PANT

11/25/2025

Sundays are a day of rest…but not for us. Sunday is the day we are hard at work doing our part.

11/23/2025

Lefty is a male, very gentle and would do well in a home with children. Enjoys the company of people and other cats while still being able to entertain himself. He likes tents, tunnels, balls, toy mice and wand toys.

Linguini is a female and started out as the shyest but has been gaining confidence. She is a nosey little girl who watches to see what you are doing and will approach to see what toys you have. She grooms her siblings and is fine playing by herself, with humans or the other cats.

Lucinda has longer hair than her siblings. She can be shy but ultimately enjoys her pets. She enjoys playing and snuggling with her siblings, but is maybe a tad closer to Lefty. Would do well in a home with other cats and older children.

All are very playful. Litter box trained. Fixed and up to date with shots. And are ready to find their forever home.

To apply to adopt go to https://www.pant.org/adopt-cat

11/23/2025

To Feed or Not To Feed...
During the winter months, deer naturally feed on woody browse, dry leaves and lichens. Their digestive system adjusts to this fibrous diet and although they may drop 20-30% of their body weight, they do just fine on their own. Mother Nature dictates that the weak ones may succumb to predation or starvation, but that is the Circle of Life and nothing is wasted. So what is wrong with helping deer survive the winter by supplementing them ? CORN!
If you feel the need to feed...please don't kill them with kindness. Whole corn not only wears down their teeth, often cracking them, but more importantly it is high in carbohydrates, low in nutrients, and causes acidosis of the gut by destroying beneficial bacteria. This creates an acidic environment in their rumen that prevents them from properly digesting their natural foods...causing starvation and possible death. So the next time you venture to the feed store, walk right past the "Deer Feed with Molasses" display and choose instead Whole Rolled Oats and Rabbit Pellets. If you must, a small amounts of cracked corn is fine but just as a "treat". Go home and cut down some cedar browse and twigs, collect acorns in the fall, snip off sumac flowers and crack open a pumpkin. Potato peelings, veggie scraps and carrots are nutritious and delicious. These are all wonderful winter foods for our gentle spirits of the forest.

Thank you Woodlands Wildlife Sanctuary for a wonderful post.

11/23/2025

We use the term “community cat” often in our work. That’s because not all the free-roaming cats we encounter are feral!

In fact, many colonies include sociable cats—cats who are comfortable around humans and, for one reason or another, are living and thriving outside.

While in the past all cats living outdoors were labeled “feral,” this newer term is a more accurate and inclusive description of these felines. It also acknowledges our collective responsibility for their management and care. 🫶

Learn more about the difference between feral and community cats: https://www.neighborhoodcats.org/how-to-tnr/getting-started/what-is-a-feral-cat

11/22/2025

Eli is available for adoption. Check out his bio on Petfinder. This sweet boy is looking for his forever home. PANT, Salt Point, NY

11/21/2025

It's ! 🌬️❄️🏠🌡️🐱 Join us for a FREE webinar on December 3 to learn the materials, tools, and skills needed to build warm, waterproof shelters to protect feral and stray community cats from harsh winter weather. We'll show you a variety of effective shelter styles from simple to fancy, and we'll discuss strategies for placing shelters for maximum warmth, comfort, and safety.

The presentation will include video demonstrations for building four simple and inexpensive styles of shelter, using very basic equipment and little to no special skills. We'll point out where you can use power tools, but all of these shelters can be made using simple hand tools or kitchen knives and a box cutter. Attendees will receive a downloadable handout with instructions for building the shelters in our demonstration videos.

Can't attend on 12/3? No problem! Everyone who registers will receive links to the webinar recording and handout the next day.

Register: https://bit.ly/BFCIBSR

11/18/2025

It’s getting cold out but TNR never stops. Trapping through the winter helps to deter the spring explosion of kittens. Doing our part week by week.

11/16/2025

Love this idea

Creative discrete cat shelters… 😼🏡
Sometimes feral / community cat caregivers need to get creative to not draw attention to their shelters. This might be due to management rules where they live, HOA rules, or issues with neighbors.
This is one of my favorite discrete shelter options. An outdoor storage bench makes a wonderful discrete cat shelter. To the outside world, it’s just a bench… but to the cats, this warm house could mean the difference in life and death on those harsh winter days. A hole can be cut anywhere in the bench that works for you depending on how it will be positioned. Ideally, lining it with foam board and stuffing it with straw will make a wonderful cozy shelter.
Another option that works well is to turn a garbage can into a shelter. You just have to make sure it is in a spot where nobody else will potentially move it to the street for garbage pickup. A garbage can tucked up by the house with a hole cut in it, insulated, and stuffed with straw is another wonderful discrete shelter option for the kitties.
There are so many people who are not allowed to have shelters where they live. In many cases, a discrete innovative shelter is the key to a warm, cozy, happy kitty this winter.
This particular storage bench can be found on Amazon. If funds are tight, I always suggest posting on a local community page in your area searching for the needed items. Whether it be a cat shelter, storage bench, garbage can, insulation, straw, etc… If people know what it is for, there are so many cat lovers out there willing to help if they can.l

11/14/2025

I met a tiny family huddled under a broken shed—three kittens, fur dirty and eyes wide, and their mother, worn and wary from months on the street. Everyone wanted to scoop up the kittens, leaving the mother behind. But I couldn’t. How could I take the babies and leave the one who had kept them safe, who had risked everything to feed them, warm them, and protect them?

So I rescued them all. The mother hesitated at first, watching carefully, unsure if humans could be trusted. But slowly, with gentle words and steady hands, she realized we meant no harm. Together, they learned what safety felt like—warm beds, food that didn’t disappear overnight, and a love that didn’t demand anything but trust.

Rescuing only the kittens is easy. Rescuing the mother is brave. But for her, it means the world. And for you? It’s a gift of love that comes back tenfold 🐱🤍

11/14/2025

If you’re a cat caregiver in a region where winter temperatures drop below 32 degrees, you may struggle with preventing your colony’s fresh water bowls from freezing over. ❄️

But cats need water on a daily basis, even in the bitter cold of winter (especially if dry food is their staple diet). Fortunately, our experts have come up with a number of ideas for stopping or delaying freezing in chilly temps!

Find a solution that fits your colony’s needs: https://www.neighborhoodcats.org/how-to-tnr/colony-care/stop-freezing-water

11/14/2025

Eventually, when temps drop below freezing, it will happen. Having a feeding station is one way to delay that from happening. We hear caretakers all the time tell us they feed when they see the cats. Getting the cats on a regular feeding schedule, is another great way of making sure the cats can come out of their shelters, get their food inside a feeding station, and go back to their shelter to get warm again.
Check out the Winter Survival Guide for more tips. This is just one page in an entire guide to keeping cats safe, warm, and fed, all winter long. https://www.indyneighborhoodcats.org/winter-tips-survival-guide