Sentences with phrase «local cat populations»

The young superhero isn't swinging from buildings or lifting buses over his head, but he is helping the local cat population survive and thrive.

Imam Mustafa Efe opened the doors of his mosque in Istanbul to the local cat population.

Some animal control authorities have what's called a «capture - neuter - return» program, which allows these cats to do their self - appointed mice and rat catching duties without adding to the local cat population.

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A local population of feral cats living in an urban area and using a common food source is sometimes called a feral cat colony.

Of course, providing your domestic cat with a steady stream of its preferred prey is hardly convenient or humane — and cats can wreak havoc on local wildlife populations if left to forage on their own.

Friends of Strays supports the mission of Meow Now, a local organization dedicated to reducing the free - roaming cat population in Pinellas County through targeted trap / neuter / vaccinate / return (TNVR) services, caregiver support, and advocacy.

A study in New Zealand in 1979 found that, when cats were nearly eradicated from a small island, the local rat population quickly quadrupled.

Free - roaming cats and dogs reduce wild - animal populations, including threatened or endangered species in local areas.

Their work has just begun: There are an estimated 41,000 community cats in the Gainesville area and stray cats make up the single largest population entering the local shelter.

Economist Says Cats Should Be Eliminated From New Zealand New York Times Gareth Morgan, an economist and environmentalist, says that the cat is actually a «friendly neighborhood serial killer» when it comes to birds, and his Web site suggests that New Zealanders should gradually reduce the local feline population by having...

CFA and its affiliate clubs work nationally with local shelters to help humanely reduce homeless and feral cat populations and to encourage voluntary neuter / spay of pet cats.

So feeding feral cats may actually help the local raccoon population.

At the same time, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's wildlife chief intends to send a strong message to local governments to get their feral cat populations under control.

(trap - neuter - vaccinate - return) programs, like local partner MEOW Now, work to provide vaccines for community cat populations and to reduce the number cats entering shelters by spaying and neutering community cats.

Reducing Brevard County's abandoned / community cat population takes efforts from many organizations, including other grassroots animal welfare organizations, county animal services and law enforcement, local businesses, and citizens like yourself!

Showing local officials that people want a humane approach to animal control — and that TNR is the best way to stabilize community cat populations — can eventually lead them to officially embrace the new model.

Keeping cats indoors or attaching a bell to your cat's collar will help protect local bird, mouse and lizard populations.

After decades of the cruel, costly method of catching and killing cats have failed to stabilize cat populations, local officials, animal control officers, and animal shelters are realizing that they need a completely different approach.

Local governments are moving toward TNR because they recognize that it is the only humane and effective approach to community cat populations.

We focus on reaching pets in low - income and underserved communities, prioritizing aid for those animals at highest risk in local shelters, and supporting efforts to control feral cat populations.

And they learned that the biologist not only had been a vocal advocate of controlling outdoor cat populations to protect birds and other wildlife but also had sparked controversy as a graduate student in Athens, Georgia, for trapping free - roaming cats and taking them to the local shelter.

This selected bibliography is a strong starting point to illustrate that targeted TNR is a valuable tool in managing cat populations at the local level.

Cat spaying and neutering in Castle Rock is invaluable for curbing the local pet population.

Every time he would anchor his ship in New England port, his cats would leave the ship and mate with local feline population.

PALS services LOCALLY rescued cats and kittens, and helps to control the local pet population by ensuring all of our cats are spayed / neutered before becoming available for adoption.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A local project is in the works to control the borough's free - roaming cat population.

The Cat Connection works to end the growth of the feral population through TNRM programs in many local communities including Waltham, Newton, Brighton, Allston and Watertown.

CFA and its affiliate clubs work nationally with local shelters, at a grassroots level, to help humanely reduce homeless and feral cat populations, and to encourage voluntary neuter / spay of pet cats.

To learn more about this proven method of population control, visit the websites of the national organization, Alley Cat Allies, or the local organization, San Antonio Feral Cat Coalition (SAFCC).

«Our model,» they explain in the paper's abstract, «predicts that Trap - Neuter - Release strategies would be optimal management decisions for small local populations of less than fifty cats while Trap - Euthanize would be the optimal management decision for populations greater than 50 cats.»

LOS ANGELES — Springtime romance is in the air for the local feral cat population, and spay - neuter clinics are hopping.

Studies have shown that local animal control agencies can't keep up with the stray population and the remaining cats in the area reproduce more and end up aggravating the problem instead of solving it.

Ally Cat Allies, the city of Laurel and local volunteers working to reduce the local stray feral cat population are sponsoring a trap - neuter - return workshop Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. at the Laurel Police Department's Partnership Activity Center, 811 Fifth Cat Allies, the city of Laurel and local volunteers working to reduce the local stray feral cat population are sponsoring a trap - neuter - return workshop Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. at the Laurel Police Department's Partnership Activity Center, 811 Fifth cat population are sponsoring a trap - neuter - return workshop Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. at the Laurel Police Department's Partnership Activity Center, 811 Fifth St.

Not only was the Siberian Forest cat talked and written about, it was also highly revered for its natural hunting abilities in keeping the rodent population under control on the local farms.

The feral cat population in the surrounding area is tremendous and Greenhill has been working with other organizations and local veterinarians for the past three years to spay and neuter feral cats.

The ASPCA, The Humane Society of New York, The Toby Project, and several other local and national organizations are strong supporters of our efforts to bring the feral and stray cat population under control in New York City.

Which means, any purebred physical appearance of your desire, you could find the naturally occurring genetic mutation in a population of stray cats or the condensed population of local shelter cats.

By shadowing local vets, nonprofits aim to control feral cat population here and abroad LA Times — September 21, 2016

All this proposal does is give local governments the option to decide whether they want to use TNR to stabilize community cat populations.

We reduce the deaths of unwanted pets at local shelters by working together with the community to reduce the feral cat population.

A random 1,000 household study of the county dog and cat population was conducted in 1993 (Cat Fanciers» Almanac, 1994) and repeated in 2005 (Kass, Johnson & Weng, 2013) by a local non-profit organizaticat population was conducted in 1993 (Cat Fanciers» Almanac, 1994) and repeated in 2005 (Kass, Johnson & Weng, 2013) by a local non-profit organizatiCat Fanciers» Almanac, 1994) and repeated in 2005 (Kass, Johnson & Weng, 2013) by a local non-profit organization.

Create a community profile to understand local community cat population dynamics between the field and the shelter.

The Wildlife Society, which signed onto the DOI letter, in its position statement (issued in August 2011) on Feral and Free - Ranging Domestic Cats (PDF), calls for «the humane elimination of feral cat populations,» as well as «the passage and enforcement of local and state ordinances prohibiting the feeding of feral cats.&raCats (PDF), calls for «the humane elimination of feral cat populations,» as well as «the passage and enforcement of local and state ordinances prohibiting the feeding of feral cats.&racats.»

Both of the conditions above can be addressed in part by keeping your cat indoors and controlling the mosquito population in your local environment.

It mainly alienates the pet - loving population from animal control agencies charged with enforcement, and sets up a needless conflict between groups (i.e. state or local government vs. dog and cat enthusiasts, kennel and cat clubs) that should be allies.

Work with your local animal control or feral cat group to help manage your neighborhood's community and stray cat populations.

Let us know if there is a local government in your area that could benefit from assistance in implementing a TNR plan to reduce and manage feral or stray cat populations.

What's more, when a feral cat population gets under control, local communities will have fewer cat messes to deal with from feces to scattered trash from garbage cans.

This makes no sense when TNR has been proven to be an effective, humane way to control feral cat populations and costs the local government very little.    Â

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