GSEM Silver Award Project Catalog

Pause for a Cause: Helping Feral Cats

Project Details: To earn their Girl Scout Silver Award, Cadettes from Troop 1490 started a blog to educate their community on the needs of feral cats. Their blog shares information about the lack of safe housing and food for feral cats, videos and links to send in kind donations from an Amazon Wishlist. One of the videos highlights how to construct winter houses for feral cats so anyone in the community can make these shelters. The Cadettes also built their own shelters for local residents to use to help protect their feral cats from the harsh winter elements. They shared their project with WAGGS and local Girl Scouts so others can do their part for feral cats. The Cadettes also plan to continue building shelters and providing them to the St. Louis Feral Cat Outreach.

Silver Award Team: Troop 1490

Issue: There’s a lack of safe housing and food for local feral cats during winter. Root Cause: Winter temperatures, lack of food in winter, and a lack of housing put feral cats at risk. Target Audience: Local feral cats, as well as the STLFCO staff. Sustainability: The Cadettes will continue to actively post information to the blog, as well as build cat shelters, and attend the yearly cat shelter build.