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ABOUT US

 "Community Caring for Community Cats" defines Lend Us Your Ear (LUYE), an animal welfare organization founded in 2018 to support local neighborhoods and their free-roaming cats. LUYE provides healthy solutions for outdoor cats in Haywood County, NC - including humane sterilization. Everyone recognizes LUYE cats by their left eartip, promoted by the tagline: See an eartip? That cat is fixed!

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       LUYE
(Lend Us Your Ear)

 

​Our volunteers are cat people who both educate and counsel community cat colony caregivers about the outdoor cats they watch over - cats typically intolerant of touch or petting. Regardless of a cat's shyness or trust in humans, community cats are family to their caregivers and a source of emotional support in stressful times. LUYE honors this bond and extends its hand in support.

Caregivers are our community's cat colony fosters who love - but do not own - the outdoor 'fur babies' they feed, often in conjunction with other neighbors. We know that healthy, parasite-free felines make cat people purr because we are cat people too.

LUYE's efforts help decrease Haywood County shelter intakes, reduce the need to euthanize cats in response to shelter space issues, and reduce shelter (taxpayer) expenses. Since 2009, approximately 9,000 community cats have been captured, treated, and returned to their communties with their left ear tipped to prove sterilization. Our volunteers roar!

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We are honored to be among our community's cat people. If you appreciate the role that outdoor cats play in our community, then we invite you to join us and support our work. Go to our Volunteer page and contact us.

Susan and Hank Kumpf, Co-Founders

 

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