Merrimack River Feline Rescue Society

CONTACT:

63 Elm Street (Rt 110 East)
Salisbury, MA 01952
978-462-0760
www.mrfrs.org

Stacy LeBaron, President

DESCRIPTION:

MRFRS was founded in 1992 in response to the growing number of feral and abandoned cats and kittens living on the waterfront in Newburyport. Since then, MRFRS has become nationally recognized for its success in ensuring the cats' health and welfare with a wide variety of caring, and life-sparing, programs.

MRFRS volunteers rescue ill, injured, abused, and abandoned cats and kittens and place them in loving homes. They attack the source of the problem by teaching responsible pet ownership in training, education, and spay/neuter programs. They focus on innovative, cost-effective grassroots approaches to feline management, collaborating with many animal control officers and rescue groups.

MRFRS has placed more than 7,000 abandoned cats and kittens in new homes, and spayed or neutered more than 2,500 feral cats in and around the Merrimack Valley. Its humane efforts in the Newburyport waterfront area have reduced the feral cat population to 60, and the birth rate to zero. MRFRS is needed in many other areas where the abandoned and feral cat population is exploding; your help is needed to get them there.

(2001: NATURE: Biodiversity)