February 1, 2005. FOSTER CITY, CA -- The City of Foster City, the Homeless Cat Network and Sequoia Audubon Society today announced the successful completion of Phase I of Project Bay Cat, a coordinated effort to humanely solve f...Read More
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