Wordless Wednesday
Poem, sweet poem. 
P.S. You’ll never look at a dry-erase board the same way again, not after last week’s Wordless Wednesday.
UPDATE, March 28: Awareness about community cats raised in just 17 syllables?! You bet! For more on the importance of word choice when talking or writing about free-roaming felines, click through to the comment box.
Photos: Courtesy of San Francisco SPCA
Related links:
“It’s About Community…Community Cats, That Is”
Feral Cats Resources
San Francisco SPCA: Community Cats Program
Tags: Feral Cats, Spay/Neuter, Wordless Wednesday
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Juliet Blake, RVT Says:
An animal Haiku! I love it!
Pune Dracker, Shelters' Edge blog Says:
Them’s fighting words, er, syllables, courtesy of the students in Ms. Winningham’s language arts classes at Herbert Hoover Middle School. Winningham, a volunteer with San Francisco SPCA’s Community Cats Program, organized the haiku designing project in celebration of National Feral Cat Day 2011.
And just like in a haiku, word choice is a very big deal at the SF SPCA, where they changed the name of their feral cat program to Community Cats [http://www.sfspca.org/programs-services/community-cats] a little over a year ago. “Do you see or feed cats in your neighborhood?” they explain on their website. “Cats with no particular home or owner? These are San Francisco’s Community Cats.” According to SF SPCA’s Laura Gretch, Community Cares Initiatives manager, the term also helps alleviate confusion with the public.
”This way,” she says, “all cats are welcome—feral, porch, yard, barn, etc…”
P.S. A haiku project like this one is a great idea if you’re looking for an educational and awareness-raising activity for kids—but you don’t need to wait until National Feral Cat Day (October 16) to do it. “Every day is feral day here at the SF SPCA,” says Laura. “We do surgeries 3 days a week all year round.”