Not exact matches
These
cats are already in our community and the long time
method of «
catch and kill» is not working as the «vacuum effect» happens.
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.
I'm not sure why this is, but bird conservationists seem unable to hold the concept in their minds that proponents of TNR are not for it because of what you so condescendingly call the «Bambi effect,» but because TNR at least has a chance to reduce the number of free - roaming
cats, whereas the
catch - and - kill
method has no chance.
Catching and killing such
cats is also an ineffective
method; aside from the ethical considerations, when
cats are removed from an area, survivors breed to capacity or new
cats move in.
Our discomfort with government
catch - and - kill policies for
cats is compounded as we become aware that this lethal
method is grossly ineffective.
The
catch and kill
method of population control (trap a
cat, bring it to a shelter, ask that the
cat be euthanized), has not reduced the number of feral
cats.
A study by the Alliance for Contraception in
Cats and Dogs from 2013 found that
catch - and - kill
methods cost 4.5 to 9 times more than Trap - Neuter - Return.
For a long time, «
catch and kill» was a widely accepted
method of managing community
cat colonies.
Then try one of our
methods for hard - to -
catch cats.
Catch - Neuter - Return (CNR), also known as Trap - Test - Vaccinate - Alter - Release (TTVAR) is a
method of humanely trapping unaltered feral
cats, spaying or neutering them, and releasing them back to the same location where they were collected.