Published by: Ingrid King. Last Updated on: February 1, 2023 by Crystal Uys
At San Antonio College in San Antonio, TX, faculty and staff encourage the campus to responsibly care for feral cats. Scattered feline aid stations throughout the campus provide food and water for colonies of feral cats that call this college home. Vernell Walker, dean of professional and technical education, started feeding the cats about a year ago. “It just looked like they were starving; they looked so thin and they’d be following folks,” Walker said. For more about this caring college and the resident cats, read the full story on The Ranger.
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Photo by David E. Guel via The Ranger
About the author
Ingrid King is an award-winning author, former veterinary hospital manager, and veterinary journalist who is passionate about cats.
So wonderful to know the college I attended is caring for community cats! And the San Antonio Feral Cat Coalition is an awesome group of volunteers whose passion is caring for free-roaming cats — they’re the reason I was able to trap and fix a colony I now care for. Thank you for sharing this good news story, it restores my faith in humanity when I hear about people caring for God’s creatures.
I agree. I have taken care of a feral cat colony.
This is an encouraging story. I love when young people do good things for cats. I also enjoyed Cole & Marmalade’s Christmas video.