HeyJaredThe Community Cats Podcast
Our mission is to provide education, information and dialogue that will create a supportive environment empowering people to help cats in their community. For transcripts of most shows, visit https://www.communitycatspodcast.com/podcast/.
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Ep 684: Building TNR That Lasts: A Data-Driven Model From Penang, with Daniel Leung, Co-Founder and CEO of Catsoterra (opens the original)
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"In truth, we prove statistically how little funding is needed to create a real impact." This episode is sponsored-in-part by Maddie's Fund , T NR Training Workshop Presented by Neighborhood Cats , and Jessica Dolce, Compassion Fatigue + Grief Educator . Daniel Leung got into TNR the way many of us do. He worked on a farm in college, ignored his manager's warning never to feed the stray cats, and soon had dozens of them. A local TNR group came in to help, Daniel started volunteering with them, a
Ep 683: They're Not Spicy, They're Scared - Handling Fearful and Aggressive Shelter Cats, with Berlin Waters, Founder of The Spicy Cat Project (opens the original)
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"Cats aren't spicy. They're not mean. They're just scared." This episode is sponsored-in-part by Maddie's Fund , OcuTrap , and Jessica Dolce, Compassion Fatigue + Grief Educator . Berlin Waters grew up in a house full of cats, with a mom who handled TNR for the neighborhood, and she's been a cat lover ever since. That lifelong interest led her to a master's in shelter medicine, where her research focused on handling and socializing fearful and aggressive cats. The result is The Spicy Cat Project
Ep 682: Too Small Is Not a Diagnosis, with Jordyn Purpura Feline Director, Yolo County SPCA; Strategic Advisor, Orphan Kitten Club; Clinical Researcher, Vernau Laboratory at UC Davis (opens the original)
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"When we say age is not a disease, we also mean it for the youngest." This episode is sponsored-in-part by Maddie's Fund , OcuTrap , and Jessica Dolce, Compassion Fatigue + Grief Educator . Jordyn Purpura started out smuggling orphaned raccoons into his childhood bedroom. Twelve years of neonatal fostering later, he's in his final year of veterinary school, chasing a gap he kept running into from both sides of the exam table: almost nothing in veterinary education begins before eight weeks of ag
Ep 681: Making the Case for TNR Without County Buy-In, with Eve Salimbene, President of Street Cat Project of Polk County (opens the original)
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"Today's inside cat is tomorrow's outside cat." This episode is sponsored-in-part by Maddie's Fund , OcuTrap , and The Community Cat Clinic . Eve Salimbene spent her career in the legal field before moving into animal welfare 26 years ago — and by her own admission, she was a dog person until she landed in Polk County, Florida. There she found a county with groups working on dogs and essentially nothing for cats: a high shelter kill rate, no low-cost spay/neuter anywhere in the county, and a yea
Ep 680: Small and Mighty: Inside Jersey City's Feral Fixers TNR Club, with Robyn Alcock & Jen Scott, Co-Founders of Feral Fixers TNR Club (Jersey City, NJ) (opens the original)
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"It's okay to be small and grassroots." This episode is sponsored-in-part by Maddie's Fund , OcuTrap , and The Community Cat Clinic . Robyn Alcock and Jen Scott joined host Stacy LeBaron to talk about Feral Fixers TNR Club, the Jersey City nonprofit they co-founded in 2024 alongside Kathryn Parker after years of trapping independently. In just two years, the all-volunteer group — who all keep full-time jobs — has helped more than 375 cats through TNR, rescue, and medical care. Much of the conver
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