[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]There are thousands of nonprofits of all sizes doing tremendous frontline work rescuing, educating, and making the world a safer, happier place for animals. The folks at Claw support lots of local animal shelters and organizations through volunteering, adopting, and donations.  But from time to time we’d also like to shine a light on some of the great work being done on a national scale.

 Paws Up in thanks for this important work!

Paws Up for Alley Cat Allies.  Founded in 1990, Alley Cat Allies is the only national organization with an exclusive focus on the protection and humane treatment of cats.  Playing a key leadership role in advocating for shelter industry reform and humane treatment, Alley Cat Allies serves as a national voice in the movement to improve the lives of stray and feral cats and the humane treatment of all cats.    Alley Cat Allies has helped shape the movement to improve the lives of stray and feral cats.

Alley Cat Allies has helped shape the movement to improve the lives of stray and feral cats

Alley Cat Allies has a number of programs in place to address key issues, and the highlights include work to reduce and prevent cat fatalities, anti-cruelty laws,  campaigns promoting humane care, and providing educational tools to support and mobilize change.  Alley Cat Allies speaks out for improved record keeping on animal intake and kill rates, improved shelter accountability and oversight, and additionally provides support, tools, resources, and more for education and mobilization efforts.  In these ways, Alley cat Allies helps mobilize communities all over the U.S. to take action with a stakeholder network of more than 250,000 people.

In the U.S, more than 70% of cats that enter animal control (shelters and pounds) are killed.  Historically, animal control response to feral cat complaints most often resulted in short-sighted “trap and kill” approach.  By advocating for solutions like Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) as a humane alternative, Alley Cat Allies emphasizes well being and an improved quality of life for stray and feral cats.

Describing a 25 year history in their own words: “Alley Cat Allies has helped tens of thousands of individuals save and improve the lives of millions of cats and kittens. We have also motivated and assisted scores of grassroots activists to establish feral cat groups in their communities, and they in turn have mobilized and pushed for reform of their city’s animal control policies and procedures.”  Their work has been a game changer for strays and feral cats for 25 years and counting- Paws Up!