Wild Blue Animal Rescue & Sanctuary has received a grant from Best Friends Animal Society. The grant will go to Wild Blueís Fix Feline Families program, which assists Colorado Springs with humanely managing the areaís community cats.ìThis grant project targets free-roaming community cats at serious risk of being killed, if they enter shelters,î said Liz Finch, senior manager of Best Friends National Programs. ìIt provides a proven solution, called trap/neuter/return or TNR, to save their lives.îTrap/neuter/return methods, like Fix Feline Families, capture homeless, free-roaming cats to sterilize and vaccinate. They are returned to their outdoor homes to live out their natural lives without reproducing.Wild Blue takes in the pregnant, nursing cats and kittens that are trapped, with a goal to socialize the kittens for adoption, fix the entire litter and return only the feral mama cats back to their colonies. Lauri Cross, Wild Blueís executive director, said, ìOur goal is to perform 250 of spay/neuter surgeries during 2016. Every day, some 9,000 animals are killed in our nationís shelters simply because they donít have a home. When you choose to adopt your next pet, you are becoming part of the solution right here in our community.î About Best Friends Animal SocietyBest Friends runs the nation’s largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals, adoption centers and spay and neuter facilities in Los Angeles and Salt Lake City, as well as lifesaving programs in partnership with more than 1,300 rescue groups and shelters across the country. Since its founding in 1984, Best Friends has helped reduce the number of animals killed in American shelters, from 17 million per year to an estimated four million.
