Once we’ve received your colony registration, the process is typically:
- We’ll confirm you’re in our service area and email, text or call you with confirmation.
- Your information goes on a waiting list. A volunteer scheduling team reaches out to offer surgery appointments as your name comes up.
- If you gave us an email, please watch for messages from an @catsanonymous.org email address
- If you gave us a number to call/text, please know we might not appear as “Cats Anonymous” depending on your service
- Please be patient! We try to work first-come, first serve – everyone is trying to solve the same problems
- While you wait, please visit our resources page for tips on preparing your colony for successful trapping
- When you and the scheduling team have identified a surgery date that works for you, you’ll also make arrangements to borrow humane live-traps and covers from our office on the east side Green Bay. The required trap size is 30″L x 10″W x 12″H
- As soon as you have traps, wire the traps open and place some food in the traps to get cats used to it – this is key to successful trapping when the surgery date arrives.
- We’ll confirm your surgery day check-in time, and we’ll ask that you present one cat per trap, covered, as close to the check-in time as possible. We stagger check-in times to help ensure a smooth flow to the day and go over the procedures you’re consenting to when you arrive.
- You’ll pick up your cats the same day – so please plan to stay close to our Green Bay office. How long it will take involves a lot of variables – we’ll do our best to estimate for you.
- When you pick up the cats, you’ll receive discharge instructions and proof of rabies vaccination. Expect to keep the cats in their traps and in a temperature-controlled area overnight before releasing them the next day.
- Scheduling volunteers will coordinate with you then whether you should return the traps, or hold on to them for another surgery date until we can get all cats in the colony fixed – or as close as we can!