Friends of Felines is a 501(c)3 Non-Profit Organization dedicated to reduce the overpopulation of feral cats in our community by working with committed caretakers through a trap/spay neuter/vaccinate and return program.

Friends of Felines, was organized in 1996, Friends of Felines caretakers and volunteers have trapped, spayed/neutered, and released back to their colonies over 15,000 feral cats, thereby preventing the birth of tens of thousands of unwanted, homeless kittens.

Do you have any spare time?  We are asking for anyone who loves animals and has as little as 2 (two) hours a month to spare for a great cause to contact Friends of Felines about volunteer opportunities.  We need volunteers to help with writing grants, write newsletter articles, hands-on work at spay/neuter clinics, helping trap and transport for people who are disabled and other fundraisers and educational/informational events.

Please email us at friendsofelines@aol.com for more information on how to volunteer.

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Fact - The sooner you spay your female cat, the better her health will be in the future. As long as a kitten weighs more than two pounds and is two months old, he or she can be neutered or spayed. Many veterinarians are practicing perfectly safe early sterilization. The likelihood of developing mammary tumors or uterine infections increases the longer a female goes unspayed. In fact, a female spayed before sexual maturity (four to nine months of age) has one-seventh the risk of an intact female of developing mammary cancer.
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Continuing to Work Together
 
In our last newsletter, we published the article “Working Together”.   NH County Animal Services Unit (ASU) and FOF are working together to reduce the intake of feral cats into the shelter for euthanasia.   ASU is now offering referrals for feral cat calls to us instead of loaning traps out to have the cats brought in and killed.  They will, however, still loan traps if we cannot resolve the problem.  We started this program around March 2018.  We have the numbers in for feral euthanasia for 2019 comparted to 2018, and 2018 to compare with 2017 and we wanted to give you an update on the progress.
 
In 2017, 285 feral cats were euthanized by ASU, 18 were necessary due to injury or illness. This means 267 healthy feral cats were euthanized.   In 2018, we started our program with animal services to prevent feral cats from reaching the shelter and pulling from the shelter healthy feral cats.  We started the program in March.  Due to our partnership, 66 feral cats were euthanized, 13 due to injury or illness, equaling 53 healthy feral cats being euthanized.  That is a reduction of 214 healthy feral cats getting fixed and returned to their homes instead of being killed.  This process is called Return to Field (RTF).  In 2019, THREE were put to sleep due to injury or illness.  All other feral cats were RTF. In 2021 we prevented 316 cats and kittens from reaching the shelter or were pulled directly from the shelter.  We are proud to work with our local Animal Services Unit to prevent the euthanasia of feral cats.
 
We need your contributions to help us continue this program.   Our mission is to reduce the overpopulation of feral cats and reduce the rate of euthanasia.  This program helps us do that.
 
Please donate to this program.

Current Events
Our next Spay-a-thon will be Sunday April 24th.  We hope to fix 20 -25 cats.

Please have your pets spayed or neutered. 
We are working with NHC Animal Services Unit (ASU), All 4 Cats, Adopt an Angel (AAA), Cat Adoption Team (CAT) and Cat-tails to get the word out to have your pets as well as the any domestic animal you feed spayed or neutered.  We are trying to reduce the Euthanisia rate at all our local Animal Services.  There are many resources here in Wilmington and the surrounding area to have animals spayed/neutered and vaccinated at reduced rates.  FOF will spay/neuter/vaccinate your feral cats from NH County, Both Pender County Humane Society and AAA have vouchers to help with friendly stray cats.  Fix a Friend Spay Neuter Clinic, The Cape Fear Spay/Neuter clinic and A Country Vet have reduced rates for spay/neuter or contact your local vet.  We need the publics support!!  There are not enough homes for the beautiful kittens that are coming into ASU each day.  Please help us reduce the needless euthanisia of loving animals.

Volunteers needed for Fundraising
We need volunteers who can help us raise desperately needed funds!  We are looking for energetic people who LOVE animals and care about keeping them safe. If you are interested please email us at friendsofelines@aol.com

Meetings
Meetings are held monthly.  We change the location, so please email for information. friendsofelines@aol.com

Barn Buddies!
Do you have a farm with a barn that needs a few feral cats!  We always have situations where a colony of cats are being run off of the property they have called home for generations because of development.  They need a new home and we need your help.  If you have a farm and are willing to feed, water and care for them as well as have good mousers... please email us at friendsofelines@aol.com