Join us on August 18, 2021, 12 PM PT/3 PM ET for a 30-minute Million Cat Challenge webinar presented by Monica Frenden-Tarant, Danielle Bays, and Julie Levy on the Language That Harms Cats. Win a trap, play a round of bingo, and do a language check in 30 fast-paced minutes!
It may seem nit-picky, but how we talk about cats and the specific words we use influence public perception and behavior, and sometimes might even damage the very cause we dedicate our lives to moving forward.
In this 30-minute webinar, we’re going to look at the stories, words, and images we use to tell the story of our work and our mission. Are these words helping us? For example, does the term “feral” hamper efforts to gain public support for community cat programs? How might your fundraising appeals accidentally create a backlash against those same programs?
We’ll have time after the webinar to figure this out together, so you may want to hang around for the post-presentation Q&A if you can block a few more minutes on your calendar.
Grab your daubers because we're playing bingo during the webinar!
You know your friends at Million Cat love a good party! Head over to the Maddie’s Pet Forum to register, download your bingo cards, enter the trap giveaway contest, and continue the dialogue: https://bit.ly/WebcastLanguageThatHarmsCats
Did you say trap?!?
Our friends at Tomahawk Live Trap have donated one of their new gravity traps to be given away to an attendee of this webinar. PLUS, they are including a clear plexiglass back door. The whole setup makes for a roomier trap with a quieter tripping mechanism that is more enticing for cats to enter because it looks like they can walk all the way through. This is our new favorite trap for TNR programs.
