Sentences with phrase «feeding outdoor cats»

If you are feeding outdoor cats (stray or feral) in Marion County, Indiana you are required by the city's TNR ordinance to:

3) The costly hysteria about community cat caregivers - In two separate incidents in the Kansas City area, one community cat caregiver was sentenced and fined for feeding outdoor cats and another had surveillance cameras set up (illegally) to catch him feeding cats — how'd we get to this hysteria about feral cats?

Feeding outdoor cats in hot weather can pose a health risk if the food is left out to bake in the sun.

You can't neglect to feed outdoor cats because you think they're hunting outside.

As tempting as it is, we ask you NOT to feed outdoor cats.

Indeed, her survey of Maine residents who feed outdoor cats leads her to conclude that this population may be no more than 10 — 15 percent of the pet cat population — which, if one does a back - of - the - envelope calculation using survey data from the American Pet Products Association and census data for the number of households in Maine, would mean something like 18,700 — 28,000 unowned cats.

Not exact matches

Outdoor - access cats develop a checking - in routine for feeding or human companionship.

Outdoor - access cats develop a check - in routine for feedings or human companionship.

And yet, in many cases, if the cat lived outdoors, and in my neighborhood, it would actually be ILLEGAL for me to feed the cat.

A: Your cat is well fed, but hunting remains instinctive and it's seemingly fun for many indoor / outdoor cats.

«Even cats that are regularly fed can and do kill wildlife,» states a commission report on the impact of outdoor cats in Florida.

Paul Glassner, award - winning writer, editor, and volunteer for Fix Our Ferals, feeds Science Diet to his colony because «outdoor cats need all the help they can get.

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[CITY / COUNTY»S] proposed feeding ban for outdoor cats has already been tried in other communities and it has never worked.

Even if you have fed a feral cat for a long time and he has come to trust you in an outdoor setting, he will lose that trust when confined and it may never be regained.

Local authorities, often in the form of an animal control agency are charged with enforcing laws related to the control and impoundment of animals — including laws that may affect the feeding, spaying and neutering, and care of outdoor cats.

Punitive ordinances like feeding bans waste taxpayer dollars and penalize outdoor cat caregivers who are Good Samaritans making the community a better place for cats and people.

Feral cats are part of the community, and it is expected that you will continue to care for the cat by providing water and feeding the cat to keep it is as an «outdoor» cat.

When an outdoor cat is healthy and well fed, as the majority of them are, the cat is obviously getting its needs supplied in its environment.

They also agreed to back an ordinance banning the feeding of outdoor creatures — with the exception of carefully monitored feeding of cat colonies once or twice a day.

Friendly cats who appear well fed and groomed are probably pets whose caretakers allow them outdoors.

If you are feeding outdoor strays, feral, or unowned cats in Hamilton County, Indiana, you are required by the county Feral Cat Ordinance to:

The cat is then released back to its original outdoor location and managed by a caregiver who will manage the colony and maintain a clean environment through controlled feeding.

Around the country, thousands, if not millions, of community cat caretakers — studies show approximately 10 to 14 percent of households — feed outdoor colonies, some supplying winter shelters packed with straw and spending their weekends trapping, neutering and returning (TNR) feral and semi-feral community cats.

They defined «unowned» as farm cats living in barns, strays living outdoors that may be fed by humans, and feral cats that fend for themselves — all of which might live alone or in colonies.

In Cook County it is now illegal to feed outdoor unowned cats without being a registered colony caretaker with a sponsoring organization and practicing TNR including rabies vaccination and responsible colony management.

Rest assured, the $ 100 Petco gift card will be put to good use — mostly stocking up on food for the outdoor cats I feed.

In modern times, this parasite is causing people to hoard cats, feed cats, defend TNR, or like Mr. Wolf to spend inordinate amounts of times on the internet, spewing pseudo science in the hopes that this will result in more cats outdoors.

I have 5 indoor / outdoor cats and 6 outdoor strays that come to feed at my house.

Within the feline population, this would be limited to outdoor cats who hunt and eat rodents, as well as cats who are fed raw meat by their owners.»

When humans establish outdoor feeding stations for feral cats, they provide a catalyst for rabies transmission.

Managed cat colonies are becoming common in most major U.S. cities and are usually operated by volunteers who like to feed cats, rely on a scheme called Trap, Neuter, Release (TNR), whereby cats are trapped, neutered, and then returned to the outdoors.

The problems get worse because, while very few people are stupid enough to intentionally feed wild coyotes, or wild mesopredators like skunks or opossums, great hordes of people are stupid enough to feed feral cats, or to let their pet cats roam freely outdoors.

Our Feeding Stations offer an option for keeping food and water for outdoor cats protected from leaves, wind, rain and debris.

And how will a ban on TNR and the feeding of outdoor cats make those children safer?

Darin Schroeder, ABC's Vice President for Conservation Advocacy In October, Schroeder sent a letter (PDF) to the mayors of the 50 largest cities in the country, urging them «to oppose Trap - Neuter - Re-abandon (TNR) programs and the outdoor feeding of cats as a feral cat management option.»

My own cats (one indoor and two outdoor) plus 3 strays that I feed love almost all the Friskies.

In late 2010, for example, when ABC hosted a webinar to promote their book The American Bird Conservancy Guide to Bird Conservation (which, among other things, advises readers to «make TNR and the feeding of cat colonies illegal,» [2]-RRB-, I asked co-authors Daniel Lebbin (conservation biologist for ABC) and Michael Parr (now ABC's VP of planning and program development) about their recommendation for all the cats already living outdoors.

No matter what type of feeding station you choose, it can be an extremely valuable tool in managing a colony of outdoor cats.

Nevertheless, the law is not well enforced, many abandoned and free - ranging cats are fed outdoors by people, and regular feeding stations can become cat colonies.

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Initially, cats seen outdoors should be left alone if they are not causing a problem, seem to be in good health and well fed, and do not take up permanent residence on your property.

Instead of hiding and sleeping by day, hunting rodents by night, as true feral cats do, remaining invisible to most of the public, fed cats treated as outdoor pets tend to loiter in daytime awaiting their feeders, sometimes conspicuously hunting birds for sport.

Just as many kind people feed birds to help them through winter, so, too, do others offer food and shelter for outdoor cats.

Conservationists say that, far from diminishing the population of unowned cats, trap and release programs may be making it worse, by encouraging people to abandon their pets to outdoor colonies that volunteers often keep lovingly fed.

Condemning Felis catus ignores the real causes of species loss, reveals a disturbing ignorance of the long - standing symbiotic relationship between outdoor cats and human civilization, and betrays a startling lack of understanding of the feeding habits of outdoor cats.

Outdoor feeding, including bird seed, attracts skunks, squirrels, and raccoons in addition to feral cats and other wildlife.

In part, because — and this, too, is becoming increasingly clear — a position opposed to TNR and the feeding of outdoor cats often, in fact, runs counter to an organization's stated vision.

Signatories to the letter «urge [d] the development of a Department - wide policy opposing Trap - Neuter - Release and the outdoor feeding of cats as a feral cat management option, coupled with a plan of action to address existing infestations affecting lands managed by the Department of the Interior.»

A $ 25 donation immediately becomes $ 50, which can feed 100 outdoor cats for a day.