Sentences with phrase «accepting community cats»

Shelters that have stopped accepting community cats and increased their save rates often report that this shift drastically improves shelter staff morale and community relations as people feel better about a shelter that is actively working to increase live outcomes.

When shelters stop accepting community cats, they see almost immediate benefits — intake numbers decrease, save rates increase, and community support increases.

Shelters that stop accepting community cats, and support TNR programs, generally see both their intake numbers decrease and their number of live releases increase.

Having fewer kittens, and not accepting community cats overall into the Shelter, allows us more time and resources to focus on the indoor pet cats who need our help and care to find them a new home!

In addition to not accepting community cats, you can work with your shelter to put a TNR program in place for community cats.

Although there are many cats that should be sterilized, Operation Catnip of Gainesville only accepts community cats that have no other option, and would NOT otherwise be sterilized.

For truly feral cats who are brought to shelters, the only outcome is euthanasia, which is why we do not accept community cats to our shelter.

Don't we have to accept community cats?

Check your local laws to determine whether your city or state requires that municipal shelters accept community cats.

Not exact matches

Eartipping is an effective and universally accepted method to identify a spayed or neutered and vaccinated community cat.

Community - based Trap - Neuter - Return (TNR) programs have become increasingly common and widely accepted over the last decade, with endorsement by numerous organizations such as the American Association of Feline Practitioners, the American Animal Hospital Association, the Association of Shelter Veterinarians, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Humane Society of the United States, the National Animal Control Association, and International Cat Care.

Eartipping is an effective and universally accepted method to identify a spayed or neutered community cat.

We accept walk - ins to spay / neuter trapped community (feral) cats on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays between 8:30 am and 9:00 am.

People are no longer willing to accept the killing of dogs and cats in shelters as a «necessary evil,» and now that solutions have been found, they expect their communities to utilize those solutions.

• We have: o Made TNR mainstream and accepted as the only effective approach to outdoor cat populationso Established the Feral Friends Networko Brought together experts and advocates for the first community cat conference in Americao Transformed shelters through advocacy and guidanceo Established the ongoing Boardwalk Cats Project in Atlantic City, NJo Founded National Feral Day, a national day of action that has grown to include events in all states and many countries worldwide.

We do not accept any animals other than community cats.

I also wonder what the effect is on a community where feral cats are accepted as standard fare.

Ear - tipping is a widely accepted means of marking a community cat who has been spayed or neutered.

Slowly but surely, however, there is a movement towards not only accepting the feral cat colonies that call our neighborhoods home, but towards caring for these outdoor cats, cats who provide a service by driving down the rodent population for the homes and businesses in communities all across the country.

And despite the fact that TNR is widely accepted all across the U.S., it feels like we are in a never - ending war of words over the right way to reduce the number of community cats.

I believe that someday TNR will be widely accepted by wildlife proponents as the only choice for managing community cat populations.

Outdoor community cats are accepted for surgery Monday through Thursday.

Operation Catnip of Gainesville can only accept free - roaming, outdoor, community cats, including feral cats and unowned strays from Alachua County, FL..

Only unowned free - roaming, outdoor community cats from Alachua County, Florida are accepted at our Spay Day Clinics.

For a long time, «catch and kill» was a widely accepted method of managing community cat colonies.

The concept encouraging the humane community to accept neuter / return was that a substantial part of the «stray» cat population are in truth ferals, as capable of looking out for themselves as any other wildlife.

The Animal League Wellness Center accepts feral cats in traps (i.e., wild cats that are not able to be handled) and community cats (i.e., cats that do not have a home but are not necessarily feral).

To all community members who care for dogs and cats in need: We are receiving numerous pleas, every day, to accept another pet in need.

We are also grateful to the caregivers who accept these cats into their hearts and homes, and to the Community Cat Team that spend countless hours with our colony cats.

Even though our name says «rescue» we do not go out and rescue animals from the community; instead we provide temporary shelter (which are foster homes), medical treatment, and sterilization for homeless, stray, and abandoned cats, dogs, kittens, and puppies in New Mexico for animals that are accepted into our program.

As an open admission shelter that accepts stray animals, community cats are sometimes brought to us as «strays».

The shelter does not accept healthy free - roaming community (aka feral or stray) cats, and there are no laws against free - roaming cats in Fairfax County.

Ear - tipping is an effective and universally accepted method to identify a spayed or neutered and vaccinated community cat.

Some of our services and amenities include: Appointments available Monday - Saturday, Cats, Dogs, and Exotics seen, Complete radiology, Full - service veterinary hospital, High tech medical / surgical facility, Major credit cards accepted, Microchip implants, New clients always welcome, Prescription / premium diet pet foods, Preventive medicine, Serving the community for over 20 years, Spays / Neuters, Vaccinations

«I found that I spent half my time explaining TNR and working with the community so that they would buy in and accept the cats.»

Because it also accepts feral cats surrendered by the community, it can get cramped, as often happens in the summer during kitten season.