Sentences with phrase «abandon a pet cat»

Don't abandon a pet cat outside — it's illegal.

Of the millions of cats who enter American shelters each year, around half are unowned, free - living felines, some of them lost or abandoned pet cats and many others not socialized to humans enough to be adopted.

Feral cats are the offspring of lost or abandoned pet cats or other feral cats; they don't typically want to interact with people.

Feral cats are not abandoned pet cats.

If you have witnessed someone abandoning their pet cat, do not react in anger but try to video down what is happening and find out their address by engaging them in conversation or tailing them.

Feral cats are cats that have been born outdoors to stray and abandoned pet cats.

These cats may be «feral» (un-socialized) or friendly, may have been born into the wild or may be lost or abandoned pet cats.

It is also a rescue and homing centre for unwanted and abandoned pet cats and the huge number of stray cats and kittens we are called to help each year.

However, efforts should be made to place feeding stations in out - of - the - way locations to minimize the likelihood of desperate people illegally abandoning their pet cats.

Not exact matches

Our mission is to help homeless, abandoned, and abused cats by providing: education in the community, spaying and neutering, foster shelter, and medical care until the pets are rehomed.

The Humane Society of the United States is offering a reward of up to $ 5,000 for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for abandoning 24 cats in four small pet carriers, leaving them to starve and suffocate to death in sweltering summer temperatures in Oklahoma City.

Animals come to live in plural households by (1) acquisition — e.g., a family adopts a pet, a member of the household inherits Aunt Celia's African Gray, house partners take in the cat the neighbors abandoned, and so on; or (2) blending — people move in together bringing their respective companion animals to the mix.

Feral cats are the offspring of domestic pets who have been abandoned by their owners.

The need for education in responsible pet ownership (the human component of feral cat management) was also discussed to prevent additional cats from being abandoned to the streets and starting new feral colonies.

Shortly after joining the team, she helped start Tuff Start Rescue, an animal rescue aimed at helping pets in urgent need (abandoned or injured strays, feral cats, and owner surrenders).

A stray cat is a pet that has been abandoned or is lost and is familiar with contact and is domesticated enough to be adopted.

The proud Poppa of a pretty Pittie named Bailey, the Left Winger recently stepped off the ice and in front of a camera with his fur baby and his fiancee Amanda Caskenette to show his support for Chicago Loves Pits, a collaboration between Found Chicago --- a no - kill center which rescues, rehabilitates and re-homes abandoned dogs and cats from the Chicago area — and Adopt-A-Pet.com — the nation's largest non-profit pet adoption web service.

About 15 million of the national human population of 23 million people live in the intensely urbanized Taipei area, at the extreme north of the island nation, where most of the dogs and cats are pets, or are descended from lost or abandoned pets, in an environment affording some suitable habitat for feral cats, but little or none for street dogs.

It hurts Nancy to see so many cats and kittens abandoned, and she wishes more people would accept the responsibility to have their pets neutered.

My goal is to help abandoned pets the most I can, mostly cats because I don't have the space dogs need.

According to Science editor David Grimm, the fact that many people died in the floods because they wouldn't leave their animals behind — as well as the sight of hundreds of abandoned cats and dogs after the flood waters receded — prompted major changes to state and federal laws regarding the evacuation of pets during disasters.

Agencies and charities struggled to provide temporary lodging to displaced families, and animal shelters opened their doors to stranded and abandoned dogs, cats, and other pets.

Officials also are worried that the cat colonies encourage people to abandon their unwanted pets in the borough.

Stray cats are former pets who are lost or have been abandoned outdoors.

Remember, stray cats used to be someone's pet and were either abandoned or they «strayed» from home and became lost.

«A stack of bills will be debated in the State House on Thursday, including laws that would crack down on unlawful tethering and abandoning of pets, but the big one is a ban on the sale of cats and dogs younger than eight weeks old.»

The Cat Network, Inc. (CN) is a 501 (c) 3, Florida not - for - profit corporation dedicated to humanely reducing cat overpopulation by educating the public about the need to sterilize their pets and strays; providing access to low - cost spay / neuter services for stray, homeless and abandoned cats; helping members in their efforts to place adoptable cats in loving homes; and advocating non-lethal population control and humane public poliCat Network, Inc. (CN) is a 501 (c) 3, Florida not - for - profit corporation dedicated to humanely reducing cat overpopulation by educating the public about the need to sterilize their pets and strays; providing access to low - cost spay / neuter services for stray, homeless and abandoned cats; helping members in their efforts to place adoptable cats in loving homes; and advocating non-lethal population control and humane public policat overpopulation by educating the public about the need to sterilize their pets and strays; providing access to low - cost spay / neuter services for stray, homeless and abandoned cats; helping members in their efforts to place adoptable cats in loving homes; and advocating non-lethal population control and humane public policy.

In doing so, we hope to strengthen the bonds between pets and their families, reduce the number of pets abandoned, and help shelters and rescue groups place dogs and cats in need of families.

A report to the committee said dogs, cats and rabbits bred for pet stores are kept in inhumane conditions, and too many of them end up being abandoned by owners — and end up in shelters.

He said house pets are just as bloodthirsty as untamed ferals — homeless offspring of stray or abandoned cats raised without human contact.

Two of my cats were abandoned kittens (the other two, along with my dog, were all shelter pets).

The cats in a colony share a common food source and territory and may include not only ferals, but also strays - former pet cats who were recently lost or abandoned and are still tame.

Feral cats are the offspring of stray or abandoned household pets.

Often times, you will find friendly pet cats that have been abandoned or lost by their owner.

What You Can Do If everyone in Brevard County became a responsible pet owner - keeping their cats indoors, sterilizing them, and no abandoning them - there would not be a feral cat problem in Brevard.

Animal shelters already care for and try to find homes for untold thousands of lost, injured and abandoned cats, in addition to pet cats whose owners are unable or unwilling to keep them.

Stray cats are pets that have been abandoned or lost.

«These are highly adoptable cats and dogs... being transferred to San Diego to create room for the victim pets that have been lost, strayed, or abandoned because of the hurricane.

Owners of house - soiling cats frequently abandon or relinquish these pets to shelters where many are euthanized as unadoptable.

It will help us find loving homes for abandoned pets and address the population crisis which sees millions of healthy cats and dogs killed every year.

They may be pets whose owners let them outside, or they could be community cats, a group that includes ferals (who are afraid of people) and strays (who've been lost or abandoned).

If you kill all the cats in an area, more will just move in and take over the abandoned territory because humans will not neuter their pets and keep them indoors.

All feral cats descend originally from pets that were abandoned or lost.

Inasmuch as humans are responsible for having domesticated pets, we have a moral and ethical obligation to care for the dogs and cats, especially those we have domesticated who are abandoned, unwanted, or otherwise in need.

There were many feral and abandoned cats there, the result of people «freeing» their unwanted pets or simply not spaying or neutering them.

Shelters from other areas across the US have taken in pets to reduce the load in shelters hit by the flooding — and remember, in many cases, these are not abandoned or lost dogs and cats.

A common misconception is that feral cats are a new phenomenon, a byproduct of irresponsible pet owners who abandon their pets or allow them to breed.

The neutering service we offer for pet cats and dogs is helping to reduce the numbers of unwanted pet kittens and puppies being born, but unfortunately, it does not take many irresponsible people to continually create new feral cat colonies on the streets by abandoning their unneutered pet cats.

The ASPCA defines a stray cat as someone's pet who has become lost, or who has been abandoned.

In an ideal world... all owners would be responsible and never allow (un-neutered) cats to roam and never abandon un-neutered pets.