Introduction/Orientation Meeting
The purpose of the Introduction/Orientation meeting is to get to
know the participants, their situation, their experience, and their needs,
and to explain the mission and goals, as well as some basic information
about the methods that P.G.F.F. uses.
We discuss the reasons why P.G.F.F. was formed and incorporated in Maryland
as a non-profit organization, how we go about rescuing cats using the Trap-Neuter-Release
or Domesticate-Adopt approaches, and introduce the basics of natural healthcare.
These are the handouts that are distributed at the P.G.F.F. Introduction/Orientation
Meetings.
This program tells how we try to have the highest possible degree of success.
The P.G.F.F.
Program
Records are kept for every project on the Feral Cat Colony Tracking forms.
Alley Cat Allies' Feral
Cat Colony Tracking System
P.G.F.F. volunteers get noticed by The Gazette
Friends
of Felines
Even the USDA and the Food Guide Pyramid are influenced by big business.
A Humorous
Illustration.
An Article.
Got Milk? Deceptive
advertising by the dairy industry.
A letter from
Alicia Sliverstone
Holistic Medicine -- it's not just for whackos any more.
Article
in January 1999 Harper's Bazaar: Fido goes Holistic
About Modern Medicine --
Article
from BBC News: Emergency Care 'Can Backfire'
Article
in the Journal of the American Medical Association
Doctors
are the Third Leading Cause of Death in the US, Causing 250,000 Deaths
Every Year
Overviews of holistic health care:
The
Healthy Path - for every animal - How to help your animal live longer and
healthier
...
and from Natural Rearing
A close look at pet food:
From the Animal Protection Institute ...
What's Really in
Pet Food
From Alternative Medicine Magazine ...
The
Poisons in Pet Food
The book, "Food Pets Die For" by Ann Martin
About the
book, plus excerpts from chapters two and seven
... another excerpt
Vaccinations -- toxins that we intentionally expose our pets to ...
From Alley
Cat Allies: At What Cost Protection?
Dr.
Chambreau's Vaccine Guideline
From Natural Rearing, a three-part article on Vaccinations:
Part
1 ... Part
2 ... Part
3
Additional Miscellaneous items of information:
Links to other
resources -- books, web pages