Community Cat Program, Berkshire Humane Society

Community Cat Program, Berkshire Humane Society Animal D.R.E.A.M.S. is now the Community Cat Program of Berkshire Humane Society, a non-profit organization. Community Cat Trap Neuter Return Organization

The Community Cat Program improves lives of feral and abandoned cats in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.

Two of many kitties returned to a farm this past week after being altered, rabies-vaccinated, parasite-treated, and eart...
12/22/2024

Two of many kitties returned to a farm this past week after being altered, rabies-vaccinated, parasite-treated, and eartipped. It’s a big deal to feed 42 cats, and the farmer was struggling with the expense of it. But then the best thing happened; a kind animal lover made the commitment to send 90 lbs of dry food and 42 cans of wet food EVERY MONTH!! It doesn’t cover all of the food needs, but it makes a big dent. The farmer is so grateful. This colony’s future is truly bright now.

47 feral cats spayed and neutered from a farm and a business across the street! The kitties are so happy to be back home...
12/20/2024

47 feral cats spayed and neutered from a farm and a business across the street! The kitties are so happy to be back home. Now, it’s a stable colony. They’ll be fed and sheltered in the place they know for the rest of their lives.

12/20/2024

This King Has Long Legs, Life is Beautiful and more stories in the electronic version of Berkshire Humane Society's Holiday Newsletter! https://conta.cc/49IINUn

12/16/2024

It’s a fuzzy video, but we’re returning some of the spayed and neutered cats to the farm- ones that were fixed last week. They’re so happy to be back home! There were 42 cats at this farm, and they’re all getting spayed or neutered, rabies-vaccinated, parasite-treated, and eartipped.

This is the very last project of this year, but we’re still taking calls from folks who care for feral cats. We put them on a list to trap, neuter, and return in the spring.

We are an all volunteer team, dedicated to our spay and neuter mission. If you want to make a donation to support TNR in the Berkshires, you can send a check made out to Community Cat Program of Berkshire Humane Society and sent to the Berkshire Humane Society at 214 Barker Road, Pittsfield, MA 01201.

We also have a cat food pantry just for feral cats. That’s because cats often show up at the doorsteps of people who are kind enough to to care for them, but don’t necessarily have spare money to buy them food. All of the cats we give food to have gone through our Trap Neuter Return program, or are scheduled to. Our food pantry makes sure those cats get the support they need.

Want to help with that?

We need both shreds and pate canned food (any brand, any size). We run out of food on a regular basis. Food can be left in the donation box next to the garage in the lower parking lot at Berkshire Humane. If any food is left at the BHS main desk, it needs to be labeled for Community Cats Pantry. We can also use gift cards to purchase food at Tractor Supply, WalMart, Pet Supplies Plus, or Petco. People can also place food orders (for Community Cats Program) through Amazon or Chewy’s. Any monetary donations need to be specifically designated for: Community Cats Food Pantry. Our mailing address is: Community Cats Program, 214 Barker Rd. Pittsfield, MA 01201. We deeply appreciate your support.

12/14/2024

Check out all the cats in the Edda Hyde Community Cat Room today. It’s full! All have been spayed or neutered, or waiting to be. All from a project we wrote about in the previous post.

Want to see a project the Community Cat Program is working on right now? It’s a barn with a big cat colony we were calle...
12/14/2024

Want to see a project the Community Cat Program is working on right now? It’s a barn with a big cat colony we were called about last month. The farmer was desperate for our help. He figured he had about 30 cats there. We generally close stop our TNR projects for the winter, but we took this one on now knowing how many new kittens there’d be if we waited until spring.

We’re not done yet, but so far, we have taken six kittens into foster; they’re being socialized and will some day be adopted at Berkshire Humane Society. We currently have FORTY cats in house, all of which will be spayed or neutered, and returned. At least one more still needs to be trapped at the farm, and there are approximately seven across the street at a place of business. We consider them part of the same project.

There’s a very kind donor who has offered to help the farmer with cat food costs (feeding that many kitties gets quite expensive!) and another donor for the bill to spay and neuter them.

See the room where they’re setting up cats? That’s the amazing Edda Hyde Community Cat Center. It used to be the loading dock at Berkshire Humane Society. We have it thanks to a donation to Berkshire Humane Society in the memory of a person who was an avid animal lover. It’s state of the art, and it was made just for the needs of our program. We call it “The Castle”, (as opposed to the garden shed we used to use for our program, which we called “The Catty Shack”).

We don’t post much here- that’s because the volunteer trappers and caretakers are so busy with the tasks at hand, they forget to take pictures. But we do trap neuter return projects from spring to late fall, and we make a big difference in the lives of the cats we help… and their caretakers, too.

We are an all volunteer team, dedicated to our spay and neuter mission. If you want to make a donation to support TNR in the Berkshires, you can send a check made out to Community Cat Program of Berkshire Humane Society and sent to the Berkshire Humane Society at 214 Barker Road, Pittsfield, MA 01201.

We also have a cat food pantry just for feral cats. That’s because cats often show up at the doorsteps of people who are kind enough to to care for them, but don’t necessarily have spare money to buy them food. All of the cats we give food to have gone through our Trap Neuter Return program, or are scheduled to. Our food pantry makes sure those cats get the support they need.

Want to help with that?

We need both shreds and pate canned food (any brand, any size). We run out of food on a regular basis. Food can be left in the donation box next to the garage in the lower parking lot at Berkshire Humane. If any food is left at the BHS main desk, it needs to be labeled for Community Cats Pantry. We can also use gift cards to purchase food at Tractor Supply, WalMart, Pet Supplies Plus, or Petco. People can also place food orders (for Community Cats Program) through Amazon or Chewy’s. Any monetary donations need to be specifically designated for: Community Cats Food Pantry. Our mailing address is: Community Cats Program, 214 Barker Rd. Pittsfield, MA 01201. We deeply appreciate your support.

04/30/2024

On today's Stacey from our Community Cat Program discusses the beginning of TNR season (Trap, Neuter, Return) for feral cat colonies. Learn what to look for and how to request assistance.

Update!!! Thank you, thank you, cat friends. Since you saw this post on April 1, we have received 127 lbs of dry cat fo...
04/12/2024

Update!!! Thank you, thank you, cat friends. Since you saw this post on April 1, we have received 127 lbs of dry cat food, 42 small cans of wet food and 596 (yes, 596 large cans) of wet food!! This will feed many of the community cats for awhile.
We would love to thank each of you individually, but food shipped by Amazon, Chewy’s or Walmart do not identify the donor - unless you send it as a ‘gift’ and enclose a card/note with your name.
But please know we appreciate your kindness in donating to the BHS Community Cats 🐈‍⬛ 🐈

You folks have really come through for the community cats in the Berkshires. Just a few weeks ago, we hardly had any food to give to the caretakers who needed it. Look at us now! And there’s even more than the photos show. Thanks to you, the cats on our pantry list won’t go hungry.

Hopefully, donations will keep up with the need, but if they don’t, we’ll be back here asking again.

CAN YOU HELP? We desperately need both shreds and pate canned food (any brand, any size). Presently we have about a mont...
04/01/2024

CAN YOU HELP?
We desperately need both shreds and pate canned food (any brand, any size). Presently we have about a month's supply of dry food and only a few cans of food left on our shelves.

Our pantry supplies food to caretakers who feed cats that live outside. All of the cats have gone through our Trap Neuter Return program, or are scheduled to. Our food pantry makes sure those cats get the support they need….. those kitties are sometimes cared for by kind people who don’t have resources they can divert to buying cat food for them.

Food can be left in the donation box next to the garage in the lower parking lot at Berkshire Humane. If any food is left at the BHS main desk, it needs to be labeled for Community Cats Pantry. We can also use gift cards to purchase food at Tractor Supply, WalMart, Pet Supplies Plus, or Petco. People can also place food orders (for Community Cats Program) through Amazon or Chewy’s. Any monetary donations need to be specifically designated for: Community Cats Food Pantry. Our mailing address is: Community Cats Program, 214 Barker Rd. Pittsfield, MA 01201. We deeply appreciate your support.

03/19/2024

On Today's Berkshire Humane Society Executive Director John Perreault talks about how you can win a custom caricature of your cat by Reuben Lara of Barkshire Dog Trading Co. to be placed on the Community Cat Program Van!
Tickets have been reduced to $129.00 each*--only 100 tickets available for dogs & 100 tickets available for cats! We will have 12 dogs on our Ford Transit van and 12 cats on our Chevy van.
Your odds are pretty lucky! 🍀
*Those who have purchased tickets prior to the discount will be provided two chances.
To get your tickets please stop by 214 Barker Rd, Pittsfield or call Di at (413)-447-7878 ext. 131
Tickets will be available for purchase until March 31st.
Drawing will be held LIVE on Monday, April 1st! No fooling here!
Need not be present to win.

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It’s a fuzzy video, but we’re returning some of the spayed and neutered cats to the farm- ones that were fixed last week. They’re so happy to be back home! There were 42 cats at this farm, and they’re all getting spayed or neutered, rabies-vaccinated, parasite-treated, and eartipped. This is the very last project of this year, but we’re still taking calls from folks who care for feral cats. We put them on a list to trap, neuter, and return in the spring. We are an all volunteer team, dedicated to our spay and neuter mission. If you want to make a donation to support TNR in the Berkshires, you can send a check made out to Community Cat Program of Berkshire Humane Society and sent to the Berkshire Humane Society at 214 Barker Road, Pittsfield, MA 01201. We also have a cat food pantry just for feral cats. That’s because cats often show up at the doorsteps of people who are kind enough to to care for them, but don’t necessarily have spare money to buy them food. All of the cats we give food to have gone through our Trap Neuter Return program, or are scheduled to. Our food pantry makes sure those cats get the support they need. Want to help with that? We need both shreds and pate canned food (any brand, any size). We run out of food on a regular basis. Food can be left in the donation box next to the garage in the lower parking lot at Berkshire Humane. If any food is left at the BHS main desk, it needs to be labeled for Community Cats Pantry. We can also use gift cards to purchase food at Tractor Supply, WalMart, Pet Supplies Plus, or Petco. People can also place food orders (for Community Cats Program) through Amazon or Chewy’s. Any monetary donations need to be specifically designated for: Community Cats Food Pantry. Our mailing address is: Community Cats Program, 214 Barker Rd. Pittsfield, MA 01201. We deeply appreciate your support.

Check out all the cats in the Edda Hyde Community Cat Room today. It’s full! All have been spayed or neutered, or waiting to be. All from a project we wrote about in the previous post.

On today's #TopicTuesday Stacey from our Community Cat Program discusses the beginning of TNR season (Trap, Neuter, Return) for feral cat colonies. Learn what to look for and how to request assistance. #TNR #feralcats #catrescue #communitycats

On Today's #TopicTuesday Berkshire Humane Society Executive Director John Perreault talks about how you can win a custom caricature of your cat by Reuben Lara of Barkshire Dog Trading Co. to be placed on the Community Cat Program Van! Tickets have been reduced to $129.00 each*--only 100 tickets available for dogs & 100 tickets available for cats! We will have 12 dogs on our Ford Transit van and 12 cats on our Chevy van. Your odds are pretty lucky! 🍀 *Those who have purchased tickets prior to the discount will be provided two chances. To get your tickets please stop by 214 Barker Rd, Pittsfield or call Di at (413)-447-7878 ext. 131 Tickets will be available for purchase until March 31st. Drawing will be held LIVE on Monday, April 1st! No fooling here! Need not be present to win. #raffle #catlovers #customcaricatureart #localartist #helpingberkshirehumane

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