Total feral, stray and barn cats sterilized since August, 2002:

2,229

Total number of registered colonies in Lake County:

468

Visit our News and Events page for details on our special events.

Shop and Share When you shop at Jewel/Osco on June 30, July 1 and July 2, you help homeless cats. Click coupons for details.

Spring Garage Sale Help us welcome spring at our annual garage sale. Click here for details.

Have you been searching for that special pet? Visit a local shelter and give a homeless cat or dog a chance. Check out these LINKS and make a friend for life!

Welcome to Spay and Stay's website. Whether you're caring for feral cats here in Lake County, or you're a TNR organization somewhere across the U.S., we hope you find the information you need on this site. If not, please drop us a line and we'll try and connect you with the resources we hope will help.

Mission Statement

The humane alternative to the overpopulation of cats in Lake County, IL.

apple Spay and Stay is a non-profit organization dedicated to working with compassionate individuals and local governments to humanely control the growth of the feral cat population in Lake County, IL.

Spay and Stay is also committed to implementing long-term solutions to significantly reduce the population of unaltered, free-roaming and/or abandoned domestic cats in our area.

How we do it

Spay and Stay uses a humane technique called Trap-Neuter-Return, often simply called TNR. See our ABOUT US section for more details on this humane population control method.

All About Animals Cable Program Hosts Spay and Stay

Sherry Graditor, host of the long-running cable program, All About Animals, recently interviewed Spay and Stay's Executive Director, Sandra Kooper. To listen to the interview and learn more about feral and stray cats, CLICK on the image above. When you see the All About Animals website, scroll down to the Spay and Stay segment. It's in two sections.

What if Spay and Stay earned a penny every time you searched the Internet? Well, now we can!

Just click on the GoodSearch logo above to start the pennies rolling our way.

GoodSearch.com is a new search engine that donates half its revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. You use it just as you would any search engine, and it's powered by Yahoo!, so you get great results.

Just go to www.goodsearch.com and be sure to enter Spay and Stay as the charity you want to support. Just 500 of us searching four times a day will raise about $7300 in a year without anyone spending a dime! And, be sure to spread the word!

READ FERAL FOCUS

Feral Focus, Spay and Stay's information packed newsletter, is now available online.

To view PDF documents used throughout this website, you will need Adobe Reader. Click on the button below to download it for free.

Spay and Stay
P.O. Box 484, Gurnee, IL 60031

847-289-4557 PHONE 847-557-9136 FAX
info@spayandstay.org
www.spayandstay.org

Last updated 4-30-08

To become a REGISTERED CARETAKER,
click HERE to download a FERAL CAT ASSISTANCE APPLICATION.

Become a volunteer and help feral and stray cats.
Click HERE to read more and to download a VOLUNTEER APPLICATION.

First Time Visitor?

If this is the first time you're visiting our site and investigating the TNR method for feral and stray cat population control, plan to visit our TERMINOLOGY page to help get a handle on some of the common language used in TNR.

Thank you!