Sentences with phrase «cats than the citizen»

Soon there are more cats than the citizen can afford to take care of and they bring them to the shelter and expect the shelter to find them homes and provide medical care.

Not exact matches

Although annual intake numbers persist in the 4400 - 5000 range and will continue to do so until every citizen spays or neuters their pets, FOTAS has paid for the spay / neuter of more animals than any other organization in the County: 476 pets and community cats through October of this year, for a total of 1411 since 2013.

Many of the 40 or so gathered at the Volusia County solid waste transfer station spent more than two hours hissing and snarling at each other.And there wasn't even one cat in the room.The county's animal control board workshop Tuesday was supposed to be about finding ways to solve the feral, or wild, cat problem, but all the dirty looks and snide comments that criss - crossed the room made it seem more like a feline version of American Gladiators.One opinion - represented by animal services / control, humane societies, health department workers and citizens - seemed to be that the county's trapping and destroying of feral cats is the most humane way of dealing with the overpopulation.

As a taxpayer I was thrilled at the prospect of something being done to lower the cost of animal control and my taxes.Do the citizens of Orange County realize that one female cat over 10 years can be the cause of more than 84 million new births?

Ill and injured cats may be very disturbing to other compassionate citizens, who may call animal control authorities believing that the animal should be euthanized, rather than living with illness or injury.

Yet despite all of our proactive efforts to care for these animals and to support the spay / neuter of community cats and pets for citizens in need (no one dedicates more resources to spay / neuter than FOTAS and the County combined), intake at the Shelter remains alarmingly, shockingly high.

Describing both a senior cat and a senior citizen, when these two are placed paw in hand, more often than not, they form the perfect forever pair.

The result of this is a threefold whammy: 1) unlicensed activities continue at the same rate (or increase as the human population increases); 2) a significant number of pet owners who want to be law - abiding citizens give up banned breeds, quit feeding neighborhood cats or terminate valuable breeding programs rather than operate illegally or cope with unreasonable laws and increased fees; and 3) because demand for many beloved breeds does not decline when a law is passed, people who know little about breeds or breeding move into the void to fill demand.

For many years cats have been second - rate citizens in the pet world — more popular than small animals, but much less so than dogs; in recent years that has begun to change.

Is this a groundswell of upset citizens I see before me, or just a message gone viral, no more meaningful than the last cat video?