Some individuals or municipal agencies may think these are humane alternatives to lethal control, but it's unrealistic due to the sheer numbers
of cats in communities.
You can help reduce the number of
feral cats in your community by trapping them and bringing them to our veterinary partners to be spayed or neutered.
Until the number of kittens being born is reduced through spay / neuter programs, we must have a facility to house and care for
homeless cats in the community.
At the same time, the risk of death for
street cats in communities has been found to extremely low, with outdoor cats living roughly the same lifespan as indoor pet cats.
Often, specific cats that have been declared a nuisance may be removed, but few agencies have comprehensive programs designed to decrease the number
of cats in their communities.
Media coverage is one of the best ways to draw attention and support to your efforts to secure humane policies
for cats in your community.
You can help reduce the number of feral
cats in your community by trapping them and bringing them to our veterinary partners to be spayed or neutered, then releasing them back to their colonies.
There are no easy answers nor is there a magical solution that affordably, humanely and safely eliminates the many issues associated
with cats in communities.
Spay & Neuter of pets and Trap / Neuter / Return (TNR) of feral
cats in communities across the land are a major key to ending the number of unwanted companion animals!
The Humane Ohio Pet Food Bank helps make sure that pets and free - roaming
cats in our community do not go hungry; it helps pet parents keep their pets even in tough financial times; and it helps ensure that people do not have to share their own meal with their pets and sacrifice their own nutrition and hunger.
Community Cats; Providing that release of a community cat by a community cat program is not abandonment or unlawful release of the cat under specified provisions; providing that counties and municipalities may enact ordinances relating to community cat programs to curtail community cat population growth; providing that a veterinarian or community cat caregiver who provides services or care for
cats in a community cat program is immune from criminal and civil liability, etc..
If you want to help
cats in your community who live outdoors or if you already care for cats and want to conduct Trap - Neuter - Return (TNR) but don't know where to get started, we can help!
If you want a more detailed graphic that also accounts for the presence of outdoor
pet cats in the community, you can use either the U.S. or Canada version of the «Outdoor cat population calculator».
Stopping the breeding and removing some cats for adoption are more effective than trap and kill in lowering the numbers of
cats in a community long - term.
PART ONE: Trap - Neuter - Return All Napa County residents can agree it's essential to keep the population of un-owned
cats in our community as small as possible.
Managing Community Cats — Few animal - related issues facing local leaders are potentially more difficult and time - consuming than those involving
un-owned cats in the community.
By removing the cost barrier to obtaining a cat from the shelter, the agency hoped to reduce the number of
unaltered cats in the community and provide support for more cat owners.
With
fewer cats in communities, this allowed an increase in flea - ridden rat populations and more carriers of the plague; this lead to an increase in the spread of the deadly disease (Zeugner, 2008).
Whether you want to take a new fuzzy friend home, volunteer your time to help homeless cats, or join us in championing trap - neuter - release (T - N - R) for feral
cats in our community there is a way for you to get involved.