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To: Mayor Steve Frattini
Stop The Cat Feeding Ban in Herrin, IL
🐾 Stop Herrin’s Cruel Cat Feeding Ban and Retaliatory TNR Restrictions
Herrin, Illinois has passed a harsh new ordinance that makes feeding community cats illegal, imposes burdensome restrictions on anyone performing TNR, and allows Animal Control to euthanize cats after only two business days in custody.
This ordinance violates Illinois state law (510 ILCS 5/2.11b), which protects the humane care of community cats and mandates a 7-day hold for impounded animals.
Under the new rules, citizens must apply for city-issued TNR permits, carry liability insurance, hang door tags on homes within a two-block radius before trapping, and stop feeding altogether once 90% of cats are fixed — or face fines up to $750 per day.
Meanwhile, the city sat on its hands for years as the cat population grew.
Now, instead of collaborating with those who have been humanely managing this issue — the volunteers, trappers, and rescuers of the local non-profit, Herrin Feline Fixers — the city has chosen to retaliate against compassion.
Now, instead of collaborating with those who have been humanely managing this issue — the volunteers, trappers, and rescuers of the local non-profit, Herrin Feline Fixers — the city has chosen to retaliate against compassion.
This is not only cruel, it’s unlawful.
We are calling on Mayor Steve Frattini and the Herrin City Council to:
🐾 Repeal the feeding ban and 2-day euthanasia policy.
🐾 Remove the excessive restrictions on TNR volunteers.
🐾 Work with the community, not against it, to create a humane and legal solution.
🐾 Repeal the feeding ban and 2-day euthanasia policy.
🐾 Remove the excessive restrictions on TNR volunteers.
🐾 Work with the community, not against it, to create a humane and legal solution.
Compassion is not a crime — retaliation is not leadership.
Please sign and stand with the citizens who care about Herrin’s community cats. 💛
Please sign and stand with the citizens who care about Herrin’s community cats. 💛
Why is this important?
Because this isn’t just about cats — it’s about what kind of community we want to be.
When a city starts punishing compassion, it sends a message that kindness doesn’t matter — that people who feed the hungry and protect the vulnerable are the problem. That’s wrong.
This ordinance doesn’t just threaten Herrin’s community cats — it threatens the values of empathy, humanity, and cooperation that hold small towns together.
People should join this campaign because what’s happening in Herrin could happen anywhere. If we stay silent, we allow cruelty and overreach to replace compassion and common sense.
Together, we can show that working with the community works, that TNR is humane and effective, and that good people won’t be bullied out of doing what’s right.