Sentences with phrase «feral animal colonies»

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Historically, communities have responded to feral cat colonies by capturing and euthanizing these unowned animals.

Because of this, animal shelters, feral cat colonies, and any other large group of cats are at the highest risk of housing viral or bacterial infection epidemics.

Young and old alike from all walks of life volunteer at animal shelters, manage feral cat colonies, campaign on behalf of cat welfare, solicit funds for local fire departments to purchase pet oxygen masks, and more.

Both the Humane Society and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals endorse the trap - neuter - return approach as the only proven humane and effective method to manage feral cat colonies.

The morning's general session will feature a keynote address by Jane Hoffman, Founder and President of the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals; a report on non-surgical sterilization research by the Alliance for Contraception in Cats & Dogs (ACC&D); an update on the TNR study being conducted in Alachua County and funded by Maddie's Fund, a demonstration of the Feral Cat Colony Online Database; a screening of The Humane Society of the United States» new film, «Trap - Neuter - Return: Fixing Feral Cat Overpopulation,» and a Regional Roundtable discussion on «Building Working TNR Coalitions» sponsored by Best Friends Animal Society.

High - risk animals include dogs and cats less than 6 months old, bully breeds of dogs and feral cats that often establish colonies.

Kat Kennedy, a spokeswoman for Orange County Animal Services, said the agency has notified a volunteer organization that helps establish and care for feral - cat colonies and is working to coordinate the various groups interested in resolving the situation.

Newport News Animal Services Technician Erika Holub said that the city currently has 22 registered feral cat colonies with another four in the process of being registered.

The task force - which was made up of feral cat feeders, animal control officers, a veterinarian, cat breeders, citizens, humane society directors and a health department representative - was set up last March to help solve the county's problems with colonies of wild cats.

«Caretakers of a feral cat colony are encouraged to contact York County Animal Control so that assistance can be provided to them to ensure that the colony is being properly managed,» Long said.

Montalbano also said he wants to eliminate controlled populations of neutered feral cats near colonies of endangered animals.

Recognizing the over-population crisis of companion animals in the Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia SPCA supports public and private humane efforts in controlling feral cat colonies and their population.

Contact your local shelter and / or animal rescue organization and offer your assistance in providing food to feral cat colonies.

AWS is home to the Cleo Fund providing spay / neuter assistance to individuals and feral cat colony advocates statewide, and serves as the animal control impound facility for 21 municipalities in York County.

There are so many stories of numerous animals: feral cats on death row with no alternative place except our feral cat colony; cats being confiscated in cruelty cases and from hoarders that end up with behavior issues; chickens; ducks; geese; sheep and rabbits that are thrown on the roadside that have no safe haven except the SDA sanctuary; or the 17 resident dogs that no one wants.

``... releasing cats into the wild and supporting feral cat colonies is a violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Endangered Species Act, as well as laws prohibiting animal abandonment.»

Volunteers will transport feral cats who have been spayed / neutered from San Jose Animal Care & Services back to their original colony location.

Each month we reach more than 1,000 homeless animals in shelters, rescue groups, feral colonies, and wildlife sanctuaries.

The city has had an increasing problem with feral cat colonies that pose a health risk to other animals and people.

When you think about declawing, the cats in a feral colony are not the first animals to come to mind.

Cats in barns, feral colonies, animal shelter groups, pet stores, and rescue facilities are at high risk for outbreaks.

TNR programs utilize community volunteers (often in conjunction with non-profits who raise dollars for this purpose or animal shelters) who humanely trap feral cats, have them spay / neutered and vaccinated for rabies before releasing back to their colonies.

Homeward Bound in the Heartland relies on community generosity to perform many of its functions, including feeding foster kids, homeless animals, feral cat colonies, and animals in low - income families.

According to Maryann, «studies have shown that humanely trapping, spaying / neutering, and releasing — or what people in animal welfare call «TNR» — feral cats back to the colonies where they have been living is one of the most effective ways to decrease the number of homeless animals in our community.»

«Euthanizing all community feral cats does not reduce the cat population and instead just creates a vacuum effect in which more cats come into the colony and take the place of those felines that are gone,» said Aiken County Animal Shelter (ACAS) Manager Bobby Arthurs.

-- Calling city and town clerk's offices to obtain updated animal control information — Preparing monthly Spay / Neuter Voucher Program data reports — Partnering with local Trap Neuter Return (TNR) groups to map feral colonies in Boston — Collaborating with local shelters to collect intake data to track program success

Local animal control does not accept cats, and there are dozens of feral colonies living in and around Carroll County.

TNR: Barrier to Rabies Transmission «Managed colonies teach feral cats to associate with humans,» says Holmer / TWS, «and while most people will not interact with wildlife, especially animals displaying erratic behavior, cats are perceived as domestic and approachable.»

«Managed colonies teach feral cats to associate with humans, and while most people will not interact with wildlife, especially animals displaying erratic behavior, cats are perceived as domestic and approachable,» Holmer says.

Stray cats often rely on humans for food, whereas colonies of feral cats will typically feed on garbage, rodents and other small animals.

Scheduled groups (subject to change) include ASPCA, Bideawee, Brooklyn Animal Action, Brooklyn Bridge Animal Welfare Coalition, Bronx Tails Cat Rescue, City Critters, Empty Cages Collective, For Animals, Inc., Heavenly Angels Animal Rescue, KittyKind, Liberty Humane Society, Linda's Cat Assistance, Little Shelter Animal Rescue & Adoption Center, NYC Feral Cat Initiative, Picasso Veterinary Fund, Posh Pets Rescue, Rabbit Rescue & Rehab, Sean Casey Animal Rescue, Staten Island Hope Animal Rescue, Union Township Animal Shelter, Tavi & Friends, A Winters Tail, and Washington Heights Cat Colony.

Animal Humane Society veterinarian Ravindran Aezhini prepares to spay a young female feral cat that was trapped in a feral cat colony near the Animal Humane Society's facility on Virginia SE, chow down on dried cat food, photographed Thursday Sept. 11, 2008.

The Animal Welfare Department made news back in 2012 when Albuquerque was chosen, along with San Antonio, Texas, for a three - year, $ 1 million grant from the Best Friends Animal Society and PetSmart Charities to implement a then - novel approach to feral cat control: sterilize stray cats and put them back in their colonies, rather than euthanize them.

The New York City Feral Cat Initiative is a coalition of more than 150 animal rescue groups and shelters whose joint mission is «to raise awareness about the thousands of... community cats living outdoors throughout NYC's five boroughs, to offer solutions to prevent the number of homeless cats from increasing, and to successfully manage existing colonies.»

Only days after receiving the $ 50,000 grant from HRM the Nova Scotia SPCA, Spay Day HRM, Healing Animal SCARS, Mischiefs Memory Cat Rescue, Halifax Cat Rescue and TAPA have created a schedule to tackle feral cat colonies around Halifax, set up a triage location to prep animals for surgery and have begun the process of TNR.

Their captives have come from some of the numerous feral colonies that dot the region, each of which can have between a few and several dozen animals.

This program gets to the source of the overpopulation problem by identifying a colony of feral cats and getting every animal in the colony altered.

I have cats in the double digits at my house, I support TNR, I manage several feral colonies because I don't want animals put down.

Cook County allows the establishment of managed feral cat colonies if they are registered with a sponsor approved by Cook County Department of Animal and Rabies Control.

Save the Animals Foundation, Inc. and the Animal Protection League of New Jersey — working closely with other cat rescue and wildlife groups — are relocating a colony of feral cats from their current South Jersey location to nearby farms, horse stables, wineries, and the like.

* Providing lifetime care for 300 animals * Conducts an intensive adoption program for homeless dogs and cats * Works directly with county animal services in saving lives of animals * Manages a feral cat colony providing a tree house, food, & daily care * Conducts a public feral cat trapping program under the trap / neuter / return policy * Networks with 42 organizations across the U. S. in placing wild & exotic animals * Distributes educational materials * Conducts peaceful public demonstrations to call attention to animal exploitation * Makes presentations at public hearing and forums * Promoting A Cruelty - Free Lifestyle by sponsoring public events and education * Conducts telephone and letter - writing campaigns

If food is eliminated in one colony, as one animal rescuer noted, «Any policy that bans feeding of these colonies will likely disperse these cats throughout our community, and the feral cat population will increase dramatically.»

According to the allegations in the complaint, the Department then supported TNR, including discounting spay / neuter operations for feral cats, supporting new feral cat colonies on city property that used TNR, refusing to accept feral cats at city animal shelters, refusing to issue permits to trap feral cats that would be killed, and generally promoting TNR programs.

Animal control can also order the relocation of colonies that are «hazardous to the health and safety of the public or the feral cat colony».

If in the judgment of an inspecting officer, the unsanitary conditions at the site of a feral cat colony make it a substantial hazard to the animals or health, the license can be immediately suspended and the cats impounded.

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Ferals often live in groups, called colonies, and take refuge wherever they can find food — rodents and other small animals and garbage.

«In, Feral Cat Colonies in Florida: The Fur and Feathers Are Flying, author Pamela Jo Hatley determined that releasing cats into the wild and supporting feral cat colonies is a violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Endangered Species Act, as well as laws prohibiting animal abandonment.&rFeral Cat Colonies in Florida: The Fur and Feathers Are Flying, author Pamela Jo Hatley determined that releasing cats into the wild and supporting feral cat colonies is a violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Endangered Species Act, as well as laws prohibiting animal abandonmentColonies in Florida: The Fur and Feathers Are Flying, author Pamela Jo Hatley determined that releasing cats into the wild and supporting feral cat colonies is a violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Endangered Species Act, as well as laws prohibiting animal abandonment.&rferal cat colonies is a violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Endangered Species Act, as well as laws prohibiting animal abandonmentcolonies is a violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Endangered Species Act, as well as laws prohibiting animal abandonment.»

«Whittling down guesses or extrapolations from limited observations by a factor of 10 or even 100 does not make these estimates any more credible, and the fact that they are the best available data is not sufficient to justify their use when the consequence may be extermination for cats... What I find inconsistent in an otherwise scientific debate about biodiversity is how indictment of cats has been pursued almost in spite of the evidence, and without regard to the differential effects of cats in carefully selected, managed colonies, versus that of free - roaming pets, owned farm cats, or truly feral animals.

Visit the NYC Feral Cat Initiative of the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals to learn about free workshops on TNR and Colony Care.