Sentences with phrase «cat advocates»

You can also get great tips on becoming a feral cat advocate as well as talking points to help educate others here.

Are you interested in networking with other community cat advocates?

There is a solution that many cat advocates support.

Cat advocates said felines are taking the rap for wildlife destruction when many other factors, such as development, cause more damage.

Perhaps more importantly now, feral cat advocates define «success» without including decreases in numbers, focusing instead on the health of the cats themselves.

Her journey from «catch and kill» defender to No Kill cat advocate is astonishing both in scope and breadth.

No doubt the immediate response from feral cat advocates — the scale of which, I suspect took city and county officials by surprise — played a role in their decision to change focus.

She called Alley Cat Advocates for help getting them fixed.

I don't think President Teddy Roosevelt was talking about community cat advocates in his 1902 State of the Union address, but the sentiment applies.

Take a look at these videos created by cat advocate Deb Barnes and Christine Michaels of Riverfront Cats Miami to learn more about feral cats and meet some real live feral cats.

Someone shot the handsome long - haired black cat, but Kentucky rescue group Alley Cat Advocates helped with veterinary needs and a new home.

To learn more about the ongoing plight of these cats, listen in on this interview with blogger, author (The Chronicles of Zee and Zoey) and cat advocate Deb Barnes.

Soon after, other Alley Cat Advocate volunteers and community members arrive with captured cats.

Gillis estimates that between the trapping Alley Cat Advocates does and including the traps that are lent out, about 150 cats are trapped a week.

But in some cases, cats come to Alley Cat Advocates with medical needs beyond spay / neuter.

Alley Cat Advocates provides spay and neuter services to community cats.

That's caused a chorus of hisses from feral cat advocates who say the cats are unjustly being blamed for killing wildlife.

But how can cat advocates cut through the misleading press releases and propaganda to combat proposed laws that seek to end lifesaving neuter - return programs and other cat - friendly efforts?

The ASPCA encourages cat advocates, animal shelters and rescues, local government officials and the public to work together, and believes that lawful TNRM, RTF, and, as a last resort, community cat relocation programs, are humane and effective approaches for managing and controlling community cat populations.

In Kentucky, Alley Cat Advocates works in the community to provide TNR programs and initiatives to manage feral cat populations and reduce the number of cats euthanized in shelters.

The county fixes community cats for free and loans out traps in return for a refundable deposit, so in addition to staffers» own trapping efforts in response to complaints, the shelter and its partners receive and return strays from the general public, as well as hundreds of strays a year from cat advocates involved in grassroots sterilization efforts, says Muñoz.

Sometimes community cat advocates contact their local lawmakers under the mistaken impression that their community must pass a TNR ordinance.

Feral cat advocates argue that the animals often make terrible pets and end up being euthanized.

Dissent often arises among neighbors; between cat advocates and wildlife advocates; and among animal care and control leaders, local government leaders, and their constituents.

CWA is a dynamic professional group of passionate cat advocates composed of writers, bloggers, photographers, artists, and broadcasters.

She's a well - known cat behaviorist and Bengal cat advocate, known as The Cat Coach.

The Humane Society of the United States Cat advocates might be on board with innovations in community cat management, but policymakers and politicians probably aren't.

TNR is a hands - on project requiring commitment from one or more volunteer caregivers, often with help from feral cat advocates living in the area.

What frustrates cat advocates, though, is that scientists rarely admit that TNR can indeed work — albeit on small scales.

And many cat advocates feed and enjoy birds.

Bill's licensing program for cats is even more of an issue since community cat advocates fear that any cat licensing requirement could threaten to penalize community cat care givers who look after dozens or even hundreds of cats.

Liquid slowly spills out, leaving a trail back to where we are stationed in the bright white Alley Cat Advocates van.

If so, please contact Alley Cat Advocates at 502-634-8777 or visit their website for assistance.

Alley Cat Advocates prides itself on running this trap - neuter - return program for unowned community cats.

«Alley Cat Advocates handles over 6,000 calls a year, rents out traps, provides training, and funds surgeries through private donations and grants,» said Lisa Starr, shelter outreach director at the ASPCA.

Perhaps the strangest reporting I've seen only touches on the Smithsonian / USFWS paper — using it as further justification for a hatchet job (the sort of irresponsible work that brings to mind, with almost a wistfulness — if only for a moment — Mitt Romney's plan to cut PBS funding altogether) on cat advocates in general, and L.A.'s Stray Cat Alliance in particular — as Los Angeles pushes to become the country's largest «no - kill» city.

As a dedicated cat advocate, your opposition to the inhumane and unnecessary practice of declawing is critical to the well - being of all cats.

Resources abound to help cat advocates get started with traditional Trap - Neuter - Return programs (Save Lives with Feral Freedom, Best Friends; Key Scientific Studies on Trap - Neuter - Return, Alley Cat Allies; Living With Neighborhood Cats, Koret Shelter Medicine Program, UC Davis Veterinary Medicine).

Some veterinarians consider declawing a «routine» surgery, but cat advocates consider it cruel, inhumane, and unnecessary in almost every case and I totally agree.

However, abandonment laws and stray hold requirements are often unspecific or nonexistent, meaning cat advocates may be on more solid legal ground than they realize and can work with policymakers to exclude community cats from the laws; in tougher cases, some shelters outsource returning the cats to local rescues or volunteers to avoid directly flouting the law.

For more cat friendly behavior solutions and training, watch this playlist featuring cat advocate and training guru Jackson Galaxy.

Mental Health Butler frames the TNR debate using what's come to be standard form: rationale scientists on one side; on the other, cat advocates fueled by emotion.