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10 Years Ago, "A Small Miracle Happened."
Along Newburyport’s historic waterfront an elusive subcommunity struggled
for survival. Creeping in the shadows along the wharfs and living in the shadows
of humanity, families scrounged for food and sought shelter from the brutal elements
of the weather and, sometimes, from the brutality of human nature. With no birth
control, they kept propagating. The babies usually died. This was Newburyport’s “feral
cat problem”...read entire article (download 28K PDF)
MRFRS
Resource Guide
MRFRS Foster Care Guidelines
MRFRS 2007 Annual Report
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Mickey's Story
My caregivers call me Mickey, and I am a feral cat. Say the word “feral,” and
a lot of people imagine a rabid, savage feline straight out of a
Stephen King novel. What feral really means is to revert to an instinctual,
wild state in order to survive. In my case, it simply means that
I am homeless. The myth of “wild feral cat” allows humans
to conveniently forget that ferals were once family pets or are the
progeny of discarded pets...read
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