People & Animals Team-up Successfully Inc (PATS)

In 2017 361 cats were trapped!!  Of these 55 were adopted, mainly through Last Hope Animal Rescue adoption program and Town of Hempstead adoption program

Our goal is for all outside cats to be spayed/neutered, ear-tipped and cared for by a caretaker who provides water, food, shelter, sterilization and medical care.

P.A.T.S. is a recognized 501 (c) (3) charitable organization registered with the Internal Revenue Service and NYS Department of Law Charities Bureau (since 2003).  We are organized as a not-for-profit NYS corporation.  All monies that we receive are used in support of the programs operated by People and Animals Team-up Successfully Inc.  P.A.T.S. has operated a Read to Ride Program which was inactive but in 2018 provided riding lessons to students at a New Hyde Park School.  

We file a Form 990N with IRS and a Char 500 & Form 990A with NYS Charities Bureau.

If you would like to donate (by check payable to PATS), send an email to feralpats@yahoo.com and we will provide the address to send the check.

We do not charge for services rendered but we do hope that donations will be given to the group to cover the vet expenses. However, in many situations, the people involved either have other uses for their money or simply can not afford the vet expense because they spend their money to feed and shelter the cats.  And with some situations, there are no "people".

Fortunately, there are free surgery programs for the spay/neuter in some areas, there are vets who will render medical care and euthanasia for free or much reduced costs and there are rescue/adoption groups who pitch in and assist.

What is your donation spent on?  The main expenses are food and vet expenses.  Sadly, some cats need to be euthanized.  This decision is made on advice after an exam by a vet.  In addition to the exams, there are drug expenses to treat cats while being recuperated for upper respiratory, abscesses and ringworm and roundworms in kittens.  Drugs are also supplied to colony caregivers for wounded animals that cannot be retrapped when injury is noted.  Kittens are expensive as they need to be tested for aids/leukemia prior to adoption and they need shots and an exam before they can be housed for socialization.  Often an adoption group will take the kitten and bear those expenses, but not always.

Then there is the cost of traps, dividers, carriers, dog crates, recovery cages etc.

P.A.T.S. does not pay volunteers for car expenses, water and electricity to maintain recuperation facility and laundry and trap cleaning nor are any salaries or compensation paid.

So where does the money come from?   PATS received a grant from Pet Peeves in 2012 but it takes time to write a grant request.  So mainly the money comes in from donations from folks that PATS assisted over the years and from the founders of the group.

Cat stats-2004 33 cats, 2005 40 cats, 2006 61 cats, 2007 67 cats, 2008 146 cats, 2009 156 cats, 2010 145 cats, 2011 218 cats, 2012 273 cats, 2013 266 cats, 2014 338 cats, 2015 277 cats, 2016 351 and 2017 351.

THANK YOU PET PEEVES!

Pet Peeves gave us a grant in 2012 so that we could purchase traps and holding cages.  Thank you so much for making life easier!

Who We Are

PATS is currently a one person trapping operation.  The recuperation facility holds about 7 traps comfortably and cats stay at least 2 days after trapping. 

PATS had not been a high volume trapping organization, doing less than 100 cats per year.  In 2012 PATS trapped 273 cats and that included two mass trapping jobs which Town of Hempstead and All About Spay Neuter provided assistance by recuperating the cats.

The increase in trapping in 2012 was due to the kind generosity of PET PEEVES INC.  They provided a grant of $2500 so that PATS could purchase more traps to use for recuperation at the Town of Hempstead TNR program.

Tops so far is the 351 cats TNR'd in 2017!